Binding, layout: surface simplicity

[This is both relevant to my ISTD & Elements briefs.]

Yet another one from Graphic Thought Facility. 

- including the 2003 - 2006 season leaflets.

The juxtaposition of old and new in the photography is 

reflected in the colour scheme of the type.  

GTF have followed the concept of old and new by adopting 

a contemporary colour scheme alongside traditional type.  

The imagery is also designed with a traditional hint, but had 

overriding contemporary processes.

For this season, a more bold and simplistic approach 

has been adopted.  

This whole run has confirmed what I already know.  

If you're going to use imagery (more importantly

photography) within a publication, - it has to 

communicate just as much as the rest of the design.

For example, in all of these publications, the 

imagery heightens and reinforces the concept 

behind the design.

In short, you cannot polish a turd.  

  - if you use crappy imagery, the whole publication 

     will take a hit and you cannot escape it.

  

Elements: Riso Riso Riso

RISO RISO RISO

Such an obvious and surprising solution to our financial 
problem.  We need it to be as cheap as possible.  It is 
decided, we will now explore our resolution through
experimental use of riso printing.  

It is the process of print that will drive our design 
decisions, moreso than client or subject matter that 
have been the main focus in past briefs.  The reason
for choosing this print process is thatwe will now have 
to come up with an appropriate resolution that also 
forces us to get creative with what initially seems to have 
limited printed outcomes. 

Our initial decision to work with riso printing was of a
necessary financial one.  So out of this we aim to solve
the problem of communicating as effectively as possible
through innovative use of riso printing.


It's time for a quote maybee?
Yes.         - I have it on excellent authority that 'Footprint -
workers co operative' Leeds, are essentially the only choice 
for local economical riso printing.

In-house collator

Contemporary publication design

'Inventario is not a magazine, Inventario is not a book.  
Inventario is a new editorial initiative, casting a free- 
thinking eye over the design- scene.'

Gig posters: Categorisation

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Hip - Hop. The weighting of visual culture

This is a good book.

One aspect I found particularly revealing was 
the chapter on 'Beat Biters', style takers.

"Hip Hop isn't alone in borrowing from other musical genres and popular culture, but it does do it exceptionally well.  No rap album is complete without a bunch of references to breakfast cereal, TV, fashionable drinks, music, cars, and couture designers, because it's a music that was born in the real world, and it continues to exist there, feeding off it constantly.  The introduction of sampling to Hip Hop in the 1980s took the plunder to a step further, as producers dug in their parents' record crates for soul, funk and blues songs to rework.  It was inevitable that copying style and cover artwork would follow."

Sometimes a political stance, sometimes a satirical one.
The reason it can be respected is because, much like 
the design process, there is always a reason behind
everything done.  Which makes it a worthy cause to 
adopt this approach.  
                                                - or at least experiment with it.

TPHB : visual direction

Todd Eberle

Web Design: Type & Layout

Peter Bil'ak
   - as of late I have come to realise that he 
      is extremely amazing.

Born in Czechoslovakia, lives in the Netherlands; 
worked at Studio Dumbar, before started a design 
studio in The Hague, Netherlands, where he works 
in the field of editorial, graphic and type design, 
combined with part time teaching at the Royal Academy 
of Arts in the Hague; in 1999 started Typotheque type 
foundry, in 2000 founded, edited and designed art & 
design journal DOT DOT DOT; in 2009 co-founded Indian 
Type Foundry, now writing for various design related 
magazines; and collaborating on creation of modern 
dance performances.

As a typographer, it is important for Bil'ak to effectively 
promote his own work.  At the top right of the web page 
You are given an option to change the type set to different 
typefaces that Bil'ak himself has designed.  The type on the 
whole page changes to the one the viewer has chosen- not
forgetting the obvious like the change in leading and 
pointsize in relation to x-height.  This is a truly beautiful 
interface, and a graphic designers self- promotion at its
best.  Well Bluddy done Peter!

TPHB : visual direction