design-ed

  London type foundry - some smart type use have a look!

As designers we should all be looking at the paper, not just the print. colorplan – all the colours and all the textures … beautiful! worlds favourite colour …

well worth a look smart layout and good theory guardian style guide

selection of HND design work from the end of year show 2019

brochure cover for 2019 end of year exhibition Private view Monday 3rd June, 6-8pm Open to the public Tuesday 4th to Friday 7th June, 10am-4pm Featuring work from students in NC Art & Design HNC Art & Design HND Graphic Design

a classic piece of design – superb idea this really shouldn't work (chopping heads off) but it does, and I'm not sure why …   another smart idea - 'Make it simple, but signficant' (Don Draper)

this oldish video is still a really great example of making your own paper, very simple, very effective https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlX87tvei7c

an interesting report on 2018 trends for packaging - especially environment related issues packaging trends

Original illustration brief for promotional materials for BBC series on seven deadly sins … nice idea, well executed (Dominik – HND1)

Rockwell and Bodoni – as modern and slab serif faces go, these are right up there … typography book layouts, Jamie HND2

nice type, smart idea – Nicky HND 2

glow sticks and coke bottles  – works (ross HND 1)

liam's barbecue phoenix … a split second image (intro to photography brief – HND1)

There are ten, maybe fifteen very good typefaces, which I can agree with at least. There are 30,000 on the market, of which 29,990 can be sunk in the Pacific Ocean without causing any cultural damage. Kurt Weidemann (1922-2011) some examples of the experiments that we did looking at building characters from characters, numerals, punctuation marks and glyphs.  A great way to look at the real details of fonts and individual faces. … and credit to Preston - it's a brief that Uni of Central Lancashire use, so it must be good!

The page grid is the basic skeleton from which you hang everything. It’s equivalent to the scaffolding, or the walls and the joists of a building. A grid is crucial. Neville Brody (1957-)

is there any character more beautiful than Gill's lower case t? alternative suggestions welcomed…