New at Pentagram
New Work: Alexander McQueen
William Russell has designed the new Alexander McQueen store in Los Angeles. The flagship shop is located on Melrose Avenue on the corner of Melrose Place and is the latest in a recent expansion by McQueen, which has seen Russell designed stores opening in Las Vegas, Moscow, Bahrain, Osaka and Vilnius.
The stores employ the interior design language created by Russell and McQueen for the original three flagship stores in London, Milan and New York, creating a branded spatial experience full of drama and intrigue.
Decipher: Fourteen Cryptograms
Each year Pentagram issues a small holiday book as a greeting to its friends and colleagues. The partners take turns researching and designing these books, which usually contain some kind of game or activity. The most recent edition is Decipher, designed by Harry Pearce, who chose as its subject cryptography, the science of writing, or encrypting—and breaking, or decrypting—secret code.
The book features 14 cryptograms of varying methodologies and difficulty that conceal short phrases; through symbols, numbers, patterns and simple letterspacing, the cyptograms challenge the reader to decipher their meaning. “It’s astonishing how much you can hide in type,” says Pearce.
Now we have adapted the book’s content online and are pleased to present the 14 cryptograms in a minisite here. Can you break the code?
New Work: Grant Thornton
Angus Hyland and his team have designed the new identity system for Grant Thornton international, a major global organisation of accounting and consulting firms with member and correspondent firms in over 100 countries worldwide.
The identity creates a unified international brand for the organisation’s network of independently owned and managed firms. Hyland has created a completely new logo, along with comprehensive print and website systems based around a bold illustration-led graphic approach.
United Seating Wins ‘Condé Nast Traveller’ Innovation and Design Award
United’s First (top) and Business class (bottom) airline seats recline into completely flat, 180° beds
and are now in service on international flights. Click on the images for enlargements.
United’s new First and Business class cabin environments, developed by Pentagram partner Daniel Weil and B/E Aerospace, have won first prize in the aviation category of the Condé Nast Traveller Innovation and Design Awards 2008.
The United seating was shortlisted for the award by a panel of travel experts and commentators, before being put to the public vote alongside the other finalists. Readers of Condé Nast Traveller voted online for the winners, who also included David Chipperfield in the Culture category for his Museum of Modern Literature in Germany; Ross Lovegrove in the Sustainable category for his Solar Tree street lighting system and Heston Blumenthal in the Gourmet category.
Daniel Weil said of the award: “This is a great opportunity to celebrate the success of the collaboration between United, B/E Aerospace and ourselves. I see this award as the product of a unique combination of talent, expertise and commitment that every member of the team has contributed to.”
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‘Creative Review’ Names Pentagram Design Studio of the Year
Pentagram has been named Design Studio of the Year by Creative Review. The award is announced in the Creative Review Annual 2008, which represents the magazine’s choice of the highlights of the past year in visual communication. The Design Studio of the Year Award is given to the studio with the most work accepted into the annual.
Five Pentagram projects were selected by the judging panel for inclusion in the annual; images and links after the jump.
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An Evening with Jonathan Hoefler
Pentagram’s London office was delighted to welcome members of the Typographic Circle on the evening of Tuesday, 8 April for a lecture by the typographer Jonathan Hoefler, a long-standing collaborator and friend of Pentagram.
As half of Hoefler & Frere-Jones, Jonathan has established a reputation as one of the world’s preeminent type designers. His talk, which coincides with a trip to London to act as a judge for the D&AD awards alongside Domenic Lippa and Harry Pearce amongst others, was used to introduce Typographic Circle members to his approach to typography.
Domenic Lippa, a former chairman of the Typographic Circle and an organiser of the talk, said of the evening: “It was great to be able to host an evening for the Typographic Circle, who I still help out with, but to be able to do it with such a good friend of Pentagram as Jonathan made it all the more enjoyable. It was a lovely evening.”
