Penguin Books... Ian Fleming 007.

This is a series of classic penguin book covers created for Ian Flemings 007 series. These particular covers make use a very simple layout focusing on the element of the Bond stories that brings in a lot of fans, The bond girls. Placing the type straight onto illustrated bond girls...

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.

Wax:on flier.

This is another photo of a flier. This one I quiet like because of the really nice feel created in the style of the illustration, almost like story book. Which is then mixed with digital elements like photographs and manipulation to create what I think is a nice flier.

Topshop flier

This is a Topshop flier that I picked up which, although not particularly special or interesting, it looks like the letters on it are printed by hand in a workshop or have been really crudely cut and placed on an orange backdrop.

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.

luke lucas...typography

The Keystone Design Union.

Alex Williamson...

Here are a few examples of a graphic artist called Alex Williamson's work. Here is another example of where the majority of design work was done off screen and the computer was used only as a tool to aid the finished product. The majority of Williamson's pieces are done as screen prints or using cutouts from magazines to create collages that are then digitized in order to manipulate them. I really like some of his work however often I find it can be a bit busy, and his frames can be very oddly composed with layers and layers of background imagery which I think could sometimes just be block colour. However the examples above are ones I picked because I thought they showed quite clearly that they were not totally computer based designs.