A British graphic designer and founder of Struktur Design, Roger Fawcett-Tang brings us “Numbers in Graphic Design,” a new sourcebook for dealing with information-heavy design. The practical guide surveys one of the more fascinating players in graphic design, and one that isn’t limited by linguistic or cultural boundaries. Essentially,…
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Creative Review’s December issue includes a special feature on designer rugs. Plus: LiveSurface, popular lies about graphic design, advertising’s neglect of its history, and an interview with Tony Kaye like no other
Does it matter if design projects are presented using fake images created using LiveSurface and the like? Mark Sinclair looks in to the issue of mocking-up
We have an extract from Craig Ward’s upcoming book Popular Lies About Graphic Design, which takes on some of the truisms about the profession
Why has advertising been so poor at preserving its past and what is it doing about it? Anna Richardson Taylor has the answers
Traditional portfolio or iPad? Illustrators’ agents share their tips for getting seen with Gavin Lucas
Get Knotted: why carpets are the latest medium of choice for designers and illustrators
An interview via K-mail: maverick director Tony Kaye has a certain way with the old email
Kalle Lasn of Adbusters hopes his new economics text book, Meme Wars, will inspire students to challenge their lecturers. Guardian economics leader writer Aditya Chakrabortty, who reviews the book for us, has his doubts
Gordon Comstock pities brands’ long-suffering social media managers
In a new column on art direction, Paul Belford deconstructs a Levi’s ad that was so wrong it was very right, plus, in his brand identity column, Michael Evamy looks at the work of Barcelona-based Mario Eskenazi
And Daniel Benneworth-Gray tackles every freelancer’s dilemma – getting work
Our Monograph this month, for subscribers only, features the EnsaïmadART project in which Astrid Stavro and Pablo Martin invited designers from around the world to create stickers to go on the packaging of special edition packaging for Majorca’s distinctive pastry, the ensaïmada, with all profits going to a charity on the island (full story here)
CR’s back cover features one of Craig Ward’s Popular Lies About Graphic Design
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A worker at amadip.esment poses with Mike Dempsey’s ensaïmadART sticker design. Photo: Borja Zausen
To raise funds for a local charity, Majorca-based designers Astrid Stavro and Pablo Martín invited fellow designers from around the world to create stickers to adorn a special edition series of boxes containing the island’s national cake, the ensaïmada
Traditional ensaïmada boxes awaiting assembly
The Majorcan ensaïmada is a traditional pastry made from fermented dough, sweetened and baked to achieve a light, flaky consistency. In their distinctive octagonal boxes, ensaïmadas are a popular souvenir and a familiar sight in the departure lounge of the island’s airport.
EnsaimadART prototype designs featuring stickers from Klas Ernflo (above left) and Zak Kyes (above)
The EnsaimadART project aims to celebrate the 50th anniversary of amadip.esment, a non-profit organisation which works with people with intellectual disabilities on the island, providing training, support, jobs, activities and counselling. Each artist was asked to create a circular sticker, 270mm in diameter, to the brief of ‘can a sticker have a positive effect on society?’
Each artwork was printed by workers at amadip.esment in an edition of 50 and applied to boxed ensaïmadas from Majorcan bakers.
Printing the boxes and stickers at amadip.esment
This film documents the process. Art direction: Cumi Torán. Shot and edited by Borja Zausen, Nopasespena. Music by Ramón Martínez
The boxes are all stamped and numbered using specially-designed rubber stamps
The pastries will be sold at bakeries with all profits going to amadip.esment. In addition, Majorcan publishing house Infolio is to produce 1,000 copies of a commemorative catalogue (dummy shown) featuring the actual stickers ‘tipped’ onto the pages, with profits again going to amadip.esment.
Here’s a small selection of the artworks created for the project which launches on December 13 at the port of Majorca (full list of contributors here).
Alex Trochut
Coralie Bickford-Smith
Fanette Mellier
Fred Birdsall
Hey Studio
Hvass&Hannibal
Javier Perada
Jordi Labanda
Laura Messeguer
Miriam Rosenbloom
Na Kim
Project Projects
Richard Sarson
Studio Makgill
Vince Frost
Wladimir Marnich
Wim Crouwel
The ensaïmadas and the catalogue can be purchased from amadip.esment’s website
The project is also the subject of our December Monograph publication, exclusive to CR subscribers.
