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Amazing and inspirational work...

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:45:03 +0300

Amazing and inspirational work by HunterGatherer.

http://huntergatherer.net

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:44:59 +0300

http://huntergatherer.net

An extremaly inspirational work by a design, illustration and...

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:44:54 +0300

An extremaly inspirational work by a design, illustration and animation studio HunterGatherer.

Want to see more check their website

http://huntergatherer.net

thedsgnblog: Featured video for this week is a really funny...

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 17:58:37 +0300

thedsgnblog:

Featured video for this week is a really funny animation by London-based studio Yum Yum - they create character design, and tell stories through animation, illustration and toys.

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lawrencecreative: The Forty Story The story of a boy born on...

Tue, 22 May 2012 21:27:33 +0300

lawrencecreative:

The Forty Story

The story of a boy born on the day Pentagram opened and how his life has been tracked (and kerned) by forty years of Pentagram design.

Written by Naresh Ramchandani and Tom Edmonds
Directed by Christian Carlsson
Additional animation by Simone Nunziato
Sound design by Iain Grant and Wam London
Music by Graeme Miller
Titles by John Rushworth
Design by Pentagram

theoinglis: Todays lecture at NUCA was from legendary American...

Thu, 03 May 2012 22:59:26 +0300

theoinglis:

Todays lecture at NUCA was from legendary American graphic designer Lance Wyman, and was in conjunction with the exhibition of his work at the NUCA gallery; You Are Here a brilliant little exhibition mainly featuring the Mexico 68 olympics graphics (above) which he is most famous for, as well as excerpts from a few other projects and more recent work.

He started the lecture with a summary of how his life lead to him being hired to work on the Mexican Olympics. From working on a fishing boat and in factories, to studying industrial design at the Pratt institute around the time of the birth of the American graphic design industry, at the time of Saul Bass and Paul Rand. After graduating he worked for General Motors, had a few years in the army where he gained a love of maps, then to the George Nelson office in New York. Where through meeting certain people and some unexpected circumstance he ended up flying to Mexico to work on the designs for the Olympics…

The work he produced for the olympics is truly amazing and still very impressive and appealing to this day. The main identity came from the genius idea that two of the rings could be the lower counters of the 6 and the 8. The black and white geometric patterns of the logo were influenced by the Op or Kinetic art that was very current of the time and the patterns often seen in pre-hispanic Mexican imagery and folk art. From this a typeface was born and a black and white visual language instantly recognisable as related to the games. It was applied to a huge range of things like clothes, hats, giant balloon, interior design and even the ground around the stadium.

As well as the branding he also designed great pictograms for the games inspired by traditional native glyphs. Lance has designed a lot of icons through his career and they are something he really loves. An interesting moment in the lecture came when he showed the similarities between his 68 icons and the app icons on the first iphone. He also designed lovely colourful stamps with silhouetted sports people which have a recurring pattern that joins up at the edges, which he also pointed out were quite similar in style to those original ipod adverts !

After the olympics he stayed in Mexico working commercially there on the Mexico City Metro and Mexico world cup mascot. Then he came back to New York in 1971 where he has worked ever since on a huge range of projects, a lot of logos, pictograms, wayfaring and maps for companies and city councils. My favorite that he showed was his work for the National Zoo.

At the end of his lecture there was time for a few interesting questions. On the 2012 logo he said that it was at least different! And that at the time he had said ‘give it a chance’, but that he hadn’t seen anything interesting done with it yet! Then on the subject of computers he said that he had used a compass on his 1968 logo, and that when the compass was invented there must have been a lot of dumb circles drawn. Nice analogy!

Nice design from Latvia. Valmiermuiža beer has old and rich...

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:32:32 +0300

Nice design from Latvia.

Valmiermuiža beer has old and rich history. Valmiermuiža’s origins go far back as 1624. It is an unpasteurised and filtered beer with great and simple design.

http://www.valmiermuiza.lv/en/news

mymirrorball: Vintage-inspired posters of the planets by...

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:10:47 +0300

mymirrorball:

Vintage-inspired posters of the planets by Stephen Di Donato

These are a fine complement to Steve Thomas’s awesome vintage planetary travel posters.

Some great works,full of colour and love to animals by Kris...

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:52:11 +0300

Some great works,full of colour and love to animals by Kris Tate.

http://society6.com/artist/Tate

Interesting package for meat that you usually cant see at the...

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:31:56 +0300

Interesting package for meat that you usually cant see at the shop shelves.

http://www.planetcreative.com/

theoinglis: Last week the D&AD awards 2012 winners,...

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:35:01 +0300

theoinglis:

Last week the D&AD awards 2012 winners, nominations and longlists were announced, some brilliant things so im going to post my favorites this week.

The above baseball bat and baguette print tubes got a nomination this year, and the bigger proof bags won last year. They are designed by the great Magpie Studio for printers Gavin Martin Colournet, brilliant idea and lots of fun! They describe it thus;

“Tucked under the arm, the proof bags act as walking billboards en route, and a talking point when dropped-off. Low cost, high impact and the promise of raising a smile.”

theoinglis: Typography by Stefan Sagmeister His latest...

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:46:16 +0300

theoinglis:

Typography by Stefan Sagmeister

His latest exhibition, The Happy Show in Philadelphia looks pretty interesting and it has a tumblr blog! http://thehappyshow.tumblr.com/

All this is part of the lead up to a film he has been working on, called The Happy Film, which is an explanation of human happiness. And has an amazing title sequence which you can watch here;

(It’s also worth mentioning that the pictures are from a post on It’s Nice That, a blog which just had it’s 5 birthday, a lovely redesign and is going from strength to strength!)

nucalibrary: David Shrigley talks about his work and exhibition...

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 22:47:04 +0300

nucalibrary:

David Shrigley talks about his work and exhibition at the Hayward Gallery on until May 15.

thedsgnblog: Ineo Designlab | http://ineo.dk Ineo Designlab®...

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:26:00 +0300

thedsgnblog:

Ineo Designlab | http://ineo.dk

Ineo Designlab® is a multidisciplinary design studio based in Aarhus, Denmark.

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ishoream: Layout. Lovely - the stock and choice of background...

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:36:14 +0300

ishoream:

Layout. Lovely - the stock and choice of background tone.

ishoream: datalogblog: Nice layouts for inspiration for...

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:35:58 +0300

ishoream:

datalogblog:

Nice layouts for inspiration for reports.

Splash of colour.

ishoream: re-format: Everyday Magazine Everyday Magazine is a...

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:35:43 +0300

ishoream:

re-format:

Everyday Magazine

Everyday Magazine is a magazine about graphic designers & other creatives, focusing on the people behind the works rather than the work itself. The magazine tries to keep to what magazines do best, instead of trying to imitate what the internet already does better. Therefore, the focus is mainly traditional journalism & photojournalism, resulting in a magazine that you sit down and take your time with, a contrast to the restlessness of the youtube-generation. The magazine features interviews with Your Friends, Uglylogo & Ian Albinson. Done as a semester assignment atWesterdals School of Communication, 2009.

Download PDF-version (7mb)

Real inspiration.

ishoream: datalogblog: Really nice publication by Lotta...

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:35:34 +0300

ishoream:

datalogblog:

Really nice publication by Lotta Nieminen, like the thin blue strip between each page.

Delicate details.

nucalibrary: Pick me up is the Contemporary Graphic Art fair at...

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:19:10 +0200

nucalibrary:

Pick me up is the Contemporary Graphic Art fair at Somerset House 22Mar - 1 Apr. It showcases the best new work from graphic designers and illustrators.