Talking about Amsterdam designers, here’s another nice logo, yet again for another film festival—AFFF. The typeface is Amplitude, set in black, designed by the prolific Christian Schwartz.
Too bad I can’t find out who made the logo.
Food for thought‘[...] do not think that good design can make a poor product good, whether the product be a machine, a building, a promotional brochure or a business man. But [...] good design can materially help make a good product reach its full potential. In short, [...] good design is good business.’
Thomas J. Watson Jr., IBM CEO
Thomas J. Watson Jr., IBM CEO
Amsterdam Fatastic Film Festival
January 12, 2009, 7:40 PMJetset's Amsterdam Film Night
, 7:29 PMExperimental Jetset is an Amsterdam-based (lucky bastards!) design studio. Among many cool projets (again, swiss style lives on), they developed the identity of The Amsterdam Film Night festival:
The following year, for the second edition of the movie festival, they made this poster, one of my favourites (also featured in the documentary Helvetica):
I really like the simplicity of the black&white visual identity:
Here are some beautiful badges, they’re from another project they did, but they’d sure go well with the rest of the AFN identity:
Büro für Gestaltung — finest german rigour
January 9, 2009, 6:06 PMBüro für Gestaltung means literally ‘office for design’. Quite a simple and odd name, considering that their expertise ranges from graphic design to environmental design, product design and even bits of architecture. But in the end, design is a very generous word, so it can easily encompass all work made for the benefit of men.
Few design companies have such thorough websites presenting their work. One interesting thing is that most of the team are women, a not-so-often thing in the design world, especially considering the very rational approach the company has. Not to mention their youth, another thing to admire, since they’ve been involved in so many big projects, both for big companies and state/local officials. It’s a great thing to be able to see how their design solutions were developed as a whole.
Take your time, watch and learn—steal if you can ;)
Type In London
December 20, 2008, 1:04 PMNo wonder London designers are so good, growing up seeing such beautiful type treatments day by day surely has its impact.
London Shop Fronts is the blog where you can admire more of these beautiful store fronts.
(via Swiss Miss)
United Visual Artists created the Massive Attack…
December 19, 2008, 2:44 PM
…stageset for their latest tour. UVA based their set up around a huge LCD screen, dominating the stage (unforgetable impressive, as I’ve written just after the Bucharest concert). All the animations were superbly syncronized with the music — political messages running on the screen, huge, red or white, flickering, dominating, pulsating, penetrating the wide-open eyes. The beautiful part was that, at first, I thought that the screen was similar to the one Muse brought the year before, coloured streams of light flooding the stage as the music got higher and higher. But when the light began to shape shift into letters, and then into maps, images, drops of water, I could not help but watch in awe a political–manifesto–perfectly–built show, meant to strike everyone to the core — not just a normal music concert.
I’d bet that none present there left untouched.
You can view larger images on UVA’s page about the shows (these ones are from The Royal Festival Hall).
And if you’re wondering who the hell UVA are, I bet you’ve seen this before:
It’s their much-awarded project “Volume“. UVA also did shows for Massive Attack before, U2 and many more, as you can see here and here.
(via fabrikproject — thanks Alin for the tip ;)
Paprika — design from Canada
December 17, 2008, 6:46 PMOutstanding work from Paprika, based in Montreal, Canada. The prints will make you drool, for sure. Emboss, foils, laser, diecuts, you name it. I also admire their identities, minimalistic, simple, most of them based on type and images — one doesn’t need a complicated logo when a good, clear&functional visual identity is present. Another thing to admire is their ability to create both rational, strong design and emotional, delicate design (check out their beautiful packaging).
(via Dieline)
The Grid System — the org
December 4, 2008, 3:13 PMAntonio Carusone from AisleOne decided to do the right thing and started www.thegridsystem.org, “the ultimate resource in grid systems”.
The website contains links, templates, books, articles, just about anything that has connections to the principles of grid designing. You Work For Them also supports this great initiative (in case you didn’t know, YWFT has some of the best design-but-not-only books for sale).
The website is grid-based, of course, and it’s a pleasure to look at (check out the up-right-side button):
The initiative also has a Flickr group, join up and share your grid creations.
Love & Hate 3D Tee
November 29, 2008, 3:21 PMGreat idea from Tokyo Cube. It comes with glasses and all :D
Hmmm, this tee would be great to go voting in :D
thanks Gina for finding it ;)
Yurko Gutsulyak — From Ukraina with love
November 20, 2008, 3:35 PMWonderful works made by Yurko Gutsulyak, an ukrainean designer. His matches-calendar won a lot of awards, and one can easily see why. I also love the beautiful Cognac CD case, the nice stationery for the Golovan and Partners law firm and many more.
(via Dieline — thanks Alin for drawing my attention :) )
Banking in photos
November 12, 2008, 8:11 PMTypical Murphy, after working on at least four design projects concerning banking (finance, to be more precise) in one form or another, after spending days scavanging for related pictures on the internet, after asking friends to risk getting arrested photographing banks while on vacation abroad, it took one random search through Flickr to find the banking in photos group.
So, if you need examples of fascias, interiors, ATM’s, window treatments etc, that’s the place. Feel free to add your photos, obviously :)
and last but not least, a “supermarket” bank (they’ll probably have to downgrade to street kiosks due to the financial crisis, though :P)
(pictures from flickr, obviously)
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