Depending who you speak to, which newspaper or media you choose to read either you get the feeling that the current recession is improving or beginning to bight a little harder. Some smaller agencies I know are inundated with work whilst some of the big ad agencies are letting people go. Confusing times!
Well if you’ve have been through rough times or forgot to check for typo’s before going to print or publish this could be the book for you.
Design Disasters: Great Designers, Fabulous Failure, and Lessons Learned is an engaging record of misfortune and misadventure.
If you want a daily fix of design disasters you need to take a look at failblog.org an amazing collection of design and general life failures. A daily source of amusement in the studio.
My poor old neglected blog has been left to gather digital dust recently due to work being all consuming…
But this is worth promoting, it looks like a great insight into the thinking behind modern advertising, with fantastic interviews from George Lois, Mary Wells, Dan Wieden, Lee Clow, Hal Riney who were responsible for “Just Do It,” “I Love NY,” “Where’s the Beef?,” “Got Milk,” “Think Different,” etc
This is the latest film from director Doug Pray (Surfwise, Scratch, Hype) an will be a must see for the autumn/winter. Check out http://artandcopyfilm.com for more details.
Mr Worthington is a multi talented graphic designer with a sharp eye for detail and layout who I have known for years. He’s decided this year to venture into the wold of freelance, so if you’re looking for a good designer/art director to work on any projects you need look no further. His expanding portfolio site is dworthington.co.uk.
Stefan Sagmeister gives a very inspiring talk on why design can make you happy. From one of the TED series of lectures you can access from TED or their Google channel.
Stefan Sagmeister
Simply beautiful Transport for London posters for the 2012 Olympic Games. I don’t think that there is going to be as much controversy over these as there is over the Wolff Olins logo.
Some more information at ministryoftype and by the originator himself Alan Clarke
Whilst doing some brand identity research recently I delved into my book collection and trawled through the traditional avenues, books that most designers will be familiar with including the Los Logos series. I then set about trawling the internet and was pleasantly surprised by the amount of sites dedicated to art of logo/identity design.
I know I have only scratched the surface with this but those that are worth a mention are Logo of the Day, Lo8os, Logolog and Logo Design Love.
As usual with these online collections some examples are good but lot’s are pretty average!
I stumbled across this site last week after reading Johnson Banks – Thought of the Week. Absolutely gorgeous book sleeve design from David Pearson. Before setting up his own agency he was an Art Director at Penguin Books. A must see and I think that I am going to have a hole in my wallet after a trip to Foyles this week!
Small, Medium, Large & EXTRA LARGE typography! Wow!!
I spent my design education really admiring Why Not Associates, their print work and books really were an inspiration. Quite a unique style which has often been copied but never executed with the same degree of skill. I had put them to the back of my mind until this week when I was going through my book library for research material.
I have put the locations of their environmental designs to the top of my list of places to visit.
Some of the most memorable motion picture title sequences recently (think Seven, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Mummy, Spiderman) have been produced by Kyle Cooper. He is often compared to Saul Bass and his relatively new solo venture is Prologue. Go check it out!
Some exceptional work from Barcelona based graphic designer Alex Trochut. Amazing portfolio of illustration and typography based work for some of the worlds biggest brands. You may not know him but you will know his work.
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