Dec 2009

Designers + consumerism

The evolution of graphic design over the past 100 years from purely aesthetics to meeting functional, cultural, social and production requirements has helped to develop the change and growth of consumerism.

Oct 2009

Album cover design

Dan Tobin Smith

A collection of impressive Album cover designs all created by designers based in London, UK.

Oct 2009

Adopting radical design

Modern vs traditional house

Radical new approaches to design are often controversial, especially if they challenge a ‘traditional’ model — where many are instantly dismissed by their potential audience as being ugly. I recently experienced this while looking at purchasing a new scooter. It’s an interesting process and made me wonder.. are we missing out on mass improvements within […]

Sep 2009

Projections

Urban Screen

Dancing light, transformation, distortion, animation, blending tangible with digital, all these things fascinate me about projection — I especially love projected type. Recently I’ve come across a few inspirational examples of projection and also some really lovely wallpapers. The amazing projection projects created by UrbanScreen. Hirzberger Events: Digital Wallpaper. Tobias Battenberg’s projected Akzidenz Grotesk. Watermarks Project: […]

Sep 2009

The most important thing I learned about design

The medium is the message

One of the primary theories within design that became clearer to me as I progressed through my career was that visual rhetoric is personal to the reader, and is based on their previous experiences — with the medium, their culture, always a combination of the two and more than often includes other influences too. This […]

Aug 2009

25 years of cyberpunk

hostile takeover

It began with a fascination with the Commodore 64, an interface in to virtual worlds, that lead to my passion for cyberpunk culture — literature, games, art and music. Over the years the interface evolved, a lot more rapidly as I got older and had money to spend on hardware. I developed a strong interest […]