Good post explaining the design process of creating artwork for a DVD release of the classic sci-fi movie Solaris.
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A project to design 100 posters, one a day, for 100 days, taking no longer than a minute to design each one. The brief was set by Michael Beirut, a partner at Pentagram. The only restrictions were that all posters should be 12″x 18″. Everything else is left open. This particular set is by Zak Klauck, at the Yale school of art.
The British graphic designer and typographer is currently giving away a free font. The rest of his distinctive typefaces at Virus Fonts are worth checking out too. There is a strong political or social influence on lots of his work, for example his alternative set of Olympic Pictograms or his book of ‘Shocking Global Facts’ which is in our library. Also see the work of his design studio.
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.
Beautiful work by American student Beth Shirrell. The work was the winning design in a competition run by AIGA.
‘Swiss’ or ‘International’ style of Graphic Design is vitally important to the development of modern graphics as we know today.
- Smashing Magazine’s Lessons from Swiss-style Graphic Design.
- Flickr group covering International style in Graphic Design.
- Flickr page of Blanka, an online poster shop showing classic designs by Herbert W Kapitzki, Armin Hofmann and Josef Müller-Brockmann.
- The work of Otl Aicher for the 1970 Olympics. More examples here.