It’s taken a whole week for me to get this online because I’m clueless but’s done! very happy, seems to work on all browsers, please tell me if you spot any errors
The Green School
A school made entirely of bamboo located in the jungles of Bali.
“The gong announces the beginning of class, where students learn in bamboo pavilions without walls. A hen and two chicks scuttle across the earth floor of the ampitheatre. The staff has just cleared the remaining banana-leaf plates used to serve the organic lunch. ”
Beautiful architecture and ethos for a school.
(Source: domusweb.it)
I really like the name The Show Below for the final show, I like it that much I’ve been playing around with logo ideas. I think its really versatile, ideas were just flowing while I was doing this. I think i’ve seen something recently that said above & below in this style but I can’t think where I’ve seen it. Would look nice in a Saul Bass style type. Or on a Wes Anderson style poster. I can’t wait to see everyones work at the final show.
Storyboards at the ready, not sure if they need annotating or not yet so will wait and see before they’re sent to print.
Count on Me
Contando de 1 a 12, combinando tipografia e outros elementos gráficos. [pt-br]
Counting from 1 to 12, combining typography and other graphics. [en]Design: Gentleman Scholar
I’ve been meaning to upload this for quite a while now, this was the motion piece I submitted to the Alan Turing Exhibition. It is based upon Alan Turings’ Bombe machine which was used to crack messages during World War II and is said to have shortened the War by two years. This makes it Turing’s most important invention which saved millions of lives. I worked in collaboration with Ollie Duncombe who designed a poster for the exhibition based on the Bombe Machine. The motion piece spells out A.M Turing, I thought this would be a nice piece to submit for someone to “recode” which was the purpose of the exhibition. I kept it simple, the colours are all strictly the ones used on the machine.
I’m happy with the timing on this one, also added some extra animation to the kettle, ipod and house to emphasise energy being used. Hopefully this will impress ASC!
this is my video for asc renewables educating people about wind turbines, any feedback would be great!
The challenge: With growing economic concerns and shrinking marketing budgets, we needed to tell clients and prospective clients that in spite - indeed because of the recession, we are more relevant to them now than ever.
What we needed was a simple, cheap and effective way to do this.
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On thursday evening I went to the Erik Kessels talk at the Manchester Conference Centre. I found him very down to earth and easy going but quirky and one of those designers who’s able to do whatever the hell he wants and leaves me wondering how he managed it.
He’s the co-founder of agency KesselsKramer in Amsterdam but admits he wouldn’t have had the courage to set up the company if he hadn’t moved to London in 1993 to work for Chiat/Day, he was fired after two years for giving a presentation to a client in a chicken suit. Those crazy Dutch.
Work from KesselKramer which most of the attendees of Amsterdam 2011 can relate to is their campaign for the Hanz Brinker hotel which the branded as “The Worst Hotel In The World” and surprisingly it worked out really well for the hotel and increased their bookings year by year.
Erik is also a passionate collector of anonymous photographs and spends his free time searching through flea markets around europe. One of the most interesting collections he found was of a Dutch woman who went to a fairground shooting gallery every year and every time she hit the target it triggered the shutter of a camera which photographed her creating a chronological photo album beginning in 1936!
I’m pretty sure he said she is now 93, and still shooting. These photograph collections can be found in their “In Almost Every Picture” photography magazines by KesselsKramer publishing.
Another funny collection he has is In Almost Every Picture 9 which is of a families collection of photographs of their black dog and how every single photograph they have of it turns out like this…
Until the final picture where they manage to turn up the exposure and finally see the dog
The collections wouldn’t be appreciated as much if you didn’t know the story behind them and both are lovely, if not humorous narratives and even heartwarming.
I wanted to go to the talk to find out the explanation behind kesselskramer.com because their website changes to a more hideous website every time you click on it. Their reasoning is that every agency website is the same and they find it boring so they created 200 different websites which are are really awful but relate to a piece of work they have produced. Amazing.
This is a promotional video for an online bookseller called Good Books who give all their profits onto Oxfam. Agency ‘String Theory” teamed up with director “Buck” to create a digital campaign called Good Books Great Writers. The gonzo style of the video pays homage to the brilliant Hunter S Thompson with spectacular imagery and creative script. The animation beautifully blends the use of ink illustrations and exotic colours. The fictional Thompson like character also speaks of Franz Kafka’s masterpiece ‘Metamorphosis’ which is another tribute to an amazing writer. I like that the video is advertising great writers more than the good cause of the website, it steers people to the website because of its stunning visuals and String Theory have really done the company justice.
As Good Books has no money to spend on marketing, the video must be spread virally for it to get seen, so reblog reblog!!
Chetham Library - Manchester
Founded in 1653 Chetham Library is oldest surviving public library in Britain, making it a hidden treasure in the centre of Manchester. The entrance door oozes antiquity with its ornamental doorbell and bold hand painted lettering. The first sight once ascending the stairs to the library is of the huge letterpress draws which is an inspiration to any typography enthusiast. Walking down the alphabetised corridor feels like you have been swept back to the 17th century with hundreds of ageing hard bound books with their titles slowly fading over time. Running along side the gated books are cabinets full of interesting snippets of manchester’s history such as the vegetarian movement which was surprisingly born in Salford. The library is absolutely stunning and has inspired me to try and do it justice with this description. It sits on the doorstep of Victoria Station with thousands of people passing it by every day without ever knowing it exists.
I will take better pictures of this tomorrow, this was actually pretty hard to make so I don’t think it would be appropriate for the school information pack. I’m going to improvise tomorrow and make another which will be more simple to construct.
