Steve Rigley, head of Graphic Design at Glasgow School of Art made these prints using material collected from Indian firework and beedi packaging.
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His type foundry Typotheque, the Indian Type Foundry’s site, an interview with Peter & Satya Rajpurohit, his partner at the ITF and also a solo interview with Satya.
Hugely influential British graphic designer. A collection of his early record sleeve designs. More examples of his work. A biography and list of his fonts at Fontshop. His company Research Studios.
For examples of how to use type as an image, look at the work of Alex Trochut, Si Scott, Tomato (particularly their earlier work in the 90s) and Non Format.
D&AD is a British organisation that looks after the interests of the country’s creative industries. Each year they hold an exhibition called New Blood which showcases the work of the best students graduating that year. The image is by Matt Ellwood and shows a poster which demonstrates the growing problem of light pollution. Here’s a link to this year’s batch. Also, here’s the site of this year’s graduating students from Camberwell College in London.
San Francisco based designer Alex Varanese “re-imagined four common products from 2010 as if they were designed in 1977: an mp3 player, a laptop, a mobile phone and a handheld video game system. I then created a series of fictitious but stylistically accurate print ads to market them.” Check them out here.
This blog is great for examples of before-and-after branding. FutureBrand and venturethree are both branding agencies that produce interesting work for multinational firms. There’s plenty of creative brand guidelines on Dixon Baxi’s site.
Adobe have launched the latest version of their CS suite and have redesigned the brand at the same time. It uses a simple but unusual grid. This page features an interview with the lead designer.
The shapes remind of this really clever identity by Stefan Sagmeister.
As with most of these ‘best ofs’ on the web, some of them are pretty average. However, the best ones are great. Try to analyse all the different printing techniques and materials used.
The Best 65 Business Cards of the Year
35 Cool and Inspirational Business Card Designs
And lastly, don’t treat visiting cards as seriously as these guys.