search blogspot for other graphic design blogs
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good inspiration list:
* 2x4, Inc.
* 344 Loves You
* AI-AP
* Ampersand8
* Apeloig Design
* Art. Lebedev Studio
* ATWTparis
* Austin Shaw
* Barnbrook
* Big Active
* Build
* Chromasia (photography)
* Coding Monkeys
* Creaktif
* Dan Tobin Smith
* David Carson
* David Lachapelle (photographer)
* Eduardo Recife (aka Misprinted type)
* Evasion
* Experimental Jetset
* Fake Pilot
* Feric Studio
* Flex Heinen
* Fons Hickmann
* Frank
* Frost* Design
* hagberg-reje
* Hamish Muir
* Hello Muller
* Helvetica Film
* I want design
* ICON
* iLK
* Image Now Design
* Imaginary Forces
* ISO50
* James Victore Inc.
* James White
* Joe Kral
* Jonathan Yuen
* João César Nunes
* Karlssonwilker Inc.
* Kerry Roper
* Kim Dulaney
* Klaus Voormann
* Le Monde.fr
* Leg.
* Level75
* Loic SATTLER - [LSD]Lysergid
* Lost in Space
* Love Creative
* Love Worn
* m/m (paris)
* Manystuff
* Mark Boulton
* Mehmet Gozetlik
* Mike Jarboe
* Mirko Ilic Corp.
* Misprinted Type 3.0
* Mistake the Beautiful
* Moholy Nagy
* Mopa
* Neubau
* Neue Laboratories
* Ni9e
* Nils Voelker
* Node
* North Kingdom
* Nothing Diluted
* Novum
* OBEY
* Palle Bruun Rasmussen
* Paul Sahre
* Peter Callesen
* Peter&Wendy
* Petula Bloomfield // Artist
* Polite Winter
* Red Bee
* RGB Mix
* RGB.
* Ross Mac Donald
* Sagmeister
* Saul Bass
* Saville Associates
* Sea.
* Serial Cut
* Shilo
* Shinro Ohtake
* Similar Diversity
* Stacy Barnes
* Studio 8 Design
* Studio Number One
* Studio Painted
* The Designers Republic
* The StylePress
* this is love
* Thomas Schostok {ths}
* Type Radio
* Vault49
* Victor Angelo
* Village
* Wieden+Kennedy
* William Ismael
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02/08 Say what you like – Design Museum
01/08 New Exhibition – Dazed & Confused Gallery
11/07 Openstudio workshop at LCC
10/07 Workshop teaching at LCC
10/07 AA Print Studio Junior Designer
08/07 7 week placement at YCN
06/07 Type-Oh! Exhibition at LCC
06/07 BA (Hons) Typo/Graphics (LCC)
08/06 Exile & Mainstream Exhibition – Kemistry Gallery
07/06 ISTD Membership gained
07/04 2 months work at Smiling Wolf
06/04 HND Graphic Design (St Helens College)
05/04 4 week placement at Smiling Wolf
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EXILE & MAINSTREAM
"A group of Graphic Designers were asked to observe and identify positions within the design field which fall into either the catagories of 'exile' or 'mainstream'. Not seeking a judgement in terms of good or bad, but rather based on incisive observations of these different philosophical positions.
For this I based my work upon how (or if at all) a frame can make the contents art and the use of the frame in the 21st century."
other contributors
Claire McManus
Kyle Walker
Joel Foster
George Schon
Phill Clatworthy
Daniel Chehade
Magnus Polbratt
Matt Busher
Lisa Holst
Mark El-khatib
Jon 'Stace'
Samanta Vega
Peter Karlaganis
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GENERATED POETRY
"This brown cloth book is a collection of junk e-mails transposed into poems and short stories that add beauty and permanance to the otherwise deletable text. Concepts of speech by John Cage and others have been utilised in each poem, including physical spaces that represent breaths, and bold type that indicates vocal stresses."
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The following list of words are all the words spoken within the film Touch of Evil directed by Orson Welles, 1958. They have been alphabetized and cross-referenced to two dictionaries. The most recent being the Pocket Oxford English Dictionary, Tenth Edition, 2005 (the current dictionary at time of this study). The other dictionary being the Pocket Oxford English Dictionary, Fourth Edition, 1955, which was the dictionary available at the time of the films production.
With 50 years inbetween them, the content of each dictionary has changed dramatically including losing and gaining of words as well as incredible definition changes and additions as the language evolves. This study is to show how in such a short space of time our common dictionaries have been altered to allow more commonly used and new words to be printed and remove the less spoken and less neccessary words.
underlined in red: not found within the 1955 print
underlined in blue: not found within the 2005 print
Some Spanish dialogue is spoken within the film, these words have again be alphabetized and are found at the end.
It is important to note that even though some words have been removed from 2005 dictionary they may not have been removed from the Full Oxford English Dictionary which is currently 12 volumes.
