The 2012 Olympic torch prototype has been unveiled by Seb Coe, designed by acclaimed designers Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby. The symbolic design has 8,000 perforated holes, each representing one of the 8000 torch bearers. It weighs 800g and stands at 800mm tall. The triangular shape also has connotations with the three Olympic values; respect / excellence / friendship.
{Images ©Getty Images / London 2010 Olympics}
Spin (London) are one of those agencies that produce work that legends are made of. Vastly becoming today’s Why Not? Associates / Designers Republic, fertilizing an aura that will be studied by future generations of design students, yet they’ve probably been around longer than you think – since 1992 infact, just going about their thing.
To say their work is nothing short of glorious wouldn’t be to overstate their case; both ahead of it’s time and whilst cultivating a wonderfully back to basic approach. Their work for More 4 and Whitechapel work is iconic and as a student of design you may even have one of the books they have art directed.
With ideas a central focus it’s not surprise that Mucho founding members Marc Català and Pablo Juncadella have worked for the likes of Grafica (Madrid/Barcelona) and Pentagram (London).
Masters of the educational sector, Face produce memorable work full of exuberant typography and beautifully polished grids that pushes the boundries of the expected. Face are experts at creating order amongst chaos, organising the most convaluted layout into a captivating structure to guide the viewer.
Their work, both identity and print, just makes sense. Both on trend and intelligent. A balance tricky to get.
These colourful and delightfully quirky illustrations are by Tad Carpenter, an illustrator and designer living in sunny, snowy and forever changing Kansas City, Missouri.
Crossing Paths is a project by Niall McDiarmid, interest is focussed on everyday people. He takes beautiful portraits of people he finds, documenting the visually interesting as he comes accross in towns up and down the UK right there, seemingly as he found them.
Their portraits are stunningly shot, the compositions are engrossing and, often, their outfits, um, off beat…
Tw. @NiallMcDiarmid
Cavaliers of confident design, D8 have been hard at it for nigh on 12 years, growing to a none too modestly sized team of 32 bods (in this day and age that does some doing). It’s certainly not simply luck that has afforded them such growth, their delightfully diverse portfolio is well worth giving some from your day time to.
Of note is a sprinkling of fresh work for the arts and, interestingly, academic institutions, a sector which is a particularly tricky to conquer successfully.
Studio Makgill have a fine portfolio of work that cross-discipline and clinical application of exhibition, identity, print and typeface development work. Their work is accurate and purposeful, each project flows elgantly into the next – each detail of a project seemingly poured over to create beautiful lines of design mastery.
Tw. StudioMakgill
