Iconic Logo Designers
July 16th, 2008The talented chap David Airey has just launched a new site that documents the world’s most iconic logo designers, which includes one of my all-time favorite designers Otl Aicher.
Definitely check it out. It’s a great resource that’s growing each day.
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Loose Collective
July 16th, 2008This business card by G-Man gets me all warm and fuzzy on the inside. I love letterpress. This world would be a better place if everything were letterpressed.
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Intervista: Experimenta
July 15th, 2008Experimenta is a design studio based in Wellington, New Zealand made up of Duncan Forbes and Elaina Hamilton. Their work has a subtle minimalist and modernist feel that is very refreshing and unique which focuses towards artists, galleries, museums, music and education. Duncan and Elaina took a moment to answer a few questions for AisleOne.
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Spreading The Love
July 15th, 2008
You’ll notice a new tout in the left side bar linking the exceptional site Thinking For A Living. It’s not paid advertisement, I just love what Duane is doing with that site and more people need to head over there because it’s such a great resource for new and old designers. Duane is also joining AisleOne as an author and will be contributing when he can. So give him a warm welcome and spread the word about his site.
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A Brief History Of Avant Garde
July 14th, 2008Here’s an excellent article over at Thinking For A Living on the history of one of my favorite typefaces, Avant Garde.
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The Time Has Finally Come
July 11th, 2008I’m upgraded to this bad boy today. Last night I installed an unofficially version of the 2.0 software so I can play around with all the new apps and I must say this new phase of the iPhone is going to be revolutionary, not that the first phase wasn’t. The third party applications and games are mind blowing. Nothing you’ve ever seen on a mobile device.
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HelloMe
July 11th, 2008Till Wiedeck is a third year graphic design student and freelance graphic designer from Muenster. His work has been posted recently on a few design blogs and there’s a reason why. It’s really fucking good.
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Die Neue Gesellschaft
July 10th, 2008Category: Design, Design Legends, Grid Systems, International Typographic Style, Typography
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I’ve been searching for months and months now for a single copy of Die Neue Gesellschaft, a political magazine that was art directed by Helmut Schmid, but they seem to be extremely rare. I was able to get in touch with some people who curate Schmid’s work and they sent over some original scans of the covers which are just gorgeous. I’m trying to get them to send over more but they haven’t replied to me in a while. In the meantime drool over these. This design was first used in 1974 with issue #7 and remained in use until 1981.
Honestly, I would pay good money for a complete set of these. I’m so obsessed with them.
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Unimark International
July 8th, 2008A simple site that takes you through a brief history of the world’s largest design firm, Unimark International. Founded by Ralph Eckerstrom and Massimo Vignelli, Unimark only lasted 13 years but some of the most famous corporate identities were born behind its doors. My favorite is the work done for Memorex.
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A Celebration Of June Poster Collective
July 7th, 2008Daniel Camacho has written in about a poster exhibition held by the London
College of Communication. The exhibition displays 30 A1 posters produced by 30 creative individuals throughout Europe, each offering their own interpretation of a day in June. If you’re in the area definitely stop by because this sounds like it’s going to be good. I wish exhibits like this were held in NYC.
A CELEBRATION OF JUNE
POSTER COLLECTIVE
8th — 12th July / 10am — 8pm
London College of Communication
Typography Studio
Elephant & Castle
London SE1 6SB
Free Admission
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Int’l Male Posters
July 7th, 2008Category: Design, Grid Systems, International Typographic Style, Typography
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A nice collection of gig posters that were recently added to my International Typographic Style flickr group. Design by Pinch, the layout system allows a poster to be created in less than 30 minutes. I wonder if a grid system was used to create the layout.