Graphic Design: Archive

INFO SOUP T1: It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. Charles Darwin

Jun 14th

HTML5 →

May 11th

David Copsey - Portfolio website →

New website design and work up.

Mar 19th

Mar 18th

Soapbox Derby 1975 →

Mar 12th

Creative Review - Toscani at The Edge →

Mar 9th

Mar 7th

Egg Watchers: the egg timer that entertains you →

Mar 7th

NY Subway →

Mar 7th

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Jan 28th

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Here’s the link a commented on in class. Noted: 27/01/10

Jan 28th

The steamroller of branding

The steamroller of branding (extract) by Nick Bell One of the great attractions of graphic design is how it can bring you into contact with so many other fields of practice, areas of expertise and interesting subjects. As it is a staple ingredient in most forms of visual communication – whether for global superpower government, corporate multinational, campaigning NGO, art gallery, orchestra or...

Jan 25th

The Crystal Goblet

The Crystal Goblet, or Printing Should Be Invisible by Beatrice Warde (1900 — 1969) Imagine that you have before you a flagon of wine. You may choose your own favourite vintage for this imaginary demonstration, so that it be a deep shimmering crimson in colour. You have two goblets before you. One is of solid gold, wrought in the most exquisite patterns. The other is of crystal-clear...

Jan 25th

Is Google Making Us Stupid?

by Nicholas Carr Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?” So the supercomputer HAL pleads with the implacable astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous and weirdly poignant scene toward the end of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Bowman, having nearly been sent to a deep-space death by the malfunctioning machine, is calmly, coldly disconnecting the memory circuits that...

Jan 25th

First Things First Manifesto 2000

First Things First Manifesto 2000 We, the undersigned, are graphic designers, art directors and visual communicators who have been raised in a world in which the techniques and apparatus of advertising have persistently been presented to us as the most lucrative, effective and desirable use of our talents. Many design teachers and mentors promote this belief; the market rewards it; a tide of books...

Jan 21st

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GOOD Transparencies Archive - a set on Flickr →

Dec 30th

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Dec 29th

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Satellite technology reveals how the network of city streets is being pushed to the edge of capacity. Watch the GPS traces of 380 London taxis over the course of a single day.

Dec 29th

Unit Editions / Studio Culture →

Dec 29th

AisleOne - Graphic Design, Typography and Grid... →

Dec 29th

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We have decided not to die. by Daniel Askill a beautiful short film with a modern interpretation of rituals and the idea of rebirth or death engendering life. i was drawn to how all of the ritual participants in the film are alone, since by definition rituals are traditionally performed in a social gathering whether religious or otherwise. i thought of the paradox how in modern society we are...

Dec 24th

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