Wednesday, 19 February 2020
5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Thunderbirds are go!
Thunderbirds, one of the TV shows that marked my childhood. Produced between 1964 and 1966. The 4th most successful children's TV show of all time. Those amazing puppets crashing around in incredible spacecraft...! The lift off sequence from Tracey Island in the South Pacific... the distinctive logo...
Saturday, 1 February 2020
Thursday, 2 January 2020
Friday, 27 December 2019
Sunday, 22 December 2019
Friday, 6 December 2019
Wednesday, 4 December 2019
Thesis design and layout with Ecole Bleue Masters students
Accompaniment of 5th Year Masters Global Design student in the design, layout and production of their diploma theses. Hundreds of theses covering every imaginable design subject seen over the years. Thanks for thanks.
Saturday, 16 November 2019
Monday, 4 November 2019
Wednesday, 23 October 2019
Paris 2024 logotype...
The Paris 2024 Olympics logo likened to the Tinder logo and innumerable hairdressers salon logos...
Graphically weak, somewhat kitsch, not valorising women with the cute lips and hair styling, retro typography & poor letter spacing... could have done a bit better than this, no? Who is the designer or agency responsible? I haven't seen a design credit.
Graphically weak, somewhat kitsch, not valorising women with the cute lips and hair styling, retro typography & poor letter spacing... could have done a bit better than this, no? Who is the designer or agency responsible? I haven't seen a design credit.
Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Dictators imitating Old Spice deodorant ads...
Dictators imitating Old Spice deodorant ads... What is it with deodorant ads that so appeals to dictators? God forbid that Trump want to get in on the act...
Wednesday, 31 July 2019
Tuesday, 9 July 2019
Monday, 17 June 2019
Sunday, 16 June 2019
Sunday, 9 June 2019
Tuesday, 30 April 2019
Wednesday, 24 April 2019
Sunday, 24 March 2019
Monday, 18 March 2019
Friday, 8 March 2019
Thursday, 28 February 2019
Friday, 4 January 2019
Monday, 31 December 2018
Saturday, 22 December 2018
Wednesday, 5 December 2018
I amsterdam logo, victim of its huge success
The I amsterdam logotype in front of the Rijksmuseum has become a victim of its huge branding success! With an estimated 6 000 selfies a day taken infant of it, it became the cultural identity of the city overshadowing all other sights and events. The sculpture has now been unbolted and removed.
Monday, 19 November 2018
Saturday, 10 November 2018
Saturday, 3 November 2018
Friday, 26 October 2018
Barclays Bank France becomes Milleis
Barclays rather sad, sort of Twitter eagle, becomes Milleis and gains some standing and prestige in the process. Design by Carré Noir.
Monday, 22 October 2018
Monday, 15 October 2018
Thursday, 27 September 2018
Michal Bator poster design
Visit to Michal Batory's studio. He will be talking at the Ecole Bleue in the designer conference cycle in a couple of months.
Sunday, 9 September 2018
UK - France postage stamp design, two different visions
UK - France, two different approaches to postage stamp design. UK by Hat-trick Design using monochrome photography, wood block letterpress printing & theatrical colour palette. France with a poorly executed illustration of Marianne, weak typography and strange layout...
Hat-trick Design Old Vic Theatre stamps
Hat-trick Design London have created these typographic theatre stamps for the Old Vic Theatre, featuring Grotesque and Slab Serif wood type letterpress printing by typographer Kelvyn Laurence Smith and black & white portrait photos.
Daniel Arsham's 'Dystopian 3018' exhibition
Daniel Arsham's 'Dystopian 3018' exhibition New York. With US Pop Culture symbols and this Future typography.
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