Thursday 17 December 2009

Coptic stitching

Recently I learnt how to coptic stitch for a brief, so that I could use this technique to bind the book produced.





Monday 14 December 2009

Heydays

Heydays is a website I was recently shown by a friend of mine. First impressions were great. They are a multi-disciplinary design studio in Oslo, Norway. Their website has a kind of Ikea manual feel about it, with a type writer style typeface being used through-out the site. I really like both the website and the work they produce, they have some really nice, neat and considered work. One piece that really caught my eye was a poster designed for an event called 'Design versus music'. Not only is it a lovely piece of work, but seeing it in situ brings it to life. Check them out at ...
http://www.heydays.info/#


Kate Forrester

Recently while browsing blogs I came across a post about this illustrator called Kate Forrester, her work looked good so I thought I'd check her website out. I was amazed, Kate produces some stunning work for some big names such as Harvey Nichols and John Lewis. All of her work is well considered and beautifully executed. Here are a few examples of Kates' work but check more out yourself at ....
http://piband.com/kateforrester/illustration.html


John Lewis

Recently I found these paper-cut posters for John Lewis designed by the illustrator Kate Forrester. When I first saw these I was amazed, they are so detailed and intricate, I really do like these and cant wait to see them out and about. They are beautifully designed and executed.


Thursday 3 December 2009

Studio Ten and a Half



Recently Vicky and I were looking through the book 'Copywriting' by Mark Shaw, for inspiration on a brief. As well as being a good book we really liked the design of it too. We found that Studio Ten and a Half are responsible for the beautiful design of this book, so we checked them out. Their website is really nice, simple and cleanly designed in black and white. The first page you see it the the big 10 1/2 and it changes between about 5 different fonts each time you load the site. They have some really nice work on their website, the work they produce seems very clean and thoughtfully designed. Here are just a few example of the work but I would defiantly go on and check it out yourselves.