Hoefler & Frere-Jones have collaborated with Pentagram on several projects, including the design of typefaces for the New York Jets and Lever House.
The Typographic Circle is a not-for-profit organisation run entirely by volunteers which formed in 1976 to bring together anyone with an active interest in type and typography. Alongside a regular newsletter and a calendar of lectures and social events, all members receive free copies of the award-winning Circular Magazine, designed by Domenic Lippa. Full membership information can be found on their website.
Introducing the Black Book
Pentagram is pleased to announce the publication of the Black Book, a new 800-page overview of our recent work. The book is a compilation of over 400 projects from the last several years, arranged in alphabetical order, like a dictionary, and printed on Bible paper, like a Bible, complete with tabbed sections and ribbons for bookmarking. It covers pretty much everything we do, from architecture to graphics, buildings to websites, branding to signage, interiors, packaging, exhibitions, interfaces, furniture, products, brochures, magazines, and houses, all in simple picture-and-caption form.
CONTEST UPDATE: The Black Book giveaway contest is now closed. The 50 lucky winners will be contacted by email to confirm their information. We’ve had an overwhelming response—thanks to everyone for entering and for continuing to follow our work!
A look inside the Black Book after the jump.
Harry Pearce at Meeting of Minds
Harry Pearce has been invited to take part in this year’s Meeting of Minds, joining Michael Wolff, Martin Lambie-Nairn and Pentagram co-founder Kenneth Grange for an evening of discussion that will ask: “How can design not only meet a client’s commercial objectives, but also enhance our lives and the culture around us?”
Meeting of Minds is devised and hosted by Jan Casey and will take place in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre at the British Museum in London on 23 April. Further information and tickets are available by email.
New Work: Laurence King
Angus Hyland has designed the spring 2008 catalogue for Laurence King Publishing. The catalogue demonstrates Hyland’s ongoing work as the company’s consultant creative director and features two forthcoming books designed by Hyland and his team at Pentagram.
Design Museum's 'Feedback' Lecture Now Available on Podcast
Harry Pearce, John Rushworth and Paula Scher’s “Feedback” lecture held at the London Design Museum last year is now available as a podcast from the museum’s website.
The talk was organized as an accompaniment to the Design Museum’s retrospective “Alan Fletcher 50 Years of Graphic Work (and Play)” and was hosted by the exhibition’s curator Emily King. In the hour-long discussion, Pearce, Rushworth and Scher frequently refer to the ways in which Fletcher influenced their work and careers.
New Year, New Associates
Pentagram is pleased to have appointed three new associates over the closing months of 2007: Jane Plüer and Six Wu in London and Julie Savasky in the Austin office.
Jane Plüer has spent the last nine years at Pentagram working with both Justus Oehler and John Rushworth for clients that include Boots, Bulgari Hotels & Resorts, Egon Zehnder International, Faber & Faber, Hewlett-Packard, the Israel Museum, JP Morgan, Michelin and the Savoy Group. She will continue to work with Rushworth after her promotion.
Six Wu makes a welcome return to Pentagram where he spent seven years after graduating from the Royal College of Art working with Daniel Weil for clients such as Lego, Pantone, Swatch, Boots and United Airlines.
Julie Savasky has spent the last twelve years at Pentagram and has worked for both Lowell Williams and DJ Stout. Projects she has worked on during that time include Pentagram Book Five, packaging for SkinCeuticals, an identity and catalog redesign for Lands’ End, the book Longhorn Football: An Illustrated History and the redesign of Las Vegas Life magazine. She will continue to work with Stout after her promotion.
Christmas at Pentagram London
Over 350 invited guests attended an evening of champagne and canapés at London’s Florence Hall on Thursday, 6 December for London’s traditional Pentagram Christmas party. Attendees were given an early Christmas gift this year as the party provided the perfect opportunity for a sneak preview of Pentagram’s new publication, The Black Book.
