The brief consisted of a thick, glossy, international style magazine and Orange literature – and was rightly binned. Instead I opted for alternating Baskerville with the LikeMinds font, Asbuka and that gave me a good balance of classic and fresh.
Some times you deliver a job and never hear another word. This can be disconcerting. One minute you are intensely focussed on a mission. The next you are alone watching your child cycle off, without the trainer-wheels, suddenly redundant.
Other times it is very different.
This week I overheard two boys, about 8 years old, at the magazines section of WHSmith. One asked the other if he read comics. “Back in the day.” was the reply.
Eye, and a contributing editor and columnist of Print (magazine). The exhibition, at The Morovian Gallery, forms part of the 24th Biennial of Graphic Design Brno 2010, Czech Republic.
If you delight in the strange, as I do, I recommend the catalogue.
What do you think of when I say “The Lord of the Rings”? Hobbits or Uruk-hai? Viggo Mortensen or Cate Blanchett? Epic story-telling or dippy-hippy myths?
This blog was born thanks to one devilishly smart guys at Like Minds; Scott Gould recognised that I have a compelling track record of successful design selling other people’s products and services. But he also saw that I can become diffident and uncomfortable selling my own skills.