Photo: Borja Zausen
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CR In print
In our November issue we look at ad agency Wieden + Kennedy in a major feature as it celebrates its 30th anniversary; examine the practice of and a new monograph on M/M (Paris); investigate GOV.UK, the first major project from the Government Digital Service; explore why Kraftwerk appeals so much to designers; and ponder the future of Instagram. Rick Poynor reviews the Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design; Jeremy Leslie takes in a new exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery dedicated to experimental magazine, Aspen; Mark Sinclair explores Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery show of work by the late graphic designer, Tony Arefin; while Daniel Benneworth-Gray writes about going freelance; and Michael Evamy looks at new telecommunications brand EE’s identity. Plus, subscribers also receive Monograph in which Tim Sumner of tohave-and-tohold.co.uk dips into Preston Polytechnic’s ephemera archive to pick out a selection of printed paper retail bags from the 70s and 80s.
The issue also doubles up as the Photography Annual 2012 – our showcase of the best images in commercial photography produced over the last year. The work selected is as strong as ever, with photographs by the likes of Tim Flach (whose image of a hairless chimp adorns the front cover of the issue, above); Nadav Kander (whose shot of actor Mark Rylance is our Photography Annual cover); Martin Usborne; Peter Lippmann; Giles Revell and more.
Please note, CR now has a limited presence on the newsstand at WH Smith high street stores (although it can still be found in WH Smith travel branches at train stations and airports). If you cannot find a copy of CR in your town, your WH Smith store or a local independent newsagent can order it for you. You can search for your nearest stockist here. Alternatively, call us on 020 7970 4878 to buy a copy direct from us. Based outside the UK? Simply call +44(0)207 970 4878 to find your nearest stockist. Better yet, subsc
When Vogue creative director Grace Coddington first watched the 2009 documentary The September Issue, she was in total shock. “There was way too much of me in the film,” explains Coddington in her memoir, Grace, out today from Random House. “Now I can look at the end result and laugh. After all, I was rather outspoken. Nevertheless, there really is way too much of me.” In doing press for the film, she not only became much more recognizable, to the point that fans gathered in front of her Chelsea apartment building (“I felt like the Beatles,” she writes. “Actually, better than the Beatles, because the crowds chasing them in the early days of their fame could get rough.”), but also found herself looking back over an extraordinary life and career. “It got me thinking…that maybe I had a bigger story to share.”
That story, told over some 400 pages and annotated with Coddington’s charming pen-and-ink illustrations, now pushes the reluctant celebrity back into the spotlight. Among the first stops on her press tour was NPR, where she chatted yesterday with Fresh Air’s Terry Gross about her early life in Wales, career as a model (interrupted by a car accident), and all things Vogue. Alas, the interview (click below to listen to the full segment) inevitably devolved to Gross asking a variant of the “But who really wears that stuff?” question. Coddington’s response:
You know, you have to have a bit of fun in life, and that’s why they [designers] do it, and they do it to get your attention. They do the extreme ones. When you go back to their showrooms, you’ll find the more commercial versions of that, but it’s to get across a point. You have to say it in a strong way to get across a point. So if you want to go short, they go very, very, very short on the runway. But you’ll find in the showroom, it’ll be a reasonable short, you know, that you can wear. So there’s always the commercial version. And equally, we photograph both. We photograph the more commercial things, and we photograph the extreme things because–for the same reason. In order to make the point, you have to say it strongly, so people can see the difference between this season and the last season, and, you have to feed them the information. If you’re too subtle about it, you’re not going to get it.
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Litographs—a company known for reprinting full texts of books as posters—recently caught our eye when they sent us a custom poster printed with text from Cool Hunting articles. The execution was just too slick not to share. There in a pristinely etched screen print was a feed of our…
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Competition: Dezeen is giving readers the chance to win one of five copies of Generative Design, a book about using computer processing to design artwork, models and animations.
Generative Design explores how programming languages such as Processing can be used to create structures from sets of rules, or algorithms, to form the basis of anything from patterned textiles and typography to lighting, sculptures, films and buildings.
