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Tribute to Herbert Lubalin
July 31st, 2007I apologized for the lack of posts recently. I’ve been swamped at work but I will make it up to you guys with todays entry.
Herbert Lubalin is the creator of one of my most favorite fonts, Avant Garde, and one of the most influential designers of our time. Sure Avant Garde is overused and a lot of people simply hate it, even Lubalin himself, but I personally think it’s a beautiful font. Head over to Typogabor.com/ to check out their sweet gallery of some of his best work.
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50 Years of Helvetica
July 24th, 2007Great exhibit featuring talented designers. There is a nice online gallery on the Candy site and you can purchase all the pieces from Blanka. My favorite is this one above by Build.
2007 sees the fiftieth anniversary of helvetica. Blanka and Candy have invited 50 leading designers and graphic artists to produce 50 images. Each artist has produced a 50cm x 50 cm print in an edition of 50, available for £50 each. Each print is produced using Epson archival giclee inkjet technology. The exhibition launches in london at the Design Museum July 19 — Sept 2 and was produced in association with Veer and with the assistance of Epson, GFSmith, Image Now, Generation Press and Build.
Each artist was allocated a random year [1957 — 2006] from Helvetica’s lifetime. From this they were asked to create an image based on an event of creative or cultural significance which occured during their allocated year. The artist were asked to consider the relevance of Helvetica when creating their final piece, there were no other rules applied other than if they used a typeface it must be Helvetica.
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Coke Packaging
July 24th, 2007Coke has updated all the packaging on their classic products. No more lame bubbles and crazy lines. Just a simple, elegant design that I personally love. Good job Coke!
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Andrew Dickson meets Gary Hustwit
July 21st, 2007Andrew Dickson of the Guardian interviews ‘Helvetica’ director Gary Hustwit.
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NY Times Sign
July 10th, 2007Wonderful sign created by Michael Bierut and his team at Pentagram on the new New York Times Building. Michael explains the process of creating the sign in more detail on the Pentagram blog.
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Schmid Today
July 9th, 2007Schmid Today is a project about the designer and typographer Helmut Schmid that consists of an international exhibition, a book, a project documentary and a website. Excellent stuff.
«schmid today» is a research project about the designer and typographer Helmut Schmid by the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf’s Design Department. The project was initiated and is supervised by Professors Victor Malsy and Philipp Teufel. The research team of 55 students around them collected, researched and cataloged designs by Helmut Schmid for the course of three years. The Archive documents Schmid’s complete works, including originals from the past 40 years. The results of the research are published now in an international exhibition, a book, a project documentary and in the digital realm for the first time.
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Graphis Diagrams
July 9th, 2007Graphis Diagrams, published in 1981, contains some beautiful vintage graphs and charts.
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July 3rd, 2007
Buenos Aires based studio Bravo does some amazing work. I absolutely love this flyer. Wish I could buy it.