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&ersand links list
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COUCH
couch-studio.co.uk
TYPE–OH!
type-oh.co.uk
AA PRINT STUDIO
aaprintstudio.net
Blogs/Reading/Other etc:
ARTS VS COMMERCE
www.artvscommerce.com
CREATIVE REVIEW BLOG
creativereview.co.uk/crblog/
DESIGNERS ARE WANKERS
designersarewankers.com/
EYE FORUM
eyeburningissues1.typepad.com
IT'S NICE THAT
itsnicethat.com
LIMITED LANGUAGE
limitedlanguage.org
LINED AND UNLINED
linedandunlined.com
MAG CULTURE
magculture.com/blog
MANYSTUFF
manystuff.org
THE SERIF
theserif.net
TYPOPHILE
typophile.com
Designers/Individuals:
ALEX BEC
alexbec.com
ANDREA WIRTH
onehundredvolt.com
MICHAEL BOJOWSKI/BOICO
boico.net
BOLA COOPER
bolacooper.com
CHARLOTTE LORD
newnewnew.co.uk
COLOPHON
colophon.se
DANIEL REEVES
86and87.co.uk
ED DAVENPORT
eddavenport.co.uk
EIGHT PLUS TWO
eightplustwo.com
FRED BIRDSALL
fredbirdsall.co.uk
GUY ARCHARD
guyarchard.com
JAMES GILPIN
thinkyoudont.co.uk
JAMES MELAUGH
dontyouthink.co.uk
LISA G. HOLST
myfriendpike.com
LUCY BROWN
greycaine.com
MANDATORY THINKING
mandatorythinking.co.uk
MARIKI
mariki.net
MARK EL-KHATIB
abcmark.co.uk
PAULUS DREIBHOLZ
dreibholz.com
PRACTISE/JAMES GOGGIN
practise.co.uk
PAT & TREVOR
patandtrevor.com
PETER KARLANGIS
karlaganis.com
SAMANTA MILLARAY VEGA
mira-me.co.uk
SMILING WOLF
smilingwolf.co.uk
SOFIA LEVERBECK
madebysofia.com
PHILL CLATWORTHY
phillclatworthy.com
VASCO ALVO
vascoalvo.com
WAYNE DALY
waynedaly.com
WILL HUDSON
willhudson.co.uk
ZAK KYES
zak.to
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"By shifting the emphasis of the class from typographic “experiment” (whatever that means) to typographic resesarch, we were able to both broaden and deepen our activities as typographers. Instead of the misplaced oblgation to simply “break rules,” we could now examine the assumptions underlying typographic rules and traditions, making any disobediences more calculated, disciplined, and purposeful. We were also able to see how certain typographic practices—modular typefaces, for example—have always been categorically described as “experimental” (largely because of their form), and we were better able to connect our own work in this area to the historic tradition. Finally, we were able to examine the nature of written language itself, how it differs from speech, how it is represented through alphabets and ideograms, how the Latin alphabetic characters function as a formal group, and so on. We labored to examine the practice of typography through both philosophical and material lenses."
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TYPOGRAPHIC RESEARCH 1 WEEK BRIEFS:
* Helvetica Modified
* Alphabetic Behavior
* Modular Installation
* Set Match
* Lyric Video
* Code Conversation
* Fischer vs Spassky
* Architectural Alphabet
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Helvetica Modified
Make a new weight of Helvetica that is not simply a bold or italic, extended or condensed. Your weight should add to, complicate, or personalize Helvetica in some way.
Above: Joanne Chew’s project played off the supposed neutrality of Helvetica by injecting it into our national political discussion. Splitting the typeface vertically, she produced “Helvetica Left Wing” and “Helvetica Right Wing” and set comments on health care from Democratic and Republican candidates on a large silkscreened broadside. Printed in reverse on the back in black is the full text of the broadside, which shows through to complete the characters and make them legible.
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Alphabetic behaviour:
Take a photo or find a photo in which type does not behave as you’d expect. Use this photo as the basis for a new typeface.
Above: Gabrielle Tigan became fascinated with the way that photocopy machines softened, garbled, and desanitized typefaces. Her experiments were finally catalogued in a self-initiated zine whose primary text was drawn from Walter Benjamin’s essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.”
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Modulation installation
Working in small groups, construct an alphabet (A–Z, 0–9) out of repeated modular elements. Letters should be a minimum of 5×5 feet. Document your results.
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Set Match
Develop a non-alphabetic set of at least 26 formally-related objects and use these objects to design an A2 format specimen sheet showing the set in use.
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Code conversation
Find a partner and design a code, ideally one suited for a specific purpose. Pass messages back and forth throughout the week. Bring the code, your messages, and the key to class next week.
Above: Gabrielle Tigan devised a code that involved the intervals between letters in the alphabet. She used it to send her partner encrypted letters from famously separated lovers. The project took its final form as a collection of quotations from these letters in postcard form.
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