HELLO

For a glimpse into my personal work as a student. Head on over to hello mark hall. Become a fan on facebook for regular updates. Cost effective freelance design work, specialising in typography is available, and soon posters, prints, and postcards for sale. See you soon.

MAKE AN IMPRESSION

I heart letterpress. Everything about it. The sounds and smells of a print room, the tactile hands-on nature of composing movable type, the texture and warmth you get from a print compared to an offset digital print. Lovely... This guy seems to like it too. What a rewarding work process, I shall have to keep an eye out for Studio on Fire's work.

Video found on one of my favourite website, Gestalten. Their videos are available free from itunes, or watch them all here.

SPOILERS

A series of postcards I've been working on. These are the first batch. Hand-drawn from 19th century woodcut type specimens. The next ones will be tweaked and improved, and silk-screen printed for a nicer finish... I may also produce a letterpress set, to get a slight debossing.

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VALUE

Just another quick idea. Why don't Tesco start their own publishing, and run out cheap books? Low grade recycled paper, no glossy covers or fancy embossing. Good honest simple novels without any thrills. Maybe £1 a book for classics? I'm guessing Penguin has had an effect on me here...

HOW THINGS PROBABLY WORK

Recently finished an extremely rushed uni 'hand-drawn' project. Getting it printed with blurb.com (on demand book printing, at a pretty reasonably price). If anyone wants to take a look there's a preview here. There's no need to point out all the mistakes, thank you.

I WANNA C-U-P

Twas on a plane back from Iceland the other day (which, by the way, is an awesome country). I was busy sleeping and trying not to choke on my own knees, while my girlfriend was taking advantage of the free bevvies. I woke to find she's nabbed me this sexy little number.




She knows me so well. Shame it got a bit bashed. Daisy thought it was helvetica, In my sleepy state I thought some form of Din... Maybe Akzidenz? Either way, nice idea, cool little cup.

BIZNIZ CARDS

I like small pieces of art and design. Postcards, mugs, stickers. things like that. The business card is an obvious and crutial place to show off your design skills. Here's a nice collection of some.

FAMOUS STU

I have been notified that our work colleague Stu is actually in Daniel Eatlock's 'Imprint' portfolio book. I think he asked people to send in pictures. Stu's friend Darren noticed that his shirt matched the zebra crossing and duely took a snapshot and sent it in.

see more info about the book here

CYPHER

Head on over to behance.net and have a gander at Alex Goose's portfolio. Especially this!
"A 46 page collection of interviews and photographs of the people who've help shape the person I've become over the last four years. This book was created so that in 10-20 years, I can look back and remember some of the best moments in my life."

Nice typography. Nice photos. Nice idea.

LOVELY PACKAGE

I've never really done much packaging work... I like the idea of it; moving away from 2d print, edging closer to the world of 3d product design (which is where I'd like to be - eventually)...
I've bought DVDs in the past - just because I liked the cover. Whenever I buy wine, it's usually the label that draws me in. And if I ever saw any of these - I'd want to buy them, before I even knew/cared what was in them!









It's good to know that some lovely people have set up a lovely packaging design blog. Lot's of decent examples, laid on a nice clean site. Bookmark it.

LETTERPRESS

Every now and then, you see something, and it doesn't really sink in. You have to go back to it a while later to really appreciate it... This is a good example.






"This letterpress poster was handcrafted character by character over the course of roughly 100 hours. Characters from the Bickham Script Pro, Engravers MT, and Epic typeface families form the edifice featured in the artwork, the Salt Lake Temple. Each poster measures 16"x24" and is printed on Crane Lettra Pearl."

Jesus.

12 in12

Over Christmas I received my copy of 12 in 12.

Craig Oldham's different approach on what he learnt in the first year after leaving University on his quest to become a graphic designer.

It's brilliantly written and witty and best of all FREE (well he askes for a contribution for postage)

get yours here

cool xmas cards

Pocket studio have got some nice christmas cards for sale on the etsy website.
Part of a typographic Christmas series. These lovely crisp white cards have a festive message cut out of the front to reveal the splash of colour inside.

christmas by colour

Just saw this on formfiftyfive and think its an ace little competition.

All you have to do is create your colour breakdown and description of a christmas related colour.

Deadline is 28th November so enter at christmas by colour soon here

hard times postcard

earlier this week we recieved our ltd edition gocco printed postcards from the very lovely and talented Loz at because studio, he even wrote a nice thank you note inside.

wide cassette print

I just found this gold on black cassette print and thought it was pretty nice. Ltd to 100 and only £35. Made by sawdust. Buy it here

GOT MILK?

Ol' Jonny just posted about fffound, and I realised I had'nt looked through it in a while... After a few seconds I found this, and was literally drooling. I won't bang on about it, here's what the artist says:

Milk Carton Prospectus.
Packaging solution for the course prospectus. The aim was to represent the Graphic Design degree in a more creative way to new students. The reason for using a milk carton to package the course information was due to the idea of calcium being good for growth, so in relation to design, the course would be good for growth in creatives. The course information is displayed on a poster that comes packaged inside the milk carton.





MY GOD. I want on for my wall! Check out Jason Rubino's behance portfolio here.
This guy is slick.