Showing posts with label Typography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Typography. Show all posts

Friday, 18 February 2011

WOULD YOU LOOK AT THIS















My heart is racing.

I love food. I love books. I love book covers. I love type. I love colour.

Check these out, available from April 7, from Penguin. Designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. Can she do no wrong?

BEAUTIFUL TYPE.

I feel quite startled.

I am literally in AWE.

Wednesday, 10 November 2010

Didn't like the look of this

As a designer, it is important to look at everything, so I do. Every morning I read the Metro newspaper- that's the free one. And before you ask, no- I do not take it as law and yes- I do enjoy reading the texting in bit, it makes me laugh.

I accept it is a free paper and I accept that there are tight timings for it but this actually stopped me in my tracks (I was on the train to work, don't you know.) I sort of feel that once you start letting the little things slip then things may get much worse.

Plus, typography was a big part of my degree, I care about these things.


Bad typography is not acceptable. The caption could have been placed underneath the image with image taken up at the bottom and moved to the left a bit.

Tuesday, 2 November 2010

Zadie Smith is even fitter v2



Not only are her books amazing, but these covers are something to be proud to be seen holding.

I'm not sure who did the top cover, but I know that Si Scott did the other cover design.

In an interview, Scott said that "I wanted something that felt like Zadie’s writing. She’s quite cool, so I needed a font like that—without being flowery or too girly, it’s whimsical with a bit of an edge. That’s what Zadie’s got. Reading her stuff is not like reading Darwin, but it’s edgy."

Read the rest of the interview here, http://lit-life.elle.com/lit-life/2010/02/throughout-his-life-uk-based-illustrator-si-scott-sketched-for-fun-but-it-wasnt-until-he-went-away-to-buckinghamshi.html

Zadie Smith is even fitter


By Ill-studio.
http://www.ill-studio.com/works/view-all/136-penguin-type.htm

The cover for the Smith novel was rejected.