6.15.2011
P/M Magazine
A Design Student's Guide to The New York World's Fair
1939
Paul Rand
We here at things to look at are always in favour of bold, pure geometry and this just caught our eye.
5.09.2011
Festival Times
The Festival Times
4 Issues from 1981
Edinburgh University Student Publishing Company
Designers: Simon Esterson & Nigel Billen
Editor: Tim Willis
Anyone who attended Simon Esterson's Typographic Circle talk last month might remember seeing this early piece of work. There is something very exciting about the angled headers and images.
5.06.2011
5.03.2011
Varoom 15
The lastest issue of Varoom Magazine is out which is full of things we liked the look of.
Airside's illustrations for How To Make a How To Film. The animated versions are well worth checking out on the website.
Penguin's new editions of Nabakov featuring illustrators such as Luke Best, commissioned by Pentagram. It's a great contemporary angle on the very successful Poetry series patterns of the past.
Above: Illustrations by Astrid Chesney and ]Agnès Decourchelle. See more of these on Pentagrams website
It's quite interesting to compare them with the John Gall Nabakov covers, all of which you can see on Design Observer.
And of course, Marian Bantjes' map of an Isle of Knowledge charting all the ups and downs of the illustrator's world is beautifully rendered. The delta of common sense is not somewhere I hang out a lot and the swamp of failure seems to be ominously large.
There are more details on Marian Bantjes' website. They're well worth some scrutiny.
Airside's illustrations for How To Make a How To Film. The animated versions are well worth checking out on the website.
Penguin's new editions of Nabakov featuring illustrators such as Luke Best, commissioned by Pentagram. It's a great contemporary angle on the very successful Poetry series patterns of the past.
Above: Illustrations by Astrid Chesney and ]Agnès Decourchelle. See more of these on Pentagrams website
It's quite interesting to compare them with the John Gall Nabakov covers, all of which you can see on Design Observer.
And of course, Marian Bantjes' map of an Isle of Knowledge charting all the ups and downs of the illustrator's world is beautifully rendered. The delta of common sense is not somewhere I hang out a lot and the swamp of failure seems to be ominously large.
There are more details on Marian Bantjes' website. They're well worth some scrutiny.
4.14.2011
Wim Crouwel
Wim Crouwel; design hero. Even if you think you've seen it all before, the Design Museum have really come up trumps with their exhibition: Wim Crouwel: A Graphic Odyssey on from 30 March – 03 July. You can't help but be impressed by a huge wall of the posters we've all seen. It's an epic collection beautifully laid out. We here at Things to Look at particularly appreciated this poster.
4.03.2011
Stilla: The Greatest Numerals
According to Herb Lubalin in the 1975 Second edition of U&lc (Upper and Lowercase magazine), which can now be downloaded as great hi res PDFs from the fonts.com blog. They're up to six issues in what must be a time-consuming endeavor. It's such a great idea and I hope they continue to upload what was a great example of Herb Lubalin's love of typography and contains many gems that don't feature in the book.
The numerals are shown in Stilla, designed by French type designer, François Boltana in 1973. A perfect example of the 'Fat Face' type style. The commercial face differs slightly from the above version which surely must have been hand drawn by Lubalin.
3.03.2011
PORT : Could this be the modern man?
2.05.2011
Flipboard on the iPad
2.03.2011
Helmut Krone
Designer: Helmut Krone
Photographer: Bert Stern
Process: Letterpress
Typeface: Century
Compositor: Typographic Craftsman, Inc.
Engraver: Walker Engraving Corp.
Client: Polaroid Corp.
Agency: Doyle Dane Bernbach, Inc.
Art director: Helmut Krone
Copywriter: Robert Levenson
Photographer: Bill King
Client: Ohrbach's
The great Doyle Dane Bernbach art director Helmut Krone, (July 16, 1925 – April 12, 1996), mostly known for the 1960s Volkswagen Beetle work. Here are a few things that caught our eye. There is a book about his work, examples of his work on the AIGA website and information about his life and work on Design Observer.
1.03.2011
Fictional Book Covers
There was a trend last year in creating fictional retro book covers for films and video games. It's a very satisfying project. We hate to leave people uncredited which is why this post never made it up on the blog. If anyone knows who did the bottom three covers then please let us know as we think they are great and would love to link to that person's site.
The above are from Spacesick
The above are from Spacesick
Colour Theory
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