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noreply@blogger.com (BNZL) — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 14:05:00 +0000

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More on e-book design

noreply@blogger.com (BNZL) — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:13:00 +0000

I can't get enough of the heavy debate about e-book design, shifting focus from print to web and what's been said and predicted in the past. Wholesome, informative, educational. It's all very new to me and I though I'd share.

WWW.BLOG.EYEMAGAZINE.COM

Article: Electro Library Dreams

WWW.INFORMATIONARCHITECTS.JP

Article: Designing for iPad: Reality Check

Article: WIRED on iPad: Just Like a Paper Tiger...

WWW.SUBTRACT.COM

Article: This Way To The Web, Print Designers!

Article: Dear Designer: You Suck

Central Saint Martins BA (Honours) Graphic Design Degree show 2010

noreply@blogger.com (BNZL) — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:54:00 +0000

L'iPad & Digital Magazines

noreply@blogger.com (BNZL) — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:51:00 +0000

Apple, you got me. I seriously want an iPad. For a long time I considered the iPad to be a large iPod Touch, which I own and am actually very happy with. So why do I want one now? Well obviously not because I want to spend long hours typing up emails and documents in iWorks on it. It's not a computer and I don't intend to use it like one. From what I've heard and have experienced so far, movies and photographs look pretty amazing on it but most of all it makes me read magazines the way I wanted to read magazines 10 years ago. These are simply things you can't really do well on an iPod Touch. I've found quite a few iPad apps for magazines that interest me so far, and they're really not as expensive as I though they would be, major plus. I can't wait to see what Conde Nast will come up with and what other, more niche and underground focussed magazines will do. Will I buy one now? I'm super tempted but I think I'm going to wait for the 2nd generation iPad. I don't really care about the highly anticipated camera everyone's banging on about, but I do want to be able to multitask and run flash on it. Also spending £429 on a mere 16 GB and NO 3G just isn't worth it.... or is it? Hmmm... Anyway, as for digital publications, digital magazine design is a whole different ballgame as opposed to printed magazine design. Typography, meta-data, photography, interactive elements; pretty much the whole lay-out needs to be reconsidered, it's simply a completely different way of story telling and I've recently come to the conclusion that digital magazine design&publication are fields I wouldn't mind working in either. In fact every time I find a new magazine/newsfeed related app my enthusiasm grows and makes me want to read more and more and more and etc. Am I turning my back on the good old running-to-the-bookshop-to-pick-up-THE-new-issue? Hell no, digital & print aren't comparing, in my opinion. But I'm a n00b and I only just jumped on the iPad fangirl bandwagon. I don't have the (technical) knowledge on it's possibilities, bugs and where this device fails to deliver (yet) and if there possibly is a product on the market that does a much better job but I'm learning and it's all very exciting. I've fallen in love. If you're interested in digital magazines (on/and) the iPad but can't be bothered to spend hours geeking out online doing research, then these clips might be of use to you: x

Pentagram: 5 Ways the iPad Will Change Magazine Design

"This conceptual video is a corporate collaborative research project initiated by Bonnier R&D into the experience of reading magazines on handheld digital devices. It illustrates one possible vision for digital magazines in the near future, presented by our design partners at BERG (London)."

iPad magazine artdirection.

Digital magazine creation with Woodwing software.

The Guardian's Eyewitnessapp does a lovely job showing daily news photography. (And it's free.)

The Guardian's Eyewitnessapp explained.

Wired Magazine for iPad. I kinda fell in love with the iPad when I read this magazine on it.

Wired Magazine for iPad. Official trailer. Yumyum

iPad App Review - Zinio - Magazine reader

Time magazine for iPad.

Interview Magazine for iPad. Yay! Big fan of the printed version.

Letter to Jane Magazine for iPad. Hadn't heard of this magazine before, but it's looking sexy.

