Ha, bless him.
Great Big Stories interviewed designer Vincent Connare as part of a Frontiers series. It’s a must watch, as aside from the hilarity of Comic Sans, I really love the animation and art direction in this video!
Ha, bless him.
Great Big Stories interviewed designer Vincent Connare as part of a Frontiers series. It’s a must watch, as aside from the hilarity of Comic Sans, I really love the animation and art direction in this video!
Graphic designer Michał Kulesza has a range of different work in his portfolio, but the Lego projects he has created certainly stand out. In 2015 Kulesza created a ‘Lego photo project’ by capturing every day objects featuring parts made with Lego, in part 1 ‘Daily Lego Project’. The project started in 2015 and lasted 135 days, capturing a new scenario every day.
I created different grotesque or even absurd daily situations. I took photos in minimal composition and every time I showed new ideas. In my work I just wanted to make people smile.
You can view all the images here, but here are a few of my favourites:
Part 2 of the project, named ‘Legoman Daily’ features a narrative where Kulesza falls into a box of Lego whilst photographing Part 1 of the project, and subsequently turns into a Legoman himself!
The surprising effect of this crash was that my hands and head were transformed into parts of lego man figure. In this way I created an everyday photo journal after weird accident. How I have to struggle with life challenges and how looks my sad reality. Project was realised as previous, everyday I took just one photo for 106 days.
Design agency Snask were commissioned by Norweigen eyewear company Kaibosh to create a brand identity for both their general campaign and for in-store design. Encompassing the requirements from Kaibosh, Snask created an identity using a custom typeface (Sentrum) and bold icons for a colourful, fashionable and expressive rebrand.
I love this! “Eyes before guys” ha!
The brand and tonality was translated into visual form and matched with a custom-made display typeface, named Sentrum, made to suit the in-store signage. We added two eyelashes as a symbol to distinguish the identity and to use as graphic elements for many different scenarios. We created the entire flagship store with shelving systems, signage, colours, murals, etc. The project ranged from a typeface and still life photos to campaigns, fashion photography, notebooks and towels.
Look at those renders. Motion Graphics studio Mainframe took an idea for a downtime project by using recognised objects and movements, and turned them on their head. For Approval is a combination of seamless motion graphics elevated by the work of sound designer Max Greening. Chris Hardcastle (Mainframe, Manchester) says that the concept was “simply to subvert the physical properties of objects and materials and have some fun with a viewer’s expectations of how those things should behave”.
I could literally watch this on loop all day. Also, love the art direction.
HELLO! Yes please.
New documentary series ‘Abstract: The Art of Design’ will feature designers Paula Scher (Pentagram), Bjarke Ingels (Danish architect), illustrator and graphic designer Christoph Niemann, stage designer Es Devlin and the shoe designer behind Nike’s self-lacing trainers, Tinker Hatfield.
Looks interesting. Anything with Paula Scher.
Unless you’ve been living under a boring, creative-less rock, you’ll know that Mozilla have finally revealed their finished logo:
Our logo with its nod to URL language reinforces that the Internet is at the heart of Mozilla. We are committed to the original intent of the link as the beginning of an unfiltered, unmediated experience into the rich content of the Internet.
You can read the full arrival statement here, but here’s a quick look at the accompanying visual identity to the logo:
Cool. Very hip, very retro, very on trend. BUT WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!?!?!….
Mozilla settled on the logo (thank god) incorporating the “://” url signifier, after several rounds of research, showing it as the most popular. It was closely followed by the dinosaur head logo above. What. the. hell. This was in the shortlist for the top 4 logo ideas. No, really. The other shortlist designs are pretty offensive too!
The design is an adaptation of a previous identity (The Eye, above) which saw a reptile eye shape created out of the “O” in Mozilla. Even that is better than whatever monstrosity the dinosaur head is supposed to be. Poor design hurts my brain. Let us pray.
Design and branding agency The Partners worked with LSO to create the new visual identity ‘Always Moving’, based on the agency’s original identity for the orchestra, which features a logo representing a conductor.
Digital artist Tobias Gremmler created a series of animated films based on live motion-capture footage of conductor Sir Simon Rattle (he will be the music director in September). Also Vicon Systems and The University of Portsmouth’s School of Creative Technologies worked alongside The Partners to capture the performance at 120 frames per second.
We then worked with the digital artist, Tobias Gremmler, to transform the data into a series of animated films, bringing to life the sheer power of music at its full force, in a vortex of wood, brass, smoke and strings, with the sweeping gestures of Sir Simon Rattle rendered in wires reminiscent of the strings of the instruments themselves.
The bespoke typography takes two distinct forms – one of grand, sweeping gestures used through extended rich, long-phrased passages; and one of fast, dynamic and dramatic gesture – to express the nuances of the character and feelings of emotive motion that only music can create.
I’m not a huge fan of the LSO logo, as upon first glance it looks like “SO” or “150”… but I absolutely love the rebrand. What stunning visuals!