Studio Beige
February 1st, 2011Here’s a really nice monograph of artist Olaf Mooij by Studio Beige.
Size: 31.5 x 23 cm
Pages: 152 pages + 8 pages cover
Cover: Offset Print, Printed on 300 g/m2 Munken Lynx in FC+2 PMS colors, Blind Embossing
Inside book: 130 g/m2 Munken lynx for textpages (2 pms) and drawings, 150 g/m2 GoMatt for images
Binding: Perfect Otobind
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Really Useful Posters
January 28th, 2011Category: Design, Grid Systems, International Typographic Style, Typography
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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.
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TWO — Think Work Observe
January 26th, 2011Fellow Italiano designers Piero Di Biase and Alberto Moreu wrote in about their design practice, TWO. Some nice work here.
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Hugo & Cat — The BLK Book
January 26th, 2011Uk agency Hugo & Cat initially designed and produced the BLK Book as a Christmas gift for their clients. I’m lucky enough to have an early copy and it’s a superbly crafted book that just makes you want to crack it open and take a big whiff of the glue, ink and paper. It’s pieces like this that make me love the printed medium.
The book is hand finished in heavy ebony Colorplan paper, printed with gold and white foil by Generation Press.
The BLK Book will soon be available for purchase.
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Kristín Agnarsdóttir
January 24th, 2011Recent graduate Kristín Agnarsdóttir designed this Knoll Architectural Paint packaging for a design class at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, California. The class assignment was to either redesign an existing architectural paint line or choose a brand or designer and invent a paint line for them. Here’s what had to say about why she selected the Knoll brand:
Based on my love for strong simple mid century designs, I chose Knoll as my inspiration and maker of a new line of paint colors. The name is french and means “light”. The idea is that they only make a very selected line of colors inspired by their textiles and color choices through the decades.
Excellent choice of colors that would make this product stand out from the rest. I’d by this stuff solely on the great design of the packaging.
I’m sure she received in A in that class. I love seeing work of this caliber coming from recent graduates.
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Buddy Carr 66 Signature Model
January 19th, 2011The “66″ is the latest skateboard I designed for Buddy Carr Skateboards. It’s Buddy’s signature model, so he’ll be ripping it up on one at the pools across SoCal.
Lately, Buddy and I have been inspired by GP racing graphics from the 60s and 70s. I’ve always loved the light blue and orange color scheme of the Ford GT40 Gulf Oil, so I used that as inspiration for this board. The design morphed into the final angled version after a few rounds of ideas that played off the simple classic racing graphics. The text is set in Univers Ultra Condensed, which really compliments the design.
As always, it was a blast designing this. You can check out more photos and info or buy a complete at Buddy Carr Skateboards.
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Minimalist Tote Bags
January 15th, 2011Brooklyn based designer Jeff Ramsey created these beautiful and functional canvas tote bags. My favorite is the Misc. pictured here. The bags are screen-printed on natural colored canvas. You can order one of these lovely bags on Jeff’s site.
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2011 Calendar Wallpapers
January 12th, 2011**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: 1920x1200. I hope you enjoy it.
Download the zip file with all three wallpapers.
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Invesco Perpetual Book by Browns
January 12th, 2011Creative 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.
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Ben Jennings
January 10th, 2011Keeping with the Aussie theme, the work of Ben Jennings has recently caught my eye, specifically this business card he designed as part of an identity for Top Shelf. I absolutely love the attention to detail here, with the blind print and the thin line of color in the card stock. The type is set in Farnham and printed on Stephen – Smart White (330gsm ×2) / Curious Metallic – Bronze Ore (250gsm).
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Les Mason: Epicurean Magazine 1966 – 1979
January 9th, 2011This is a stunning limited edition publication designed by Australian designer, Dominic Hofstede. The booklet features covers and spreads of Epicurean Magazine designed by Art Director Les Mason.
Hofstede created a simple and elegant layout for the book, and the light tan pages with orange text is superb. You can see more images at Recollection or pick up a copy at The Narrows.
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Page Magazine
January 6th, 2011I’ve never heard Page Magazine before, but I stumbled upon on it and it’s mesmerized by its wonderful design. Most magazines today are a chaotic mess of advertisements and poorly designed articles, all battling each other for prominence. It’s refreshing to see such a simple and beautiful approach.
The magazine seems to be designed by Mexican agency, Face. There are a bunch of detailed photos of the mag at this Behance gallery.