Another great online archive. There’s nothing we can say about Alan and his work that hasn’t been said already. So we say simply this: soak it up, and enjoy.
Visit here: Alan Fletcher – Archive
John Elliot Cellars Limited | 1977
John Elliott Wine Cellars, were importers of fine French wines. The symbol is a typographic design of a wine glass. This was adapted from an early nineteenth century ideogram of a French drinking song.
Here we feature recent graduate Dave Shorrock’s Halloween inspired Habito 'Demon Cleansing Ritual' kit feature in The Drum
The concept was created by recent graduate David Shorrock, after he pitched via You Can Now’s network of universities, colleges and art and design schools, as part of Habito’s Halloween challenge.
The brief asked graduates to come up with a creative concept that would be bold, clever and bring Habito’s mission (to save people from mortgage hell) to life.
Inspired by research that showed that 55% of people in the UK would be put off buying a property if they thought it was haunted, Shorrock created Habito’s eight-step home exorcism ritual to banish any ghouls back to the other side this Halloween.
Insight
Word mark
Cleansing Kit
Instructions
Detail
Mailer
Ambient - Vue cinema hook up
Nice work Dave, a great fun appropriate idea well crafted!
Here we feature a recent find – The People’s Graphic Design Archive – uncovered by Dylan Carr. In its own words here’s an overview of the website and its intentions:
The People’s Graphic Design Archive is a crowd-sourced virtual archive that includes everything from finished projects to process, photos, letters, oral histories, anecdotes, published and unpublished articles, essays, and other supporting material in the form of documents, videos, audio, as well as links to other relevant archives and websites.
Our goal is to enable new and expanded stories about a graphic design history— one that represents diverse cultures and a broad range of interests! The archive exists in Notion now, but will eventually move to a purpose-built, public website.
We’ve had a brief peruse and it is clearly an absolute warren of resource. Below is just a very small snippet of a quick journey over a coffee. So, from The People’s Graphic Design Archive, we went to The School of Visual Arts Archive, which took us to an archive of Chermayeff & Geismar.
This is along with our other featured archives is a free, seemingly infinite resource of graphic design from across history. Incredibly important. Incredibly useful. Thanks Dylan.
SVA Subway Poster – 1990
Norman Ives: Constructions & Reconstructions
Recently we’ve made aware of a designer who wasn’t on our radar, by a designer who is on our radar. Jim Sutherland’s instagram post shared the recently published book ‘Constructions & Reconstructions’.
The book is dedicated to Norman Ives, 1923-78, who was acclaimed as both a fine artist and seminal graphic designer. He was also a teacher and publisher of fine art portfolios.
The website and accompany instagram also has a fantastic archive of his work. A gem of a find, and thanks to Jim for sharing.
Year 1 are currently researching the great designers and typographers who moulded the world we live and work in today. As a consequence; some great resources have been uncovered, we’re posting here to inspire, but also to bookmark.
Here we feature a solution to the recent industry brief set by Ric Bixter of The Chase Manchester
The concept
The proposition
The design development
The final Mark
The connection
The location explained
Slide show from exterior to interior
Cloakroom and Cafe
WC
Slide show of the deliverables
Menu Development
Ticket Development
Poster development
Here we feature a great typography project that has recently been sent to our offices by x Preston Graphics student Tim Sumner. This self published book was inspired by the typography that Tim encountered in Thailand on his globe trotting adventures.
Card board wraparound case
Front & back cover designs
Forward
Slideshow
The typeface
For more on this project follow Tim here.
Here we feature a solution to the recent industry brief set by Ric Bixter of The Chase Manchester
Colour & Type toolkit
Development
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Outdoor - Posters
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Lanyards
Tote Bags
Way finding Signage
Here we feature a couple of final year response to recent the industry set brief by Edit Brand studios
Wordmark
Language
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Typeface & colours
Photography style & feel
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Post cards
Post card slip case
Stationary & keys
Toiletries
Menues
Editorial Advertisements
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Simply Scan
The thinking - Sketch book
The rational
Words, copy & Language
Type Style reference
Odd image style reference
Preferred type styling
The word mark
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Odd outdoor advertising
Tour Guide Lanyards
Merchandise
Mobile
Here we feature a couple of final year solutions in response to the recent industry brief set by Forepoint.
Background
Brand - Wordmark
typeface & colour ways
The can
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Point of sale & dispensers
The brand wordmark
Typefaces
The offshore regions
The label designs
The full forecast
Multipack box
Pump Handles
The bar
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