Would have love to have gone too this collating poster past and present throughout the Chaumont town/city.
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This a nice poster very much in the vein of phillippe apeloig and how he describes that he tries to create 'movement' in his work. It uses primary colours a breaks language down almost to like its building blocks of a characters form. Anatomy of type, counters, ligatures, stems.
Lovely poster. Hopefully displays, if not to go too site, must see.
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Fontopoly / Type Trumps / The Font Game
Ought to have been Typopoly. From timbasmits.com. 'PROJECT / FONTOPOLY & MR FONOTOPOLY CHARACTER DESIGN FOR "GO FONT YOURSELF" EXHIBITION'
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Work and Play
Last night saw the opening of Alan Fletcher: Fifty Years of Graphic Work and Play, a touring exhibition making its latest pit-stop at Manchester’s Cube gallery (only £4 entry, get some cheap flights, or train tickets, immense amount of inspiration, well worth it).
Talking to Alan Fletcher at Pentagram, Peter Saville said.
“One day I saw him crouched over a piece of paper with a paintbrush. Trying to ignore typesetting, he was putting down a message onto the paper in his handwriting. I stood over him and asked ‘Alan, can you remember typefaces? Or are you too old now?’, to which Alan smiled and replied: ‘Yes, I remember them, they’re a crutch for designers like you.’”
piece of work with a little sketch by fletcher read:
“the sun always shines
its our fault if we dont think so!” (…handwritten of course).
Described as 'the best ever graphic designer' by the observer and 'one of the giants of 20th century design' by the guardian (both newspapers in UK, if unknown).
Excellent show (GO see! took 2 years to get it up-north at cube) me leant over with the bag and friend/tutor (many thanks too for informing and inviting me to the show, we should cash-in on those model releases for that drink hey... even after he just got peter drinking it ;o) ). Many thanks to peter saville for indulging me by signing my Communicate: independent british graphic design since the sixties, book. shame was too packed to have a chat with him, but for me a graphic designer, wow. dont meet many that well known.
factory records, joy division, new order, how to design without losing your soul in creative review article.
The Art of Looking sideways by Alan Fletcher is a must read for any creative, not just graphic designers. in the foreground of this pic was a glimpse of the volume thats in the book as he compiled it.
I finally got out to a gallery, only decided to go tues 19th, i think it was. very good!
fletcher, forbes & gill + theo crosby (good work also). loved some of the letter head examples, especially the cut off edge-of-paper silhouette shaped like a face.
22 January—03 April 2010
Cube Gallery, Portland Street, Manchester, M1 6DW www.cube.org.uk
Photograph by Mat Thornton (nice guy, if it was who we chat too). check out the Corner House restaurant not far, i think it was, nice soup, i know, extravagant! photos from here: http://www.grafikmag.com/index.php?m=GR&sub=GRdetail&id=238
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A Texas Designer's Map of the World
The fabulous design agency Pentagram based in New York with partners like Angus Hyland (co-author of many excellant design/illustration books, The Picture Book: Contemporary Illustration & Paula Scher (AIGA medalists, notorius mapper, will feature soon), ....at the worlds leading multi-disciplinary design consultancy, feature an excellant map that Scher would be proud of. The partner DJ Stout has created a “Texas Designer’s Map of the World” as a part of a promotion for Sappi Fine Paper. Based on the concept of a Texas Brag Map, the poster elucidates the worldview that everything is bigger and better in the Lone Star State. “It’s part of our Texas heritage and our collective sense of humor,” explains Stout. “My apologies to the other smaller, less interesting states on the map.”' (pentagram, 2008, p.new). He divides a map of the U.S. into six parts and assigns each section to a graphic designer who resides within the region. When all six posters are put together, they form a giant map of the United States, “of course I was given the Southwest,” says Stout (pentagram, 2008, p.new). Its composition is bolshy, beautifully layered (as you notice opening the pdf on a sluggish computer), with Piet Zwart/H. N. Werkman letters treatment surrounded by soft pastel triadic harmony of red, blue, yellow. Yet still its not too disparaging with the these surreal, fluctuating sized elements like The World's biggest Jack Rabbit, it has Swiss grounding in neat, clean, precise, even grids of text J.M.Brockmann would be proud of, creating a salient [1] contrast. It also treats word (type) as image that crow [2], and concrete poets of appollinaire to mallarme would adore. The other participants include Art Chantry, Rick Valicenti, Paul Sahre, Clive Piercy and Tim Hussey. Brilliant. Download the large version image here. http://blog.pentagram.com/2008/02/new-work-sappi.php [1] Kress & Van leeuwen [2] Left to Right: The Cultural Shift from Word to Image