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This blog post is a mix of an art book review and a spotlight on an artist whose work I really love called Josan Gonzalez. Josan is a Spanish artist from Barcelona, and the creator of ‘The Future Is Now’. (more…)
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This is a slightly shorter post than normal, just to announce that three of my latest design projects have got to the semifinals of the Adobe Design Achievement Awards! (more…)
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The second of the two exhibitions where my work was featured, in June 2017, was the
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The first of the two exhibitions where my work was featured, in June 2017, was the GCC Graphic Design School’s end of year exhibition at The Lighthouse!
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Low-Tech Print is a design book that features hand-made, traditional printmaking techniques and showcases how they are used in contemporary graphic design and illustration. It also might be the nicest, most tactile design book that I own.
The books author/curator Caspar Williamson is a printermaker himself, as well as a designer, illustrator and author based in London. He is heavily involved in the printmaking, lectures on the subject and has taught workshops throughout the UK. The book was designed by Studio Aparte, from Barcelona, and the embossed cover was designed by Pentagram designer Rhian Edwards. (more…)
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Josef Muller-Brockmann was a Swiss graphic designer, author and teacher who was born on May 9th 1914. He spent much of his life living and working in Zurich and studied a wide variety of topics including design, architecture and history of art. He apprenticed as a graphic designer to Walter Diggleman, a designer and advertising consultant. In 1936, he opened his own studio, which specialised in graphic design, photography and exhibitions.
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Swissted is an graphic design poster book that takes rock concert posters from the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s and remixes and reimagines them through a Swiss modernist lens. The result is some of the best poster designs I’ve ever seen!
Swissted is an ongoing project by graphic designer Mike Joyce, owner of Stereotype Design in New York City. Drawing from his love of punk rock and Swiss Modernism, two movements that have (almost) nothing to do with one another, Mike Joyce redesigned vintage punk, hardcore, new wave, and indie rock show flyers into International Typographic Style posters. (more…)
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