Alba Durana

Barcelona based designer, Alba Durana. An example of the kind of work he likes to produce, strong interest in type and editorial. This is one part of a project based on gestures, Id have more to say to describe it but its all in spanish.

You know I don't speak spanish! In English please!

Firstly it impressed me on how big it folds out too, considering how small and easily handled it is when folded. The stock also looks fairly good which is impressive considering how much it must have to fold. Reminiscent of the Size? publication, colour and format.

Standard good looking design, black, white and a bright spot colour!

Loving the condensed typeface, looking like the type Im currently working with.

10/11 Snowboards

Getting ever so close to the start of this years season, so thought Id post some of my fave designs for boars this year. Because I am essentially design driven I tend to go for board which are type driven, these being the best selection this year, for me anyway...

Rome:
A good strong brand, are one company that tend to focus on typography within their board artwork. Loving the filled type. Making type into something more, good stuff.
I believe a use of Helvetica aswell, relevant to my dissertation. The latter board is beautiful an all, simple, Helvetica bold, in uppercase and black, white backdrop, bright colour to set it off.
Good design = Black, White, bright colour.



Ride:
I own a Ride board at the moment and they are truly amazing boards, however their designs have slipped of late in my opinion. This years series of DH's are quite pretty though, bit too busy maybe but strong bold type holds focus.


Forum:
Amazing logo, almost very corporate, but just made to look sick and really appropriate to the audience. Good use of colour, basic CMYK job.


Bataleon:
They have got some amazing boards this year, loving the simplicity and use of type, noting its all different in each board, from stencil to hand drawn. Nice.




Yes:

My fave this year by a mile, Santa is getting me one fo sho.
Designed beautifully, minimal, bold type, getting the brand name out there, just YES! Strong range of the different applications of using the word 'yes'.

Pan Ams World

When researching for my dissertation came across these posters for Pan Am, an airline before my time.

What is really surprising is that they were designed in the early 70's, and considering these are nearly 40 years old they look sweet, proper minimal but effective. Beautiful photography with a beautiful typeface. winner.

It is rare these days to find something within advertising never mind corporate advertising that looks like this. What a shame.

Logo Book One & Two

Was having some trouble with some of my logo designs for my second brief so had a little trip to the library to go and look through pages and pages of logos. Photocopied the ones I found of interest, ones that were strong and well designed and also examples of logos that were appropriate to me and my brief, notably logos for music and the culture industry.

Going through them I found myself being drawn to certain styles, these ranging from simple bold strong type logos, crest / shield of arms designs, 3D type based designs and finally found myself being dragged to designs that included bold decorative 'funk' type, sounds awful but they look sick.

Going through these books really helped and I managed to come up with some new design ideas as well as coming up with little changes I could make to my logos so far to develop them further.

Wesley Eggebrecht

Wesley Eggebrecht is a freelance Illustrator/Designer based out of northern Michigan.

This is some branding and merchandise work he did for his co-owned clothing line Savant.

What drew me to this work was two bits of type design, the logo 'SW' and the 'Together' in the first t shirt graphic.

Firstly the logo, this is what started my idea of having an american sport / college style to my proposed record label logo, something like the savant logo with having the initials NDNR together, twisting under and over like. Finding it quite difficult to work with the letters and how to lay them out together.

Then the illustration for the word, 'together' another good example of highlights making it feel more rounded, 3D'ish.

Here is a selection of logos designed by Eggebrecht, some are stronger than others but reminds me that logos need to work as one colour, black on white or vice versa.

Roel Van Eekelen

aka Mr.Maze, Dutch designer.

Really loving a lot of work coming from this guy, these are just a few logo designs from the man. Big fan of his hand drawn style typography.

My favourite being 'The hookup' strong, easy to read, fun, fits in with my ideas to involve the American sports / college theme thing.

Logo ideas for Record label

Some general images and bits of design that have given me inspiration and some design direction ideas for my logos for the record label.

Mixture of American sport / high school / college like typography

Having something like this as the logo for NDNR could work really well.

Keeping both a sense of professionalism and fun in the design.

Hopefully my upcoming designs and drawings will show how these have inspired me.