One of my favorite studios Experimenta has just updated their site with work that just blows me away. It’s so unbelievably good.
Via September Industry
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Here’s an excellent find. A PDF file on BBC.co.uk named Visual Language 1.0 covering the widening of the site pages. Included are a lot of grid examples which makes it a great read.
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I designed this invitation, RSVP card and table card for my sons baptism. The overall color theme of the party is black & white so I wanted to keep this consistent throughout. I also wanted to use a single typeface for everything, in this case I went with Lubalin Graph. It’s used on ever piece: […]
Blanka has posted detailed photos of the Wim Crouwel Vormgevers poster being printed.
I’m dying to buy one but with the dollar being so low, the poster would cost me $200. Might be worth it though.
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Blanka has created a Flickr page displaying vintage posters and prints by Wim Crouwel, Josef Müller-Brockmann, Otl Aicher and many other great designers of the past. Absolutely amazing.
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I’m a big advocate of using divine proportions and the rule of thirds in any type of design work. I think any well constructed grid system should start from one of these proportions. They make a design more balanced, structured, compelling and far more communicative.
Here’s a great article on Smashing Magazine on both subjects.
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These next two additions to my collection have to be the most rare and the most expensive but also the most satisfying. Publicity and Graphic Design in the Chemical Industry (1967) and Graphic Design in Swiss Industry (1965) are both by Hans Neuberg and are part of the excellent ABC Verlag collection and contain page […]
Recently my obsession with collecting rare design books has reached an all-time high. In the last month I’ve added 14 books to my collection. Some hard to find, some not, some expensive, some cheap, but all amazing. I’ve photographed them for your viewing pleasure.
Books:
1999 - 20Th-Century Type Remix - Lewis Blackwell
1974 - Basic Typography - Ruedi Ruegg, […]
22 year old Swedish designer Felix Lobelius has just launched his new site and he has some excellent work on there.
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It’s one thing to write about how useful and important grids are for a design, it’s another thing to utilize them in a real world project. I recently designed this site for my wife’s event company using a grid system that I’ve developed that also incorporates a baseline grid. It’s very similar to the grid […]
Experimenta is a design studio based in Wellington, New Zealand with an exceptional portfolio. They are inspired by minimalism and modernism, and have a great Critique section on their site where they analyze typefaces and design theories. Any site with a diagram of a golden section page gets my respect.
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For all those that missed out on the Grids Are Good For The Soul posters, here are some wallpapers to satisfy your needs. Using the same Brockmann quote, I created two wallpapers, one set in Helvetica and the other set in Lubalin Graph. The grid is also visible which you can’t see in the thumbnails.
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A few months ago I wrote a short article on grids which I titled “Grids Are Good For the Soul”. I fell in love with the title and ended up designing this poster around it.
Grids Are Good For The Soul is screen printed by hand by Post Expose, which contains a quote by the legendary […]
This weekend I finally picked up Grid Systems in Graphic Design by Josef Müller Brockmann. To say this is a great book would be an understatement. I think it’s one of the most important books on graphic design and every serious designer should put this at the top of their must read list. Brockmann does […]
This is my entry for the What is Graphic Design Poster Competition. My idea behind this poster is that graphic design is whatever we want it to be. Designers are responsible for defining what is graphic design with our use of color, typography, layout, and when necessary, a visual element. My design conveys this idea […]
Sweet poster produced by You Work For Them and designed on a grid, features the typeface Black Slabbath by Stefan Kjartansson.
Dimensions: 18” x 24” (inches)
Printing: 2 Color Screenprint, Black and Silver
Paper: 100 lb. Uncoated, Dark Grey
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Here’s my copy of the beautiful Helvetica 50 Exhibit invite design by Build. The gold looks great in person.
You can see more pics of the invite on my Flickr page.
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Outstanding work by designer Ivan Mato. Every aspect of his portfolio is visual perfection.
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Post Expose is a screen printing and design collective in Long Island City, NY that offers screen printing services, classes, lectures, rentals and also hosts some great exhibits. What’s really interesting about Post Expose is that it allows artists and designers to share tools, space and knowledge.
It’s was started by graphic artist Sarah Mead who […]
I just finished designing this cover for the Coversourcing competition. If you dig it, head over to the site and vote for my design!
I wanted to do something very simple and clean but with an effective image. The image is from a larger image that I purchased from istockphoto.com, and of course, I used Helvetica and […]
