You Spin me right round...

Call me a typophille all you like, this poster does get me a little hot under the collar. By Spin for How Very Tokyo Exhibition. Actually most of Spins works makes me very flustered: so here are a few more treats for your eyes if I haven't persuaded you to click the link yet.



p.s. if you don't own the logo book yet you should: Amazon: Logo

Real Life Quotes.

Spending most of my days ina creative environment some beautiful things get said and noted. current they are all written on my bedroom wall but I feel like I want to share these little pearls of wisdom with the world, well whoever stumbles across this page anyhow. I'm going to update this post continuously as the quotes flow. so here goes for the first bunch i have collected up over the last couple of weeks.
(p.s. Krystof's 'sex' quotes will be saved up until the end of the semester for a different post)

'Don't do things just because you like them and if you do, don't tell your client' - Adrian Shaughnessy

'My life is research' -Adrian Shaughnessy Quoting Iain Sinclair

'Ask yourself 'yes' or 'no' and trust the answer.' -Darren Leader

'We did not become designers by chance but by devotion.' -Martin Grothmark

'One thing I would encourage you to do is to learn to talk about your work.' -Frances Jackson

'Walking is so fucking primative!' -Uzzal

'It's better to make poor designs in a poor office because no one will notice' -Martin Grothmark

'And continue that love for type and the emotional response we get from it.' -Darren Leader

'it's linking the culture that surrounds it rather than being obvious and direct.' -George Payne

'Fail fast and fail cheap' -Iain Tait

'Would you do it?' -Iain Tait

'Cause things to happen; mock up a paper, work with PR, if its not for you, dont be afraid of binning stuff.' -Iain Tait

'Always be inventing and making stuff better, what could you make better?' -Iain Tait

'It's all about people.' -Iain Tait

'...but objects speak in a different language.' -Andy Campbell

'I think it needs reasoning behind it' -Will Farrow

'KISS, Huh? Keep It Simple Stupid' -Gavin Horrell? TD

'Good Design involves Two components: a great idea, executed immaculately' -Gavin Horrell? TD


'Wit: that indescribable little nothing' -Gavin Horrell? TD

'Be creative with your problem' Jonathan Ford, Pearlfisher

'Take any job' Dough James, Honey

'Don't stop dreaming' Richard Murray

Some one who I accidentally forgot about until recently. Christopher Bucklow, gorgeous work, multi talented. He did an exhibition in my ex boyfriends mum's gallery back in 2004 she got to keep one of his pieces, mind blowing. This scan of a postcard doesn't do it justice. http://www.chrisbucklow.com/index.html

Original Source

An invigorating new form of packaging by Alloy (working alongside BDH and The Chase) I only discovered it when in the shower thismorning. its given me some thoughts for my current project...
also, lovely website: http://www.originalsource.co.uk/
and if your interested: http://www.thealloy.com/

Cheese and Chocolate

Pretty nice mix here. I'm still not keen on Aero though. Mr Burnquist doing a good job though.

Phil Baines

Our course had a lecture from Phil Baines last friday. I had got myself all hyped up for how amazing he was going to be and was prepared to have my jaw drop in awe. Unfortunately it didn't go quite like that: Baines was unexpectedly one of the most dull and pesimistic designers I have ever come across. The way he spoke seemed to include a moan about almost everything and everyone. He seemed so angry at the world that not everything went his way the whole time. He only showed us work from the last couple of years and to be honest I thought (and I'm sure my fellow students would agree) it was pretty poor. on more than one occasion his type on posters was illegiable due to poor colour choice and even if it had been legiable the posters would still have been unattrative. He also designed a book on the life and work of Alan Aldridge. I know if I was ever given that opertunity I would fully emerge myself in the piece and make it as true to the artist as possible. I would let his mannerisms and mentality affect the way the book looked and the way I produced it. Baines, however, on telling us the development of this piece of work repeated how frustrating it was to work with such a charater and that he was selfish and didn't pay and respect to those who helped him throughout his career!
So overall I was pretty dissapointed in getting the oppertunity to meet a person I had previously looked up to as one of the great names in design. It was mentioned to me by a member of staff at NUCA that prehaps when working in such a hard industry for so long one may become bitter. I am just glad that when I saw Adrian Shaughnessy he seemed to have managed to keep his soul fully intact, but that's a story for another time.

http://www.philbaines.co.uk/

Illustration

oops! I abandoned my blog over the weekend lets take a step back to a gorgeous flyer I found in my pocket on friday. I wish I could make my lines look like this.