Small: Thoughts and Projects

I'm going gif mad, but here's a flick through some spreads from Small: Thoughts and Projects 

by Carl Turner Architects, published by Artifice Books (available to buy here)

I interned as a graphic designer for the studio last summer, and one of my jobs was to aid in the design of a practice monograph that would later develop into the final book; organising images, photographs and text, designing initial spreads and ordering the projects so the designers at Artifice could get an idea of what Carl had envisioned for the book. 

A wonderful experience, and a lovely book!

Stephen Willats: Concerning Our Present Way of Living Publication

Here's a gif of some select spreads from the booklet I designed a few months ago for the Stephen Willats exhibition 

at the Whitechapel Gallery, Stephen Willats: Concerning Our Present Way of Living (for more information, click here)

Some Summer Work

slowly but surely... getting a bit nervous now.

Penguin Great Ideas

i've got my eye on a few from the collection.

plus the covers are shit hot

I AM A FREE WOMAN

of sorts. for a bit at least. I can just lie in bed!

and watch my so called life! and not feel guilty!

can you sense the excitement?

These are pictures of my FMP outcome 1; a book split into 2 that deal with space (abstraction, confusion) and place (specific areas on the page- columns, margins) respectively.

i . am . svpply . obsessed.

this past week or so, which is

REALLY not the best time for it.

my god it's fantastic though.

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/la/roundup/best-of-design-philosophies-135564?image_id=2087534

Visual Editions

For the 2 outcomes for my fmp was thinking of doing one written piece to collate together all this theory i've been reading, and a physical piece to visualise what i have researched. To go with the themes of space, perception and non-place the written piece needs to be sympathetically designed with the contents.

For this i've been looking at the most immediate designers/ publishers who have used pushed book design away from the expected formats we have grown accustom to. print CLEARLY isn't dead, but it has to do something out of the ordinary to catch your attention.

These are from a range of Visual Editions' books (tristram shandy and tree of codes; extremely loud and incredibly close was also on their website as a lovely example of visual writing). V.E and I.B, i heart you.

http://visual-editions.com/

Irma Boom

Books designed away from the expected. Irma Boom makes tiny models of all her books which provided the inspiration for this one. A 704 page tiny book of tiny books with red printed edges and 450 full colour illustrations. Loverleh.

http://www.typotheque.com/books/irma_boom_biography_in_books

http://designmuseum.org/design/irma-boom

it wasn't supposed to go like this

I haven't really been using this this much seeing as how all my fmp research is so very serious ('the history of theories of space in physics' anyone?). i'm not very sure how i ended up doing this really. it's not very me and what i had in mind a month ago isn't this at all. it's all going a bit generic and a bit masculine...

on another note, this made my stomach churn with envy when i saw it on the selby.

damn you karl

The Geometry of Pasta

I remember seeing this over the summer but foolishly didn't bookmark it or anything so was pleased as punch when i found it again on the imprint website. WHAT A BEAUT, i wish i could do something as good as that and I'd bloody love to work for them. It's almost a crash course in layout in itself, plus the jacket folds out to form a pasta poster. What's not to love? I can't wait to get my greedy mitts on it...

On another note, i can't wait to start doing some actual work again and posting that stuff. I'm a bit sick of just posting bits i've found. Roll on next week, even if it looks to be full of 7am starts...

Edward Lear

I found the most incredible book yesterday at the Southbank book market (Edward Lear's Nonsense Omnibus) full of gems and gorgeous little drawings but put it back because i thought it's £7.50 price tag was too hefty for my pockets. Really regretting not getting it now. As i knew i would...

http://www.belz.net/teaching/edward_lear.html

Ivor Brown

I gots an Ivor Brown book, 'I Give You My Word' for £1 today in Leicester Square. Boom. It's beautiful and full of words like ambuscade, cargozoon, inveigle and potwalloper.

A lovely end to a lovely day wandering around the Tate on the last day of the 'Rude Britannia' exhibition. Altogether an ok show; i was particularly fond of an H.M Bateman print on show (The Lost Stamp) and the satirical drawings of the fashions of the day by Philip Dawe et al. By far the best thing was Mike Nelson's Coral Reef exhibition, a beautiful labyrinth of corridors and rooms with unmarked doors reminded me a bit of being in a ship and left me in a curious discovering mood...

Faber & Faber

I've got my eye on a delightful hardback set of 6 poetry classics Faber & Faber have released for their 80th birthday, including Sylvia Plath and John Betjeman, each with a cover and end-paper created by a different printmaker; Paul Catherall, Peter Lawrence, Joe McLaren, Clare Curtis, Heaney Nick Morley and Mark Hearld.

They're all absoloutly gorgeous and i love that F&F are promoting works by these amazing artists. Nicely enough, i've found an article covering this on the creative review website with individual close ups of some of the books and their end-papers to whet your appetites.

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2009/april/fabers-80th-anniversary-poetry-covers

picture courtesy of design sponge
http://www.designspongeonline.com/2009/06/faber-poetry-covers.html

The Art of Looking Sideways

I got this lovely gem of a book for christmas and am still only a pitiful 35 pages into it.