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Computer Arts #141 is out now.
Dubbed ‘The inspiration issue’, its comes with a free supplement ‘The book of inspiration’ where ‘57 of the world’s greatest artists give an insight into the sources of their creativity’.

You’ll find me on page 23, where I tell you how I worked with Ashley Wood on the Popbot Collection book.

Logo designed by my dad in 1972-73 for his design practise. Custom type with Helvetica

A short follow up post to my Helvetica one… Just remembered I had this on my drive: the logo my dad designed for his design practise, again proving a point also made by Massimo Vignelli (maybe he was inspired by him), that design is one.
As an interior designer is he was as much obsessed about how a chair was manufactured right down to the patterns on the coffeemugs in the kitchen cabinet.

I love how his hM initials form a chair and table, echoing elements of his furniture designs in the 70s.
Yes, my dad was a Modernist in heart and soul.

Yes. Like every other designer I went to see Helvetica, Gary Hustwit’s documentary on the titular typeface featuring a Who’s Who of designers who, in one way or another were and are linked with the typeface.

The interesting parts, for me, was to see each designer interviewed talk about the impact Helvetica had on them - going from unadulterated praise (Vignelli), to lametation (Spiekerman) - and I couldn’t help but think about my own experiences with the iconic typeface.

I consider myself firmly in the Modernist school of thought. I don’t think you need a million typefaces, I like structure, and if something isn’t neccessary I don’t use it. Yes, I love Helvetica for all those things… but personally, I’m more of an Akzidenz Grotesk man.

Wasn’t always the case though.
Continue reading…

WWR logo/Decal, originally uploaded by helloMuller.

World War Robot.
Coming soon from Ashley Wood/Bigshot Toyworks/IDW.

We (that would be Kleber) are looking for experienced, self-motivated freelance web developers to help us on a bunch of interesting new projects in the coming months.

PLEASE ONLY SEND US YOUR DETAILS IF YOU HAVE THE SKILLS REQUIRED - WE ARE NOT CURRENTLY LOOKING TO FILL ANY OTHER POSITIONS

Ideally you will have:

• excellent XHTML/CSS skills
• excellent PHP skills
• excellent MySQL skills
• a good understanding of Flash and Actionscript
• an eye for good design
• ability to work to a strict deadline
• ability to manage your own time
• common sense

Location is not an issue for us as you would be expected to work remotely.

Please send 3 examples of your work (stating your input on the projects) to workwithus@kleber.net

Almost 2 years in the making, we finally launched the brand new site for World Music Network last month.

When WMN got in touch with us, it was primarily to jump on the digital bandwagon - they were familiar with our work on Bleep (the award-winning digital download store from Warp Records) - and sell their goods online, as well as physical goods (CD’s). It became clear quite fast that in order to fascilitate the online store, a complete site revision was in order.

During the design process WMN updated their look, so this needed to be reflected online as well.
So, under strict design guidelines we designed the new site from the ground up, and built them a state of the art shopping system that allows them to sell their releases in a variety of formats - part of a site wide CMS powering the rest of the site. An interesting detail is that the label staff in addition to the CMS access the HTML files as well to tweak and add banners and advertising to the site.

So, after roughly two years of digitising their catalog, you can now order world music from your lazy chair.