Here Design’s new identity for the Electric Coffee Company came from the founder’s desire to light up the world of coffee. The team took inspiration from old electrical circuit designs – with their electrons, conductors and resistors – the result is a singular idea that drips down from the logotype into every application effortlessly. Joined up thinking.
This special issue of the New York Times magazine is all about life in high places. The magazine rotates to accommodate dramatic photographs of skyscrapers and the life that revolves around them.
Art Direction by Matt Willey
Photography by Jack Davison
A stunningly simple new identity for web developers, Designers’ Friend by Paul Belford. Built around the line ‘we write code’, the identity is a lovely observation that the ‘D’ and ‘F’ keys are conveniently located next to each other on a coders main tool — the keyboard.
Made In Italy—Bodoni In Print is an exhibition, designed by SEA, that takes you through a journey of typography. The exhibition is a chance to experience first-hand early unseen archive material and Bodoni’s contemporary influence across graphic design with works by Massimo Vignelli, Paul Rand, Karl Gerstner, Peter Saville, Fabien Baron, Heinz Waibl and Bruno Monguzzi.
A lesson in how craft can turn what could have easily been a clichéd application of a well known landmark into a wonderful piece of design. The hero of the new identity by Graphéine for the Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau is a striking, minimalist typogram that in application, is used as ‘window on Paris’ to hold lovely Parisian illustrations by Séverin Millet. Magnifique!
Pentagram has designed a lovely typographic poster, inspired by the interconnectivity of the London Underground. Transport for London has commissioned a series of posters by 11 prominent design studios to celebrate the centenary of the Johnston typeface, used throughout the London Underground network.
I work in an art department with some brilliant designers. These feature openers are designed by Jason Sfetko (1-3), Frank Augugliaro (4-6), Ben Grandgenett (7-9) and Chloe Scheffe (10-12)
Design Director: Gail Bichler / Art Director: Matt Willey / Deputy Art Director: Jason Sfetko
Shakespeare Lives is an international programme of events to celebrate Shakespeare’s life and work, on the 400th anniversary of his death. The ‘Shakespeare Lives’, logo is activated with the word ’in’ to create a flexible system to communicate the myriad of places where Shakespeare still ‘lives’ today. Typography is anchored to the name in a series of blocks that are a homage to the historical print process of hot metal typesetting that typified the posters and programmes of Shakespearian times.
