Archive for June, 2007
Well, I’ve been thinking of joining the herds and write something about the London 2012 Olympics logo, how I find it a prime example of bad typography, a misplaced effort to be “young, dynamic, and edgy” and not representative at all of the city I live in. But then again, I would just repeat whats been said in the press over and over again these past few weeks, so I’m not going to.
EDIT (01/08/2007) I finally received my copy of the book yesterday and start browsing the pages to look for my work. Sure enough I’m listed in the index at the back of the book as being featured on page 7. I flip to page 7 and find to my surprise that the image credited to me is not my work at all. Going through the book again (you know, it could be a production error) to look for my work with a wrong credit I find nothing. Conclusion: somewhere out there is the designer of the image on page 7, cursing my name…
Original entry:
I completely forgot I contributed work for this, until I got a letter from the publisher saying the book is in their warehouse and I can get a copy at a big discount (which is canceled out by the international P&P of course).
Anyway, Design Elements: A Graphic Style Manual by Timothy Samara (Rockport Publishers) is out now.
I can’t even remember what I sent in…
A list of places where you can find me on the interweb.
Design Portals
I’m a contributing “news author”, which means I just post links to stuff I like, at the following sites:
Pixelsurgeon, Computerlove, Nice To Meet You
Social networks
MySpace, Virb, LinkedIn, Last.fm, Flickr, Tumblr, Facebook, Computerlove, NTMY, CGSociety, Engine.ning, Designers Are Wankers, Comicspace
Here’s a link drop of sites I visit on a regular basis (i.e. every morning at least), some are design related, some are about comics and others are about the real world.
Blogs
The Beat
Solid comic journalism and reporting at the Publishers Weekly site by Heidi McDonald.
Blog@Newsarama
Comic blog at Newsarama, more mainstream and fanboy-ish. Marvel and DC comics news aplenty.
Ashley Wood
He kind of stopped updating his main site, so all the latest news and art are posted here.
Carsonified!
Ryan Carson’s blog where he spills the beans on how he runs his business. Hats included.
YWFT Blog
A relative new one on the list. Lots of interesting design links here.
Brian Wood
Official site/blog from writer/artist/designer Brian Wood, author of Vertigo’s DMZ series.
PULPHOPE
Blog of artist Paul Pope (Heavy Liquid, Batman Year 100)
Warren Ellis
Site / blog of writer Warren Ellis. He posts several times a day, sometimes new work, but mostly interesting bits he finds on the web. Not always safe for work or for people easily offended.
THE SERIF
Quickly becoming my favourite design blog, with excellent links and work posted daily. Also has an extensive links database.
FormFiftyFive
Another very good design blog.
Manystuff
A French (although its in English) design blog run by Charlotte Cheetham. No fluff, just links and pictures.
Swiss Legacy
Design blog run by Loïc Sattler and Xavier focussing on typography, Swiss graphic design and grids.
Design Observer
No extra explanation needed.
CR Blog
The Creative Review blog.
Forums
Sharpenings
The official Liam Sharp / Mam Tor™ Publishing forum.
THE ENGINE
Forum ran by Warren Ellis. If you like comics and want to read more serious discussion than who would win a fight between Batman and Captain America this is the place. Lots of industry people on this board, art previews and general inside info in the sometimes murky world of comics. - EDIT:The Engine closed down after 2 years
Luckily, The Engine was followed by Panel and Pixel, and equally great forum, inspired by The Engine and curated by Rantz Hosely.
Millar World
Forum of comic book writer Mark Millar. Fanboy-central. If you’re a comic geek you’ll like this place.
The Real World
BBC News
Wikipedia
I can honestly spend days here, an insane amount of information on almost anything.
YouTube
As if I need to say why.
Browsing antique and flea-markets can result in some interesting discoveries, like this old photo plate I snapped up.
I have no idea when this picture was taken (I assume early 20th century) and the men in the photo can be anyone - lawyers, family members, government officials, freemasons or maybe a secret organisation at the dawn of the industrial age transcribing the secrets of reality.
“I like looking at the past for inspiration: Modernism, Bauhaus, the work Massimo Vignelli, Josef Müller-Brockmann, … design that has a foundation and more important, has a timeless beauty.”
- Tom Muller / Bak 08
The 8th issue of BAK Magazine is now online. The theme of this issue is “Me”, and it features interviews with Nik Ainley, Timothy Saccent, and myself (scroll down in the “interview archive” column), and more.
You can download the magazine for PC and Mac for a dose of full screen goodness.
Scott Witham’s new book Print and Production Finishes for Promotional Items published by the always excellent Rotovision is out now, and features work by yours truly.
The book explores the creation of promotional items from a production and manufacturing point of view. I sent in Mam Tor: Event Horizon™ book 1. I can hear you shouting “Thats a comic, not a promotional item!”, but then again one of the goals of Event Horizon is to promote new up and coming talent - and it has succeeded in that already. So there.
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