Paul Rand Tribute

A video in tribute to the Iconic designer Paul Rand

http://www.oneclub.org/downloads/podcasts/0058_PaulRandTribute.m4v

Everything he says in this video is so meaningful and relevant and I Love his quote "Don't try to be original just try to be good". So many people try to be the first or only person to create a design just so the can be original that they loose sight of what the purpose is!

Feltron Annual Report

This is the Annual report for Nicholas Feltron....This is not a big company but a person! It is the documentation of Feltron's Life in 2007.



Feltron is a Graphic Designer who has collected data from the last year and condensed it into an annual Report. It contains things like how many miles he travelled in the year, the percentage of actives making up an average day and many more unusual statistics!

This is a great and unusual concept which as a personal project has grown to a commercial success for Feltron as designers like myself can appreciate the graphical layout and transformation of brining the data to life. It is definitely worth checking out in print as the images on the web don't really do the whole thing justice!

Misprinted Type

www.misprintedtype.com

I stumbled across this website the other day and wanted to share it with everyone! I think this is a really nice example of mixed media. This guys uses retro images with hand rendered type and drawings. Some of his pieces have strong concepts behind them, others are more for fun. However the main reason for pointing this website out was how refreshing it was to see some graphic design that hasn't been churned out solely on a computer!

The Cheese Monkeys

I have just finished reading The Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd'. This novel is based on Kidd's real life experience of taking a Graphic Design class at university in the USA. It was a really good read and a must for and Graphic Design student.

It was easy to relate to on many levels...especially in the last chapter where Kidd and friends pulls several all nighters to try and finish his project on time, they are all so close but at the last minute someone cuts there finger with a craft knife causing blood to go everywhere, all over the work and causing a last minute rush to the hospital making them late for the last crit!

Kidd's determination for the class and underlying passion is admirable as the teacher is some what terrifying and destroys every ones work in crit, something that we can all relate to at some point or another!!!! Yet Kidd carries on as he begins to realize that Graphic Design is his calling, ironic seeing as though he only ended up in the class because there wasn't any space in the the classes he wanted to take!

Chip Kidd has also written a second book, about his first design job which I will definitely be checking out.