exhibitionism…

The 125th anniversary celebrations are still going on around the college this week, and since we mentioned it the other day, these are the prints that Sue and Tim contributed to one of the art & design exhibitions. As you can see they have both chosen to go with what they know: branding logos, and typography!
The first poster is by Sue, focusing on famous British brands and their identities from the past 125 years… how many can you recognise?! The second poster is by Tim, and is a typography timeline that focuses on some of the most notable typeface designs of the last 125 years, and some of their most famous uses… with no Comic Sans in sight!

The exhibition is still on show in the atrium area of the Beacon Centre if you want to take a look…

highly animated…

Right about now our first years should be busy working on the final stages of their time-based media project. So far they have created a photographic timeline/story, as well as illustrating lots and lots of frames to make an expressive type flick-book. Now they are focusing on producing an animated GIF to present an on-screen version of their expressive type…
While we wait for them to meet their deadline for the project, we thought we would share this fantastic example of a typographic GIF. This is part of a series of typographic GIFs created by MountStar, entitled Hidden Typography. You can see both parts of the GIF series, as well as other examples of MountStar work here

Deadline on Thursday guys. Get cracking…

print & sniff…

We can't believe this our first post of 2011… I know it may seem it, but it isn't because we are lazy, it's because we are the super-busiest people ever at the moment. However, we think this post is definitely worth the wait…

Posted with our first years in mind, but this is still definitely worth a peek for you second years - Little White Lies designers The Church Of London have just unleashed this little treasure on youtube… a two minute video that squeezes all the work that went into the production for their most recent issue (The Black Swan Issue). Great to catch a glimpse of the design process in industry - meetings, planning, drawing, computers, cups of tea, stressing out at technology, and sniffing a new print of your work!! Also, for those of you that like to know these kinds of things, the front cover for this issue was guest-designed by David Carson… the guy that produced RayGun magazine. Enough reading, grab a look at the video here

You can take a further look at Little White Lies, including the full-screen online view, here

You can check out design studio The Church Of London here

the best things in life…

Some of you will have already heard us mention this, because it has been up on our Facebook thread recently, but free graphics stuff is always worth a second mention, right?! Hydro74 is a very talented chap - all his design, illustration & typography work have a very dark, distinct style, and he has worked on projects for Nike, K2 Snowboards & Quicksilver to name just a few. He is in the process of starting up his own type foundry, titled Legacy Of Defeat, and at the moment he is giving away several of his fonts, free of charge!! Very stylish, so head over at take a look, and grab yourself a couple while he is still feeling generous

View the Legacy Of Defeat page here

View Hydro74's website, with his portfolio & other bits here