January 2012
19 posts
Music's Leeds Print Festival posters
Music worked with screen printers ASForPrint and marbling artist Jemma Lewis to create a series of prints to promote the inaugural Leeds Print Festival.
Retro spacesuit history
Spacesuits are intriguing. These spacesuits were photographed by Mark Avino for the book Spacesuits: The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Collection.
Franco Rubartelli
Late 60s photographs by Franco Rubartelli.
Typefaces of 2011
Typographica’s favourite typefaces of 2011.
Studio Lin
Studio Lin’s approach is founded on a desire to explore new territory through challenging collaborations with creative visionaries in the fields of architecture, industrial design, art and fashion.
Via september industry.
Design Assembly 3
To celebrate its third birthday, Design Assembly has retired the site and produced three lovely books archiving the past 3 years of published articles, comments, as well as showcasing new and exclusive words and images from some great contributors.
All done for a great cause: fighting cancer. 100% of profits from the sale of the book will be distributed globally between three cancer charities:...
Johan Prag
Johan Prag is a Swedish Art Director living and working in Tokyo, Japan.
Union Jacks by Blacksheep for Jamie Oliver
London studio Blacksheep have completed a pizzeria for celebrity chef Jamie Oliver where a cinema listings board displays the menu and diners can watch chefs at work on vintage televisions.
Via Dezeen.
Rasmus Norlander: BVD Studio
Swedish design bureau BVD, have a lovely building and studio. Photography by Rasmus Norlander.
BVD are now on Facebook.
leontjew's photostream
A great mix of design, architecture and photography. Make sure you visit leontjew’s Flickr photostream.
Famous photographers pose with their most iconic...
Great selection of photographers and images.
Lobulo
Nice paper-craft work by Lobulo from Barcelona.
Typographic Revolt
The folks at HypeForType approached graphic designer Ryan Atkinson to produce their first magazine, Typographic Revolt.
Via AisleOne.
Filippo Minelli
A series of photographs by Filippo Minelli…
Craig & Karl's car park
The latest commission for design and illustration duo Craig Redman and Karl Maier of Craig & Karl was to apply a bold graphic approach not to an editorial piece or gallery project, but to an underground car park in Sydney…
Via CR Blog.
Stay consistent
Stay consistent in your beginnings and your endings. Have a great 2012. Lovely poster by PupilPeople.
Swellendam House by GASS
GASS Architecture have designed the Swellendam house in rural South Africa.
Via CONTEMPORIST.
Designer kitchens
Carl Kleiner photographed the ingredients for Ikea’s Homebaked is Best recipe book in 2010. His latest work for the brand’s kitchenware revisits the same minimalist, if slightly obsessive, aesthetic…
Via CR Blog.
Belkin
Belkin has introduced a new identity designed by Wolff Olins.
Via Brand New.
December 2011
1 post
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Formally established in 1968 but with roots as far back as 1847, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (formerly Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama) is Scotland’s “national centre of professional vocational training in performance arts.”
Via Brand New.
November 2011
7 posts
South Korean road signs by Studio Dumbar
The Seoul office of Dutch designers Studio Dumbar has redesigned the national road signage system for South Korea.
Via Dezeen.
Carlsberg
Carlsberg in Danish, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Thai, and Russian.
24 hours in photos
This installation by Erik Kessels is on show as part of an exhibition at Foam in Amsterdam that looks at the future of photography. It features print-outs of all the images uploaded to Flickr in a 24-hour period…
Via CR Blog.
R.I.P. Ruedi Rüegg
We have lost another brilliant graphic designer, who was one of the pioneers of the International Typographic Style. Swiss graphic designer Ruedi Rüegg passed away on October 14th, 2011. Here’s a little note written by his good friend, Fritz Gottschalk.
Via AisleOne.
Mark Mawso
Incredible underwater digital photographs by Mark Mawso.
Via but does it float.
The 2012 Olympics artists posters
The 2012 Olympics artists’ posters come from a fine tradition of involving the visual arts in the Games.
Via CR Blog.
Stephen Eichhorn
Meticulous flower arranging from Stephen Eichhorn.
