If you have not been able to make the recent D&AD President Lectures that have recently started you are in luck. As the people behind the scenes have kindly uploaded the Q&A sections from the lectures that have been and gone so far via the D&AD Vimeo page.
As the sold out D&AD president lecture by the influentual graphic designer Peter Saville edges ever nearer, I thought I would sneak in a quick post dedicated to the man himself.
Saville is initially remembered for his work for Factory Records during the early stages of his career as a designer, notably the record covers for Joy Division and New Order. In 1979 Saville moved to London to become Art Director for DinDisc, while in London he founded Peter Saville Associates which he eventually closed in 1990 to join the partner-owned Pentagram.
On leaving Pentagram due to insufficient turnover and project sales Saville left London for Los Angeles in 1993 to join Frankfurt Balkind. After a short period he came back to London and founded The Apartment for German advertising agency Meiré & Meiré from his Mayfair apartment.
At his peak of his creative and commercial career he worked with clients such as EMI, Selfridges and Pringle. Other clients later came from the world of fashion including Jil Sander, Martine Sitbon, Christian Dior and Stella McCartney.
Mark Zador and Attila Horvath are the two young enthusiastic graphic designers from Hungary that devised the wonderful cyber shop known as Official Classics. Not only do they have a vast array of work to show, they are also selling well crafted vector eps work ranging from game console pads to lighters. I’m thinking there is much more to come from these very talented creatives.
Hey everyone! After all of this adverse weather and lack of available trains, planes and automobiles, I am going to be tweaking my website / blog over the current week (So if anything is going funny or not working, that is why). The website will have better catagories and will merge with my portfolio site. Hopefully it will be smooth sailing in comparison with getting into work yesterday!
Picture via FFFFound!
Came across a collection of film-based book cover designs via Space Sick Art. Thought I would give it a quick post – while the snow keeps on falling! Also check more on the Flickr page.
Came across this image while checking out the FFFFound! RSS feed, would really like to know if there is a series of this that include different consoles and games. Considering how well computer game sales have been doing during the current situation I thought I would pop this one into the blog.
Also reminded me of how big a game Golden Eye was on N64!
Selected projects are now viewable within the page selct dropdown menu. Enjoy!
I have been meaning to post this one for quite a while now and finally after all the updates I needed to do for wordpress and sorting out the theme here we are. A short time back I created a post about the Oncovered competition, one where the designer and/or illustrator would create the look and feel for a CD/LP cover to contemplate the musical outcome.
To cut to the chase, I am very happy to say that my own design was picked out for the next stage and was displayed up with the other shortlisted designs at Papier Hier in Amsterdam.
Message from the Oncovered team;
‘Due to the darkness of the room and poor camera handling (sorry) the pictures are not completely perfect.’
The Barcalona based graphic designer has recently updated his online portfoilio with some really nice new work. Prolific typography based work that oozes creativity, be sure to drop by his website and admire.
As each day goes by it seems that I end up subscribing to more and more RSS feeds, far more than I need in some cases. But when it came to a time when I needed to really keep check of all of the posts that I am fed and all the different categories I look into, I firstly went down the Netvibes route which was fun for a time but never really made my life that much easier than before.
I have a Googlemail account, although not used very frequently (Mainly work related), I began to use the Google Reader with a twist. For all you designers and typography enthusiasts alike I point in the direction of Helvetireader. Easy to install on top of your Google Reader account, just follow the instructions given. This has made my access to new feeds a whole lot better.
My daily RSS feed fix is now a whole lot easier!