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Thursday 31 January 2008
Tamara Shopsin
Haha! Tamara Shopsin is very witty.

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Now playing: ABC - Poison Arrow
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Wednesday 30 January 2008
Keep Calm
Douglas Wilson designed this set of posters for Keep Calm, an online gallery where you can order some really nice prints with inspiring mantras written on them. I'm doing travelling for our project and while I rejected the use of maps for my timelines, I really like how Wilson has used them. It gives a really clear message delivered in a clever way. They're only £22 as well, I might just order one.

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Now playing: The Horrors - Death At The Chapel
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Tuesday 29 January 2008
Jennifer Daniel
This is Jennifer Daniel's one-page portfolio of editorial illustrations and information graphics. I'm sure most people in the class will be glad to move away from graphs now. Hence why I've chosen a completely different kind of timeline for my final set.

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Now playing: The Smiths - The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
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Monday 28 January 2008
Kate Moross For Topshop
Last weekend Kate Moross (the graphic designer, not Moss!) launched her collection for Topshop by drawing a massive illustration in the window of their Oxford Street flagship store. While the designs on the clothes are not some of Kate's best work in my opinion, the window display was spot on.

She even designed 50 envelopes containing some goodies (including a Sharpie <3) for the first people to buy pieces from her range. Shame, I wish I could've seen her in action. Hopefully it will still be there when I go back to London.

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Now playing: Smashing Pumpkins - Behold! The Night Mare
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Friday 25 January 2008
Metronomy


This is latest video by Metronomy for their song 'Radio Ladio'. I saw these guys last year at The Cockpit when they supported Foals and have loved them ever since. Considering we've been looking at colour a lot lately, I think this is more than appropriate. Directed by Daniel Brereton and art direction from Colin Henderson.

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Now playing: Idlewild - Love Steals Us From Loneliness
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Thursday 24 January 2008
Chrissie Abbott
Rather lovely typographic design created by Chrissie Abbott in response to last year's smoking ban. I saw this and went to explore her website where I found some even more interesting pieces.


Theres some really cute and funny designs. I might try out something similar for our Photoshop brief.

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Now playing: The Von Bondies - Pawn Shoppe Heart
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Wednesday 23 January 2008
The Gardens Of St. Benjamin

The Gardens Of St. Benjamin is the online portfolio of Benji Holroyd. I really like the use of colour and pictogram in his designs for Monty Patheridge Landscape Gardens. Really simple but very visually interesting. The typographic design for the window of The Leaf Tea Shop reminds me of the tea towels designed by Emma Bridgewater. I love Bridgewater stuff. All my crockery and cutlery is from there.

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Now playing: Ashlee Simpson - Outta My Head (Ay Ya Ya)
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Tuesday 22 January 2008
OMFG!!!
Omg omg omg omg! My lovely mother just bought me a Wii! I am so happy! I cannot wait to go home and play it! I am mostly looking forward to reliving my childhood Sega loving by playing the new NiGHTS game.



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Now playing: Biffy Clyro - Hope For An Angel
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Sunday 20 January 2008
Spring Snow

James Goggin was commissioned to design a 'translation' of a Japanese book with Alison Turnbull. The result was this - 'Spring Snow'.

"For the project, Turnbull collected all the colour descriptions from Yukio Mishima’s novel 'Spring Snow' and annotated them as a series of colour charts.

Designed in the traditional Japanese novel bunko format, ‘Spring Snow -— A Translation’ is exactly that: a visual translation of Mishima’s text ordered by colour. Novelist Tony White wrote a psuedo-fictitious introduction for the project which was in turn translated back into Japanese".

Last week's colour workshop made me realize the impact that just colour can have - something that is clearly shown here. I think this 'translation' is really innovative and it becomes more interesting because of the meaning behind it.

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Now playing: Nine Inch Nails - We're In This Together
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Saturday 19 January 2008
HistoryShots

One of many interesting charts from the HistoryShots website. I think its a great example because of how visually intriguing it is as well as being incredibly simple. On their website you can view the chart interactively so you can zoom in on all the little details like the name of the space crafts and which countries took part in the moon race. Each section of space is colour coded so you can clearly see how far each one got before they failed.

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Now playing: Biffy Clyro - Buddy Holly
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Thursday 17 January 2008
Dan Collier

Some photos of Dan Collier's book Typographic Links. It is a collectible hand-sewn publication, which maps interesting links and connections through the world of typography. The aim was to create a book and accompanying poster that took a light-hearted look at typographic practice. Thread is used to create three-dimensional hyperlinks that guide the reader through the pages of the book.

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Now playing: Smashing Pumpkins - Slunk
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Wednesday 16 January 2008
Juan Pablo De Gregorio


This colorful infographic is part of a delightful set produced by Juan Pablo De Gregorio to illustrate a monography on the Centre For Mathematical Modelling (CMM) - part of the University Of Chile. The series of infographics were placed throughout the brochure to illustrate different themes. Most executions within the set are conceptual drawings with no depiction of real data. They are, however, highly innovative and inspirational.

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Now playing: My Chemical Romance - The Sharpest Lives
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Tuesday 15 January 2008
Ian Dapot
"A series of posters based on mapping the relationships between cited authors and referenced ideas in Jane Bennett's essay, 'The Force of Things: Steps Toward An Ecology Of Matter, in order to generate an image of the conceptual territory of the essay and each work cited."


As Ian Dapot explains: "This work came from an interest in how ideas get from one place or person to another. I began by creating an Adobe PDF of Bennett's essay and spreading each page over the surface of the poster. I highlighted the name of every author cited in the text and connected each reference, through line and/or areas of color. I tried to demarcate the territory of each cited author or work to show how Bennett's thinking and arguments were constructed. I tried to clarify the connections between each author and make reference to the visual language of maps. I then worked on a typographic layout for the title and masked off the intersections of the connections and the typography".

From Ian Dapot's website

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Now playing: The Killers - Andy, You're A Star
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Monday 14 January 2008
Good Magazine



All from Good Magazine

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Now playing: The Buzzcocks - What Ever Happened To?
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Saturday 12 January 2008
Sulki & Min Choi









All from Sulki & Min's website.
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Now playing: The Shins - Australia
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