October 2011
25 posts
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Walter Isaacson’s official Steve Jobs biography, was published 3 days ago… Time to get it.
Vhils
Portuguese street artist Vhils makes portraits by hacking, drilling and ripping into buildings. His first monograph has just been published by Gestalten and contains some striking imagery of his work… Awesome.
Via CR Blog.
Kathmandu
In September Kathmandu introduced a new logo, identity, and packaging system designed by Strategy Design & Advertising. Nice one.
Via Brand New.
Schaffter Sahli
What an incredible collection of work by Geneva-based studio, Schaffter Sahli.
Great stuff.
In Brief
Hat-Trick Design created this small but thick 924 page tome, entitled “In Brief”, to commemorate much of their work created in the last ten years.
Jeanloup Sieff
Nice set… Jeanloup Sieff (November 30, 1933 – 20 September 2000) was a French photographer.
Street Installations by Miss Bugs
Street art duo Miss Bugs has created this series of artworks that are designed to blend in with a variety of backdrops around London, including advertising posters, murals and even postboxes…
Via CR Blog.
Monika Grzymala's installation
Artist Monika Grzymala has created this dramatic installation, made entirely with black tape, within the Sumarria Lunn gallery in London…
Via CR Blog.
The world’s first space terminal for tourists
Wow… Foster + Partners have completed the world’s first space terminal for tourists in New Mexico.
Via Dezeen.
Faber Castell's Artist Pen
Insane campaign for Faber Castell’s Artist Pen… It’s amazing how it’s done with just one single line. Just one. “We could go on and on about the Faber Castell Artist Pen’s precision and control, but we thought we’d just show you.”
More at Vogalicious.
Shin Dokho
Great portfolio of minimal design by Shin Dokho, from Seoul in South Korea.
Eye Sea Posters
Eye Sea Posters is a new website that showcases and sells original vintage film posters, with a rather strong leaning towards Polish posters from the 60s and 70s.
Via CR Blog.
John Stark
Stunning work… John Stark’s paintings are bizarre and beautiful in equal measure.
Never Forever Never for Now
Insane! “Never Forever Never for Now” is a quantitative visualisation of the transient nature of empire. The visualisation graphs all known empires, colonies and territorial occupations from 2334 BCE to the present day.
Available to purchase by clicking here (click on the little arrow to reveal the ‘buy’ link).
Walter Ballmer
Walter Ballmer was a Swiss graphic designer who is best known for designing the Olivetti logo.
Via THINKINGFORM.
John Stezaker
“John Stezaker’s work re-examines the various relationships to the photographic image: as documentation of truth, purveyor of memory, and symbol of modern culture. In his collages, Stezaker appropriates images found in books, magazines, and postcards and uses them as readymades.”
Folkert
Via but does it float.
National Centre for Craft & Design
Nice rebrand, by SB Studio, of the National Centre for Craft & Design – formerly The Hub.
Via Visuelle.co.uk.
NeXT logo
When Paul Rand designed the NeXT logo in 1986 he developed a proposal book for Steve Jobs, that explained the process that led him to the final design. Reading about Rand’s thinking and thought process, and what influenced his decisions, is pretty interesting.
Via AisleOne.
Kern Type, the kerning game
A kerning game. Pretty cool, have a go.
Identify
In Identify, designers Tom Geismar and Ivan Chermayeff, and partner Sagi Haviv, open-up their studio for the first time in the firm’s 55-year history. This excellent book reveals the creative process that led to some of the world’s most iconic visual identities.
Via David Airey.
Imperial War Museums
Working with brand strategists Jane Wentworth Associates, London-based design agency Hat Trick has just unveiled a new identity it has created for the institution previously known as the Imperial War Museum.
Via CR Blog.
Das Programm
Das Programm is a shop that only sells objects designed by Dieter Rams.
Steve Jobs, 1955-2011
It is sad when the day comes when one of your biggest influences perishes. Steve Jobs showed the world that, after the postmodern frenzy, you can place order, rationalism and emotion in a product and, above all, a brand. Together with Jonathan Ive (Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple), Jobs originated and provided natural and effortless designs that correspond to the psychological...