‘Burma’ Takes to the Streets
Harry Pearce’s Burma poster has been adopted as a placard by activists in the recent international street protests against the current situation in the country.
The poster, designed in 2006 for an event organised by the New York-based charity Witness to raise awareness about human rights violations in Burma, has been appearing in news footage of the protests held in cities from Bangkok to New York.
Hillman Curtis Films Pentagram
Designer and filmmaker Hillman Curtis has directed a short documentary about Pentagram. Shot at each of Pentagram’s five offices, the film features a graphic presentation of the history of the partnership by Paula Scher, alongside interviews with a number of partners.
Click here to view the film at hillmancurtis.com
The film was originally shown at the 2007 D&AD President’s Lecture in London and is Curtis’ second on Pentagram, following one he made in 2005.
New United Cabin Designs Now Flying
Daniel Weil interviewed for the launch of United Airlines new first and business class cabins. Video courtesy of United.
Daniel Weil’s new cabin designs for United Airlines have begun flying on routes between Washington D.C. and Frankfurt or Zurich in a rollout across 97 international aircraft expected to be finished in the autumn of 2009.
Weil designed the seats in partnership with the in-house design team at B/E Aerospace, the world’s leading aircraft cabin manufacturer. Full details of the new cabins can be found on United’s Suite Dreams minisite.
Previously: United Reveals New Cabin Design
New Work: Circular Fifteen
Domenic Lippa has designed issue fifteen of Circular, the magazine of the Typographic Circle, a not-for-profit organisation run entirely by volunteers which formed in 1976 to bring together anyone with an active interest in type and typography.
Lippa has a long-standing relationship with the Typographic Circle, previously acting as its chairperson for two years. Circular Fifteen is the eighth issue of the magazine Lippa has designed in as many years.
New Work: 'Time & Territory'
Domenic Lippa, with design assistant Beatrice Blumenthal, has designed Time & Territory, a book published by the landscape architecture and urban design firm J&L Gibbons to celebrate their 21st anniversary.
The book is a review of the best of the firm’s output to date, presented in the form of a visual essay interspersed with written contributions by a selection of 21 clients, friends and former colleagues.
Lippa has a long-standing, close relationship with J&L Gibbons and has previously consulted the firm on their identity and designed their website.
Domenic Lippa at Guadalajara DesignFest
Domenic Lippa will be speaking about his work and giving a design workshop on Friday 19 October at the Guadalajara International Design Festival, DesignFest ‘07, a three day design festival taking place on the campus of Tecnológico de Monterrey in Guadalajara, Mexico.
New Work: 100% Design
Angus Hyland, with design assistant Fabian Herrmann, has designed the identity and brand structure for 100% Design, Reed Exhibitions’ international series of shows for the professional architecture and design audience. Hyland also produced the print and campaign for one of the component shows, 100% Design London, the UK’s largest trade show of its kind. Held between 20 and 23 September, 100% Design London filled the Earl’s Court Exhibition Centre with a showcase of the best contemporary design based around five component shows: 100% Design, 100% Detail, 100% Light, 100% Futures and 100% Materials.
Pentagram Celebrates 35 Years of Poster Design
Pentagram London opened its doors to the public on Thursday, 20 September for an exhibition of over 100 posters from throughout the company’s 35 year history, curated by Domenic Lippa.
The London office, designed by founding partner Theo Crosby, was transformed; with posters filling every available wall space and mounted on easels kindly loaned by Mark Cass of Cass Art.
More photos after the jump.
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New Work: The London Design Festival
One of Domenic Lippa’s typographic opening sequences for The London Design Festival website. Click on the links to see all the animations in a new window: one, two, three. Flash design by Andrew Heaps.
