This is a live brief to create an identity and website for a music video and film production company based in London. My aim was to produce a clear and effective identity that reflects their name and approach to projects. I produced a series of logos for print and moving image. As Blunt is a young company I also needed to find realistic ways to produce nice print for their stationary, I did this with an embossing stamp. The website uses stills from their videos and shoots as a flipable background.
This research project is about multifunctionality in graphic design. There are two different areas of application: first the product oriented multifunctionality and second the design process itself. The result of this project is summarised in a book, which shows a collection of various studies as to how multifunctionality is used in graphic design. - Fabienne Burri
In this digital age of computer-generated graphics and typography, it's refreshing to find typographers who still believe in working by hand. No longer relegated to designer's sketchbooks, hand-drawn type has emerged from the underground as a dynamic vehicle for visual communication—from magazine, book, and album covers to movie credits and NFL advertisements. Hand Job collects groundbreaking work from fifty of today's most talented typographers who draw by hand.
"For the show's collateral materials, we asked all 79 students in the CalArts graphic design department to design a 2.25" x 3.75" card. For the front they were invited to showcase a piece of work they created during the last year. For the back they designed a typographic composition that includes their contact information. We printed the cards on two press sheets, which we designed to be as versatile as possible to extend it's life beyond being just a poster. The press sheets themselves function as the poster announcing the show. Since we ran the invitation information in the gutter of the cards, we were able to crop them into invitations. Each student received business cards. These business cards were also bound in to books, ultimately showcasing the work of the entire graphic design program. The print design also informed the layout of the show, integrating printed and dimensional spaces." CalArts
The Book of Jam is a monthly, 48 page printed compendium of work that has been generated by our daily ‘show & tell’, our ‘jam’ of words & images, films & sounds betwen ourselves. Published by Underworld Print and will be available to purchase from this site from October onwards.
NeoGeo documents the new flirtation with geometrical forms and solid colours in today’s design. The examples in the book make it clear that this current trend to abstract work is not a nostalgic phenomenon; rather, it borrows from illustration, collage, typography and computer art to create a whole new visual language. www.die-gestalten.de
The BB/Saunders Journal – 365. Available for purchase from www.blanka.co.uk this is the first journal from us. A daily record of occurrences, experiences, observations or thoughts; A daybook. 365 (almost) virgin pages before you to do with what you will – that never ending ‘to do’ list, those phone numbers with no name written against them, the ingredients you mustn’t forget for tonight’s dinner or that idea that just might save mankind. Alternatively, it works equally well propping up tables.
JONATHAN BARNBROOK - Friendly Fire 19 June to 10 October 2007 Jonathan Barnbrook has emerged in the past two decades as one of the UK’s most consistently innovative graphic designers. Pioneering the notion of graphic design with a social conscience, he makes strong statements about corporate culture, consumerism, war and international politics, and through his work in both commercial and non-commercial spheres combines wit, political savvy and bitter irony in equal measures. The Design Museum will exhibit the first British retrospective of his work in Jonathan Barnbrook. http://www.designmuseum.org/exhibitions/current-exhibitions/jonathan-barnbrook
Curated by Progress Packaging, Re-bag is an exhibition of limited edition reusable canvas bags designed by 15 leading UK design practitioners. Designers responded to a brief to create an image for a bag on the theme of sustainability and reusability. The resulting bags not only promote this idea but are also in themselves, an eco-friendly alternative to the use of non-green materials in everyday packaging.
Second edition print run due to high demand. This poster was a winner of the design week awards 2007 and also features in D&AD annual and Tokyo Type Directors.