Piano Tuner's App

A nice concept for an app from second year Dom D for his current branding project.

Penrose Annuals

The dissseminater introduces The Penrose Annuals

Below the Surface

Hear ye, the latest from The Disseminator’s fount of knowledge (via Dom via The Partners aka Superunion).

The linked website is an ephemera festival. It features the objects found in the Amstel River in Amsterdam whilst it was being excavated to build a new train line. Everything found has been logged, photographed and grouped into a huge archive.

Amazingly, all the objects have been placed in date order as well. You can peruse the archive and also the images are available to collage and experiment with.

Link: Below the Surface

Grooveschool

Found on Design Week by Pete, Grooveschool is a super simple, playful and beautifully crafted identity. Created by Manchester agency Mark Studio, it shows how typography can be used to portray an idea (in this case mimicking volume faders. Well worth a look for anyone working through a branding project currently…

A Small Insight

A little look at some little items.

The Disseminator Unmasked

Here the Disseminator talks you through the papers.

Vlog on Blog

Here we feature the first ever blog post for a book review. Hopefully this will be one of many more to come and that people find it informative and useful in their day to day practice?

Household Wrinkles can be purchased on the internet at various prices depending on age and condition as can Schott’s (not so original Miscellany).

&y's Office

A brief tour of a creative tardis, by the man himself.

Packaging

Graphic design first years have recently submitted their most up-to-date prototypes in their packaging project, before final designs are crafted on the correct stocks and printed with the appropriate inks or other processes. There are some lovely thoughts and observations, as ever all designs will benefit from more craft and production time.

Simply, the brief is to take a low value product and add value to it through the design of the three dimensional pack, as well as utilising creative surface graphics. As Andy said in the yesterdays’s crit : “If it used to cost a quid, would I pay two quid for it now it’s been redesigned?”

Have a look below and see what you think…

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Cotton buds:

Fire lighters:

Beef jerky:

glasses wipes:

weed killer:

fly spray:

yellow dusters:

Children’s tissues:

Pack of pencils:

multi purpose filler:

Children’s plasters:

Introspective Retrospective Takedown

Here we feature a short time lapse of the take down of the recent ephemera exhibition in the PR1 gallery. The exhibition proved very popular with staff and students alike, it will return one day in some other guise.