The book includes 35 illustrated case studies by designers from a variety of design fields such as architecture, graphic design, sculpture and textiles.
A step-by-step manual then guides readers through practical instructions for creating their own visual experiments by combining simple programming codes with basic design principles.
The book is paired with a website where users are able to download sections of programming code and upload their own artwork and techniques.
Generative Design is published by the Princeton Architectural Press.
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To enter this competition email your name, age, gender, occupation, and delivery address and telephone number to competitions@dezeen.com with “Generative Design” in the subject line. We won’t pass your information on to anyone else; we just want to know a little about our readers. Read our privacy policy here.
Competition closes 18 December 2012. Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeenmail newsletter and at the top of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.
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The Monkey’s Paw, Toronto’s “most idiosyncratic secondhand bookshop”, just got a little bit more idiosyncratic. A new in-store Biblio-Mat book dispenser is offering up mystery titles for a mere $2…
Built by Craig Small, creative director at Toronto post-production, design and animation studio, The Juggernaut, the Biblio-Mat serves up random books as an alternative to the shopfront discount bin.
“Every book a surprise” it promises and ably demonstrates in an accompanying Vimeo short (below), dispensing a fine edition of Wunnerful, Wunnerful!, the 1971 autobiography of band-leader, musician and US TV star, Lawrence Welk, for this particular punter.
To work the Biblio-Mat, customers simply insert two dollars and, after a series of internal whirrings, the buzz of an old telephone bell alerts them to their new purchase in the tray below.
The shop’s “remote window display” is here. The Monkey’s Paw – and Small’s Biblio-Mat – are located at 1229 Dundas St. West (between Ossington & Dovercourt), Toronto.
Spotted over at boingboing.net.
Camera: James Cooper. Editor: Nick Goso. Coding: Dan Donaldson.
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CR In print
In our November issue we look at ad agency Wieden + Kennedy in a major feature as it celebrates its 30th anniversary; examine the practice of and a new monograph on M/M (Paris); investigate GOV.UK, the first major project from the Government Digital Service; explore why Kraftwerk appeals so much to designers; and ponder the future of Instagram. Rick Poynor reviews the Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design; Jeremy Leslie takes in a new exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery dedicated to experimental magazine, Aspen; Mark Sinclair explores Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery show of work by the late graphic designer, Tony Arefin; while Daniel Benneworth-Gray writes about going freelance; and Michael Evamy looks at new telecommunications brand EE’s identity. Plus, subscribers also receive Monograph in which Tim Sumner of tohave-and-tohold.co.uk dips into Preston Polytechnic’s ephemera archive to pick out a selection of printed paper retail bags from the 70s and 80s.
The issue also doubles up as the Photography Annual 2012 – our showcase of the best images in commercial photography produced over the last year. The work selected is as strong as ever, with photographs by the likes of Tim Flach (whose image of a hairless chimp adorns the front cover of the issue, above); Nadav Kander (whose shot of actor Mark Rylance is our Photography Annual cover); Martin Usborne; Peter Lippmann; Giles Revell and more.
Please note, CR now has a limited presence on the newsstand at WH Smith high street stores (although it can still be found in WH Smith travel branches at train stations and airports). If you cannot find a copy of CR in your town, your WH Smith store or a local independent newsagent can order it for you. You can search for your nearest stockist here. Alternatively, call us on 020 7970 4878 to buy a copy direct from us. Based outside the UK? Simply call +44(0)207 970 4878 to find your nearest stockist. Better yet, subsc
While strolling through Typographica.org’s logs I discovered that lots of folks are reaching us by Googling for typography classes or educational material and ending up on this outdated post. That thing is old and moldy and links to a dead page. So why not build a new list of course materials that is current and relevant? What books, websites, articles, and other resources are typography and typeface design teachers recommending to their students today?
I’ll start with two good lists:
Two books about type design that are not included in these lists are Reading Letters, published this year, and Cómo crear tipografías (How to create typefaces), also published this year and currently available in Spanish only. I am not a full-time instructor, but from what I’ve seen these appear to be worthy additions to the very few good books about making type.
