The worst disc covers of 2010

The website Pitchfork talks about music and every year it brings a list of the worst disc covers. As we are developed our own disc cover in class for Project 4, I thought you would like to see those. Here is the link: 

http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7889-the-worst-album-covers-of-2010/

Enjoy!

Women of Design 2

Some of the covers that Janet Froelich designed for New York Times Style Magazine. I love the art on the fonts.

 

Source: Gomez-Palacio, B. 2008. Women of Design: influence and inspiration from the original trailblazers to the new groundbreakers. Cincinnati, OH: How Books.

Women of Design 1

I got a book called Women of Design at Parkland's Library and I really liked the works I found in there. These here were created by Catherine Zask, a French designer that studied in Paris.

Source: Gomez-Palacio, B. 2008. Women of Design: influence and inspiration from the original trailblazers to the new groundbreakers. Cincinnati, OH: How Books.

Fashion by Tube

The designers from the Trickett & Webb Limited created this poster to appear in London's underground stations during Fashion Week. The book doesn't bring the date of the poster.

Source: Cullen, C. 2002. The art of design: inspired by fine art, illustration and film. Cincinnati, OH: How Design Books.

San Francisco Chorus

I loved the colors in this poster about the San Francisco Chorus. It was designed by Primo Angeli from Primo Designs.

Source: Cullen, C. 2002. The art of design: inspired by fine art, illustration and film. Cincinnati, OH: How Design Books.

Viva La Mona Lisa!

This mosaic was Palazzolo Design's Studios submission to a national contest hosted by the Mead Paper Company. Designer: Gregg Palazzolo 

"I think I was up until almost midnight licking stamps! Viva la Mona Lisa!", said Gregg Palazzolo about this picture. 

Source: Cullen, C. 2002. The art of design: inspired by fine art, illustration and film. Cincinnati, OH: How Design Books.

Potatos

The designer Gunter Rambow used potatos to create a momorable object-symbol for the museum Wiesbaden, in Germany. 

Source: Landa, R. 1998. Thinking Creatively. Cincinnati, OH: North Light Books.

Hummm Chocolate!

This pack was designed by Marque, UK in 2007 for the Kshocolât chocolate bars. I loved the clean pack they created.

Source: Kirkpatrick, J. 2009. New Packaging Design. London: Laurence King Publishing.

Eau de toilet

This pack was designed by Aln Aboud, from Aboud Creative, UK in 2002. I really liked the colors and lines he used!

Source: Kirkpatrick, J. 2009. New Packaging Design. London: Laurence King Publishing.

Cigarettes

I do not like cigarrettes but I really like these packets designed by Asyl, in Japan, in 2004. The design was made to Japan Tobacco International. 

Source: Kirkpatrick, J. 2009. New Packaging Design. London: Laurence King Publishing.

2001 Wall Calendar

You might have noticed that I love font designs. In this wall calendar for 2001, the designer George Tscherny used type as image. According to him, "the challenge was to find or create as many forms as possible".

 Source: Finke, G. 2002. Powerful page design: top designers lay out theirs concepts to reveal their inspirations. Cincinnati, OH: How Design Books.

Hugo Boss Annual Report

This is a very creative way of mixing design with economic data. This Annual Report for 1999 was made by Peter Schmidt Studios. "Inside the report, ellegant text and financial pages contrast with glossy full-page fashion and architeture shots. The report ends with a four-spread graphic of a race car driving in a glittering silver track, the Boss logo."

 Source: Finke, G. 2002. Powerful page design: top designers lay out theirs concepts to reveal their inspirations. Cincinnati, OH: How Design Books.

Canadian Breast Cancer Campaign

I found this poster in Toronto last week and I really liked the idea the designer used to communicate. I found it innovative, progressive, energetic and fun. What do you think?

The folder was produced by the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. The add does not has the designer's name listed.

The Greyhound Bus

I am still researching Raymond Loewy's Career. This is the Greyhound Bus designed by him in 1946. This creation changed the mass transportation in that period. 

 Source: Loewy, R. 1979. Industrial Design. Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press.

Coca-Cola, by Raymond Loewy

Source: Trétriack, P. 1999. Raymond Loewy and streamlined design.  New York: Universe Publishing.
The Coca-Cola dispenser, before and after 1947, when it was redesigned by Raymond Loewy. He was asked to rethink the design of dispensers for bars and delivery trucks.

The F! Poster

Source: Riggs, T. 2009. Typeface: Classic typography for contemporary design. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.

I am still researching fonts to help me in the Webdesign class I am taking here at Parkland and also in the Graphic Design class. This poster was made by de designer Michael Braley using Helvetica and Sabon. Sabon is an Old Style typeface descended from the forms originated by the designer Claude Garamond.

Library Research - Typography 2

Source: HELLER, S. and ANDERSON, G. 2010. New Ornamental Type: Decorative Lettering in the Digital Age. New York: Thames & Hudson. 

In the same book of The Puty Tree (read my Typography 1 Post), I found this picture. Made with roman letters, its name is The Slip. It was made by Nate Duval using hand lettering as primary font. According to the designer, the picture reflects the layering and Cubist mannerisms of the 1920s and 1930s. 

 

With all the letters and colors, I think that the picture is aggressive, loud, witty and bold. It is also trendy and energetic.  

Library Research - Typography 1

Source: HELLER, S. and ANDERSON, G. 2010. New Ornamental Type: Decorative Lettering in the Digital Age. New York: Thames & Hudson. 

As a journalist, I am used to work with letters. The Graphic Planning course that I took during my undergrad had a lot of typography research. Nowadays, I am back to school and I've decided to start studying typography again. This is my first day of research at the Library and I found very interesting books about this field. 

I was impressed with the creativity of the work they have in the book New Ornamental Type - Decorative Lettering in the Digital Age. This picture is called The Puti Tree. It was made by the Design Firm Khaki Creative & Design under the supervision of the art director Nod Young.

According to him, the picture was created as an interpretation of two poems quoted form the original Zen classic, The Plataform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch, which dates almost 1,500 years. The picture was not based in any primary font and is Young's interpretation of design and Buddhism, as he explained in the book.

Although it has some cold colors, the picture is not cold or sad at all. It is energetic, innovative, playful and spontaneous.     

A second first time

I used Photoshop long time ago during my BA in Communications in Brasilia. Many years and many program versions after that, I had a chance to use Photoshop again this week at Parkland. I followed the instructions for one exercise and spent three hours trying to color this hibiscus flower. I can assure you that it is easier to write than to edit photos in the newspaper. Here is the flower I worked on. Don't get too scared. I tried my very best.

My first sketch

This was the first sketch I made in my life (and in this course). I tried to show a little bit of Brasilia's Architecture.