Posts Tagged ‘Graphic Design’
September 21st, 2009
by Julian Gratton
Abram Games was one of the most influential Graphic Designers that this country has ever seen. He created some of the most memorable designs of the 20th Century by following his own personal belief of: Maximum Meaning, Minimum Means… and back in the early 90s, maybe ’92 or ’93, I had the pleasure of attending a talk by this true great of design at Icograda (the International Council of Graphic Design Associations) Conference.
To be honest, when I attended Icograda that year, I had absolutely no idea who Abram Games was. In fact as far as I was concerned he was just a warm-up to the main attraction… Neville Brody. Yet as I entered the Odeon Cinema where Icograda was being held that year and was greeted by his work… it soon became clear that even though I did not know the name Abram Games… I certainly knew his work.
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Tags: Abram Games, Advertising, Advertising Agency, Advertising Design, Advertising Design Agency, Award-Winning Design, Communication Design, Creative Concepts, Design Agency Manchester, Direct Marketing Agency, Direct Marketing Design, Graphic Design, Icograda, Interactive Agency, Internet Advertising Agency, Neville Brody, Poster Advertising, Poster Design
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September 21st, 2009
by Nick Cliffe
Travelling with kids can be a fantastic experience as you get to see things from their entirely fresh perspective. I’d always wondered why there were no kid’s travel guides around and thought i’d cleverly identified a gap in the market. Until I discovered the wonderful ‘This is..’ series of books by Miroslav Sasek and realized that someone had come up with the idea in the 1960s!
With dreams of a publishing empire in tatters I gave this charming book to my 6 year old daughter just before our trip to San Francisco this year. With every page turn the full excitement of the upcoming adventure began to delight and intrigue her. The book even beat Harry Potter as the chosen bedtime reading material in the weeks prior to the holiday. No mean feat for a book that’s almost 50 years old. Read more…
Tags: Advertising Agency, book design, Communication Design, Design, Design Agency Manchester, Direct Marketing Agency, Direct Response Advertising, Full Service Advertising Agency, Graphic Design, Illustration, Miroslav Sasek, Multimedia Agency, Retro, Retro Design, San Francisco, Travel, travel guide, Worldwide Marketing & Design
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September 21st, 2009
by Wayne Pretl
Inspired by the pioneering design work of Paul Rand, Herb Lubalin, Wally Olins, Saul Bass, Milton Glaser and Neville Brody I became a graphic designer and worked primarily in branding for the first 10 years of my career. This was back in the day when the ‘designers are gods’ mentality still held true and being a bit ‘precious’ was the norm… which suited me fine, thank you very much.
Doodling away in a sketch pad (usually in the pub) and hunched over a drawing board armed with paper, fine point pen and a steady hand didn’t really feel like work to me (the apple macs were still not commonplace in design studios at this point). The process fascinated me and still does to this day.
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Tags: Advertising Agency Manchester, Branding, Creativity, Design, Design Agency, Direct Marketing Agency, Graphic Design, Herb Lubalin, Lingua Grafica, Logo Design, Marketing, Marketing Agency, Milton Glaser, Neville Brody, Paul Rand, Saul Bass, Wally Olins
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September 14th, 2009
by Stuart Clark
I have a guilty secret. I am now, and have been for the last 5 years, a fully paid up member of the Pet Shop Boys fan club. I am, as my 2006 fanclub t-shirt states, a Pethead. And this book is one of my most treasured possessions.
Catalogue is exactly that: a definitive, visual retrospective cataloguing everything my favourite band have ever done. Literally EVERYTHING…
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Tags: Architecture Design, Art, Artwork & Print Production, Award-Winning Marketing and Design, Bruce Weber, Derek Jarman, Digital Design Agency, Direct Marketing Agency, Eric Watson, Es Devlin, format, Graphic Design, Interactive Design Agency, Mark Farrow, Pennie Smith, Pet Shop Boys, Photography, pop music, Sam Taylor-Wood, Typography, Wolfgang Tillmans, Zaha Hadid
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September 8th, 2009
by Julian Gratton
QR Codes. Great little invention… bloody boring to look at though. Well not any more thanks to the Tokyo based agency SET who have found a way to make these two dimensional barcodes visually more interesting.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with QR Codes. A QR Code (The QR standing for Quick Response) is a Japanese invention that was initially used for tracking vehicle parts in vehicle manufacturing. They are common in japan and with the rise in popularity in smart phones on these shores… we’re beginning to see a lot of them in adverts and magazines.
