AisleOne. A visual journal on design, photography, film, music and culture.
by David Carvalho
Design Supremo is a brand new website, a creative hub, a design playground where people who appreciate that special touch can come and buy original, often limited edition objects of desire that are totally exclusive to the website. Design Supremo provides a commercial outlet for designers, helping with the manufacture and marketing of their products, and making them exclusively available on the website.
Blanka just hosted ReBag, an exhibit in London which featured screenprinted bags designed by some of the top studios in the UK. The bags are now available on their site.
ALL BAGS ARE SCREEN PRINTED WHITE ONTO DARK GREY CANVAS (440MM X 387MM) AND ARE PRODUCED IN A LIMITED EDITION OF 250 OF EACH DESIGN. A LIMITED EDITION EXHIBITION CATALOGUE WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE AT THE SHOW. CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE: AIRSIDE, BB/SAUNDERS, BROWNS, DESIGN PROJECT, MADETHOUGHT, MULTISTOREY, NB:STUDIO, NON FORMAT, ODD, SATURDAY, SEA, SPIN, SUPERMUNDANE, THE DESIGNERS REPUBLIC AND WINKREATIVE.
A friend of mine sent me this link to a site for a book called Body Type, labeled as “the first book devoted entirely to typographic tattoos”. A lot of interesting tattoos but the one that caught my attention is this image of an art director branded in Franklin Gothic No. 2 and Univers 65.
I’m still researching the unexplained phenomenon of all amazing work coming out of the UK and Europe. It must be something in the water. While I do that check out the work of this talented UK studio, Accept & Proceed. They also have posters available at Blanka.
I don’t know about everyone else but when I sit down to create a logo I need as much inspiration as I can get. More so than when I have to design a website or business card. The soon to be released book Logo by Michael Evamy is that inspirational resource that everyone designer can use. I’m definitely picking this one up.
The logo bible, this book provides graphic designers with an indispensable reference source for contemporary logo design. More than 1300 logos are grouped according to their focal form, symbol, and graphic associations into 75 categories such as crosses, stars, crowns, animals, people, handwritten, illustrative type, etc. To emphasize the visual form of the logos, they are shown predominantly in black and white.
By sorting a vast, international array of current logotypes ranging from those of small, design-led businesses to global brands the book offers design consultancies a ready resource to draw on in the research phase of identity projects. Logos are also indexed alphabetically by name of company/designer and by industrial sector, making it easy to piece together a picture of the state of the identity art in any client’s marketplace.
Hydro 74 (Joshua Smith) will soon release two books featuring his work. You can pre-order now.