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Sunday 1st August 2010
A classic poster from 1963 by design legend Massimo Vignelli. The Italian once has said, “If you can design one thing, you can design everything,” and this is reflected in his broad range of work ranging from package design to furniture design to public signage… Vignelli works firmly within the Modernist tradition, and focuses on simplicity through the use of basic geometric forms in all of his work.
This classic is a book cover for the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, designed by one of our favourites Wim Crouwel in 1966. It doesn’t get much better than this.
ELSKEN, ED VAN DER - Sweet Life.1966. Cloth-covered boards (hardcover), illustrated dustjacket (with protective mylar), 29 x 29 cms., (32) pp. text in Dutch + 179 fine black-and-white plates in photogravure.
We just came across this book and its fantastic cover in a local thrift store. A “break” in the Lindy Hop is shown in this high-speed action picture taken in 1943 by LIFE photographer Gjon Mili. Dancers Kaye Popp and Stanley Catron demonstrate the dance, named originally for Lindbergh’s 1927 flight to Paris. Also seen here is another image from the same series. More to come from the great Gjon Mili soon, watch this space.
NB Adult language; just in case the kids are around.
For all the branding fans out there, well,anyone for that matter this short film is a real treat. Meticulously thought through and beautifully executed the famous brands and logos of the world are brought to life as a city and zoo. The film was presented at the Cannes Film Festival 2009. It opened the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and won a 2010 academy award under the category of animated short. It was directed by the French animation collective H5, François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy + Ludovic Houplain. Keep an eye out for the cameos!
Rounding off March nicely our work for Dorsch Gallery was featured on the Creative Review blog. There is a nice description of the work by CR Senior Writer Gavin Lucas, and a quote from our Creative Director. Creative Review magazine was launched in London in 1980 and is the leading visual communication journal. It now has subscribers in over 80 countries and readers online in over 120.
Link: http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2010/march/dorsch-gallery-identity
Adobe have set up a site giving sneak peaks at some of the new features of CS5. The most notable demo so far is for Photoshop’s ‘Content Aware’ delete, of which there is a video demo. Extremely impressive and worth watching if you’ve ever had to edit a photo…!
We are currently researching for a new project we are working on that requires an early 20th C look. Along with the typefaces we know from the period we found and thought we would share these. Time to step back from the Mac for a while and get the pencils out.