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To coincide with the upcoming Wim Crouwel exhibit at the Design Museum, Unit Editions has published this excellent catalogue that celebrates the work on this design legend.
The catalogue includes Crouwel’s posters, catalogues, documents, manuals, stamps and personal photographs, as well as an interview with him conducted by Tony Brook of Spin.
It’s available now at Unit Editions.
Just when you’ve thought you’ve seen it all, you stumble across something like this Swiss site containing a MASSIVE amount of work from legendary designers like Brockmann, Ruder, Bill, Hofmann, Stankowski, Rüegg, Lohse, Huber, Tschichold and more. This is the motherload folks.
It just goes to show how prolific these designers were, especially Brockmann. I thought I’ve seen most of his work, but this site contains many designs that I’ve never seen, like the one pictured here. It’s like rediscovering him all over again. Not sure how he was able to get all the work completed. I can’t imagine ever producing this amount of work in my lifetime. Amazing.
100 Days is a fascinating project by Jessica Svendsen in which she created daily variations of Josef Müller-Brockmann’s excellent Beethoven concert poster. The project was part of the Michael Bierut 100 Days Workshop at the Yale School of Art.
The uber-talented Mark Bloom of Mash Creative just wrote in about these gorgeous ‘Really Useful’ posters they’ve created, extending the philosophy and thinking behind their State of the Obvious brand. The series consists of four themed posters: Greenwhich Mean Time, Emoticons, Print Sizes and Metric Conversion information and are available in A0, A1 and A2 sizes exclusively from Print Process.
Some people will find these designs to be boring, but I personally find them to be visually stimulating. The obvious grid, simple but rich color palette and staggered typography create interesting designs that are reminiscent of the classic International Typographic Style from the 50s and 60s. This is the kind of stuff that gets my creative juices flowing.
**Update** If you’ve downloaded the wallpapers, please download them again. I fixed an issue with the numbers being misaligned.
A lot of you have been asking about this year’s wallpaper, and I finally got around to getting it done. This year the full calendar is broken up into 3 wallpapers. Each one has 4 months and the colors get darker as the year progresses. As expected, I went with a simple design with more of a focus on the months and I’ve continued the multi-language theme. It comes in only one size: 1920×1200. I hope you enjoy it.
Download the zip file with all three wallpapers.
Creative consultancy Browns was kind enough to send me photos of their latest project: a limited edition book for Invesco Perpetual featuring beautiful photos by Magnum photographer Donovan Wylie. I’m a big fan of photos spanning across two pages, it really enhances the experience, especially when the images are this stunning. The vertical lines is also a nice touch, they reveal the underlying grid.
Here’s what Browns had to say about the book:
Working closely with photographer Donovan Wylie/Magnum, Browns have produced and designed a new limited edition book for Invesco Perpetual.
The resulting imagery from the shoot becomes part of Invesco’s image library and is used across all of their communications collateral.
This iconic flat top mountain was used by Browns when redesigning the Invesco global Identity in 2008.
I posted all of the high-res images of the book on Flickr.