World Cup 2010: Ghana wins over Serbia 1-0 & Brixton goes mad.

noreply@blogger.com (BNZL) — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:10:00 +0000

As Australia is supposed to play against Germany tonight, I thought it was either Germans or, - more likely - Australians who were making all that cheerful preparatory noise around the corner. (There's loads of them living in Brixton and this all happened literally around the corner form my crib) So I got a bit curious and went out with my camera to see if I could take some scandalous photos of drunken Ozzies. Turned out Ghana had won their match against Serbia; which apparently was reason enough to have a party in the middle of the road next to Tesco's haha. Cars, busses, cyclists; everyone got stopped in the middle of the road by Ghanaian football fans. This was an amazing Brixton impromptu; London I heart you! x

Some more American graphic design love

noreply@blogger.com (BNZL) — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:19:00 +0000

Louis "Lou" Dorfsman (1918 – 2008) was a graphic designer who oversaw almost every aspect of the advertising and corporate identity for the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) in his forty years with the network. There are 2 books that I've been wanting to buy for while. Dorfsman & CBS and Herb Lubalin: Art Director, Graphic Designer and Typographer. But I can't really justify spending £200 on the latter right now, so Dorfsman's book is at the top of my to-get list. And for now I'll have to do with a couple of scanned images and spreads.

What type are you?

noreply@blogger.com (BNZL) — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 09:37:00 +0000

Answer 4 simple questions and you'll be told by Pentagram's What Type Are You what kind of type(face) you are. I turns out that I am Pistilli Roman... YES!

"Pistilli Roman

Co-designed by Lubalin and Pistilli in the 1950's; Pistilli Roman is a typeface that combines a disciplined form, notable in the ultra fine lines, carefully joining the bold ones with an emotional geometry notable in the curling circles. If you always demand that things be in order and then are always incredibly moved when they are, Pistilli Roman is your type."

Ha amazing, very true. It's funny though, I've loved this typeface for many a year and now to discover that I am this type(face).... how big of a narcissist am I huh?

Unfortunately it's not available digitally. However, Veer has released a digital revival of an old Didone style (in the style of 2 other super beautiful typefaces Bodoni and Didot) photo-typepositing face. It's called Eloquent and it's based on Pistilli Roman. "This new digital version evokes late 1960s magazine advertising, and includes the rarely seen swash variant, and features several newly created alternate swash caps (A, J, Q, Z, M, K,R) and one new alternate lowercase swash and several lowercase ligatures. The font contains both lining figures and old style figures." A very handsome typeface.

More Hanking

noreply@blogger.com (BNZL) — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:44:00 +0000

I found some really beautiful typography in an old issue of Harper's Bazaar (I'm now also totally hooked on magazine typography) and did this typo drawing based on it. (This is actually more of a sketch, it's hand drawn, scanned and I still need to trace and tweak it. Which I probably won't do because it's really just practice. And I shipped my tablet off to the Netherlands. And seriously, fuck digital enhancing with a mouse.) Can't decide wether to go with the original black on white or vice versa. You choose. x

Hank is back

noreply@blogger.com (BNZL) — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:39:00 +0000

For those of you who remember Hank, bird of Paradise, he came to visit me in my dreams quite a bit over the past few weeks. Last night in my dream I was carelessly prancing through Hank's bizarre forrest with aquamarine orchids in my black shiny hair wearing a broken white kebaya that my grandmother had made me. Suddenly I felt a thump on my head and black ink poured all over me. On the ground lay a huge Stabilo. I was like "Wtf?" and when I looked up, I saw Hank, in all his splendid glory, sitting on a branch above me. With a friendly but Behold-The-Metatron!-impact-like voice he told me that now that I've got no excuse to stress about anything and have no work to do until the end of the month I should practice my drawing. And work on my typography. Or else he'd kick my ass.

We raised £7.500

noreply@blogger.com (BNZL) — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 20:48:00 +0000

This amount matched by Saint Martins means we have £15.000 to spend on our graduation show next year. (so far ;) It's over y'all, what an interesting / lovely / chickenballbusting week it was. Safe travels home everyone. x

BNZL in the shop by Catriona Maciver & Michael Faggiani

The Box

noreply@blogger.com (BNZL) — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:01:00 +0000

