Looks like It’s Nice That Issue 2 has been printed and is for pre-order. 128 pages with four main features, seven interviews and 50 pages of select work. Looks very well done and nice to see time and effort into a publication.
Name: Tim Lahan
Company: Trademark™
Website: Trademark-Trademark
About: I’m trained as a graphic designer but grew up illustrating and later drawing on bathroom walls. I run my own one-man studio in New York under the guise Trademark™, where I take on all kinds of work from branding, apparel, web stuff when I have to, and also use it as an umbrella for personal work.
Color: Pea green
Music: Descendents
Book: Factotum – Charles Bukowski
Designer: No one in particular
Animal: Goat
Favorite Website: Married to the Sea
Place: Pennsylvania
Shape: Triangle
Artist: Ed Ruscha
Typeface: Akzidenz Grotesk
Movie: Ghostbusters
Work: sucks
Word: Lexicon
Season: Fall
Magazine: Swank
Favorite Place: The woods
Guilty Pleasure: Cigarettes, cannolis, hamburgers
Distraction: Silly putty
Love: Everything
Hate: Everything
What are you working on right now? A pretty good balance of personal projects and branding stuff for some startups.
What career would you switch to if you had to stop your current profession? Full-time mountain man. Overgrown beard, straw hat, cabin in the woods, the creepy old dude that’s almost folklore to little kids in the town below. When I’d go out for good I’d leave behind all these wild phallic wood carvings and fancy corn cob pipes. I haven’t thought about it too much, really.
Roanne Adams runs a multi-disciplinary design studio in NYC offering artful freshness, visual consistency and eco-friendly solutions.
Saiman Chow updates with some awesome new work.
Amazing work from Joachim Baan. Always worth a visit and bookmark.
I think I might have seen the work of Richard Perez first on ffffound and then traced it back to his site, but then immediately I started seeing him in a few other spots and was really impressed. He can do the fun 50′s illustration that we all love these days but he can also rock some modern type and then bring it back full circle with lovely ID work. I believe he may still be searching for work in the SF Bay Area so act now ’cause supplies like Richard are rare indeed!
New Industry Arts is the recently updated brain child of James Widegren– Reporting on Visual Culture; photography, fashion, industry & creative/art this website is constantly updated with good scccchtuff.
I have been getting into graphic design from Iran again and there is a name that I always love seeeing, Ghobad Shiva. His work is varies from illustration to modernist with a strong sense of typography.
He has a site that shows all of his works, here. Ghobad also has a new book out on his works that shows almost his complete body of work. For sure worth a visit and a bookmark.
Wonderful conversation with Adrian Shaughnessy & Michael C. Place available for download & view that tells a bit of the story behind Build and tDR among other things such as process and the hustle involved. Via the Build blog of course :-)
I love seeing what people’s houses look like and how people live. It shows their personality in many different ways. The Selby is a collection of peoples interiors. Worth a visit. If I had time I could spend an hour on this site… easy!
I have said it before and will say it again, Google cannot ‘visually’ design a damn thing. Android is ugly as all hell. The Gmail skins make me want to vomit. The Google front page is still circa 1996, hell even the browser favicon symbol is dog butt ugly. Don’t even get me started on that damn logo. I am not stating anything here that any Graphic Designer doesn’t already know, so I will save the rant.
But today, a friend sent me a nice article today that gives good insight into how the code trolls run the design show at Google (which I very well suspected). Douglas Bowman (a former Wired designer) writes all about his struggle as Google’s former Visual Design Leader.
It will never cease to amaze me how Google, will all this dreamland-dot-com style money still cannot get together design wise. They might be onto something here, but I am not buying it…
This has made its rounds, but it is better late then never? Massimo Vignelli (NY Subway Map pictured above) wrote a short book about what design is. To quote the New Pepsi Logo PDF, it is basically about Graphic Design’s DNA.
Part One covers the Intangibles, such as Semantics, Discipline, Responsibility, etc. Part Two covers the space that design functions in. He takes a different approach than I would, but that is what gives it perspective to me. It is very straight forward and concise, making it an easy read. I only read a little of it, but can’t wait to get the time to review this. If you are a student, you can probably count this as a whole semester’s worth of education for free. It really doesn’t get much better than this.