Domenic Lippa, with senior designer Paul Skerm and design assistant Ali Esen, has designed the identity for The London Design Festival, the umbrella organisation that promotes the annual season of design-related events that take over the city each September. Lippa and his team also designed every element of the festival’s city-wide graphic presence including brochures, signage, guidebooks, promotional material, environmental graphics and the look and feel of the website as well as the first London Design Medal, which was awarded to Zaha Hadid for her outstanding contribution to design.
Designing London Design Week
Monday night saw the opening of The London Design Festival at the Royal Festival Hall. The ceremony marked the beginning of one of the world’s great design events which, between the 17th and the 23rd of September, fills London with exhibitions, workshops, talks and private views. With branding and identity designed by Domenic Lippa, The London Design Festival’s organising committee is just one of the places you can see work by Pentagram partners during London’s celebration of design.
Angus Hyland has designed the identity and brand architecture for 100% Design London, the UK’s largest trade fair for the design and architecture profession and one of the longest running events in the festival calendar.
Harry Pearce has designed a poster with John Simmons as of part of 26 Posters, an installation for the festival organised by the writer’s advocacy organisation 26, which aims to demonstrate the power of language in design. The posters will be displayed at London’s Old Street and Elephant and Castle roundabouts, as well as on billboard sites in Birmingham, Glasgow and Manchester.
Pentagram will be holding an exhibition of posters from throughout the firm’s 35-year history on Thursday, 20 September at our London office in Notting Hill. Contact Leah Speakman for further enquiries.
William Russell at London Open House
William Russell will be talking about the design and construction of his award-winning Bacon Street residence as part of 3: Architect’s Houses from Bromley to Brick Lane, a joint discussion, sponsored by London Open House, in which he and two other architects, Ivor Berresford and Julian Powell-Tuck, will talk about the process of building, and the experience of living, in a house of their own design.
The talk takes place at Margaret Howell’s flagship store at 34 Wigmore Street, London W1, from 6:30pm to 8:30pm on Thursday, 13 September. Tickets for the talk are available online.
The discussion is part of London’s annual “Open House” architecture event, where Londoners are encouraged to engage with the architecture of their city and over 600 buildings all over London celebrate design excellence by opening their doors at no charge to the public.
William Russell Scoops Two Commercial Architecture Awards
William Russell has received two Commercial Architecture Awards for his designs for retail environments for Cass Art Warehouse and Margaret Howell’s Fulham Road store. The Commercial Architecture Awards are an annual prize for work in the UK commercial sector and seek to recognise “…schemes that have managed to achieve the balance between meeting a client’s commercial objectives, while producing the best quality architecture and interior design.”
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35 Years of the Poster at Pentagram
As part of the London Design Festival, Pentagram will be hosting a poster exhibition for one evening only on Thursday 20th September at our Notting Hill office. This is a unique opportunity to view designs which span the last 35 years, from the work of founding to current partners. There will be an open door policy from 7:00-9:00 pm. Enquiries please contact Leah Speakman.
Brandspanking Gets Moving
Andy Foulds’ animations of Angus Hyland’s Brandspanking logo. Click here to see them in a new window.
Interactive designer Andy Foulds’ studio has produced a series of Flash animations based on Angus Hyland’s logo design for Brandspanking, a London-based media production company that specialises in branded content. The animations play during the introduction to their website, also designed by Foulds.
Angus Hyland designed the Brandspanking identity in 2007 with design assistant Zara Moore.
Radio Hyland Podcast Now Available
Adrian Shaughnessy’s forty-minute interview with Angus Hyland for Graphic Design on the Radio is now available to download.
Adrian and Angus play eight of Angus’ favourite songs and discuss his career and influences; from poring over Letraset and Mecanorma font catalogues as a schoolboy, to his education, career and outlook as a graphic designer; and finally his experiences as a Pentagram partner.
New Work: Canongate Books
Angus Hyland and his team have designed book covers for four new releases from Edinburgh-based publisher Canongate Books: The Life of Pi: Illustrated Edition by Yann Martel, The Crimson Petal & the White and The Apple by Michel Faber and The Gift by Lewis Hyde.
