You can see pictures of the book on Typotheque here, or by coming over to my house where i will force it upon you until you agree with me that Wim Crouwel and Experimental Jetset are super amazing.
Thursday, 20 March 2008
Best. Find. Ever.
so i was hanging out with my two favourite graphic designers (maria and deniz of course) in the tate modern bookshop the other day and i found a copy of 'Wim Crouwel: Typographic Architectures/Architectures Graphiques' which was published for the exhibition about the legendary typographer at the beginning of last year in Paris. The book shows his work between 1956 and 1976. Whats more, it was designed by Experimental Jetset! I know i recently made a post about getting a different Wim Crouwel book but you have to realise that a book about Wim Crouwel designed by Experimental Jetset is basically graphic design porn to me. good times.
Wednesday, 5 March 2008
Norway
The product of a bored afternoon not doing university projects. Not sure how well this went really, what do you think? It feels like something that could be worked into, or expanded on or something, but i cant really decide on what. The placement of the body copy is a particular issue that needs to be tweaked. The experimental typography is my own, but the body copy is just copied out of wikipedia...
You should be able to click to enlarge
Wim Crouwel
Today i received a lovely new book in the post. That book is 'Wim Crouwel Alphabets', which i snapped up when a single copy became available on amazon. It was quite expensive, and its quite small, but it is pretty much very amazing. For those of you who don't know, Wim Crouwel is a dutch typographer and graphic designer, who started his career during the mid fifties, and is one of the key designers of the modernist movement. He was designing typefaces that feel extremely modern even today when most of our parents (assuming you're a student like me) were just young whipper-snappers during the mid to late 60s and early 70s, and more importantly, waaayy before the advent of computer technology in graphic design. Anyway, i highly recommend looking him up, i think theres a lot to be learned from him...
Tuesday, 4 March 2008
Monday, 25 February 2008
Helvetica
Just watched the documentary 'Helvetica' which i think was released last year but i didnt get round to seeing it then. It is really really good and if you are into graphic design and/or typography at all, definitely bother to see it.
Friday, 22 February 2008
Sunset in the land of photoshop
A new addition to my on going ghostworld series (yes, named after the graphic novel, no, not really anything to do with it, im just a huuuge Clowes fan). You should be able to click to enlarge
Monday, 18 February 2008
Build
Build are a London based studio. I've seen their work around for a while but only finally bothered to look up their site. Man, i wish i had designed the poster above. I think they're rapidly becoming a personal favourite.
Get clicking!
Saturday, 16 February 2008
Things I like: Maria!
One of my best friends Maria just started a new blog. She is small and blonde and from Sweden! Its called 'The Things I Like (and things i hate)' - you may be able to guess she posts about things she likes and things she hates. So far she's just posted about things she likes, which is a surprise, because i know her, and i know she hates a lot of stuff. Its a really simple idea but i think its a really good one, plus she has lots of pretty photos and it looks very nice indeed (she just got a fancy pants new camera and everything)
Head over there and maybe Maria will like you too
Thursday, 14 February 2008
Happy Valentines Day
i made two posters for my better half. Sure, i didn't print them out i just showed them to her on screen but she said she really liked them. I did MAKE her a mixtape though (classic) and got her a book so I'm not THAT lazy. I may post pictures of that later also as i was quite pleased with the mixtape design. The small body copy on the posters is a series of injokes that only really me and her would get. :) .What did you do this valentines day?
p.s Vince Frost loves you too
Tuesday, 12 February 2008
Photoshop + 2am =
2am seems to be some kind of creative hour for me. Heres some things i did on photoshop at this time, instead of sleeping:
Monday, 11 February 2008
Sunday, 10 February 2008
Black Slabbath
Saw this whilst browsing the YouWorkForThem site. Its a poster titled Black Slabbath by YWFT, promoting a night of heavy metal, beer and typography (whats not to like?). The typeface itself was designed by Stefan Kjartansson and is pretty much all about the colossal slabs and being blacker than black. Anyway, head over to their website right now and have a look around they have some really great stuff on there - i'm especially fond of some of their typefaces.
Doug Scott Photography
Ok FINE ill admit it, yes, i am shamelessly promoting my brother here. He is a photographer and illustrator (just finishing his third year studying illustration at Coventry university), and he just set up a blog for his photography stuff so people can see it easily and everything. He is pretty good if you ask me, so head over and check it out and leave comments and stuff.
Experimental Jetset
ok well i don't actually have any of my own work to post just yet (soon!) so i figured i would post a link to one of my all time favourite design studios - Experimental Jetset. Thats right, the pesky, helvetica loving dutch trio, who invented tshirts that
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Anyway, i love them a lot (am currently totally ripping on them for something i'm doing right now that ill post in a couple of days) and i think you should too, if you don't already.
Hello.
Hello and welcome to my super amazing exciting blog. It's mostly supposed to be about my life as a graphic design student, and a place i can post stuff i've done and stuff by other people i like etc etc (all kinds of stuff mind, not just graphic design). It's also a place for me to spread vicious rumours about people i know! Just kidding.
enjoy (hopefully)
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