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This post is a follow up on my previous blog a couple of weeks ago looking at the talk at the Design Museum 'GraphicDesign& Great Expectations'. I attended the event last week on Thursday 10th May 2012. It was fantastic!
I normally like to focus on things that are aesthetically stunning in the art & design world. But this week I have come across the new proposed packaging design for cigarette packets in Australia which are a far cry from the tobacco industries advertising which concentrated on portraying the glamorous powerful life you could lead if only you smoked brand X. Advertising seems to be being turned on its head in search of the most repulsive ad you can create.
We are currently working on a book cover design and internal layouts, and on researching examples of existing books that really do explore and visualise the books content I came across the article 'A Craft Of Consequences: Reader, Writer And Emotional Design' By Robin Rendle where he discusses this very topic. He sums up beautifully in his opening paragraph the importance of good design with relation to the physical book.
Read more...Only 3 days to go till Valentines Day and counting so I've put together a selection of beautiful cards and designs with links to their websites so you can get hold of them. They are all my personal favourites, perfect for the loved ones in your life who are designers and also for those who love design. There are also a couple of DIY cards so you can get stuck in.
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This short film ‘Upside Down, Left To Right: A Letterpress Film’ by Danny Cooke, documents the dying art of letterpress and one of the few remaining movable-type printing workshops in the UK, situated at Plymouth University, featuring Paul Collier.
This week's selection of interesting finds from the team:
- We're so sad to have missed seeing this in person: the world's most insane dynamic wallpaper, created by Carnovsky (above). People who work with RGB will especially be touched.
The Yorkshire Sculpture Park currently has on show a stunning body of new and recent work by renowned Spanish artist, Jaume Plensa. The exhibition has been extended until 22 January 2012, so if you haven't had a chance yet – you are in luck because, this is definitely worth a visit.
We come across a wealth of interesting and useful articles, blog posts and other online gems, in the course of doing our work and feeding inspiration. We share most of these on our Facebook page and on Twitter but thought that a weekly round-up of our top 5 picks would be valuable to our blog readers. Enjoy.
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