Big Ideas: Don't get any - Radiohead cover by James Houston

Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)

This is a really awesome video for Radioheads 'Street spirit', directed by Jonathan Glazer, who said, "That was definitely a turning point in my own work. I knew when I finished that, because they found their own voices as an artist, at that point, I felt like I got close to whatever mine was, and I felt confident that I could do things that emoted, that had some kind of poetic as well as prosaic value."

I love this video because of it use of really simple imagery yet when you look closer there is a huge amount of detail in each scene.

Si Scott...

 These two portray Si Scotts style of illustration and choice of imagery really nicely. He looks a lot at the texture and shapes created by wildlife, which he then brings into his typographic layouts and all other design. His style of illustration I think is really impressive...

Magomed Dovjenko again...

These are some more of Magomed Dovjenkos illustrations, these ones focusing in much more on the hand rendered element... looking at the really nice line quality he has created and every little detail of his illustrations.

Magomed Dovjenko, "Proof7"

This is a piece of illustration, presumably done by hand then traced into illustrator which I think is really brilliant. Very similar to the work of Si Scott due to him being one of Magomeds main influences. I think this is a really good example of how detail makes this piece. Without the liquid effects and differences in tone etc, it would just be a 7 and a P, however the illustrator has used this brilliantly to make some nicely detailed letterforms.

Inspiration pad

 

These are some pages from a book called inspiration pad. It is basically a note pad in which the designer has changed the layout of the page, taking lined paper in a whole new way. Again really simple but it has some really interesting effects.

An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth...

Here is a series of typographic illustrations thats I think are brilliant. really nice and detailed illustration with clear messages.

Storm Thorgerson

Here are some of Storm Thorgerson's photos which are always really surreal. Although dark side of the moon is a brilliantly designed album cover and doesn't really follow the rest of his work, its just so simple and works so well. although the concepts behind his photos for album art aren't always obvious, I think it is the small details and the great lengths that he goes, to get these right that make his photos.

Eye Magazine

Here is an overview of a series of rejected covers created by a single person for eye magazine. I really like this, not so much single elements, but the idea that in this view they sort of work as one to create a really interesting visual, but if you look much closer you begin to see the detail and work that went into each cover.

Patternity...

http://www.patternity.co.uk

Camera Obscura

The camera obscura (Latin; "camera" is a "vaulted chamber/room" + "obscura" means "dark"= "darkened chamber/room") is an optical device that projects an image of its surroundings on a screen.
The device consists of a box or room with a hole in one side. Light from an external scene passes through the hole and strikes a surface inside where it is reproduced, upside-down, but with colour and perspective preserved. The image can be projected onto paper, and can then be traced to produce a highly accurate representation.

Ebon Heath

Here are a few more examples of Ebon Heath's work, which I have previously posted. He seems to work a lot on the detail of pieces which is one of the reasons I like his work and evidently spends huge amounts of time on each piece. I particularly like those above created by layering paper as these just show his attention to detail...below are a few links to his website which I found after looking at his typographic mobiles, however there is a lot of similarly interesting work on there.

http://www.listeningwithmyeyes.com/index.html

http://www.listeningwithmyeyes.com/graphd.html

http://www.listeningwithmyeyes.com/purge.html

Ebon Heath... Typographic mobiles!!

I think these are really good examples of how some designers stick to the production of their design by hand. The majority of these mobiles produced by Ebon Heath were cut by hand, and some laser cut when the shapes created became too complicated. I think this also beautifully relates to how design lives in detail with a huge amount of time being spent cutting the counters from every letter etc. It is evident that here the computer has not played the major role in production.