Clotilde Olyff

Olyff is a typographer and graphic designer. Over the past 20 years she has collected nearly 30 stone alphabets. These stones have been collected and look like letterforms to make up a complete collection. I think it is brilliant! I aim to do something similar myself and hopefully in the future I can have my own obscure, natural alphabet!

Stone alphabet

Bunny and the Bull

Film and DVD cover SBT Design

Where

Vintage Coke Cans

Found these beautiful Coke cans from inspiredology. I am really interested by the branding of Coke. I heard that Father Christmas originally wore green and was slimmer, until Coca-Cola got their hands on him and changed him into the jolly round red fella we know today. That is a massive power. They are also a brand which recently only use their logo on the coke cans and no other illustration.

Where
Branding is a huge part of any company or product and these retro coke cans show a different perspective to branding. There is no real set style and the only similarity on each is the coke logo. These cans are drank by such a large audience and variety of poeple that it must be tricky to target some specific group.

Vintage Coke Cans.
Rouge age estimate 1980's.

Blu

I love stop motion animation and street art. Blu combines both! Really imaginative stuff.

Where
This piece was made in Buenos Aires and Baden. Its absoltuely brilliant. Is is produced in the public domain and is seen on such a large scale. The location for this shoot must have been huge. I think it is brilliant how the charcters move in real life, along the streets alongside the public.


- Muto. Blu.

Toben

Stunning website and work.

Where
Leaves to make an album cover for a band called The Falls is great work. I love how the team have use real materials. There is such power in software that I think alot of work is completely digitalised because that is seen as quicker, or that it gives a better effect. But what could be better than using the real thing?!

Toben Website.
Toben.

The Falls CD Cover.
Toben.

Emily Forgot

I love Emily Forgot's style of drawing simplitic people (children especially) Her other style of work I am not keen on, too much gradient for my liking. I really like the block colours and limited palette. Simplicity is beautiful.

Where

Playground Plates are beautiful. I can't put my finger on why I like them. I think it is the simplicity. I love monochrome and the quality of line. Just really nicely thought out stuff!

- Playground Plates,
Emily Forgot.

- If I Could,
Emily Forgot.

Where is Graphic Design found?

Where is it meant to be seen? In what situation or at what scale?
How is the audience supposed to receive it and are they meant to interact with it.

Type driven


Image driven
Emily Forgot
Blu


Type and image
Toben
Vintage Coke Cans
Bunny and the Bull