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Neville Brody creates /50 identity for D&AD’s fiftieth anniversary

10/11/2011
by DJ
News

Neville Brody has created a new /50 logo for D&AD as the organisation celebrates its fiftieth year recognising and supporting UK and international creative talent. The identity – named Forward 50 – has been designed in such a way that it functions as a modular addition to the existing D&AD identity, appearing as D&AD/50 across all the materials produced during the half-centenary year. The understated Mark is set in Futura, which Brody chose as a timeless […]

New Saul Bass book released

10/11/2011
by DJ
Bookshelf / News

Laurence King (publishers of many essential titles including Pentagram’s 400 Marks and, most recently Symbol) have released a long overdue and eagerly awaited title ‘Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design‘. Over 400 pages of goodness, the book celebrates one of the greatest and renowned designers of the 20th Century. Written by design historian Pat Kirkham, who knew Bass personally, and interestingly designed by his daughter, Jennifer Bass (also co-founded Treehouse Design Partnership in […]

This is halloween… in lights!

31/10/2011
by DJ
News

Happy halloween y’all! I know it’s a time of year more heartily celebrated state-side but the genius of this lightshow will not go unappreciated the world over. There’s tons more on the Californian’s ‘KJ92508’ YouTube channel here. Turn your sound on and enjoy, this is awesome!

An Unherd story about prints

20/10/2011
by DJ
News

After a long hard (haaard) slog building his design agency Bloodybigspider into a successful business with some great clients (Ernst & Young and YMCA to name a couple), Stephen Holmes escaped south London, moving shop to a nice studio on Old Street where he now calls home. Over the years, as many of us have, he’d often come up with ideas and concepts he’d think were great, but just weren’t appropriate for clients and so, […]

Line up for Offset 2012 Announced

19/10/2011
by DJ
News

Running from 9–11 March 2012, Dublin’s creative festival OFFSET 2012 encompasses talks, gallery shows, presentations, workshops, debates, parties, interviews and Q&A’s with some of the leading creatives of the world. Did I mention parties? If all that isn’t enough to tickle your taste buds, you wait ’till you get your chops around the speakers lined up for the week. In no particular order of awesomeness; Michael Bierut, Paula Scher (both of Pentagram notorioty), Stefan Sagmeister, […]

The Allotment pen Valerie Hoskins brand

17/10/2011
by DJ
News

Favourites of the Journal, The Allotment, have just completed a delightful rebrand of screen writers agent Valerie Hoskins Associates. Says the Allotment; “We created a proposition based around putting ‘Words into action’. The idea reflects their very personal, hands-on and all action approach to brokering transactions of script’s and books into movies and films. The ‘clapper-book’ logotype becomes a visual cue for a series of ‘snippets’ of dialogue taken from a wide range of their […]

Realigning Innocent drinks

07/10/2011
by STY
News

Back in June the ever so talented (master designer for the immense agency Carsonified) Mike Kus, gave a talk exploring the concept of creating meaningful visual design that partners with simple, easy to use functionality in order to create an overall improved user experience. As part of his talk he made a time-lapse movie where he realigned the website for Innocent Drinks. Mike explains “I say realigned very specifically, as this is not a redesign. […]

Sydney Bicycle Film Festival 2011

04/10/2011
by STY
News

After last years beautifully crafted film trailor for the Sydney Bicycle Film Festival, it was going to be a tall order to match. Enter Angus Forbes and Patrick Fileti, The Skeleton Key, with some real lovely editing and eye for those finer points which helped produce something a little bit special. Sydney Bicycle Film Festival 2011 from Skeleton Key on Vimeo.