REVOLT by Paul Belford Ltd.
Posted: May 31, 2018 Filed under: Graphic Design Reviews | Tags: Blind Emboss, Book & Magazine Cover Design, Book & Magazine Design, British Design, Colour in Use: Fluorescent, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design Reviews: Editorial Design, Designed by Paul Belford Ltd, Editorial Design, Fluorescent Ink, Foil Blocking, From the United Kingdom, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, The Very Best of 2018 Comments Off on REVOLT by Paul Belford Ltd.Opinion by Richard Baird
REVOLT is described as an instruction manual, tool-kit and practical guide for any business seeking to do more with their brand, or for individuals looking to get more out of life. The central premise is that having people on your side, and that the ability to form and activate a group is the secret to success, and essentially leverages and intends to help channel any feeling of disenfranchisement and anger into affirmative action and movements of change. Content feels very much of its time, although the visual and form language of action and disruption, revolution and dissent employed by Paul Belford Ltd. is an enduring and fairly universal one. Conflating political and societal struggles with corporate (or charitable) interest or self-help is bold and provocative, as is its visual expression.
Shakespeare In The Park 2018 by Pentagram
Posted: May 30, 2018 Filed under: Graphic Design Reviews, Theatre | Tags: Brand Identity, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Campaign Design, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Pentagram, Festival and Event Brand Identities, Fonts in Use: Knockout, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Paula Scher, Poster Design, Sign Design, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2018, The Very Best of 2018, The Very Best of BP&O, Theatre Logos, Type Play, Typography Comments Off on Shakespeare In The Park 2018 by PentagramOpinion by Richard Baird
Shakespeare In The Park is an annual event and series of free performances presented by New York’s The Public Theatre that will take place at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park during May and throughout June. This year will see performances of Othello and Twelfth Night. These are being promoted by a campaign developed by Pentagram’s Paula Scher, with assets such as signage being designed and deployed by Public’s in-house team. This builds on the enduring identity Paula Scher designed for the theatre in 1994, revised in 2005 and 2008, maintaining its impact and dynamic qualities whilst working in a new and distinctive colour palette of bright gradients, contrasting solid blocks of black and a strong sense of the systematised and the architectural. Alongside the tagline “Be In The Park” this links signage, static and dynamic posters and billboards, t-shirts, tote bags and newspaper advertising.
Lukas/Markus – Kalle Sanner by Lundgren+Lindqvist
Posted: May 22, 2018 Filed under: Architecture and The Built Environment, Graphic Design Reviews, Material & Print Specs, Photography | Tags: Blind Emboss, Book & Magazine Cover Design, Book & Magazine Design, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design Reviews: Editorial Design, Designed by Lundgren+Lindqvist, Editorial Design, Fabric Covers, Fedrigoni Papers & Boards, Foil Blocking, From Scandinavia, G.F Smith Papers & Boards, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Swedish Design, The Very Best of 2018 Comments Off on Lukas/Markus – Kalle Sanner by Lundgren+LindqvistOpinion by Richard Baird
Lukas/Markus is a decade-long photographic project by Kalle Sanner shot with a large format camera and exploring the mirrored and connected chapels of Saint Lukas and Saint Markus designed by architect Sven Brolid. The structure was built during the 1960s, a period when Swedish functionalism was at its height, and is located in the Western Cemetery of Gothenburg.
The book, released May 2018 and co-published by ll’Editions and Blackbook Publications, exists in two versions. The first is an 82 page cloth-bound hardcover trade edition that measures 200 x 223 mm and the second is a special edition housed within a handmade clamshell box that includes an embroidered handkerchief and one of three c-prints signed and numbered by the photographer. Both of these books were designed by Scandinavian studio Lundgren+Lindqvist.
