I previously blogged about the forthcoming release of Penguin’s latest Great Ideas series. At the time, they were only giving us as preview of the first ten books, but Penguin have since unveiled all 20 covers in the set, and they look a little bit like this:
Once again, I’m hugely impressed by the work of [...]
Right, I’ll start with the controversial bit: Ikea has bid farewell to it’s iconic Futura typeface, which it has been using for over 50 years, and has replaced it with Verdana. Yes, that’s right, Verdana. Here’s a quick before and after for you:
Before and after from Please Copy Me
However, before we get in to why [...]
It might seem a long time off, but already cities around the world are a planning bids to host the 2018 Winter Olympic Games. One of the cities that has already been confirmed as an applicant is Munich in Germany, and they’re currently in the process of trying to find a decent logo to represent [...]
For anybody not familiar with the Penguin Great Ideas series, it’s a series which brings together some of the most influential texts ever made, from the minds of the worlds greatest thinkers; from Confucius and Plato, to Darwin, Rousseau, Woolf and Orwell, to name just a few. They’re the kind of books that you would [...]
As far as I can tell, every classical music album comes with terrible packaging design as standard. A mix of horrendous typography, accompanied by generic photographs of instruments, composers, or in the worst cases, both. These are some of the most amazing, most celebrated pieces of music ever made, so why don’t they deserve good [...]
I love this idea from Cardon Copy. Taking hand made flyers/posters found on the street, attached to lamposts, etc, and giving them the proper typographic and design treatment. In his own words:
“Cardon Copy takes the vernacular of self-distributed fliers and tear-offs we have all seen in our neighbourhoods. It involves hijacking these unconsidered fliers and [...]