Max Huber
Posted on 22/10/10.
Max Huber (1919–92) was an influential Swiss graphic designer with close links to a circle of brilliant artists, designers and intellectuals such as Josef Muller-Brockmann, Achille Castiglioni, Werner Bischof, Albe Steiner, and Carlo Vivarelli. At the end of WWII he moved to Milan where he produced some of his most iconic and influential designs. Huber’s work was consistently innovative, and by combining painting and photography with other graphic media, he remained avant-garde throughout his career, bringing the utopian vision of the modern masters to bear on corporate typography and identity design.
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Armin Hofmann
Posted on 20/10/10.
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.
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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Grand Taxonomy of Rap Names
Posted on 23/09/10.
The clever folks at PopChartLab have put together this fantastic infographic poster breaking down the history of famous hip-hop artist monikers into categories. The main headings are “Physical or Metphysical Attributes”, “Wordplay”, “Alphanumeric”, “Titles/Honorifics” and “Crime”.
This isn’t just for fun; it’s actually an impressively in-depth and lovingly put together study. And it’s fun. The posters for sale on their site - they’ve also done one all about Beer…
Link: http://popchartlab.com/
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Communication Arts
Posted on 13/09/10.
This month we were proud to have our work for Miami’s Dorsch Gallery featured in the EXHIBIT section of the Communication Arts website. With a nice review they say “the design is minimal, sophisticated and, most importantly, versatile.” Communication Arts is the largest international trade journal of visual communications and was the first major design publication to launch a website back in 1995. Founded in 1959 by Richard Coyne and Robert Blanchard, the magazine’s coverage includes graphic design, advertising, photography, illustration and interactive media.
Link: http://www.commarts.com/exhibit/dorsch-gallery.html
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Fashion’s Night Out
Posted on 13/09/10.
As a destination for world class fashion, the Miami Design District has no equal. Christian Louboutin, Maison Martin Margiela, Marni, Duncan Quinn, Y-3, tomas maier, Marimekko… the list goes on and on. This Friday the biggest fashion party in history–Fashion’s Night Out–came to the Miami Design District and the evening was a roaring success. We worked closely with the MDD on the art direction for the event and supplied them with a cohesive graphic toolkit to roll out promotional material. We directed a shoot of items available on the night which included a garment tag that was the theme for the event. This tag was then used for web blasts and printed big to hang in store windows to show they were participating.
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Our new studio books
Posted on 06/07/10.
We have just got our new studio books hot off the press! Both of the 24 page sewn booklets are printed two colour on 25% cotton white uncoated stock. The first–All About Us–uses mixtures of Yellow and Magenta to create a different colour for every spread. The second–The Importance of Professional Design–uses Yellow and Cyan to create a gradient of greens. A die-cut tabbing system is used to make it quick and easy for readers to find the information they are looking for. For more info or a copy feel free to get in touch.
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