Type Trumps pack
Gavin 17/08/07, 15:25
Recent graduate of Cumbria University, Rick Banks, has created a set of Top Trumps style cards where classic typefaces are the subject matter - hence the name, Type Trumps…
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Archive for August, 2007
Best Degree Show Work 2007: Photography
Mark 16/08/07, 09:35
Hornbill by Martin McMillan (Salisbury College)
In the September issue of CR (out next week) we devote six pages to the best work from the recent college degree shows. But we’re also going to feature some of the great work we saw here on the blog. We have a large selection of graphic design, typography and illustration work to come but – first up – photography.
Justice - D.A.N.C.E.
Patrick 15/08/07, 22:20
T-shirt graphics come to life in this fun video for Justice track D.A.N.C.E. directed by Jonas and Francois of French production company 75
The Provocative Mr Meiré
Patrick 15/08/07, 10:41
German art director Mike Meiré (above) is renowned in magazine circles for designing two of the most innovative magazines of recent times – brand eins and Econy. Both were celebrated for their clean, cool aesthetic appeal. His latest project, however, deliberately sets out to subvert all the notions of “good” design that his previous work nurtured so carefully. His redesign of cultural magazine 032c was described by Magculture.com as “willfully awkward”. Set against the standards of mainstream graphic design, it is, well, ugly. Here, Meiré explains why…
Paul Rand: You Have Been Simpsonized
Patrick 14/08/07, 17:54
“Is it sacreligious to Simpsonize Paul Rand? The younger Paul Rand that is?” wonders Jeff Kim . ‘Course not, it’s what he would have wanted.
And here’s another of the designers at Thomas Manns, Joana Niemeyer
Still Going…
Patrick 14/08/07, 15:34
This one just in from Domitille Pouy at design studio Thomas Manss & Company
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