Dylan Mulvaney

This book created by Brooklyn-based designer Dylan Mulvaney looks really interestings. He describes it as 'a bilingual, expandable book that honors Josef Müller-Brockmann and conveys the principles of Swiss Graphic Design as exemplified by the leader of the revolutionary Swiss Style'. I'd love to get my hands on a copy considering Müller-Brockmann is such an important figure in my dissertation research. I've always been more into Constructivism but now I'm learning to love the Swiss Style.

Triangles

Here is a really rough sketch of how I want the characters in my font to look. I based it on basic geometric shapes - squares, rectangles, circles and triangles. I don't think I've seen a font that uses triangles as counters before so that is what I tried to achieve. On some letters this was a bit hard considering I want the font to be somewhat legible but I think it has potential. I decided to call it Trinity because the triangular counters are an important feature of the typeface.

Bold Geometric Type

I've been wanting to design a typeface for a while now. Rather than modifying a well known font I decided to create one from scratch. Theres been an abundance of geometric typefaces in the design community recently and I think it is interesting to take type back to its simplest form. Here is some of what I've been looking at for inspiration:

Milton Glaser's Baby Teeth:

Chocolat Factory

Great packaging for Chocolat Factory's range of chocolate. Simple, colourful and labelled in the most obvious way. This just works so well. Designed by ruiz+company.

Caitlin Shearer

I love this girl's illustrations. I first came across them a couple of years ago when I was really getting into Patrick Wolf. She would post them on his message board and every single time I was stunned by the detail she put into them. The little hearts she used for elbows and kneses are a cute added touch! You can view Caitlin's blog here and here are some of my favourite illustrations of hers:

Paper Cutting

Claire posted this link on her twitter. I love how paper cutouts look, especially those of Rob Ryan and this is something else I plan to do before we go back (I think I've finally gotten over my fear of scalpels!). Elsita's website has a great guide on how to create your own cutouts by doing little 'islands' one at a time. Her work is stunning, so she obviously knows what shes on about.

Studio8

I like this poster by Studio8 Design. Each character is carefully placed so that they are revealed as the invite is folded out to its original A2 size. Nice colour too.

Mike White

Loving the work of recent graduate Mike White. I can see similarities to my own work in how we use type and colour. The purples on the invites are gorgeous.

I Like Blue

I Like Blue is Nic Shuttleworth's portfolio website. There is tons of brilliant work on her site. Something that stood out to me was the work she did for Year Of Food And Farming 2007 - 'A brand identity proposal for an educational campaign to help children find out more about the countryside and the origin of their foods'. Cute pastel colouring and well designed image and text combos make this stand out in a simple way.