LogoArchive ExtraIssue – Letters As Symbols (Preview)
Posted: Filed under: Art and Design, Graphic Design Reviews | Tags: Branding Agency, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design Inspiration, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logo Design Trends: Clever Logos, Logos, Minimal Logos, Typography Comments Off on LogoArchive ExtraIssue – Letters As Symbols (Preview)LogoArchive was conceived, designed and sent to print in a day. It was inspired by a panel discussion at Somerset House as part of the exhibition Print! Now on to its seventh release, LogoArchive continues to reconfigure itself with each new issue with the intention of surprising and delighting within the context of archival.
The distinctive smaller format offers ample license to experiment and collaborate with other like-minded resources. Christophe De Pelsemaker’s Logo Books, an online archive of pages from out-of-print publications dedicated to trademarks, is one such resource. Christophe’s own book, Letters As Symbols, a collaborative endeavour with renowned Belgian designer Paul Ibou, sought to bring to life and uniquely document symbols based on the letters of the alphabet. It has an compelling story and an interesting journey to publication which began in 1991. This LogoArchive ExtraIssue intends to offer readers a sample of Letters As Symbols and tell its story through symbols and archival documents.
Origen México by Blok
Posted: Filed under: Art and Design, Graphic Design Reviews, Publishing | Tags: Book & Magazine Design, Book Design Review, Branding Agency, Canadian Design, Coloured Paper, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design Inspiration, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Design Reviews: Editorial Design, Editorial Design, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Material Thinking, The Best Design for Print 2019, The Very Best of 2019, Typography Comments Off on Origen México by BlokOpinion by Richard Baird
Origen México is a encyclopaedic collection of cultural reference points from Mexico, and an expression of love for its land and identity, edited by Ámbar Editores and Paola Gonzalez Vargas. Written in Spanish it covers things such as, Barro negro pottery; the black clay pottery of Oaxaca, Barrancas del Cobre; the six canyons in the Sierra Madre Occidental and individuals such as pioneering filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón. In its breadth the book has a temporality; a relationship with time. One idea, place, person, piece of pottery or art directly or indirectly informs the another. Layers are built. The present is founded on, but would ultimately find it hard to recognise, all of the past, except that which immediately proceeded it. This is expressed through the materiality of the book, designed by Canadian studio Blok, using a light copy paper and show-through, the relationships and continuity formed with a consistent image treatment and the codifying visual language of consistent type, layout and an encyclopaedic format.
Daniel Jensen: Current Events by Bedow
Posted: Filed under: Art and Design, Graphic Design Reviews, Publishing | Tags: Art Book, Artist Books, Book & Magazine Design, Book Design Review, Branding Agency, Coloured Paper, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design Inspiration, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Design Reviews: Editorial Design, Designed by Bedow, Designed in Stockholm, Editorial Design, From Europe, From Scandinavia, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Material Thinking, The Best Design for Print 2019, The Very Best of 2019, Typography Comments Off on Daniel Jensen: Current Events by BedowOpinion by Richard Baird
Daniel Jensen is a Swedish artist whose work moves between paintings, sculptures and drawings and explores themes such as society and pop-culture, film, literature and nature. His latest book, designed by Bedow, features artworks that are figurative and abstract, unrelated and absent a narrative. With such compelling and intense imagery of colour and dynamic shape, Bedow developed a format that would hold these works with a calm and classic sensititivity, using type and space to frame the work.