Last but by no means least is the brilliant Ali Freeman, the creative mind of fwd_ctrl. Currently working for the immense AKQA, she is an advertising guru in the making. Working on some major projects for the likes of Galaxy and SingStar, Freeman is dominating.
As I’ve given a shout-out to two thirds of fwd_ctrl, its only fair I give (well earned) ‘bigups’ to the rest of the unit. Giles Harper is the digital (and tallest) member of the fraternity. Recently completing some in-house projects for some great studios like Medicine Man of Brick Lane, Harper is a multi-skilled one man design machine, plying his trade in everything from digital interaction to old skool branding. Above is some of his work during his time at Medicine Man for Neo-Post.
No.Zine is an independent arts magazine run by London designer Patrick Fry. The zine features variety of young artists, designers, writers, photographers and illustrators from a wide range of contributers including the allonethought favorite Shaz Madani. From the smattering of images on the No.Zine site one can deduce that this publication is a thoughtfully set slice of fried gold to be found in book shops and art spaces all over London. Although it doesn’t say exactly where, this only lends an air of enigma to proceedings, and if mystery and hunting isn’t your forte you can always purchase online from the No.Zine shop for the very reasonable price of a fiver. I am always one for a good find and seek but I am also slightly lazy when it comes to tubing it around London so therefore will be purchasing online this afternoon.
With an impressive portfolio for some hefty clients, its hard to believe that Shaz Madani only graduated from the London College of Communication in 2008. Working in editorial design, she creates beautiful pieces of print that are well considered and sensitively typeset. I really enjoyed flicking through her work for Topshop this morning and it provided a distraction from my own type based dilemmas (60 articles to fit in a 20 page publication, no one needs that). With media forecasters everywhere saying that print is slowly gravitating towards oblivion, we rely on people like Madani to save us all from iPad induced screen glare comas.
Sawdust are the London Based design and directional duo Rob Gonzalez and Jonathan Quainton and have an impressive barrel of work under their belt. The featured picture is the simple and visually stunning artwork for MVSICA. I am always a fan of innovative solutions to music packaging as there seems to be less and less that has yet to be done in this field. Great work guys.
Nottingham based De Facto caught my eye this morning by pure chance, I was looking for my good friend Fred [Perry]. The crafters of everything, from beautifully classic print campaigns to pixel splitting new thinking TV spots, have got a wealth of eye candy on their site and really have an talent for, amongst many, knowing their audience, example being all their work for Fred Perry (I can say this with some authority as per the fact I was looking for Fred this morning and do most mornings). Pictured about is the 2002 Fred Perry Icon Book, written by Paolo Hewitt, which was created on a framework of “heritage with contemporary relevance”, perfect way to say 50 years of FP. By trawling their site I also stumbled across the Subculture site, a great find and a homepage to any trendies in the room. Cherry on Top? Avant Garde.
If you are a bit of a typography fanatic then this 2010 calendar, from Pentagram and designed by Kit Hindrichs, will take pride of place on your studio wall. “The calendar features a different typeface each month in the classic wall or desk calendar format. Each month includes a brief description about what makes the featured font distinctive and a biography of the type designer. All major holidays for the US and UK are noted, along with the birthdays of the type designers.”
We got a nice treat in the post at fwd_ctrl yesterday from Educational Technologies Hong Kong of some promotional work we did for their 2010 Sydney Convention. They were also nice enough to inform us that the postcards (below) and posters we currently making their way to their offices in India, Taiwan and Australia to name a few. As we have just finished hooking up the lighting in our photo/film studio we thought we would try out a few snaps. Updates for all the work we created for ETL to be updated to the fwd_ctrl site soon.
After a 10 hour stint in front on Dreamweaver I can hopefully be forgiven for a short blog post, but after scoping some of the work produced by Brighton based Crush I could think of no better way of ending the day with a mention of their work. Show below is some illustration work for Guardian Society.
I have come across Adam Morris’ work a few times and have always been impressed. His branding work in particular stands out as good clean visual communication. Below is a shot of some of the branding/promo work he has done for Guildford Music Festival. Also for perfectionistas in the ranks, take note of his presentation of the work on his site.
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