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New Australian Council of the Arts work

 

Loving Sydney-based studio, Ascender's, new work for the Australian Council of the Arts. Super simple, super effective. I believe this was worked on by Adrian and one of our grads, Victoria. Great work guys, and looking forward to seeing the new website!

Mads Jakob Poulsen @ NYC Apple Store

Danish Designer Mads Jakob Poulsen will be at the Apple Store SoHo, NYC on March 28, 2011 presenting their work and thoughts on graphic design. Previously a senior designer at Wolff Olins, one talent to admire and keep an eye on. Check out the amazing work.

Sarah wins Best Corporate Brochure at the Shout awards

Our very own Manchester Full time Lecturer Sarah McHugh has won the Best Corporate Brochure award at the Shout awards for freelance project MANUAL. The Robert Horne Shout awards recognises innovation, excellence and creativity in design and print.

Commissioned by Chung Tyson Architects and supported by CEBE (Centre for Education in the Built Environment), MANUAL - Thoughts on workshop teaching in Architecture, is a documentary record of teaching workshops carried out at Manchester School of Architecture. 

"Using the structure of a typical Manual as inspiration and structure, studio process work and reflective texts are thematically organised into a series of separate booklets. The booklets are bound together and the spine is left exposed - reflecting the 'making' theme within the content."

 

 

 

 

Letterhead Love

For all you FT students in the UK & US currently working on the branding brief.

www.letterheadlove.com

Letterheady

Ever wondered what the letterheads of iconic figures such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Houdini & Charlie Chaplin looked like?  Check out LETTERHEADY — its an online archive of bygone stationery design. www.letterheady.com

Thanks Shannon in Melbourne FT for the Heads up :)

LOGO DESIGN LOVE

Check out this great blog - www.logodesignlove.com.

This is fantastic logo design resource, covering typography, trends, logo design history, world renowned design agencies, showcases...  Logo design resources | Logo Design Love

The 6 plights of the modern day branding designer talk

At a recent AGDA talk by the infamous Chris Doyle (known for creating his own identity guidelines that went viral to design studios across the world, which is linked to his name below) now working for the branding studio Interbrand.

Unfortunately I was unable to make it. A couple of the students from Syd FT went along. Lucas, the kind chap he is, picked me up a copy of the newspaper style document they put together which I have photographed and put below. He also very kindly agreed to agreed to write about the talk. So thanks Lucas for the following words and choice links.

Faced with the epic, ever-growing body of work that has gone before, how can today's designers cut through the clutter, let alone create a genuinely original idea?
Presented by Chris Maclean, Mike Rigby and Chris Doyle, The Plight of the Modern Brand Designer covered six dilemmas facing designers today. These included the pitfalls of design by committee, the nature of client/agency relationships (read: master/slave), and standing out in an ever-changing media landscape.
The talk centered around the need to employ design thinking and processes to create solutions to problems in business, and society. They also discussed the need for us, as designers, to embrace a whole host of innovative ways to express ideas – going beyond graphic design, to produce a truly powerful and engaging brand experience. Examples of this included  'Let it ring' campaign and VW fun theory.
All in all a very entertaining and insightful talk, on top of that they gave out copies of 'This Year I Will Try Not To', a collation of common design trends that should be avoided, it is extremely funny and definitely worth a look.

Lucas Black-Dendle

 

Thanks Lucas really appreciate your words and the lovely paper gift. Lee :>)

Infomation based graphic design porn 02

All the Mars missions—link to a large printable version

Infomation based graphic design porn 01

50 Years of Space Flight—link to a large printable version

Information is Beautiful

Yes, another blog. No, it's not full of random inspiration... this one's especially for all you reporting nerds out there. Check out some beautifully and creatively designed info graphics. Look out for the 'Movie Monster Comparison Chart'!