Hyland’s relationship with Canongate has been ongoing since the launch of the acclaimed Pocket Canons series in 1998. In the subsequent years, he has designed over 100 book covers, as well as their website.
Images of Angus Hyland’s new book cover designs after the jump.
New Work: Roy Harper, ‘The BBC Tapes’
Harry Pearce has designed the sleeve art for the re-issue of The BBC Tapes, a set of CDs by cult singer/songwriter Roy Harper, released by Harper’s Science Friction Records.
Pearce’s design for the series emulates Harper’s subtle poetry in its central motif; portraits of Harper, taken during the period the recordings were made, have been cropped so that the singer’s eyes are the same size within each image; evoking the intensity and intimacy of the recordings. The simple, vertical typography, set in Akzidenz Grotesk, and monochromatic treatment of the photographs means that the most direct way of differentiating between CDs at a glance is through Harpers’ facial expressions.
New Work: ‘On the Road: The Original Scroll’
Angus Hyland, with design assistant Masumi Briozzo, has designed the UK edition of On the Road: The Original Scroll, a sumptuous edition of Jack Kerouac’s seminal ‘Beat’ novel which is being released to mark the 50th anniversary of the book’s original publication on 5 September 1957.
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Harry Pearce at Kyoorius Designyatra
Harry Pearce is to speak at the second annual international design conference Kyoorius Designyatra in Goa, India, from the 6-8 September. “Design Empowers Businesses” is the theme of the discussion-oriented conference that while international in participants, will focus on building the value of design in Indian society and business. Other speakers include New York’s Stefan Sagmeister, Wally Olins from Saffron Brand Consultants and David Kester, the head of the Design Council UK.
New Work: ‘Spook Country’
Angus Hyland, with design assistant Masumi Briozzo, has designed the UK hardback cover for Spook Country, a new thriller by the acclaimed novelist, and father of cyberpunk, William Gibson.
Spook Country is published in the UK by Viking Press, part of the Penguin Group.
Harry Pearce to Judge Prison Art
Harry Pearce has been invited to be a judge for the annual Creating a Future prize, part of an exhibition of art, prose and poetry by inmates from sixteen prisons in the North West of England to be held at The Co-operative Group’s headquarters at New Century House in Manchester from the 13th to the 18th of August 2007.
New Work: James Kelman Cover Art
Angus Hyland, with assistant Masumi Briozzo, has designed four book covers for Polygon’s re-issue of the novels and short stories of James Kelman, the controversial Booker Prize-winning author.
New Work: Safdico
Angus Hyland has produced a new corporate website and content management system (CMS) for the South African Diamond Corporation - Safdico.
Safdico is one of the world’s premier diamond producers, priding itself on its craftsmanship and expertise while operating to the most stringent professional, ethical and social standards. Pentagram’s design for the business-to-business focussed site is elegant and controlled, without denying the inherent glamour of Safdico’s products.
Update: Global Cities
Angus Hyland’s posters for the Global Cities exhibition at Tate Modern have been appearing all over London in the city’s Tube stations. The exhibition is on display until 27 August.
More images and a selection of exhibition reviews after the jump.
New Work: EAT Seasonal
Angus Hyland has designed the graphic identity for EAT’s new range of seasonal food as part of a wider-reaching brand evolution strategy.
United Reveals New Cabin Design
United Airlines announced a breakthrough yesterday: this fall, they will be the first US carrier to feature fully reclining lie-flat seats in their International First and Business cabins. Pentagram’s Daniel Weil worked with United and a team of specialists throughout the intricate process of designing two new cabins.
“This is the moment where the customer is put first,” said Weil. Designed to provide more space and a better sense of privacy through an innovative forward- and rear-facing design and seats that recline 180˚ to form a six-foot-long bed, the first updated planes will take to the skies later this year. The entire international fleet will be updated in phases over the next two to three years.
