EVOLUTION OF "DOCUMENT" ICON SHAPE

Design has a lovely habit of coming full circle. You'll see that a lot 2011 as every designer ever runs out of ideas.

SHIDLAS - SALIAMI POSTMODERN

Great CD packaging for Lithuanian band Shidlas by Lithuanian design agency Mother Eleganza. The CD is vacuum packed and the sticker even resembles an information sticker showing the contents of the package. Very clever.

Mother Eleganza

QR CODES

I'm prophesisng this shit man. This blog isn't just my open bookmark folder anymore. This is the trend setter. This shit should be bookmarked on every damn mac the moment someone installs an adobe product. I say what's going on. I'm not behind any more. i'm level pegging with the innovators. I am the innovator.

QR codes are going to be huge due to smart phones profits soaring so everyone has the ability to read these now. If you cant read these, you don't deserve to. I'm going to start posting QR codes to sneaky shots of my work. Above is no exception.

NIKE - THE POOL

FONT FRIDAY - ESCHERESK

New thing where I say a font looks good this week. May continue it. May not.

MANUAL - LOOSE LEAF

I head about Manual from a friend. They're a design agency in San Francisco. They've borough out 'Loose Leaf' a nice collection of pictures, design, illustration and work from heaps of designers from around the Bay area. To buy this thing is about £50 and that isn't even including shipping which will probably be ridiculous as well considering it's being shipped from the west coast. I'm seriously tempted by this though. Only 1000 print and I'd imagine that agencies in London have probably ordered theirs already. This thing just seems to be a coffee table filler and probably would be if it wasn't for the fact it includes 3 wall pins to hang up anywhere.

Loose Leaf Editions
Manual

Also, the logo looks tremendously similar to this retro gem...

CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU

The Centre Georges Pompidou opened in 1977 and hasn't changed it's logo since then. Why? Because it looks more modern than most of the logos designed this century, that's why. Looking at the images for their advertising and their general art direction, don't you see some similarities to last years design trends? Block colour, narrow lettering? I think I'm going to invest in some French design books as well as some Swiss ones too. I was lucky enough to visit the Pompidou center a few years back when I was too young to appreciate what it was but I still remember the building looking freaking awesome for a block from the 70's.

ROOM PAINT

Repainted my room from this horrible blue i've had for about 10 years that I eye dropped from an argos catalog in 2000 when Do It All was repping their colour sensor machine. I think I can blame my blue room for my gargantuan hate of colour. The room is now black and white with two large 45 degree divides on each end wall. The picture is what I took on my iPhone about 5 seconds after moving back my desk and collapsing on my bed. My arms will never roll rollers again... untill I get sick of Black and White... or move out... I haven't set myself up well have I.

CIRCLE TO HEXAGON

So you know how all these new indie companys of 2010 started using heaps of concentric circles, primarily placing their mono-tone logo inside a circle? Well with the turn of a new year, the circle has been replaced by the Hexagon. Seriously. I'm seeing this everywhere. I used hexagons on a piece of work a month ago (pictures to follow) thinking it would be a new idea just for me to go through my daily rounds of design blogs a week later and they're everywhere. Be warned.

SAWDUST

Album artwork for a band called MVSICA. I like the use of scratch-off ink showing that it doesn't just have to be confined to scratch cards. Nice clean geometric design as well to the typeface on the front.

ORISHIKI CLUTCH BAG

Now, I'm personally not a fan of clutch bags... for the reason that I don't need them. But I am however a fan of the art of Origami. This is a really amazing piece of product design using both of the for-mentioned. I haven't seen any design utilising origami that hasn't been architectural. It's nice to see it applied to everyday objects. ORISHIKI have also designed a spectacles case and a suitcase in the same style and both they are amazing to look at as well.

naokikawamoto.com

FONT 2010 & FONT 2011

I thought it'd be a nice idea if I said which font I found myself looking at and using a lot in each year so I came up with this FONT award thing I guess.

Steelfish - 2010
Last year was massive for tall slim fonts, I found refuge in Steelfish which I believe is a rip off of the Pittsburgh Steelers typeface, if not it's very similar. I'm not usually a fan of font copys but as this wasn't so evident, I used it in a lot of logo work.

Dekar - 2011
I found this after getting into Behance and finding myself in need of a nice, clean body text typeface. I like how angled the font is and also the fact that it can even be used in a logo or as sub heading type. It's a perfect all-rounder.

Download both fonts here:
Steelfish
Dekar

JORDAN-WALKER.CO.UK

SITE'S UP - CHECK IT OUT

www.jordan-walker.co.uk

I BOUGHT #1

I thought it would be a good idea. It was. These books are great, I especially recommend Colour Mania. I'm a massive fan of omni-colour design.
My design section on my bookshelf is really starting to get some big names on it. I'll post a picture once I have my new bookshelf put up. Ikea up in this!

Cyclo - ID (EP)

Ultra-simplistic design for a 12" vinyl. Nice clean look.
Designed by Hard Format

Hard Format

Moleskine Bags in Hyper Stop Motion

Old Faithful Shop

Banner Logos, my guilty sin.I'm serriously thinking of bringing out my own version of "This Year I Will Try Not To" because i'm seeing trends (guilty; that I really like) and we're only one third of our way into 2011. Zine time?

Fruita Blanch Stationary

Really nice Stationary set and identity. I'm a real sucker for monochrome logos that look well designed and this really is the cream of the crop for this year so far. They'll probably be a lot more of these...

North Herts College Internship

I'm working for North Hertfordshire College at the Goldsmith Centre for Business in Letchworth at the moment on a temp contract helping out with their workload. The place is great, there's no boundaries to design with them. No interview either. They went by a recommendation of a friend of mine. Shocking.

Jawbone's Jambox Speaker

So there's this sweet little speaker called a Jambox. Linked to any device (preferably Apple apparently) via blue-tooth. It has pretty good bass as well and rivals some of those small daisy chain speakers that some people go for over docks and stuff. It comes in four colours/designs and they all look quite modern. It also has the world's most hipster advert in the world (see here). All the actors most of been paid in American Apparel discount vouchers.