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| I've been meaning to create a response to 'that' poster for quite some time but never quite got there. It may be a little late but here it is. Inspiration came to me while watching a traffic warden going about his nefarious business. 'Keep calm and carry on' is the worst advice you can give to the British people, a people who don't complain but actually apologise when things aren't going their way. Stop it! Stop it now!! |
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Stop Keeping Calm and Stop Carrying On
30 Best Film Posters of 2011
Flavorpill’s pick of the best film posters of 2011
Their comment on this for Cold Weather really hits the mark: “Ah, minimalism. Overused in unofficial movie posters that go viral on the Internet, but sorely underused in official posters that advertise movies.” See all 30 here
Decode the QR Code
Artists and musicians have been using gorilla sticker campaigns with QR codes for a good few years now to get their work onto your ‘generic-mobile-device’ (or ‘iPhone’ to you and me). More recently it seems that everybody with some online content to promote has caught up and these undecipherable and none to pretty blocks of black and white squares are becoming increasingly ubiquitous. Turns out that these things are pretty robust don’t have to be as ugly as you might think. With a little bit of work you can make something that still works and has some beauty all of its own. And the message in the stencilled code above? ‘U R SO PORNO BABY!’. Thanks for that Mr Fahrenheit, you made my day.
Movie Posters of the Decade
A nice selection of some of the best movie poster of the last ten years. Like it says. Shame they didn't include Empire Design's UK Kill Bill Vol. 1 poster though.
Movie Posters of the Decade
Heinz Edelmann
Just a quick nod to german graphic designer and illustrator Heinz Edelmann who died on july 21st, aged 75. Edelmann was the art director of Beatles film The Yellow Submarine, surely one of the best animated features of all time.
Salon des Refusés
New vintage clothing project from Rebecca Sweeting. 'Vintage clothing, lingerie and accessories from the 1900s to present day.'
Salon des Refusés
Design By Say Hello
Illustration by Miles Donovan at Peepshow
tDR Pull The Plug
Just thought I'd give a mention to the sad demise of the Designers Republic as there's a retrospective in this months Eye magazine. Like many designers, tDR have been a huge influence on my work and even my choice of career. They reinvented British graphic design in the late 80's being one of the first agencies to really explore computer technology to full effect, creating a new visual language which was always their signature and highly influential thorough out the world. Although they created a huge wealth of great work, they will always remembered for their seminal work for Warp Records and the Sheffield club seen. A sad day for designers, but the Republic will always live on.
The Designers Republic
Damien Poulain 'Totem 49'
Exhibition of the French born, London based designer's latest project at Kemistry Gallery from: 5 June - 18 July 2009
Sagmeister at Offf
There were lots of great stuff at Offf festival but seminal Austrian designer Stefan Sagmeister's talk about happiness in design really brought the house down. And he did the whole thing wearing a nice blue summer dress (the above version was filmed somewhere else though...)
Adrian Shaughnessy talks to Peter Saville
Logan Hall is a big lecture theatre. Pater Saville has sold it out. They've had to bring in cameras so that the people who couldn't get in can watch from the foyer. In the world of graphic design, Peter Saville is as close to rock star status as you can get.
But in this interview with graphic design stalwart Adrian Shaughnessy, Saville spends most of his time discussing how he dislikes the world of graphic design, doesn't title himself a graphic designer and he really just wants to be known as an artist. Shaughnessy says he wants to get behind the Saville myth, but I think he just ended up reinforcing it. Even when Saville admitted something I'd always suspected, that he had very little to do with the actual design of the sleeve art for Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures, one of the works that made his reputation, you can't help but think that this is just more of the typical Factory Records myth-building.
But we've all heard the Factory story and seen those record sleeves a thousand times before. The thing which really interested me was what he said about is role as 'Creative Director of Manchester'. A unique position in the world of communication design and a job he claimed he never wanted (which in true Mancunian tradition is the reason he was offered it). As part of it, he did do a logo for Manchester but as he says, you will rarely see it. Where would you put it? How can you brand a city? So he has made it his role now to act as a provocateur, working behind the scenes to make sure that creatively, Manchester raises it's game. Although he's lived and worked in London for around 30 years, his story is intrinsically tied to Manchester, he is a product of Manchester. No doubt, through this work, his myth continues...
D&AD Lectures
The Answer Mark
Everyone's got questions, right? Questions are cheep, throw-away. What we're really looking for is answers. If it's true that 'there are no stupid questions, just stupid answers', is that because answers are more important? And if that's true, then why do questions have with their own punctuation mark while answers remain indistinct and unannounced?
Well, at Say Hello we're changing that, with the introduction of the answer mark. No longer will answers be looked upon as the less important half-brother of the question. Now the properly punctuated answer will ring out with authority and resonance.
Download Answer Mark Sans here and get answering. (Personal use only, please contact Say Hello for commercial use.)
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