The new cabins were designed in conjunction with industry experts B/E Aerospace. Pentagram has been United’s design consultant for nearly ten years, with responsibilities that have ranged from developing the airline’s current livery design, to naming its low-cost carrier Ted, to designing its self-service ticket dispensers, to consulting on tableware and in-flight amenities.
New Work: Global Cities
Time-lapse film of the 18 day build.
Angus Hyland and William Russell have designed Global Cities, a major free exhibition that is taking place in the spectacular Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern in London from 20 June through 27 August.
Pentagram Turns 35
Tuesday 12 June was Pentagram’s 35th Birthday and to celebrate, Daniel Weil and Julia Wyatt organised a mystery day out for partners and staff from the London and Berlin offices.
More photos from the celebrations after the jump
New Work: Laurence King Publishing
Fall 2007 catalogue for Laurence King Publishing.
Art and design book publisher Laurence King has released its fall 2007 trade catalogue which showcases Angus Hyland’s work as the company’s creative director.
The catalogue features five new book covers designed by Angus and his team at Pentagram.
Summertime Comes to Pentagram
Pentagram’s London office in the sunshine. Finally!
Radio Hyland
Angus Hyland is taking to the airwaves to play eight of his favourite tracks and to talk about his take on graphic design with the polymath art director, designer, writer and broadcaster Adrian Shaughnessy. The show will be aired by London’s Resonance FM from 1 pm BST on Friday, 1 June and will be available by either tuning in to 104.4 FM in London or by listening via their website.
The show will also be available to download as a podcast in the coming weeks. Full details of how to access this can be found on Graphic Design on the Radio.
SOLD OUT: Pentagram D&AD President’s Lecture
Lecture poster designed by Harry Pearce, to be sold at the event.
As part of this year’s D&AD President’s Lectures series, a cross section of Pentagram partners—Lorenzo Apicella, Michael Bierut, Domenic Lippa, Abbott Miller, Justus Oehler, William Russell, Lisa Strausfeld, DJ Stout and Daniel Weil—will give their views on the past, present and future of Pentagram in a discussion chaired by Professor Alan Livingston CBE.
A new short film about Pentagram by award-winning filmmaker Hillman Curtis will be shown as part of the talk. The film was specially commissioned for the D&AD President’s Lecture and is Hillman’s second film about Pentagram.
Tickets for the discussion, to be held at Old Billingsgate in London on the 22nd of May, are sold out, however, D&AD will be filming the talk. The film will be exclusively available to D&AD members, but watch this space—we hope to post some excerpts as soon as post-production is finished.
Click here for more information from the D&AD website.
‘Feedback’ Feedback
Noisy Decent Graphics reviews Friday night’s event at the Design Museum.
‘Feedback’ at the Design Museum
Partners Harry Pearce, John Rushworth and Paula Scher will discuss Pentagram’s history, working practice and achievements in light of the contributions of co-founding partner Alan Fletcher, in a conversation with Emily King, curator of the exhibition Alan Fletcher: 50 Years of Work (and Play). “Feedback,” Friday, 9 February from 7:15 pm at the Design Museum, Shad Thames, London. Details here. THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT.
Domenic Lippa and Harry Pearce Join Pentagram
Lippa (left) and Pearce (right) outside Pentagram’s London studio
Domenic Lippa and Harry Pearce have joined Pentagram as partners in the London office.
The graphic designers founded their own studio, Lippa Pearce, in 1990. They have received numerous international design awards for their work in print, identity, packaging and environmental graphics. Clients have included The Co-operative, Boots, Witness, TDK, Unilever, Espa, Heal’s, The Science Museum London and The Typographic Circle.
Angus Hyland says, “We are thrilled that Harry and Domenic will be joining. They are the perfect fit in terms of philosophy and personality, and have built an amazing portfolio of design work that is a great complement to our own. We’re excited to have two such experienced talents going forward.”
