The year of the cloud

05/01/2012
by LWC
LWC / News

Haaaaappy New Year folks! As the feasting and festivities fade into the distance and you ease back to reality, allow us to raise your spirits back to fever pitch. A new year calls for a new feature and as 2012 is apparently the year of the cloud it only seemed appropriate we invited you onto Cloud 9.

But there is some method to our tenuous madness; late 2011 saw Designers Journal meet Long White Cloud. Turns out we’re long lost siblings and thus an infrangible bond was cemented. So hereforth, courtesy of LWC, Cloud 9 will showcase the gems of the south Pacific design scene on a weekly basis. Excitingly, the first offering will be coming at you in full force tomorrow and every friday there after… Here’s to 2012, the year of the cloud!

Don’t forget to give LWC a follow over on @long_whitecloud

 

 

 

 

 

Burton Kramer Film trailer

02/01/2012
by DJ
News

“I needed only a drawing board, a t-square, some triangles, pencils, a sharpener, a desk lamp and a chair.”
—Burton Kramer

For your viewing pleasure, this spring will see the the release of an insight into design great Burton Kramer, produced by Vancouver based designer Greg Durrell.

Born in 1932 in New York, Kramer began working in the late ’50s after graduating from Yale University. Aside from his prominently featured work at Expo 67, he is perhaps best known for designing the distinctive Canadian Broadcasting Corporation logo in 1974, consisting of a stylized letter “C” radiating in all directions, representing broadcasting. Kramer was a driving force in the modernist environment in Toronto where he set up his practice Kramer Design Associates, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Arts Toronto in 1999 and an honorary doctorate from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 2002.

Meanwhile, if you can’t wait for the film, you can get your hands on a great retrospective book here.

Burton Kramer Film Trailer from Greg Durrell on Vimeo.

 

Brand Santa

22/12/2011
by DJ
News

Mmmmmerry Christmas one and all! We’re signing off from our maiden year of design inspiration but before we go here’s a yuletide treat from the elves and elvettes over at Quietroom…

“There are brands. There are super-brands. And then there’s this brand. You can imagine how cringingly gloatful we were when Santa Claus Global Enterprises invited us to hew from our raw imagination their brand guidelines. Frankly, we wept”.

Click here to see the full work and you can read it and weep too. See you in 2012 party people…

Tw. @quietroomtweets

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Trebleseven’s TwentyTwelve sets the date

15/12/2011
by DJ
News

Trebleseven have added to their already typographically opulent collection of prints with the release of a TwentyTwelve calendar. Double sided, the A1 print’s date side is constructed using a tidy 15 column grid, the reverse features selected favourite Trebleseven branding and design projects. Handily, the calendar also folds into a more handleable five concertina fold (A1 length, shown below) mailer.

Printed on GF Smith ColorPlan and available in a handful of colours, this is a really nice piece, and available here.

Tw. @Trebleseven

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