Millimetr
February 8th, 2012As you may already know, photography is something that I have a passion for. I just don’t do enough of it, so I went ahead and created a blog called Millimetr where I’ll be posting my photos. It should be a nice motivator and hopefully it will get me to take more photos. Most of what will be featured will be taken with an iPhone 4S using a wonderful app called Mattebox. I’ll also feature photos taken with my Canon T2i, but I expect a majority of the photos to come from my iPhone since it’s always with me. There is a known quote, not sure who said it, that I believe to be true:
“The best camera is the one that’s with you.”
People stress about which camera to buy, but at the end of the day it’s about taking pictures. I’m hoping this works out to be true for me.
I’ve also whipped up a logo for the blog using the typeface Proxima Nova Extra Condensed by Mark Simonson.
Enjoy.
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The Wonder Year
February 6th, 2012Studio Beige and Joey Vermijs have collaborated on a diary/notebook which contains quotes, tasks and general food for thought to help envision the ‘future of humankind’. There’s also a nice little tote bag.
You can learn more about the initiative at the website.
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Eric Cahan Sky Series
January 30th, 2012I absolutely love this series of photographs by Eric Cahan. He manages to capture amazing colors and super simple gradients. What really amazes me about the photos is how simple some of the images are. Lovely.
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Design Assembly 3
January 26th, 2012To celebrate its third birthday, Design Assembly has retired the site and produced three lovely books archiving the past 3 years of published articles, comments, as well as showcasing new and exclusive words and images from some great contributors.
And it’s all done for a great cause: fighting cancer. 100% of profits from the sale of the book will be distributed globally between three cancer charities: Cancer Research UK, LIVESTRONG and WCRF International.
Great design. Great content. Great cause.
Purchase a copy from their site.
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Typographic Revolt
January 23rd, 2012The folks at HypeForType approached graphic designer Ryan Atkinson to produce their first magazine, Typographic Revolt. The mag acts as a showcase for their typeface collection and is A2 sized with a twist. Instead of following the traditional convention, Ryan designed a quick read through A2 magazine which also doubles up as a set of 4 Exclusive Faces posters. Each page folds out to create a double sided poster perfect for your studio or home wall space. Typographic Revolt is printed as a limited litho run on 90gsm wood free paper, giving everything a premium newspaper feel which absorbs the inks to create a beautiful desaturated look and feel.
Typographic Revolt is available now through Amazon.
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Hans G. Conrad: HfG Ulm
January 19th, 2012AisleOne reader, René, was kind enough to write in to share his collection of photos taken by Hans G. Conrad, the first student at the Ulm School of Design / Hochschule für Gestaltung HfG Ulm. Conrad passed away several years ago, but before he did he gave René over 12,000 photos. About two years ago René began to upload the images to Flickr. A lot of really great photos already up there, like the one pictured here of Otl Aicher teaching a typography class. You’ll find a lot of other great design legends in the photos like Bayer, Eames and Bill.
What a great way of remembering such a historic school and influential designers.
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Dino’s Pizza
January 12th, 2012I recently just finished a simple site for my families pizzeria, Dino’s Pizza. It’s a one-pager that has a responsive layout, accommodating screen widths from 1280px all the down to an iPhone. Fluid site design is the way to go in my opinion, especially now that people are viewing sites on multiple devices. I used the 1140 CSS framework as the base for my code, and then tweaked it from there.
Overall, I’m happy with it. I wanted to do more with animation, but I really didn’t have the time.
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Famous Visual Services
January 11th, 2012Some nice work by Melbourne based design studio, Famous Visual Services.
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Buon Compleanno Massimo
January 10th, 2012Massimo Vignelli turned 81 years old today. His work and ideas on design have had a huge influence on me. I thank him so much for that. Thank you, Massimo.
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Pierre Mendell
January 6th, 2012Category: Design, Design Legends, Grid Systems, International Typographic Style
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Pierre Mendell (1929 — 2008) was a graphic designer that studied design under Armin Hofmann at the Schule für Gestaltung in Basel and later went on to form the Mendell & Oberer studioin 1961 in Munich. Mendell is best known for his work identity work Vitra and Siemens.
The MoMA has a small, but great, gallery of some of his work.
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Ogami Notebooks
January 4th, 2012Italian agency, Office Milano, has created these gorgeous notebooks for Ogami featuring designs in the International Typographic Style. Want.
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Research & Development
January 3rd, 2012I hope ever had a safe and happy new year.
To kick-off the new year, here’s some excellent print work by Research & Development, a studio made up of Daniel Olsson and Jonas Topooco.