very nice penguin cover designed by mat cook from intro with an atypical approach for books in this category, the brief asked for a modern look (yep that worked) and the cover is based on a colour coding system applied to poetry… reminds me of peter saville’s colour alphabet on the temptation 12" sleeve for ‘new order’ back in the late 80’s…
the ‘wolda’ website has an overview of the 2008 winners, searchable by continent, plenty of odd ones that barely qualify for the term ‘logo’ in my opinion and here are a few that caught my eye for various reasons…
I liked the idea that I could corrupt Bambi, a modern day symbol of innocence and turn her ?bad? thus re creating the nun cliche in a new way.
‘jasper goodall’ currently has his first solo show on in london till march the 6th
as usual most of the images make for pretty depressing viewing, (except this one) but the winners gallery is still worth a look
the talented mister syb mailed me his new posters for the ‘juli dans’ festival 2009 today (called ‘july dance’ because it takes place every year in july), i believe this is the first place you are likely to see them anywhere as they have only just been completed…
an odd collection of partial images that suddenly make sense when you see two separate posters hanging next to each other…
all of the images were selected from the archive of photgrapher martijn van de griendt (except the catwalk model tripping on something, taken from the image bank of ‘hollandse hoogte’)
shown here below are two previous years posters for comparison, very smart how ‘syb’ seems effortlessly to switch to different styles and techniques whilst keeping a similar feel and coherent image from year to year, the signature of the designer is very clearly present in the work
