What if: Sydenham
“If one shop, business, bench or sign is improved due to the work we are showing in here, then we will consider it a success.”
“If one shop, business, bench or sign is improved due to the work we are showing in here, then we will consider it a success.”
“But that same image, when multiplied a number of times, is often irresistible.”
— BOB GILL
Designer and AIGA Medalist Steven Heller commentates on Olympic pictograms through the ages in a short video from the New York Times. Watch it after the jump.
The photo above shows Otl Aicher’s famous Munich 1972 pictograms. If you know who the image belongs to, please let me know. It’s a great shot and deserves credit.
“Only too often, [spec work] results in a client eventually having to bring a more experienced designer onto a project in order to execute it.”
Last month I sent out a call to design students and graduates, asking what should be included in an ideal graphic design course.
Here’s the lowdown.
Here’s a brief look inside one of my latest graphic design reads: Studio Culture: The secret life of the graphic design studio.
I know that many of you have either been a design student, or are currently enrolled on a design course. Tell me, what would you change about your course?
Inspirational work courtesy of packaging design blog Lovely Package.

Photo from PRWeb
“The great benefit of this [everyone sitting together in a single room] is that you can hear what everybody’s saying. I’ve never written a memo in my life, because everybody knows exactly who I’m talking to and what I’m doing. Everybody here knows everybody’s business. If you have a deep sense of privacy I don’t think that you could work for me.”

Image courtesy of NYTimes.com
I’m often asked what graphic design books I recommend, so to save a little time in future I’ve launched a graphic design bookstore.