The insanely talented Duane King, with the help from him friends at Athletics, has relaunched Thinking For A Living with a fresh new design as well as a blog and Del.icio.us feed.
Category: Design
CMYK Posters
A nice collection of posters available in Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black by Milano based studio Unconfessable Ideas.
50 Designers’ Current Favourite Typefaces
Excellent book by UK studio Create/Reject featuring favorite typefaces by 50 designers. The list includes Wim Crouwel, Experimental Jetset and Build. You can purchase a copy here. All proceeds go to UNICEF.
Nike Euro 2008
Amazing set of 16 limited edition t-shirts for Nike by Steve Rura. Each shirt represents a country that qualified for the 2008 Euro Soccer Tournament. I how do I get these cause I want them all.
Branding A Baptism
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: invitation, RSVP card, envelope, RSVP envelope and even extends to the number cards that will be on each table, which will be mounted in simple black frames.
The invite and RSVP card were letterpress by Coeur Noir in Brooklyn, NY, who did an amazing job. These are the same guys that printed up some stuff for the Helvetica Film, including this gorgeous poster by Norm. For the stock I went with white Rising Museum Board. I wanted a really heavy stock and this ended up being perfect. The board even has a nice texture to it.
For the envelopes I went to Kate’s Paperie and found some gorgeous high quality envelopes that are lined and have a nice diagonal line texture. They also printed my address on the back of the main envelope and on the front of the RSVP envelope. They didn’t have the Lubalin Graph font in house so I had to lay it out myself and send over the files. They came out perfect.
The entire set looks amazing and I’m really happy with how it all came out. If anyone would like a set let me know and I’ll send it out if I have any left over.
Vormgevers Poster Details
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.