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Monday 4 October 2010

What is Graphic Design?



Graphic Design...simple and effective.
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This piece encapsulates simplicity, its bold colour is striking and positioning of text is effective, creating a large expanse of colour. It's detailed but only what is necessary. This control of media is so selective and although seems simple shows an obsession in attention to detail.

Inspiration Pad by Marc Thomasset



This piece is a playful take on a mundane notepad. It shows the usual lines but the alteration adds some excitement so looking at a blank page is more inspiring.


Disk-it // Sticky Notes Burak Kaynak



There is a huge sense of nostalgia towards the floppy disc. I love how they've taken something quite obscure and used it in a practical situation. It is a simple idea but changes the product dramatically, creating a unique selling point which is far more interesting.


S T A T E O F T H E O B V I O U S - S/O/T/O -- A collection by Mash Creative



These products have a very clear objective. To separate themselves from the usual flow of marketing and design. They effectively and beautifully 'state the obvious'. The choice of type, layout and colour all work together to create strong pieces of design.


Appropriate, creative, obsessive, frustrating, organised, structured...design lives in the detail.

Pop-up NYC
Mixed Media, pop-up book

By Daisy Lew



Watercolour typography by Sasha Prood







Zag Font - multiple owners


Computer Arts Project Covers
by Alan Wardle

Graphic Design...is the effective delivery of a message, idea or concept through the use of visual language.


Barney Bubbles' unused paste-up design for Ian Dury & The Music Students' album 4000 Weeks Holiday, from 1983

Currently showing at the Chelsea Space in London is an exhibition exploring the working practice of the late, great Barney Bubbles. The show gives an insight into the imaginative mind of Bubbles, as well as the world of pre-computer graphic design...


Poster included in Get Happy!! by Elvis Costello and the Attractions, 1980 (Paul Gorman's Vote Labour sticker featured bottom left)


A Tribute to Yulia Brodskay

By: Adolfo Correa







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