Queremos Sonreír by Mucho
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Queremos Sonreír – Activar la Cultura Local (We want to smile – Activating local culture) brings together the voices of a variety of cultural agents–from citizen collectives and activists to artists and managers of cultural programmes–who are generating actions that intend to stimulate local culture, empower citizens, develop learning processes and further critical thinking. Through these voices the book explores questions around citizen participation and cultural practices, cultural activation and alternative ways of developing and accessing cultural capital.
The book is the result of a long research process led by Trànsit Projectes, who partnered with Mucho on the design of the project’s material form. Mucho worked on concept, design, and art direction with the the themes of cultural participation and visibility as central themes.Tthese manifest themselves by way of a striking use of colour and type, and book jacket that folds out and channels the provocative visual language of protest banners with the exclamation, queremos sonreír, or we want to smile.
OneFourFive Clarendon by Studio Brave
Posted: Filed under: Fonts in Use, Graphic Design Reviews, Logo Reviews, Property | Tags: Art Direction, Best Brochure Design 2020, Brand Identity, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Agency, Branding Blog, Branding News, Branding Reviews, Brochure Design, Coloured Paper, Condensed Logotypes, Condensed Typography, Corporate Identity Design, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design Inspiration, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Studio Brave, Designed in Melbourne, Die Cut Design Detail, Extended Typography, Fonts in Use: GT America, From Australia, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logotypes, Material Thinking, New Logo, Poster Design, Property Development Logos, Sans-serif Typography, tape bind, The Best Brand Identities of 2020, The Best Design for Print 2020, The Very Best of 2019, The Very Best of 2020, The Very Best of BP&O, Type Foundry: Grilli Type, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards, Visual Identity Design Blog, Wordmark Design Comments Off on OneFourFive Clarendon by Studio BraveOpinion by Richard Baird
OneFourFive Clarendon is a modern workspace, developed by Salta, designed by Architectus and created for future-focused businesses looking to situate themselves in Southern Melbourne. The development aims to attract like-minded progressive people with a conscious focus on connectivity and local activity. With this in mind, Melbourne-based Studio Brave developed the narrative ‘A Life Unlimited’ as a way to express how the building will allow businesses and their employees to achieve the contemporary model of a professional-lifestyle balance. This narrative is complemented by a graphic identity that intends to subvert the boundaries of expectation within the commercial property landscape in the confluence of bold contemporary typography and colour, materials and finishes that evoke the context-sensitive tectonics, layers and composition of the building, and photography by Josh Robenstone of the Southern Melbourne urban landscape.
Albert Oehlen Book by Zak Group
Posted: Filed under: Art and Design, Graphic Design Reviews, Publishing | Tags: Art Book, Artist Books, Book & Magazine Design, Book Design Review, Branding Agency, British Design, Coloured Paper, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design Inspiration, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Design Reviews: Editorial Design, Designed by Zak Group, Designed in London, Editorial Design, From Europe, From the United Kingdom, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Material Thinking, Screen-print, The Best Design for Print 2019, The Very Best of 2019, Typography Comments Off on Albert Oehlen Book by Zak GroupOpinion by Richard Baird.
Albert Oehlen is a German contemporary artist. Working with canvas, he brings together a bricolage of figurative, collaged, abstract and computer-generated elements, with a particular focus on process and self-imposed parameters such as limited colour palettes. His work, as described by the Serpentine Galleries, currently running a Oehlen solo exhibition till February 2020, engages with the history of painting through Expressionist brushwork, Surrealist gestures and deliberate amateurism, and pushes the essential components of colour, gesture, motion and time in fresh new directions. This spirit of bold gestures, layers and new approaches is captured within a slender, unbound artist book designed by London-based Zak Group. This functions as an extension of the exhibition.
