February 2012
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Free Fonts
Demilked have created three great groups of free fonts available to download. These are;
21 Incredible Fonts…
20 Beautiful Handwritten…
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26 Beautiful Free Retro…
Definitely worth a look.
“Now the man who first chose glass instead of clay or metal to hold his wine was...”
– The Crystal Goblet, or Beatrice Ward on typography (via llnmn)
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My Dissertation Online 2012 →
‘An Exploration of Editorial Design’s Response to New Technology’
This is the designed edition of my dissertation submitted last month.
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The Book Cover Club →
What do designers do after they’ve read the book? They design the cover of course…
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It's A Small Web →
This blog has some great design bits and pieces.
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WatchAngus Hyland’s interview of his experience at Pick Me Up 2010- designing and printing a poster.
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WatchAngus Hyland speaking at a presentation focusing on symbols after the publication of his co-authored book ‘Symbols’ (published by Laurence King Publishing).
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A really interesting and expressive look into brands and logos and their history with Hyland’s opinions.
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Breathing Earth →
A real-time map of CO2 emissions, deaths and births across the world.
Strangely addictive to watch.
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January 2012
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EMP Work
Inspired by Golden’s photography exhibition ‘Home’, I’ve been researching the 1970’s as a decade. Apart from the early glam rock and punk, there were many things I didn’t know about the 70’s.
Perhaps it’s because it is between the hippy-era 60’s and Thatcher’s 80’s, but the economic and social factors of the 70’s that still...
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Watch‘See The Sound Hear The Colour’
Anthony Burrill is better known for his bold, witty posters but he also does these incredibly colourful animations.
Burrill is the second designer I’m looking at for my D & AD Pentagram brief 2012.
I am already acquainted with his posters and I blogged this video a while back.
Quick Bio.
Blog.
“I look for a nuance, a subliminal energy in a film that I can then work into an...”
– Richard Morrison, interviewed by Empire Magazine (August 2008)
An intensive look at his work on a blog post can be found here.
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“Some readers, it is said, tried to book a holiday there, though travel agents...”
– Just My Type: A Book About Fonts By Simon Garfield (pg 42- describing a peculiar reaction to San Serriffe)
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B-B-B-Books →
Swedish book publishing company.
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Design Work Life →
Interesting design blog.
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Overlooked typefaces
gratuitoustype:
Great list of overlooked typefaces released by Paul Shaw much much earlier this year. Gotta find a use for this light weight of Koch Antiqua in particular. How pretty.
- How stunning!
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Boscombe Vintage Market →
If you live in Bournemouth, head down to this little market on the first Saturday of every month.
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D&AD Brief
I’ve chosen Pentagram’s Graphic Design brief for this year’s competition. The brief is to ‘create a series of special books/publications on specific people who have given talks for The Circle’. The do NOT have to be like magazines, but thought of as books or ‘special editions’. It does not clarify the information that is to be included.
Research &...
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December 2011
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Design Book Online →
I haven’t been posting as regularly as usual because I’ve been in the throws of a hand-in and creating this design book analysing this unit. Enjoy.