U&lc Influencing design & typography Tuesday 20 July 2010 03:28
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I bought this book for Miss White for christmas, yes I know it's a bit late putting the photos on my blog. The book is a collection of of designs and typography sections and covers from the U&lc magazine from the legendary Herb Lubalin. Thanks to Miss White for the photos.

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Bridget Riley: Flashback Monday 19 July 2010 04:30
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We popped along to see the 'Beatles to Bowie' exhibition this weekend, and stumbled into the 'Bridget Riley: Flashback' exhibition by accident. I was quite blown away by the actual physical effect her work has on you. It creates a kind of nauseous feeling, like it's pulling you in, you just can't quite focus your eyes on any one point.

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NY Times Style Magazine by Non-Format Friday 09 July 2010 08:27
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Here's some lovely graphic design works from Non-Format for NY Times Style Magazine. I love this typography.

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Theurel & Thomas by Anagrama Wednesday 30 June 2010 03:38
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Design agency Anagram rebranded and redesigned their store in San Pedro, Mexico MX, Latin America's most affluent suburb. White is a central part of the design and it plays as a contrast with the colors of the French macarons.

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Design for Film by The Church of London Friday 18 June 2010 05:02
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Here's a small collection of some lovely designs for film by The Church of London.You can view more in their archive.

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La Crème Monday 07 June 2010 06:19
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I've recently got back from Paris and am still enjoying everything french at the moment and was delighted to stumble across this delightful site for La Crème.

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Kerve Monday 07 June 2010 06:16
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I really like the typographic treatment of the navigation on Kerve. Kerve Kerve


UNKLE - Where did the night fall Monday 10 May 2010 04:42
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I've just received my special edition of UNKLE's 5th studio album 'Where did the night fall', I'm not entirely sure the artwork is to my taste, I kind of miss the Futura 2000 but the quality of the product is exceptional. I've included info and photos below taken from the Creative Review blog.

The package (art directed by James Lavelle, Ben Drury and Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones), includes a booklet of song lyrics and sleeve notes, a gatefold pack housing two CDs and a book of imagery on heavy card. All elements of the package, bar the lyric booklet, is printed on silver stock - giving the release, and the imagery that adorns it (created by Du Preez and Thornton Jones) a unique and lavish quality.

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The slipcase contains three items – the black lyric booklet, a silver gatefold wallet containing the packages two discs (the album plus a bonus instrumental version of the album), and a thick card book of imagery created by Du Preez and Thornton Jones

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This is the open gatefold CD wallet

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Inside the left hand side of the gatefold wallet is another sleeve which contains the album disc (above) and in the left hand side of the gatefold wallet you'll find the bonus disc containing the instrumental versions of each track on the album:

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Grip Ltd Wednesday 05 May 2010 03:56
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We've been discussing convention in interface design a lot recently here at Brown & White, and though I feel convention is a good thing for usability, it can certainly hinder creativity when all you want to do just be let loose on something different. You know where you are with a top & left nav, but as soon as that all changes you end up feeling like you're stuck in the middle of nowhere with a broken sat nav. Today I've been looking at the new website by Grip Limited.

At first glance, the site is very impactful with some lovely typography, images and illustrations but the shear amount of content gave me a bit of headache, so much content I didn't know what to look at first, not so much in terms of copy but images and videos everywhere. The navigation isn't apparent, but once I invested the time to play with it and actually read the site it really paid off and the unconventional layout, huge amount of content and navigation is an inspiration, it's not perfect by any means but it made me realise websites can be interactive and fun again! I know full well that convention will rule over creativity, because let's face it, a website is there to make you money... but it's great to see there are those out there that will just go for it.

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Salt Films Friday 30 April 2010 04:16
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What a lovely website I found on Site Inspire, from Salt Films,has a real 1950's throwback feeling, feels very Saul Bass inspired.

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Sonner, Vallée u. Partner Kalender Wednesday 28 April 2010 05:27
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This wonderfully typographic calendar is the work of Sonner, Vallée u. Partner in Munich, Germany. It is a true information architecture project, letterpress printed on thick cotton paper. Check out their online portfolio for some crisp and polished typographic excellence.

Beast Pieces printed on Crane Lettra Pearl White 220lb (600gsm) cotton stock in two colors - with deep impression text you can’t help but touch. The sheet is a large 420 x 297 mm.

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Booka Shade More! Monday 26 April 2010 04:36
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Booka Shade will release their fourth artist album More! next month, love the sleeve design.

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Weekly calendar by The Chase for Font Shop Wednesday 21 April 2010 07:30
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Original post by grafik. Letterform lovers - feast your eyes on this. This weekly calendar was designed by The Chase for Font Shop, Font Works and Atomic Type. Featuring contributions from Jeremy Tankard, Vince Frost, David Pearson, Jonathan Barnbrook and plenty of others - the calendar showcases the 53 contributers favorite typefaces for a given letter (along with a brief explanation).

The calendar is A2 in size and has one letter/contributer per week, we can't wait to get our hands on one.

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2010 Calendars - Mash Creative Wednesday 21 April 2010 07:06
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I've seen a few lovely calendars this year, thought I might as well share them with you.... here's the first one by Mash Creative - The posters are printed 2 colour litho on 170gsm cyclus offset with a 60% cyan shiner to achieve an extra rich black. Each poster is hand numbered and signed by the designer. Only 100 were printed and you can purchase one exclusively from Counter Objects.

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Autechre 'Oversteps' Deluxe Vinyl Edition Sleeve Wednesday 21 April 2010 07:01
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Love the Autechre 'Oversteps' record sleeve, the deluxe Vinyl Edition includes Double heavyweight 180gram vinyl, each disc packed in its own printed inner and outer card sleeves, 900mm x 600mm double-sided poster printed on Offenback ultra fine stock, folded within its own card sleeve, all housed in printed and debossed rigid slipcase* Autechre reach the tenth album milestone with 'Oversteps' released via Warp Records.

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Richard Brown | Freelance interaction designer, digital creative & front-end developer.



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