Teachers, tell us what references you recommend to your students. Or, link to your reading list. Please include the level of the course (beginning, intermediate, or advanced) and its focus (using type or making type). Students, chime in too!
After an unprecedented level of entries (over 900) and some tough deliberation, we can reveal our winner of the series of Noma Bar/Haruki Marukami cover prints. As an extra surprise, we’re also offering up two sets of the new Vintage editions to both a second and third place runner-up…
As you can see from the original post, we had a lot of entries to this competition. To be in with a chance of winning the prints (made for the covers of Murakami’s reissued backlist by Tuckshop at Print Club London), we asked you to suggest a suitably Murakami-like title for a story. Thank you to everyone who entered. Your suggestions did not disappoint. Among them were numerous references to jazz, plenty of cats, some fish, teeth, ears and moons, and even some Beatles songs.
And if you’re thinking of starting a band, you could do worse than scour the list for inspiration. We’d pay good money to see either of Clowncar Autobahn (suggested by ‘Jon’), Giraffe Arms (courtesy of ‘Alexor’), or Team Baby Fat Lips, & the Tale of Watertooth (‘Michael Serro’).
A special mention also has to go to Daniel Kimball whose 38 suggestions included, Consider A Tulip While I Steal Your Things; and Ana Rapsing whose 39 attempts peaked with Six Years Two Elephants I Can’t Remember.
However, a few of the titles really stood out for us. And so here, in no particular order, are seven we liked very much – with our third, second, and first placed winners listed after those.
Second and third you say? Yes, thanks to Vintage we were able to select two other winners, who will each receive a set of the reissued Murakami books.
Super-Realisitic Cakes and the Lumbering Siberians
Werner
Why Leaves Fall on the Heads of Weeping Dogs
Edda Bild
Even Giants Have Splinters
Harrison Pierce
Typhoon in Apartment 2609
A M H
The Girl on the Rooftop Who Did Not Want to Jump
Irina
Tall Cool Ones From The DaDa Glass
Kyle Miller
Washing Your Face With a Smile
Harrison Pierce
Winning a set of the books each, our second and third place winners are:
You Cannot Kiss A Laughing Mouth
Bobby
Soft Serve Jukebox
Alison Green
But, our chosen winner is the following entry:
A Dog, From the Inside Out
Thomas Laker
Short, simple, but still brilliantly bizarre, Thomas’ title also has a touch of Groucho Marx about it, namely his famous joke about books: “Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
Congratulations to Thomas, who wins the set of 13 signed prints; Bobby and Alison who scoop a set of the books (we’ll be in touch about getting the prizes out to you). Thanks again to everyone else who entered, and to Vintage for sorting out some great prizes.
We will also be offering a set of Noma Bar’s prints as our Gallery prize in the December issue of CR, out November 21.
CR for the iPad
Read in-depth features and analysis plus exclusive iPad-only content in the Creative Review iPad App. Longer, more in-depth features than we run on the blog, portfolios of great, full-screen images and hi-res video. If the blog is about news, comment and debate, the iPad is about inspiration, viewing and reading. As well as providing exclusive, iPad-only content, the app will also update with new content throughout each month. Try a free sample issue here.
CR In print
In our November issue we look at ad agency Wieden + Kennedy in a major feature as it celebrates its 30th anniversary; examine the practice of and a new monograph on M/M (Paris); investigate GOV.UK, the first major project from the Government Digital Service; explore why Kraftwerk appeals so much to designers; and ponder the future of Instagram. Rick Poynor reviews the Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design; Jeremy Leslie takes in a new exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery dedicated to experimental magazine, Aspen; Mark Sinclair explores Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery show of work by the late graphic designer, Tony Arefin; while Daniel Benneworth-Gray writes about going freelance; and Michael Evamy looks at new telecommunications brand EE’s identity. Plus, subscribers also receive Monograph in which Tim Sumner of tohave-and-tohold.co.uk dips into Preston Polytechnic’s ephemera archive to pick out a selection of printed paper retail bags from the 70s and 80s.
The issue also doubles up as the Photography Annual 2012 – our showcase of the best images in commercial photography produced over the last year. The work selected is as strong as ever, with photographs by the likes of Tim Flach (whose image of a hairless chimp adorns the front cover of the issue, above); Nadav Kander (whose shot of actor Mark Rylance is our Photography Annual cover); Martin Usborne; Peter Lippmann; Giles Revell and more.
