Armin Hofmann
Posted on 20/10/10.
Filed under Graphics / Print / Typography
In 1948 Emil Ruder met the artist and printer Armin Hofmann. Ruder and Hoffman began a long period of collaboration and by the mid1950s their teaching achieved an international reputation. With Ruder he was an influential educator at the Basel School of Design and in 1965 wrote the Graphic Design Manual, a popular textbook in the field. Like Ruder, Hofmann is well known for his black and white posters which emphasised economical use of colour and fonts, in reaction to what they regarded as the “trivialisation of colour.” His posters have been widely exhibited as works of art in major galleries, such as the New York Museum of Modern Art.
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Emil Ruder
Posted on 20/10/10.
Filed under Graphics / Print / Typography
Emil Ruder (1914–1970), was a Swiss typographer and graphic designer, who with Armin Hofmann helped to found the Schule für Gestaltung Basel (Basel School of Design) and the graphic style known as the Swiss Style. In 1967 he published a basic grammar of typography in German, English and French.The book Typography helped spread and propagate the Swiss Style, and became a basic text for graphic design and typography programs in Europe and North America. The style was defined by the use of sans-serif typefaces, and employed a page grid for structure, producing asymmetrical layouts, as seen in these two classic posters.
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Karl Gerstner
Posted on 20/10/10.
Filed under Art / Colour / Design
Karl Gerstner, born Basel 1930, has devoted himself, for 50 years, to the study of colour. At 22 he became a freelance designer and 7 years later founded his own advertising studio GGK. In 1986 he published his book, The Forms of Colour, where examined the complex interaction between colour and form and developed his own system: ‘The Colour Form Model.’ The manipulation of colour’s tonal and chromatic scales have dominated his work in two and three dimensions. The compositions are vibrant, geometric and perfectly executed.
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Sharing and enjoying Picture Books
Posted on 18/10/10.
Filed under //Our work/ / Design / Print
The latest Booktrust booklet that we’ve been working on came in on Friday afternoon; this time we worked with the illustrator Martin Brown (Horrible Histories) to create a 10 page concertina leaflet about the importance of picture books.
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Rumpetroll!
Posted on 05/10/10.
Filed under Code / Web Design
Rumpetroll‘s literal translation from Norwegian to English is Ass Troll. But the Rumpetroll website is an impressive (and quite exciting, if you’re geeks like us) demo of what can be achieved with the HTML5 canvas, javascript and css, and it’s the first application of websockets that we’ve seen. It’s an instant-loading, smooth looking and innovative chat room, put together by some extremely clever Norwegians.
Link: http://rumpetroll.com/
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Humberto Torres
Posted on 28/09/10.
Filed under Photography
Proudly presenting some great shots of the Everglades by photographer and friend of the studio Humberto Torres. These and two others have been showing in MAM (Miami Art Museum) over the summer!
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Jill Sander Spring 2011
Posted on 28/09/10.
Filed under Colour / Design
We don’t have a fashion category for our blog but we had to include this incredible mastery of colour with just a few shots of the fantastic Jil Sander spring collection by designer in residence Raf Simons. Explosive colours combined with hints of 1960 couture on infanta dresses and skirts. Exquisite.
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