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Chelsea College of Art’s graphic design communication show again makes good use of the campus’ Triangle Space, this year filling it with bright colours, supergraphics, film projects, and even neon lights…

The weather perhaps contributed to what seemed like a very positive show at Chelsea this year. A smaller number of students were showing work compared with 2011’s group, but there were some great projects to be seen. Here are just a few of the highlights from my visit.

The neon piece, shown above, relates to one of graduate Joel Baker’s portfolio pieces (his final degree show project is shown in more detail below). Baker had the physical neon type made to complement his Amen typeface which was created for a Ministry of Sound brief. The work recently won him a D&AD Student Award. More images are at dandad.org/awards/student.

Image from D&AD’s Student Awards page

The Amen face is great and no doubt took an age to perfect each and every combination of potential linking letterforms. His main project, however, was an interactive type piece called Colloquy.

Colloquy is a script which evaluates the content of writing generated in real time – the form of the words depends upon the particular word being typed and the context it’s used in. You can try it out at colloquy-type.com. Displayed on a big screen and a monitor at the Chelsea show, the system is designed to create “more expressive communication,” says Baker. joelbaker.net.

Natalie Doto’s box of 65 edge-notched cards is essentially an analogue archive of graphic design history, searchable via a braddle-like tool. Users place a green ‘index’ card in front of the deck, then select a style, date, medium or design movement by inserting the needle through the relevant hole. When the cards are hooked out, the ones left in the box are the ‘results’ of the desired search.

A nice visual touch was that the proportions of colours used within each work are displayed as inforgraphic pie-charts. A lengthy process, but Doto’s project goes some way to illustrate how we depend upon (and are used to) the research speeds now enabled by the web. More of her work at nataliedoto.com.

Isabel Gibson’s Africar charity campaign for See Africa Differently blended traditional African tribal patterns with contemporary graphics to make some eye-catching car designs. Gibson’s portfolio is isabelgibson.com.

And Jack Haslehurst’s semaphore-inspired posters added bold colour to the space, and elements from his project were used as the exhibition graphics and floor supergraphics. “Whilst initially looking at the way codes can be visualised graphically, the project blossomed into an ideographic form of communication for the contemporary designer,” writes Haslehurst on his website. “Bringing together elements of surprise, beauty and optimism; shapes and symbols combine with a specified colour palette to create original meaning.” jackhaslehurst.com.

I enjoyed Matt Flynn’s minimalist visual language system that condenses news stories down to a series of pictograms. For The Smaller Picture he created a series of symbols, a website at thesmallerpicture.net and, with Newspaper Club, a tabloid newspaper with each story conveyed via three symbols.

He also made a wall graphic at the Chelsea show:

Graduate Daniel Cooper recorded his travels around Europe as he interned at several design studios and agencies. It was, he says on the Chelsea graphics site, “A month long nomadic design journey, traversing Europe and exchanging my practice for professional mentoring.” Not only did his travelling become an integral part of his final project, it also gave him a great deal of real word experience on live briefs. daniel-cooper.com.

I also liked Sophie Heath’s An A to Z of Advertising the Mundane project, in which she came up with 26 photographic concepts for advertising a range of ordinary products and services; ‘I’ was for ‘instant pudding’, for example, while ‘T’ for ‘tractor repairs’. sophieheath.com.

And Sophia Ray’s campaign for Rough Trade, based on the ‘battle’ between The Digitals and The Vinyls, was nicely put together via posters and a short film trailer. cargocollective.com/sophiaray.

Another good set of promotional films came from Veronica Law and her I’ve Got Brains series for Rude’s Thunderbirds-inspired menswear collection. You can see the film at the Chelsea show website here (go to Veronica’s page). Some elements from the print campaign are also posted below. cargocollective.com/veronicalaw.

One of the stand out films of the 13 on the Chelsea showreel, however, was Joshua Stocker’s music video for Gem Club, I Heard the Party. Filmed in super slow motion, it glided along brilliantly with the ethereal track. joshuastocker.com.

Chelsea’s BA graphic design communication show is on until June 23 at Chelsea College of Art and Design, 16 John Islip Street, London SW1P 4JU. The work is also at chelseagraphics2012.com.

The Gigaset coeval L226 combines the best voice quality with maximum flexibility. It clips onto your clothes giving you a unique hands free experience. It sports a very cool feature; when you dock it on its charging base, the phone’s interface transforms into a sexy digital clock. It boasts of a good-sized touchscreen interface and can be rested on its side to avail the loudspeaker function.

