O_O

Taylor James, Owl Illustration that featured on the cover of a 2010 Creative Review. I think it's crazy how epic this is ^_^

Gaaaaaah, Illusion-y stuffs

Some work at the Degree Show. I have this blagged postcard stuck on the back of my door. Bleh my eyes.

Go check out...

The Degree Show
@Pittville Studios Campus
(Glos' University)

I just had to buy it....

Say hello to yet another Penguin book (sorry), but I saw it the other day and even though I already have a copy of this novel (It is, after all, one of my all time favourite classics), I just had to buy it because I loved the cover.

Thought you'd like to know.

The Nice vs The Damned Awful

Exhibit A: ...Nasty.

Here we have a hideous book that my brother ordered off of amazon for me for my project because I was being too lazy to do my own account...

   I guess it's my own fault that I said "Get the cheapest", but this thing wasn't particularly cheap (£3, yes, but £3 is £3) - And if Penguin can do rather nice looking book designs for £2, then I'm sorry but money is not an excuse!

(... and to top it all off this book was produced in Microsoft Word, I swear - I recognise those conspicuous page numbers. Plus the type goes all the way in to the spine, so you have to bend it back on itself to read the left end of the lines)

Exhibit B: Nice

Here is a lovely penguin popular classics - for all the bargain/scrooge bookworms.

£2? Bargain.

(Plus Hamlet is my favourite Shakey play)

Look at the Book.

Interesting book by Paul Arden who worked/works for Saatchi & Saatchi.

On my Bookshelf...

Along with a load of naval history novels and general classical literature, here is a list of Graphics-related publications sat in my collection of books that people might find useful:

Getting it Right with Type, Victoria Squire

Visible Signs, David Crow (I believe I saw this in the library, if anyone's interested) (comes with stickers!?)

Little Book of Big Ideas Graphic Design, Anna Gerber (useful easy reference to famous/influencial graphic designers from Jules Cheret to Jamie Reid)

How to be a Grpahic Designer without losing your Soul, Adrian Shaughnessy (includes interviwes and things from famous designers such as Sagmeister, Brody, et al.)

Graphis Typography 1

D&AD Student Annuals and D&AD Annuals I highly recommend these - practically indispensible, even if you just manage to collect a few for reference and ideas.

Some advertising agencies I know...

I'm posting stuff.....whether or not anyone will find this stuff remotely useful, I do not know.
http://www.vertebrae.us/
http://www.oomphagency.com/
(weird rabbit on this advertising agency's website ^^)
I went here the last Friday and their boss grilled me O_O not good. But it was only for a laugh anyway, so it's all fine. Apparently he's as bad as interviewers get... My dad owes me a tenner if I come across an interviewer who is worse :D So if this is false information, 1. It is unintentionally so. 2. Don't blame me. and 3. I'm 10 quid better off as a result.

http://www.swordfishadvertising.co.uk/
(did work experience here in yr12, and you get a non-existent prize if you can spot the fish)

Book Project: Destroy a book? ...Yeah, why not?

A badly printed copy of Jules Verne's 'Around the World in 80 Days' subjected to prolonged abuse from craft knives

Random Fact of the Day

The term uppercase originates from traditional metal typesetting. Two wooden cases were used to store the metal type, the top one for capital letters and the bottom one for small letters, hence the term uppercase and lowercase

Beki R - Vintage Books Publishers...quirky stuff to be found when looked for

http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/

or to look at some examples of new releases of literary classics...
http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/vintage/vintageclassics/

It doesn't tell you specific designers on the actual site, but it's interesting for a bit of browsing.