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I’ve sorted out my navigation menu (for the thousandth time), so you can jump to the video post, and I can get back to blogging. The clip is on about 200 plays and about 600 referres pointing to it. That’s way more than I was hoping to get, you could say it has been a great success!
Anyway, I was thinking about modern designs (2000+) obsession with the mouse. I know his gloves are fun to draw, but really what is the deal? Jon Zawada has a little ‘cliff notes’ section of his blog where he shows what inspired him/was looking at the time. He posted steamboat mickey a while ago and that got me thinking who else has been thinking about him? Here’s a small selection that I’ve rounded up.
This is your chance to do something important.
“For generations young design students without a summer internship have been taken advantage of by the predatory hospitality industry.
These young minds, finely tuned all year long to the subtleties of layout and visual aesthetics are instead forced to arrange toppings on pizzas.
By the time they return to university, they’ve got nothing to show for themselves but chequered pants that smell of deep fried anchovies.
Don’t let a young designer go hungry for experience these holidays. If nothing else, the kid knows long hours.”
One year of Visual Communication down, looking for some work out of the kitchen, living in Prahran.
Contact: joshwclement@gmail.com/0449 965 394
Thanks Jules & Junior for the coverage.
You know when people say somethings ‘eye candy’? I think this is what they’re actually talking about. Takeshi Murata is responsible.
It seems pretty common for ‘creative agencies’ to team blog about stuff that they’re interested in (mostly marketing trends/research). Tank in Melboure and Landor International are good examples.
Sell Sell from Shoreditch (the brooklyn of London), are an ad agency who actually regulary update their blog, interesting if not ‘light’ content, and there’s lot’s of links back to their real site.
It’s not hard to run a good blog! It generates nothing but interest and lot’s of traffic to your real site! They even do top 5’s and ‘Friday comedy gold’, who wouldn’t want to work for these guys? Julian Cole has a similar thing happening on his twitter: #ytgold (youtube gold fridays).
Looking to get an interview for graphics editor for my university magazine Esperanto.
I decided to drop in a faux cover for the magazine in my folio for kicks. If you saw my diary entry you can work out that this is a ‘remix’ of sorts. Font used is Ziggurat, an old British slab serif re invention by HF&J.
By the way, don’t you think it’s so refreshing when you see good old hand lettered posters? No trendy slab fonts or stigma attached to massively popular fonts like Gotham, just the raw personality of the artist responsible.
Don’t forget to “drink coffee and DESTROY”
Hype For Type
If you have the dosh, this place seems to be the ‘latest and greatest’ in trendy display fonts. The boys at Non Format, and ‘it’ designer Alex Trochut all have a few pieces there up for grabs.
Typically Brazillian design studio Firmorama have been serving up some heat as of late. I love when you can see cultural influences in work from a studio. You know like Mid West American work is typically crafty, and throws back to olde times (vintage typefaces)/modest colors. Firmorama don’t however, and I imagine they’re studio has crazy baile funk playing all day long as they whip up this colourful design work.. I imagine.
To wrap up Typography this Semester, we had to design a booklet that held all our little class projects in. I tried for a kind of raw look, all the colour and texture is from the photocopy toner, and the stock is cheap kraft paper. I know that black on recycled paper is kind of used up, but hey it’s simple, cheap, and still looks alright.
In other, much more important news, I got some link love this morning from Australian ID blog Design Droplets, who have just turned 1 year old, happy birthday guys!
I designed a poster for class that was meant to represent a particular building in Melbourne. The plumbers and gas fitters building in Melbourne is a hefty piece of brutalist architecture, so I decided to develop a typographic illustration that reflected that cold, stark style. The copy is set in Serif Gothic, a recent favourite.
Previously on this blog…
A while ago I said that still life, or ‘photo illustration’ was going to blow up… am i right?
Look at the rest of the spreads at Jessica Walsh’s blog
I think the lesson we’ve learned is, buy a bunch of stuff at a garage sale for cheap, and spray it the hell black. Or white.
Exhibit 1(black)
Exhibit 2!(white)
BREAKING NEWS (26/10): ANZ rebranded! and it sucks!
Also was reading a new Computer Arts( i always get suckered into buying them and have finished it back to back in about 2 hours). There’s a solid Interview with Coop design (Melbourne) and they were raving on about this shit as well.