Designer: Patrick Loh

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Grass-fed bison meat for conscious carnivores

As sustainable food practices continue to shift closer to the norm, Wild Idea Buffalo Co. earns bragging rights for being one of the country’s first and only commercial ranches to offer humanely harvested meat from entirely grass-fed, free-roaming buffalo.

Based in the Great Plains of South Dakota, Wild Idea was founded more than a decade ago by Dan O’Brien, a wildlife biologist and one of the country’s preeminent falconers for whom land preservation has always been a priority. To restore the fast-depleting grasslands and strengthen the health of the prairie’s ecosystem, while also maintaining a thriving business, O’Brien focused on buffalo meat as an alternative to beef and its stronghold on the industrialized food system.

Buffalo in general is arguably a healthier meat option than beef, chicken, and even fish, due to its high-protein, low-fat content, but Wild Idea’s free-roaming herds, in particular, are 100-percent grass-fed as well as hormone- and antibiotic-free, delivering 3.5 times more omega-3 fatty acids than most grain-fed bison.

The ranch’s method of humane field harvesting stands out as a unique practice as well. A mobile harvester carrying a sharp shooter drives into the fields, where the buffalo are then killed in their natural habitat. Besides being kinder to the animal, field harvesting also yields a better product, as the stress that animals tend to experience at conventional slaughterhouses has been known to have adverse effects on meat quality.

Adding to its range of steaks and ground meat, sausages, ribs, flavored jerkies, and bones for stocks, the company just rolled out a new lineup of pre-marinated steaks for fast grilling, as well as Polish sausages and hot dogs, with new jerky flavors on the way in mid-July.

Find Wild Idea’s products at specialty retailers around the country including Dean and DeLuca and The Meat House, as well as by mail order through the ranch’s website.

Yesterday (June 20th) was the first day of summer for those of us in the northern hemisphere. I, for one, am very happy about the start of summer. The days are longer and there are so many fun things to do, like taking road trips and long weekends at the beach. I’m really looking forward to sharing new experiences with my husband and 5-month-old. Planning ahead will be even more important for us since we are now traveling together as a trio.

To make sure your summer travel plans go off (mostly) without a hitch, follow these simple steps:

Figure out everyone’s schedules

Whether you’re taking a weekend trip with your girlfriends or heading off to a week-long family vacation to Epcot, it’s important to know when everyone’s available. This may sound obvious, but it is essential and perhaps the most challenging part of planning. Get this information as early as you can and find out if there’s any flexibility with dates (just in case one or two people are not available when everyone else is). Sites like WhenIsGood.net and Doodle.com can help easily coordinate this task. Once you know when everyone has time off, you can pick a date and then you will need to…

Decide where you’ll go

Once the vacation dates are selected, figure out where you’ll go. Will you be taking your annual trip to your favorite destination or will you go some place new? Are white, sandy beaches on your mind? Or, would you prefer something more active (like a hiking vacation)? Once everyone agrees on the location, do a little research to find out if there are any special events that you’d like to attend, and add them to your calendar.

Decide who will do what

Who will be responsible for making the flight and hotel reservations? Or, will everyone handle their own arrangements? If you’re taking a road trip, figure out if you’ll drive to your destination together or if everyone will drive their own car. If you’re carpooling, do you need to rent a larger vehicle and who will handle that? Who will bring the snacks and drinks?

Decide how to take care of trip expenses

When traveling with a group, it’s important to discuss how the trip will be paid for before you travel or make reservations. Will one person pay and then get reimbursed? When will he/she get reimbursed? Who will pay for gas and snacks? Do you want to reimburse exact amounts or do you think it will all “even out in the wash?”

Decide what to bring with you

The last time I took a road trip, I brought the world with me. Since I would be on the road for eight hours, I wanted to have everything I could possibly need at my fingertips. When you’re driving with a child and dog in the car for more than an hour, you really don’t want any surprises. As it turned out, I didn’t use half of what I packed. But, now I have a better idea of what I will use the most and this will help me when it’s time for our next adventure.

Here are some things that will be helpful to have on hand (depending on your specific circumstances):

• Medications
• First aid kit
• GPS and/or paper map
• Paper money and coins (for tolls, snacks)
• Cell phone and charger
• Sun screen or sun block
• Books, magazines, or Kindle
• Baby gear, if you have a baby
• Children’s games and music, if you have children

No matter where you decide to go this summer, put a few plans in place first. Planning may not seem like fun, but thinking things through ahead of time will make the trip less stressful.

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