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May 16, 2013
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Massimo Vignelli Makes Books

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In this video cre­ated by Pentagram’s Michael Bierut and Aron Fay for Mohawk, Mas­simo Vignelli dis­cusses his process of design­ing a book using a grid sys­tem. He draws out each page on paper, includ­ing the pho­tos. To me this seems so inef­fi­cient, but it works for him. It’s so fas­ci­nat­ing to get a glimps into his design process.

Along with the video a small lim­ited edi­tion jour­nal with Vignelli’s grid from the film is printed on 100 inte­rior pages made of Mohawk Superfine. You can get a copy of the jour­nal from Mohawk. Got me one!

May 8, 2013
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The grid is an inte­gral part of book design. It’s not some­thing that you see. It’s just like under­wear: you wear it, but it’s not to be exposed. The grid is the under­wear of the book.

– Massimo Vignelli
April 10, 2013
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Mirsad Ademaj

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Some tight work by Mir­sad Ade­maj.

April 9, 2013
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AGI Open London

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AGI Open is a design and edu­ca­tion con­fer­ence fea­tur­ing over 30 of the world’s lead­ing graphic design­ers – all mem­bers of the Alliance Graphique Inter­na­tionale (AGI). This year the event is in Lon­don, so if you’re in the area, def­i­nitely check it out.

But what I want to men­tion here is their awe­some Tum­blr, which fea­tures some great work from leg­ends like Müller-Brockmann, Crouwel, Hof­mann, Harder, Kramer, and a ton more. I can stare at this site all day long.

Via Blair Thomson

April 1, 2013
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Shin Dokho

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Excel­lent work from Korean designer, Shin Dokho.

March 20, 2013
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Richard Meier x Massimo Vignelli

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John­nie Shand Kydd directed this beau­ti­ful short film of design leg­ends Richard Meier and Mas­simo Vignelli. They dis­cuss grids, Meier’s new office space, and their long friend­ship. Would have loved for this to have been much longer, and to get into more of a design dis­cus­sion, but this will do. More here.

March 4, 2013
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Pierre Bayle Foundation Identity

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Almost Mod­ern was com­mis­sioned by The Pierre Bayle Foun­da­tion to design a new iden­tity sys­tem. They’re still work­ing on it, but what they’ve done so far looks fan­tas­tic. Be sure to look at AM’s full port­fo­lio. Their work is excellent.

February 22, 2013
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NYC Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual

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I’ve been try­ing to get my hands on a copy of the NYC Tran­sit Author­ity Graph­ics Stan­dards Man­ual for years now with no luck. I came very close last year when I was bid­ding on an eBay auc­tion for a copy, but I lost it. I still regret not bid­ding higher.

Seems like these folks have bet­ter luck, because they hap­pened to find a first edi­tion copy in a locker beneath some old gym clothes at Pentagram’s NY office. Are you kid­ding me? Nope. Lucky bas­tards. They pho­tographed every page and put high-res pho­tos up on a site for us all to drool over. Enjoy.

February 5, 2013
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MacDonald Educational Covers

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No, not the Micky D’s that makes the deli­cious, but unhealthy Big Mac. These cov­ers were from the Mac­Don­ald Edu­ca­tional Ltd of Lon­don and were pub­lished for the Schools Coun­cil from 1972 – 1973. Lovely. You can see the full set over at Wanken.

January 15, 2013
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The grid sys­tem is an aid, not a guar­an­tee. It per­mits a num­ber of pos­si­ble uses and each designer can look for a solu­tion appro­pri­ate to his per­sonal style. But one must learn how to use the grid; it is an art that requires practice.

– Josef Müller-Brockmann
January 8, 2013
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1322px Grid

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Now that 1366 is quickly becom­ing the most pop­u­lar screen width, a 1322px grid with 22px gut­ters is ideal because you can divide the space into 24, 20, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4 and 3 columns. This eas­ily allows for the rule of thirds, and also leaves you with 22px mar­gins on each side of the grid.

Seems like we’ve finally hit the point where we can work in a nice big can­vas. Would be great to have a respon­sive CSS frame­work built around this con­fig­u­ra­tion. Any­one up for the challenge?

Here’s a quick PSD I cre­ated with the columns.

January 4, 2013
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Silcon Packaging 1970

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Excel­lent pack­ag­ing design for Sil­con cream by Brian Sad­grove & Lyn­don Whaite done in the 1970s.

Via Re:collection

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