In high school I struggled my way through Sartre's Huis Clos (No Exit) as part of French class. Last year when I was doing some personal research I was reminded of the play again and then stumbled upon a sci-fi/thriller/horror flick called "The Box", Richard Kelly's (Donnie Darko, Southland Tales) adaptation of "Button Button", a short novel written by Richard Matheson. (What Dream May Come, I Am Legend) Now wether the references to Sartre's ideas in this film do his philosophies justice I'm not quite sure of, there are some clever and subtle visual references, but the film kinda ends up being a melodramatic blockbuster with stories left untold. But at the time I was watching it I found it super enjoyable. It's one of those films that I can just watch over and over again just for it's aesthetics. Anyway, since getting familiar with Eric Rosenberg's work for the movie and television industry I've been more consciously looking at graphic design and composition in films and tv-series than I have before. I did this post to show some stills of The Box, which I think I watched over 3 times now. I love the visuals and cinematography, highly inspirational. Much love to cinematographer Steven Poster (who was also 2nd Unit Director of Photography on Blade Runner and Close Encounters of the Third Kind) for making this film so visually scrumptious.

London/Amsterdam/New York

noreply@blogger.com (BNZL) — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:36:00 +0000

I'm flying home in 2 weeks which is really exciting because I get to hang with my friends and family and be shamelessly "Dutch" (my attitude described by London friends) again. But I will be missing London like crazy, I'm still here and I kinda miss it and it's metropolitan awesomeness already. It's all self-inflicted pre-conceived melancholy, I know. I'm very good at it. During the past few days I've just been so enthused about all that's coming up; Amsterdam, my final year at college, graduation and then the so called real world; finding work, paying tax, paying off student debts, getting drivers license, trying not to get in car accidents. I think I've kinda made a decision about what I really want and what I'll be focussing on next year, next to graduating. It's a broad idea really. I think I might apply for a Master degree in either London (Royal College of Art) or Amsterdam (Sandberg Institute) OR look for a job in either London, Amsterdam or New York. One of my really good friends here in London is going to New York to be with her man for the summer and I'm trying to fly my arse over there as well sometime soon to visit them and the OTHER best city in the world. ;) Is it naive to think that now I've lived in London for about 2 years, have even been offered a job, it's safe to assume that I'll get to a standard of surviving/getting by in New York on my own as well? Because that's kinda how I'm feeling right now. Bold and brazen haha. I get the same feeling from that place as I get from London. As for going to Amsterdam, it's so much closer to friends and family than anywhere else I'd consider living/working/studying and that's gradually becoming more important to me. It's definitely a cool city but it's relatively small and I might get tired of it really quickly. I think I can handle 3 months though. So in all, I'm not quite sure yet. Either way, I feel like I'm getting closer to doing all the things that I wanted to do when I was younger; frequent changes of scenery & work/study in different places. Just knowing that I, well a lot of people in my vicinity for that matter, have the opportunity to do those things if we really want to do them makes me feel much less heavy and trapped. That feeling alone is worth a fat grin.

These London as seen by night aerial photographs by Jason Hawkes aren't new but I've only seen the whole series a few days ago and I really wanted to share them with you in case you hadn't seen them yet. They make me feel extra good about living here. :)

CSM Pop-up shop launch

noreply@blogger.com (BNZL) — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:39:00 +0000

The shop officially launched yesterday evening. It was cold, dark and raining but it was fuuucking crowded. It was so good to see soooo many people showing up regardless of the dirtydirty weather! I'm so sorry about the whack photos but the poison was flowing freely and I spilt vodka all over my pretty ochre colored dress and I still can't find my SB-900 and blehblehbleh. But honestly, who cares! Great music, great people, great stuff for sale and we raised £2600 that night :) x

My favorite things from CSM pop-up shop!

noreply@blogger.com (BNZL) — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:08:00 +0000

There is a lot of really lovely stuff for sale but I only had about £20 to spend so I only bought 3 objects that I coveted the most from the beginning. They're one of Kar Mun Ho's pill boxes and one of Lucy Verrechia's handmade woolen bookbag and information booklet. (By the way, I'm a bit of a pattern&colorblocking freak so I think these 2 products look phat together) I had them both wrapped up in Sophie Sampson's giftwrapping. Awesome work guys, soso proud! x

Sophie's product for the shop was a gift-wrapping service, such a brilliant idea! She screen-printed 21 ribbons with all our names on them (they also kinda function as businesscards for BAGD2 too) and had our logo printed on the paper and stickers. She did well, her product sold out on the second day.

Kar's product is a medical box classification system. She designed packaging for 7 different existing drugs with the intent of "re-selling" the drugs for their side-effects rather than their actual purpose. She's obviously not selling the pills for real but I really like the concept and I veryveryvery much like the graphics.

Lucy designed a woolen bookbag, it comes in 3 colors with different patterns on them. Its concept stems from research into book preservation and in particular the ways that we can look after our book collection. I LOVE IT; the concept, the execution (I've somehow developed a craving for fluorescent pink detailed objects), the pattern, the material and the fact that it's made to fit 2 A5 Moleskin notebooks, and I've been looking for something to carry my sketch/scribble Moles around as a set, for ages. Needless to say, Lucy's done brilliant, she sold out on second day aswel!

Setting up CSM pop-up shop

noreply@blogger.com (BNZL) — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:20:00 +0000

In approximately 3 days the interior team managed to decorate and stock the whole venue with our 2060 products. We had our first customer when we were still busy setting up the shop, there were a lot of curious passerby's who walked in without knowing who we were and what we were doing, so location wise we're blessed. (We're only a 10 minute walk from Holborn tubestation so we are pretty central.) We opened the shop on 31 May and we sold £500 worth of products within the first four hours of opening.

Buy my stuff!

noreply@blogger.com (BNZL) — Sat, 29 May 2010 11:28:00 +0000

For the past 2 months I've been designing and producing 21 products that will hopefully all be sold at the pop-up shop that we've set up to raise money for next year's graduation show. This pop-up shop isn't just a fundraiser but it's also our end of the year project. It was all about 'the designer as producer.' It's been hella intense at times but it was fun and I learn a lot too this term. We all had to keep blog-diaries and having the opportunity of following the work-processes of a 100-something other students, step-by-step, was so helpful. I wanted to get away from the magazine/book/poster design niche for a bit so I thought I'd get crafty again and designed a herbal pillow that functions as a natural sleeping aid. (This involved a lot of Laura Ashley-ing; buying and testing textiles and herbs, -pastel- color matching, sewing, excuses for trips to Liberty's...;) For this project I've played with the concept of worrying about environmental damage and not being able to sleep because of it. I've always been a fan of pandas, so I took this occasion to create a product dedicated to one of the most endangered species out there. The Giant Panda is also the international symbol of conservation, £0.50 of every herbal pillow sold will be donated to the WWF. So yesterday we had to hand-in 1 boxed item with a step-by-step instruction sheet and a product photograph for evaluation and 1.5 kg. lavender, 1 kg. lentils, 500 gr. cloves, 4m2 satin, 1m2 cotton, 1m2 felt, 80 m cotton thread, 5 sheets transfer-paper, 30 sheets sugar paper, 35 brown paper bags, 5 hours image research, 10 hours silkscreen printing, 25 hours hand stitching, 8 prototypes, 1 Martha Steward bitch fit, 2 lovely tension-releasing dates and about 100 change-of-plans later, it may as well be called official; my 2nd year is over! I'll be a 3rd year student for the first time ever and if all goes well I'll be graduate next year, which is a big first for me too. In other news, my previous boss (the creative director at the Jewish Chronicle) thought I was graduating coming June and offered me a job for a year as one of their art directors was going on maternity leave! How great is that? I'm soso thankful for these people. But I'm not graduating this year, let's just hope that next year job offers will come at me just as easily :)

Here they are; my 21 herbal pillows, lined up as proud little environmental activists . The bags, notes and pillows are all hand cut, hand silkscreen printed and hand stitched and go for £10 a pop. So buy my herbal pillows; help the Giant Panda and help me graduate.

Product prepared for final hand-in

And here's a bit of my workprocess.

Bring yourself.

noreply@blogger.com (BNZL) — Wed, 26 May 2010 01:22:00 +0000

Central Saint Martins 2nd year BAGD Pop Up Shop

noreply@blogger.com (BNZL) — Tue, 18 May 2010 22:39:00 +0000

Click on banner for more information -x-

Little mystery.

noreply@blogger.com (BNZL) — Sun, 16 May 2010 10:49:00 +0000

Every now and then stacks of random books, dvd's and cd's show up in my living room by the quasi fireplace. Half of the time we don't know who puts them there, no-one's claimed them.

