1: Designer FundBridge Poster Series - Moniker. “Moniker was approached by Designer Fund, an investment group committed to design-led companies, to create a set of posters for their Bridge Speaker Series. The series invites legends such as John Bielenberg, Wilson Miner and Julie Zhuo to speak on a range of topics from design leadership to future design trends. To contrast the digital nature of the talks, we utilized the tactility of paper and created abstract forms to convey key ideas from each lecture.”
I really like this series of paper cuttings. I really feel like having bright coloured shapes inside the magazine will bring the weird/wonderful theme together. i’d love to do something like this to introduce all the colours.
2: I saw this and thought I quite like the simple look of it. One really nice image, a sort of ‘different’ logo and less text on the front than you might usually get on magazines that aren’t really independent. I really like the white edge around the image, giving everything space.
3: This is pretty eye catching. You’ve got the really simple black and white then a striking crimson mark sprayed through it. It kind of makes you want to figure out why it’s there and what its about.
“Most of the ultra-low-cost industrial products that are produced in Asia under dubious conditions, have a very short lifespan due to their poor quality and highly affordable prices. All those overproduced objects have a lack of meaning for their owners and are often abandoned on the streets - with all the subsequent consequences - while still working properly. The question that this project explores is, could those discarded products be raw materials for our generation?
Air Color is a graphic tool created by harnessing different components from an orphaned fan and using water-based spray cans as a source of color. One of the small engines, the cable and the plug were selected to be installed into a wooden structure and a rectangular wooden grid was created to host the spray cans.
The outcome is a serie of experimental posters, each one of them varies depending on both content and shape. Before going through the painting method, they have been printed out with visual elements that reveals information about their production process: The amount of colors used, the number of times and also the direction in which the spray passed by the paper. This project seeks to explore the idea of generating new opportunities for those marginal objects that result from our hyper consumerist society.”
From his website which is also really really nice!
4: Really nice hand type, semi ruined by scribbles but I quite like that. i’m finding myself liking more black and white graphics recently
5: I really like the idea of branding something with lots of merch involved. Bags (totes, string bags, etc), business cards, post cards, posters, badges, pencils, notebooks, magazines and leaflets and all sorts of other promo material!
6: Working with just one colour could be something interesting to do. maybe restricting yourself to something like one colour or one theme may be fun!
7: Scrunched Sculpture #areyouyou. I’m not sure which material this is but I really like it. it looks like a rubber or cloth. To work with other materials than paper could be quite cool. could be cool for a front cover instead of your typical paper
8: Folch Studio - Nice book covers and full page images. It’s really nice when a colour and an image you wouldn’t think would go well together does, the blue with that gold image does look good.
9: The blue and cream I think goes well together, the different type styles and illustrations actually go together even thought they’re all very different. Looking at this really makes me want to work on my hand type.
10: I really enjoy this type of work, it’s very clean and although it’s not completely using a strict grid I appreciate it. The grainy images in black and white are nice too. I’d quite to do a piece of work purely in black and white as most of the things I do are very colourful
