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.

  

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!

Modus Operandi, Banziger Hug.

Modus Operandi

The book called «Modus operandi» for Barão Hutter 

Atelier is separated into three different chapters 

(requirements, create and a picture part). From a pile 

of pictures, they can complement an individual book 

for each client.

The Modus operandi is a Latin phrase, approximately 

translated as «method of operation». The term is used 

to describe someone's habits or manner of working, 

their method of operating or functioning. 

Bookbinding, publishing, satisfying solutions

Graphic Thought Facility... again.

I love every single thing that they create.  
- easy to say, but extremely hard to sincerely find
in a design studio.

This solution to different stocks, textures and paper sizes 
is why designers exist.  They have made a ringbound
publication look like a structured, quality piece of design.

There are so many inspiring aspects to this design that 
will inform my practice, especially within the physical
binding of publications.  The high level of type and layout 
skills are evident from cover to cover.  It is a beautiful & 
satisfying solution through and through.

A few select images: