Pelican book covers...

Here are a few examples of some classic pelican book covers which make use of really simple layouts and imagery to get across their message. For example there is one book called 'the divided self' which makes use of a series of circles which cross... looking as if they all came from one, and there is a series using this same technique. Really clever and simple design.

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.

Magomed Dovjenko - "thinking negative can be useful"

Here is some really simple designs created using a mixture of photoshop editing of type and layering hand rendered images. Think it really nicely gets across the point.

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.

Blueprint...

 Here are some images and a bit of blueprints identity. A skateboarding company with some really nice design, often very much based on graffiti art, such as the spray heart logos above on the boards. Really simple yet fit perfectly with the styles associated with skating and will be perfect for the target audience.

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.

retro futurism...

This is some digital art again found on behance that really caught my eye just because of how simple yet descriptive it was. It also instantly reminded me of dark side of the moon, whether this was intentional or not I don't know, however it almost looks like a modern take on it to me. The title "retro futurism" also rings true with my dark side of the moon theory...

Aron Jancso...

Here are some examples of a designer called Aron Jancso's work. This is one typeface he created that I found on behance and I think it is a beautifully crafted font. Also the way that he has placed it into layouts and above in the texture experiment work brilliantly. This font is a nice example of graphic designs simplicity as it is a very uncluttered font and makes use of block colour spaces and also the negative space around it to form the letters.

The Macula

The Macula is a company that work with projection and video on a huge scale. For example creating a video describing the 600 year history of a building and projecting it onto the building itself. Very clever yet a really simple concept.

http://www.themacula.com/

Sudpol

südpol is apparently a venue for music, dance and theatre located in the city of lucerne, Switzerland. Posters for the events are designed by young graphic designers and illustrators from lucerne. This particular example is by a designer called Mathis pfaffli ( thats what the website says anyway) and it really caught my eye.

Really liked the use of a restricted colour pallette, sticking to red and blue, which I think is partly down to the printing technique and also the really simple and bold layout.