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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