The spirit of independents
Countering the gloom felt in mainstream publishing, a host of web-literate, esoteric and beautifully designed indie magazines are thriving
Countering the gloom felt in mainstream publishing, a host of web-literate, esoteric and beautifully designed indie magazines are thriving
While plundering the design aesthetic of the 80s original, Tron: Legacy misses the chance to truly harness contemporary technology in film
Until recently, the software available to designers was rather static in nature. Driven by the promise of What You See Is What You Get (wysiwyg) and inspired by ways of working that predate the computer, the full potential of computers as programmable devices remained unexplored, as the main mode of working continued to be manual.
Wieden + Kennedy London has created a stunning new animated ad, directed by Smith & Foulkes, to advertise the new, (supposedly) improved Honda Jazz car.
Peter Mendelsund is a book cover designer at Alfred A Knopf in New York. He documents his design work on his blog, Jacket Mechanical, and in his most recent post he ran through a new series of unusually colourful Kafka titles, set to appear in the US in June
Tron influenced a generation of designers. With its sequel, Disney had the chance to invent the future once again. Unfortunately, says director Johnny Hardstaff, Tron: Legacy looks and feels almost exactly like the original, but channeled through a three year-old Audi commercial
Here’s a new selection of global advertising treats to help you while away the end of the working week. First up is a quirky little film for Norwegian bus service Nettbuss…
Mr Blog is an online project documenting one of the most enduring forms of folk branding on Britain’s high streets: the ‘Mr’ shop. Having blogged almost 150 shops, from Mr Furniture to Mr Kebab, Mr Blog has completed his work and is ready to reveal his best findings
Graphic USA: An Alternative Guide To 25 US Cities (£19.95, Cicada Books) is a guide book with a difference. Rather than being put together by journalists and specialist researchers, the suggestions of where to go and what to see in each of the 25 cities covered in the book are provided by an image maker who lives there, who also illustrates his or her city’s chapter….
The cover for our new Type Annual issue was created by Jonathan Puckey using the drawing tool Scriptographer. Here’s how he did it
Hot on the heels of their latest Black Swan edition, Little White Lies magazine has produced a short film that distills the two months it takes to complete an issue into one minute and 55 seconds
Manchester-based Design by Day have produced the identity and marketing materials for a new show on the subject of fame at the city’s Cornerhouse arts centre; The People You’re Not