From the new Pentagram partners’ perspective, Pearce comments: “Our outlook and work fits seamlessly with Pentagram. We stand by the same principles of design-led business and creative excellence. To be amongst so many other like-minded partners is inspiring.”
Update: The new partners—including Luke Hayman— are featured in Form.
After the jump, some work from the new partners.
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New Work: ‘This is a poster.’
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Yes, this is a poster. It was designed by Angus Hyland and Fabrian Herrmann for a lecture given by Angus at the University of Plymouth last spring. But it has since taken on a life of its own, possibly because it makes plain the secret desire of all posters: to be entered into design competitions.
The poster was silkscreened in black and white on 25 different colors, in a limited run of four copies per color. It is featured in the June issue of Creative Review.
Variations after the jump.
New Work: C/ID
Angus Hyland has edited and designed the new book C/ID: Visual Identity and Branding for the Arts, written with Emily King and published by Laurence King. The book looks at identity design for cultural institutions, which has been flourishing since the advent of “museum as brand.” It includes thirty case studies of successful programs, large and small, from studios around the world.
On Press
“At WH Smith’s now, it’s just a haze of tit and bum and bright colours.” David Hillman discusses the state of editorial design in an interview with Press Gazette.
New Work: Matador
Volume I (the letter I) of Matador
Fernando Gutiérrez and his team have designed the new issue of Matador, the limited edition, once-a-year arts journal published by Fabrica. Each issue of Matador is given a sequential letter of the Spanish alphabet —A,B, C, Ch, E, etc.— and a central theme. Volume I focuses on Asia (Oriente) and features the work of artists from Japan, Korea, China and Taiwan, including Nobuyashi Araki, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Li Zhensheng, among others. Each issue also showcases a different typeface—here it’s Egyptian Bold Condensed.
Best Weeks Ever
Week of 16 November 2005, designed by Fernando Gutiérrez
Every week New York magazine commissions a different designer for the “High Priority” typographic illustration that opens the magazine’s listings section. Now both New York and Design Observer (courtesy Michael Bierut) have posted mini-retrospectives of the series, including contributions by Michael, Fernando Gutiérrez, Abbott Miller, and Paula Scher with Lenny Naar.
The project was also featured in last month’s issue of Creative Review.
Awards: I.D. Annual Design Review 2006
Hermès “El Río” poster by Fernando Gutiérrez
The following projects have been selected for this year’s I.D. Annual Design Review, to be published in the magazine’s July/August issue:
2wice Armitage Alphabet issue (Design Distinction, Graphics category)
2wice Gold issue (Design Distinction, Graphics)
Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh environmental graphics (Design Distinction, Environments)
Hermès “El Río” poster (Honorable Mention, Graphics)
The Myths book series for Canongate (Honorable Mention, Graphics)
Bloomberg L.P. headquarters environmental graphics (Honorable Mention, Environments)
New Work: The Myths
Cover illustration by Marion Deuchars
Angus Hyland and his team have designed “The Myths,” a new series from Canongate, the publisher for which he previously repackaged the Bible. Each book in the new series is a retelling of a myth by a renowned contemporary author. According to Canongate, the series is “the most ambitious simultaneous world-wide publication ever undertaken,” with 24 publishers issuing the books around the world. Angus created the series identity and will commission a different cover illustrator for each of the planned 200 titles — which are set to come out at a rate of three per year, wrapping up sometime around 2070. Yes, Angus is one of the Immortals.
The project was featured in last month’s issue of Creative Review.
New Work: Stanley Kubrick
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Angus Hyland and his team have designed the book Stanley Kubrick Drama & Shadows: Photographs 1945-1950, published by Phaidon Press. The book collects previously unpublished images shot by Kubrick while he was a staff photographer at Look magazine, before he directed his first feature film. The design emphasizes the ways in which he used photography to cultivate the visual techniques and themes found in his later work.
More images after the jump.
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