Penguin Classics

Coralie Bickford-Smith is a senior cover designer at Penguin Books,
where she has created several series designs. She studied typography
at Reading university and has recently been sharing her experience with
students at London College of Communication encouraging a sense
of play in the process of design. This is a spread of the Penguin Classics catalogue she designed.

Astrid Stavro

Spines of the Backlist classics collection, designed by Astrid Stavro, from Barcelona.

Diary 2010

The Athens based design agency "the design shop" has just released a diary for 2010 with the title "Journeys in Time". For every month, a different destination is suggested. From Turkey to New Zealand and from Brazil to Cape Verde. The diary is designed by "the design shop" in collaboration with Konstantinos Trichas. Design wise, the diary is purely typographic. The typeface used is called Neutraface in its Greek edition by Cannibal Fonts. If you want to order the diary you can send an email here.

myN.Y.

"The parade of the Poles on 5th Avenue. The school band on 6th. The Sunday bazaar in front of Grand Central. Countless patrol cars, police officers, ‘yellow’ cabs and American flags (I think I stopped counting from the first day). Employees, homeless people, tourists and ‘fabulous’ ladies in front of expensive shops. Reporters and panic in Wall Street and a huge flag trying to ‘hold’ and prevent the ‘collapse’ of an entire edifice. The clamour on Times Square and the silence on Top of the Rock. The beautiful Subway and street signs. The old water reservoirs at the rooftops in Brooklyn. Manhattan seen from Tzina’s apartment in Queens and the feeling of living on the 20th floor of a building. myN.Y. is a small book of impressions from New York. A reminder assembled out of photographs. Out of instinctively captured images of one’s ‘return’ to a city so alien and strange that in the end it seems familiar."
MyN.Y. by George Triantafyllakos and Cannot Not Design publications.

Nichts

Art catalogue designed in 2006 by Raffinerie for the exhibition "Nichts" (Nothing) that was presented in Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. An exhibition filled with "a diverse, shimmering nothing" curated by Martina Weinhart. Raffinerie is one of the best design studios in Zurich.

An Art Service

"An Art Service" is a graphic design and art direction company located in New York City, working in publications, branding and websites. This is a mailing they designed for the Ensemble Studio Theatre. Visit their website to see more inspiring design work.

Pi6 wins IF

Pi6 (π6) belongs to the new generation of design studios in Athens. The design studios that have managed to make things moving in Greece. They design all sorts of communication material, from branding to art books. This work, designed earlier this year to record the Athens Design Walk 2008, just won an IF Communication Design Award.

Fever Zine

Fever Zine is a lo-fi publication covering a mixture of music, art, fashion, e-culture, blogs, zines and trends. It is printed quarterly in A5 black and white and it is designed by Simon Whybray in London. You can buy it here.

Sometimes I think, Sometimes I am.

Sara Fanelli's work is very characteristic. This illustration is from her latest book "Sometimes I think, Sometimes I am" (Tate Publishing, 2007). It is a book of images inspired by quotations from world literature.

On rentre à l'heure où les oiseaux chantent

I just ordered this book! It is by a young photographer from France.
"Yves Drillet is a young upcoming photographer born in the nineties, studying at the Fine Art Institute of Rennes, France. Even if his photography follows Larry Clark, Ari Marcopoulos or Ed Tempelton footsteps, Yves Drillet gives us a fascinating documentary on his contemporaries. Beyond the portraits, the parties or some empty landspaces, the photography of this artist reveals above all the strong and sincere vision of a 19 year-old boy's modern world."
This is where I bought it from: Kaugummi Books. Check out their catalogue!

Ten Images go Silver!

I said that in this blog I'm going to share images I find on the net. Well, this one I didn't find on the net, I found it in our studio (the design shop). The catalogue we designed last year for the Ten Images for Ithaca exhibition, won this years Silver Award on it's category at the European Design Awards in Zurich. We also got to Bronze Awards (for this and this). We are very happy!

Schauspielhaus

Raffinerie is one of the best design studios I saw in Zurich. It was not in the ED Conference but it was in one of the design walks that were organized as parallel events. On the communication material they produced for Schauspielhaus, Gill Sans Ultra Bold is the protagonist.

Eternal Value & Mystery

This is a spread from a Xeroxed zine by Eric Ellis, an American designer/illustrator based in Chicago. For this 5-copies publication, Ellis used Walter Benjamin's text and Edward Burtynsky's images. You can see more here.