Please note, CR now has a limited presence on the newsstand at WH Smith high street stores (although it can still be found in WH Smith travel branches at train stations and airports). If you cannot find a copy of CR in your town, your WH Smith store or a local independent newsagent can order it for you. You can search for your nearest stockist here. Alternatively, call us on 020 7970 4878 to buy a copy direct from us. Based outside the UK? Simply call +44(0)207 970 4878 to find your nearest stockist. Better yet, subscribe to CR for a year here and save yourself almost 30% on the printed magazine.
Cover for The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Last month we featured illustrator Noma Bar’s new cover designs for Vintage Books’ latest editions of Haruki Murakami’s works. Today, we’re giving away a set of the 13 screenprints made for the covers by Tuckshop at Print Club London…
Tuckshop is Print Club London‘s bespoke screenprinting service, and the gang did a stirling job of rendering Bar’s black, red and off-white illustrations for the covers, which were, says Random House creative director Suzanne Dean, “screenprinted by hand to give them a personal and softer edge”.
Thanks to Vintage and Print Club London we have a set of 13 prints to give away – each one appears without the titling or author’s name and is also signed by Bar himself. You can see some of the other covers in the set on our previous post, and at the Vintage Books Design tumblr.
To be in with a chance of winning the set, we want you to propose a title for a future Murakami story (in the comments below), befitting the author’s preference for the strange and surreal. There’s his novel Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, for starters, or perhaps The Second Bakery Attack from his The Elephant Vanishes short story collection.
Did we mention Super-Frog Saves Tokyo? You get the idea.
We’ll pick a winner – the story or book title posted in the comments that we like best – at 11am (GMT) on Friday this week and announce the name on this post.
Noma Bar is represented by Dutch Uncle.
Cover for What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Cover for Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Cover for A Wild Sheep Chase
Artwork for two of the finished covers
CR for the iPad
Read in-depth features and analysis plus exclusive iPad-only content in the Creative Review iPad App. Longer, more in-depth features than we run on the blog, portfolios of great, full-screen images and hi-res video. If the blog is about news, comment and debate, the iPad is about inspiration, viewing and reading. As well as providing exclusive, iPad-only content, the app will also update with new content throughout each month. Try a free sample issue here.
CR In print
In our November issue we look at ad agency Wieden + Kennedy in a major feature as it celebrates its 30th anniversary; examine the practice of and a new monograph on M/M (Paris); investigate GOV.UK, the first major project from the Government Digital Service; explore why Kraftwerk appeals so much to designers; and ponder the future of Instagram. Rick Poynor reviews the Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design; Jeremy Leslie takes in a new exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery dedicated to experimental magazine, Aspen; Mark Sinclair explores Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery show of work by the late graphic designer, Tony Arefin; while Daniel Benneworth-Gray writes about going freelance; and Michael Evamy looks at new telecommunications brand EE’s identity. Plus, subscribers also receive Monograph in which Tim Sumner of tohave-and-tohold.co.uk dips into Preston Polytechnic’s ephemera archive to pick out a selection of printed paper retail bags from the 70s and 80s.
The issue also doubles up as the Photography Annual 2012 – our showcase of the best images in commercial photography produced over the last year. The work selected is as strong as ever, with photographs by the likes of Tim Flach (whose image of a hairless chimp adorns the front cover of the issue, above); Nadav Kander (whose shot of actor Mark Rylance is our Photography Annual cover); Martin Usborne; Peter Lippmann; Giles Revell and more.
Please note, CR now has a limited presence on the newsstand at WH Smith high street stores (although it can still be found in WH Smith travel branches at train stations and airports). If you cannot find a copy of CR in your town, your WH Smith store or a local independent newsagent can order it for you. You can search for your nearest stockist here. Alternatively, call us on 020 7970 4878 to buy a copy direct from us. Based outside the UK? Simply call +44(0)207 970 4878 to find your nearest stockist. Better yet, subscribe to CR for a year here and save yourself almost 30% on the printed magazine.
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