Posts of Inspiration.
‘Edits’ is a poster series curated by Edit — each designer was asked to represent a musical genre using one shape and one type (stating the genre). Available for pre-order, now!
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Posters are A1 size and very limited.
Participants:
Bas Koopmans
Collective Approach
Duane King
Hey Studio
Manual Creative
Mark Boyce
Leterme Dowling
Nitzan — Edit
Sane & Able
Studio Makgill
Toko
Trevor Jackson
This Studio
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Project
Joy Division +- Box set
Design
Howard Wakefield with art direction by Peter Saville
Photography
Prudence Cuming and Nick Turner – Hubble NGC 346 SMC Courtesy Spaceimages
Link
parriswakefield.com
Process Journal is a quarterly released graphic design publication. Process Journal showcases the very best of Australian and International design and is about capturing beautiful work in a printed publication that takes a step back and allows the design to do the talking. Edition Three features: 2br, Bibliotheque, Fabio Ongarato Design, Studio Newwork, Andrew Zuckerman, MadeThought, Klim Type Foundry, StudioKanna, North, Stockholm Design Lab, Büro North, Felix Lobelius and Studio Makgill. As well as design responses from Tom Crabtree (Manual) and Warren Taylor (The Narrows).
Size: 96pp 300mm x 218mm
Production Process: 4 Colour Process
Plus PMS 032U
Cover: 2 PMS Cover with Deboss
Stock: Knight Cream 120GSM page and
Knight Cream 350GSM Cover
Foruli Publications have recently announced the launch of the luxury special edition of Peter (Hooky) Hook’s highly praised memoir ‘The Haçienda: How Not To Run A Club’.
With the full co-operation of Hooky himself, Foruli’s design team and craftspeople have created a boxed set which is the ultimate testament to the Haçienda’s legacy and an essential collectors’ piece.
“The idea of doing a limited edition book came as a shock at first but when you see how beautiful the packages are and obvious respect that has gone into creating them they really evoke and bring to life the original graphic identity and ethos of the Haçienda. The club’s design and identity was always funded with no thought of expense. Whether one person or a thousand saw it, it prioritised Art well above money. Foruli have managed to immortalise my original book with these special editions and I have to say I’m delighted with the result. They are what I can only call works of art.”
Peter Hook
The book is available to order for delivery in early 2011
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Since its inception in 2007 as part of his solo show at Espeis Gallery in New York, Von’s “Animal Series” has appeared on the catwalks of Milan as part of Trussardi’s A/W collection, as part of Creative Review’s award winning Monograph series, on billboards going from London to NY in the “Migration” exhibition and adopted by Liberty of London. Now for the first time 5 images from the series have now been made available as a collector’s box set handmade in the UK in an edition of 50.
They’re available to pre-order now through Von’s sight.
Hat-Trick Design has unveiled a series of large scale illuminated letters on a hoarding site in London’s Victoria. Each letter evokes a story particular to the area…
“We decided to design a typeface of illuminated letters, with each letter telling a different story for passers by to discover,” says Hat-Trick’s Tim Donaldson of the project for Land Securities.
“For example ‘B’ for Busby bearskin hats, ‘P’ for Pelicans – informed by the famous story of a pelican eating a pigeon whole in St James’ Park (illustrated by Becky Sutherland) – and ‘W’ for Westminster, etc. We then used the typeface to spell out words and sentences so it could be read from further back.
“We wanted to end up with a visually rich and eclectic set of letters to sum up the area,” he continues, “the mix of past, present and future, heritage (royalty, architecture, famous residents), culture, art, green space, wildlife and so on. The style of each individual letter was inspired by the particular story it was telling. We decided the execution could be photographic, illustrative or graphic, depending on what best communicated it, and in a visually engaging way. Each letter became a project in itself.”
To avoid repeating letters the typeface also includes alternative variations. A couple of letters were also based on, or redrawn from found letters, such as a found gothic style ‘W’ for Westminster. The use of purple and silver refers to Land Securities’ colour palette.
Some more examples of the thinking behind the letter choices: the ‘D’ for deckchairs in St James’ Park was informed by the stripes on the fabric; the ‘F’ for the local farmer’s market (famous for it’s fish) uses a ‘fishy’ F combined with a close-up of scales texture; the ‘O’ refers to the Olympics as Victoria will be hosting the beach volleyball events.
Here are a few of the individual letters, plus a complete set of 26 characters.
via CreativeReview
Five years on from their rebranding work for the channel, Rudd Studio updates the Channel 4 splintering logo in a series of new on-air graphics packages…
Keeping the famous logo centre stage – the original multi-barred “4” was the creation of Martin Lambie-Nairn in 1982 – Rudd Studio has created a series of new animations of the graphic, with this new work attempting a more “oblique” and “cubist” feel, they say.
The studio’s Matt Rudd worked with animation director Oscar Gonzalez to develop a way of viewing the logo from two angles at once. “It seemed appropriate for the channel to see things in an unusual way,” he says. “We were surprised at how the logo remained recognisable, even with only small details of it revealed.
“We made many of the on air elements five years ago so that they would incorporate video or photographic images,” Rudd continues. “This device has helped the Channel’s latest identity to endure well, and we chose to keep it.”
The new graphics package includes 100 one-second stings and several animating textures which contain photography.
Rudd Studio worked closely with designer/director Sylvie Minois on this part of the project with photography by Minois, Eleanor Ridsdale and Matt Rudd.
Known for his experimental style and hands-on approach to pushing type to its limits, Ward bridges the gap between illustration and typography,exploring the notion of word as image. His work tells stories with an inventive use of type and typography, bringing words to life; an approach he took literally for this year’s Creative Review Annual cover, for which he teamed up with an immunologist and actually grew a microscopic letter ‘A’ from pollen cells.
Often favouring this organic and scientific approach, when commissioned by Discover Magazine to produce something for their 30th Anniversary cover, he used a magnetic ink – called Ferrofluid – containing tiny suspended particles that react to magnets to create a kind of fluid
stencil of the number 30.
Another key piece uses what he dubs ‘kinetic typography’. The words ‘You Blow Me Away’ were screenprinted on sheets of glass which were then blasted with ballbearings & pool balls and photographed to capture it at various stages of its destruction.
For more of Craig’s work check out – http://www.blinkart.co.uk/#artist/craigward
David Bailey has just relaunched his website with new artwork and a slick new interface.
Creative Everyone curates and lists the most interesting creative events worldwide, ensuring you never miss an event again.
Direction & animation by Andrey Nepomnyaschev : anep.ru. Sound design by Studio Takt : studio-takt.com
As a follow up to last month’s post, über talented Pablo Alfieri and Mariano Farias just went full online with Plenty website. Their rosters of clients include FOX, AXN, MTV, Schweppes, Coke and Gancia One.