my name is ‘nicholas felton’ i’m a graphic designer…
(on an ipad? here’s the link…sort it out apple)
me news
in 2008, i enjoyed 2.4 alcoholic beverages
my corolla
if you forget the fact that they have just recalled tens of thousands of cars in the US then this is a really nice little toyota ad, a similar principle to the old ‘heat electric’ ads from the UK made by aardman, animating to an existing voice-over…
(tip via ‘jari’ on twitter)
sustainable type
…it’s impossible to think about sustainable design without considering typography. For this workshop, the challenge was to reduce, reuse and recycle. The idea was to create a font family with less shapes, reuse them and after print on recycled newspaper… the four participants really understood how to make typography sustainable. By only using around three simple shapes, they all created a complete alphabet of different style. From blackletter, to geometric and showcard…
interesting typography workshop as reviewed by john thackara on design observer…
mind numbingly turgid stuff
renowned british designer ‘mike dempsey’ struggles to come to terms with the state of highstreet graphic design, i feel what’s he’s saying… in all fairness the UK is undoubtedly a lot worse than the netherlands (so far) in that respect but danger looms…
…imagine spending three years hard graft at art college dreaming the dreams and longing for that day when you can join a decent design company. But you don’t, instead you end up working on one of the above titles. Yes, I know it’s a job in these difficult economic times, but is it going to improve the standard of design?…
amsterdam begins with a….
so it’s a good place to start, ha ha good answer, i like it…
one of my favourite designers ‘henrik vibskov’ has opened a 100 day pop-up store just round the corner, hopefully i can get away early today…