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

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...

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.

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 - "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.