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Tags: Adidas, Art, Design, Designer QR Codes, Digital Media, Direct Response Advertising, Graphic Design, Interactive Agency, Interactive Design, Internet Marketing, Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs, Marketing Innovations, Mobile Phone Advertising, Mobile Phone Marketing, QR Codes
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September 5th, 2009
by Jennie Ambrose
If someone said to me that I can use my phone to help me with my typography… I’d have assumed they were referring to the ability to call up a friend who was a typographer or who has a great deal of experience in crafting type.
What they’d really mean is that I could download the Typography App for the IPhone, which has has several useful features and resources for designers, including a visual type anatomy glossary, a font size ruler, an em calculator, and enough content to fill a 60-page book.
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Tags: Crafting Type, Design, Design Tool, Graphic Design, iPhone, Typography, Typography App
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Liz Birchenough
September 1st, 2009
by Liz Birchenough
Behind the coffee addiction is a girl who came from a school of graphic design whose’ ethos was all based around creative thinking and the idea. The book I have chosen for this week’s book in reception was a staple must have from the courses reading list. I graduated in 2004 and it is still a firm favourite of mine today.
I’ve chosen ‘A Smile in the Mind’ as it’s about something I feel is very important within design and that is the use of wit and ideas when coming up with solutions. It is also a good read that gives many examples without going into too much detail which makes it a very good book that you can just pick up, have a look through, put down and come back to. It’s accessible to people who don’t work in the creative industries, is a great starting point for anyone wanting to find out more and is a great source of inspiration for those already working within the industry.
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Tags: A Smile in the Mind, Creative Thinking, Creativity, Design, Edward de Bono, Graphic Design, Intelligent Design
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August 28th, 2009
by Joseph Reaney
As everyone here at Red C knows, I like travelling. Almost as much as I like writing, in fact. So when the opportunity to write a holiday brochure came into the agency I grabbed it like a spoilt brat. And I was particularly chuffed when I was told that the client, Welcome Cottages, wanted to do something very different with their 2010 brochure.
The brief contained lots of words that copywriters like me love to hear. I was told to make it “warm, honest and fun – and maybe a bit quirky.” Now, quirky isn’t a word that pops up too often when you’re taking a creative brief, but it’s a rare visitor I greet with open arms. Quirky is right up my street. Read more…
Tags: Art Direction, Brochure Design, Copywriting, Design, Graphic Design, Holiday Cottages, Quirky Copy, Travel Writing, Welcome Cottages
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Gunilla Breutmann
August 27th, 2009
by Gunilla Breutmann
The winning logo design
Loud music, bad attitudes, safety pins and spiky hair. Does that ring a bell? Yes, I thought punk was a thing long left in the seventies too, until the Creative Department was approached by our Senior Art Director’s brother-in-law who is in a punk band called Hated Til Proven. They needed a kick-ass new logo to go on their posters and t-shirts for the next big gig… and since we’re always up for a creative challenge we duly obliged.
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Tags: Band Posters, Branding, Graphic Design, Hated Till Proven, Logo Design, MySpace, Punk, Punk Logo, T-Shirt Design
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Daniel Lambert-Maddocks
August 24th, 2009
by Daniel Lambert-Maddocks
‘It’s not what you know, it’s who you know’.
This was almost certainly the case for me when trying to find a placement for my year out from university. It had proved much more difficult than I anticipated, possibly due to companies being under pressure during the recession.
After numerous phone calls and e-mails I was still struggling to secure even a two-week placement, until a friend (Lee Fairhurst) mentioned that a marketing company he works for were looking for placement students. A phone call, and an interview later, I had got myself a month’s work placement at Red C.
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Tags: Copy, Creative Department, Creative Execution, Creative Team, Design, Design Portfolio, Direct Mail, Graphic Design, Photography Portfolio, Student Placement, Television Ads, Web Banners, Work Placement
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