Die Neue Gesellschaft

Posted on July 10, 2008January 25, 2016 Posted in Design, Design Legends, Grid Systems, International Typographic Style, TypographyTagged cover, design legends, graphic design, Grid Systems, helmut schmid, International Typographic Style, magazine, minimalism, modernism, Typography12 Comments

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.

This Stuff Just Keeps Getting Better

Posted on July 1, 2008July 1, 2008 Posted in Design, Grid Systems, International Typographic Style, TypographyTagged graphic design, grid, International Typographic Style, minimalism, modernism, Typography1 Comment

One of my favorite studios Experimenta has just updated their site with work that just blows me away. It’s so unbelievably good.

Via September Industry

Markwald & Neusitzer

Posted on June 26, 2008June 26, 2008 Posted in Design, International Typographic StyleTagged graphic design, International Typographic Style, minimalism, modernism, Typography10 Comments

I absolutely love this booklet/stationary by German studio Markwald & Neusitzer. Gorgeous and inspiring. Makes me want to fire up Illustrator.

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Experimenta

Posted on February 27, 2008February 27, 2008 Posted in Design, Grid Systems, TypographyTagged design theories, golden section, graphic design, minimalism, modernism, new zealand, Typography2 Comments

Experimenta is a design studio based in Wellington, New Zealand with an exceptional portfolio. They are inspired by minimalism and modernism, and have a great Critique section on their site where they analyze typefaces and design theories. Any site with a diagram of a golden section page gets my respect.

Almost Modern

Posted on February 25, 2008February 25, 2008 Posted in Design, TypographyTagged almost modern, graphic design, minimalism, modernism, netherlands, Typography1 Comment

The work by Netherlands based Almost Modern simply blows me away. I love how simple and minimal the work is but at the same time it’s just beautiful.

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Vote For Me!

Posted on January 12, 2008January 12, 2008 Posted in Design, Grid Systems, TypographyTagged book, Design, graphic, international, layout, minimalism, modernism, style, typographic, Typography5 Comments

Coversourcing

I just finished designing this cover for the Coversourcing competition. If you dig it, head over to the site and vote for my design!

I wanted to do something very simple and clean but with an effective image. The image is from a larger image that I purchased from istockphoto.com, and of course, I used Helvetica and a grid system.

Coversourcing is a competition from Random House and Creative Review to design the cover of Crowdsourcing, WIRED editor Jeff Howe’s upcoming book about the new internet revolution driven by the masses.

UPDATE
Unfortunately I just found out that to be eligible, you have to be a resident of the UK or Ireland. That really blows. Not sure why they would limit the competition like this but it was still fun to design to it. Vote anyway, maybe we can change their minds.