Londonesquapades

noreply@blogger.com (BNZL) — Mon, 10 May 2010 17:28:00 +0000

I'm in the process of developing a product for the popup-shop event that we're organizing to fund our 3rd year degree show, it'll take place between 31 May and 7 June. You should all come and buy our things. It's going well but it's all a bit full-on and right now I'm kind of stuck. So just to get away from the intense research, prototype & brainstorm sessions for a bit I though I'd edit and post some photos that I took with my BlackBerry during the past year. These are bits of my London life and this collection makes my life look a bit like a Lomo-romance, which it absolutely isn't. I used to love to cross-process but don't have the time or money to indulge in such luxury analog photography anymore. :'( Back to work now. x

Stephen Fry + Cheshire Cat = Heart

noreply@blogger.com (BNZL) — Sun, 02 May 2010 17:00:00 +0000

This morning I was pretty sure nothing would cure my bastard hangover. However, Stephen Fry voicing the Cheshire Cat and Helena Bonham Carter's massive bitching clownesque head (and a complete English breakfast) did a pretty good job. They're probably the best things to come out of Burton's version of Alice in Wonderland. Hearing Paul Whitehouse voicing the Mad March Hare was pretty cool too, but could do with some proper Northern cursing. The rest are just Tim Burton follies. God, I'm so freaking tired of him (using Johnny Depp as a mentally deranged protagonist!) x

Cute.

noreply@blogger.com (BNZL) — Sat, 01 May 2010 19:39:00 +0000

I was cleaning up my hard drives and found these pictures I took a couple of years ago when I was living in New Zealand. They're the first pictures I took with a Holga.

BNZLDN 100th post!! Whatever. Here's some more magazine stuff.

noreply@blogger.com (BNZL) — Sat, 01 May 2010 13:54:00 +0000

To those who know me well it's no secret. I love the 90's. I've always wanted to be 18 in 1994, when Hip Hop was still alive and Drum 'n Bass still pure, wobble free. Alas, I was 10. Not too young to notice what was going on out there, but not old enough to get infused with its flourishing rave culture and shellshocked by its changing cultural landscape either. The 90's imprinted its mark on me and pretty much shaped my creative interests into what they are today. Halfway through my teens I became a fervent magazine buyer. A habit which for some reason I picked up again in my early twenties. I remember still getting pocketmoney and spending it on zines on a monthly basis. My mum considered this a total waste of money and I always felt a little bad after she gave me the 'for god's sake child, save your money' lecture. But I kept buying them and (in this case) I'm happy I didn't really really listen to her. It's not like I was scoring crack, mother. So yesterday I found a box filled with magazines in a corridor. Awesome. What's even more awesome is that they're DazedConfused issues from the 90's. Yay! I would've been over the moon to get my hands on these back then but I didn't nearly have enough money to buy every magazine I wanted. But I'm equally chuffed now that I have them and probably appreciate them even more now that I look at them, filled with nostalgia.

DazedAndConfused 60
November 1999
Back cover
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Supplement ft. Gilles Peterson

Dazed&Confused 35
October 1997
Special music issue.

Artists in first 3 images:

1. Goldie
2. Autechre, Aphex Twin, Nightmares on Wax,
Squarepusher, Roni Size, Krust, Suu, Die,
3. Adam F, Majic, Justice, Technical Itch, DJ Hype, DJ Zinc, Intense, DJ Pulse, Blame, Optical, Nico, Underwolves, Dom&Roland, Rob Playford, Aquasky, Dillinja, DJ Ron, Boymerang, Lemon D, Flytronix, Matrix.

HEART x INFINITE.

DazedAndConfused 61
November/December 1999/2000
End of the millennium / century issue

London's biggest bass promotors united under one roof for the first time...

noreply@blogger.com (BNZL) — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:07:00 +0000

Finally! 6 promoters gather and go head-to-head under one roof to make history as they present their respective sounds with a collection of the biggest selectors playing the baddest beats in town with a truly legendary line up! Click on respective links for more information on location, line-up and tickets.This shit is going to be off the hook. x

Back in playpen of mayhem.

noreply@blogger.com (BNZL) — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:47:00 +0000

Ready for summery goodness.