…when I showed this cover to my friend Henrik Kubel, he was, to my dismay, not overwhelmed. He thought the spine was a joke, or an obvious stroke of supreme laziness (which it was). He finally said the design looked “Illustrator-y”. Whether true or not, there’s not a worse adjective he could have used — it went straight to the heart of my insecurity and I instantly knew I had to start again…
marian bantjes shares the process behind the design for the cover to her new book
…one of the challenges with the animation was to keep the motion interesting despite its slow pace. To combat dullness, we tried to keep things moving at all times, whether it was the textures inside the lines, or the drifting of the camera. We also setup the overall structure to move back and forth between light and dark compositions, and tried to make the transitions between the sections as surprising as possible…
beautifully created by ‘adam gault & stephanie augustine’ (via ‘motionographer’)
garech & declan better known as ‘the stone twins’ (currently heads of the communication department) have created a new identity for the ‘design academy’ in eindhoven, based around a rather serious letter ‘e’ (for eindhoven, geddit?) and which further relies on the currently highly popular ‘crowdsource’ principle: everyone can fill it as they please with three words
i’m really not sure what i think of this one… of course leaving it open feels (on paper) like a good idea, all possibilities are possible etc. but the actual result feels a bit stern and forced, the idea of using words was previously used in the temporary ‘stedelijk CS’ identity from experimental jetset and the handwritten words and primary colours also bear a passing resemblance (in my mind) to the ‘communication museum’ identity from lava, again a nice idea which didn’t really work in practice i feel…
the introduction films where passers-by are encouraged to react to the logo are quite amusing (don’t be fooled the english subtitles bear almost no resemblance to the actual reactions in most cases) of course it’s maybe a bit early to say how this one will actually pan-out in practice, time will tell… all possibilities are possible etc.
anybody who builds websites will tell you that making an ‘under construction’ page is usually a bad idea for various reasons, having had a ‘me nothing’ button on this site months ago now i can only agree, the idea was that it would be temporary and soon changed to a useful new function, well it took longer than expected and often resulted in me receiving mails asking what the point of it was… erm ‘nothing’ was the only answer…
now finally it has gone and in it’s place is an all new ‘search me’ function… five years of inspiration, great design, photography and ideas from weird to wonderful and all fully searchable
go on… have a go, you might even find your own name listed, the search results are currently limited to five results (even if there are many more… we’re working on it) this should however soon be fixed… i now know for example that i use the term ‘shit’ more than i realised…
