things to look at

Jurriaan Schrofer

noreply@blogger.com (Jaypeg) — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 13:36:00 +0000

A few images from the Jurriaan Schrofer book reviewed in Eye 89. It's a great book. Well worth a look at.

Pegasus

noreply@blogger.com (Jaypeg) — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 12:06:00 +0000

The highlight of Eye 88 has to be Pegasus magazine; the Mobil publication running from 1970 – 1985, designed by Derek Birdsall. Read more here.
The combination of minimal layouts, large imagery and Michael Foreman imagery makes it a really interesting publication. Above is my favourite cover. I just don't think you could get away with that much white space in this day and age.

Here is my favourite text spread. It's so dense.

Here is my favourite Foreman spread.

Here is my favourite Foreman pullout.

Here is a detail from my favourite non Foreman illustration.

And here's my favourite large image. There are lots of full page double page images but I really like this series of classic layouts.

Kodak Magazine

noreply@blogger.com (Jaypeg) — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 21:35:00 +0000

Some pin ups from Kodak Magazine c1930's

Some Herb

noreply@blogger.com (Jaypeg) — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 20:43:00 +0000

Upper & Lowercase magazine
Art director: Herb Lubalin

This website is a brilliant resource where you can download entire issues.

http://blog.fonts.com/category/u&lc/

It's a great magazine. Even the simple text pages are elegant.

Skyline

noreply@blogger.com (Jaypeg) — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 20:11:00 +0000

It's a classic. Massimo Vignelli is one of the greats who is widely documented. But it's a very special moment when you happen to see two issues of Skyline lying around. So here they are. If you want to see more then check out the Flickr stream. There's also more to read in Eye60 and Eye83. The Vignelli's gave a D&AD lecture a few years a go where Massimo said that you should never be fashionable, you should be timeless. Skyline is a perfect example of this.

2013 Update

noreply@blogger.com (Jaypeg) — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 20:55:00 +0000

Dear readers We have been terribly remiss in letting the blog get dusty and unloved. We have finally decided to do a spring clean and clear out the spam and upscale our pictures. In the process we have decided to stop using our paid for image service and use Flickr instead. This will all take a bit of time, so in the meantime, please bear with all the broken image links.

90's Interview

noreply@blogger.com (Kuchar Swara) — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:21:00 +0000

Editor: Ingrid Sischy
Creative Director: Fabien Baron

Issue: July 1990

I thought we'd kick off 2013 with an impulse ebay purchase over Christmas – one of my favourite magazines, 90’s Interview, Fabien Baron era. The magazine looks as great now as ever, but I think this is a beautiful example of Baron’s work of that period – carrying his signature style of vertical condensed Franklin Gothic page furniture in the first quarter of the magazine, followed by fireworks of big type and photography in the remaining pages. For me Fabien’s work isn’t amazing only because of the type, although he is of course a master in this respect, but he understands more than anyone the power of photography in editorial design. His striking type openers and page sequences owe a great deal to his taste and understanding of images and how to commission this for stories. Fernando Gutiérrez's comments on Baron’s work hit the mark in this short video for Phaidon.

Tom Eckersley

noreply@blogger.com (Jaypeg) — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:10:00 +0000

A few great Tom Eckersley posters from 1966 to 1988

P/M Magazine

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 06:57:00 +0000

A Design Student's Guide to The New York World's Fair
1939
Paul Rand

We here at things to look at are always in favour of bold, pure geometry and this just caught our eye.

Festival Times

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 10 May 2011 06:07:00 +0000

The Festival Times
4 Issues from 1981
Edinburgh University Student Publishing Company
Designers: Simon Esterson & Nigel Billen
Editor: Tim Willis

Anyone who attended Simon Esterson's Typographic Circle talk last month might remember seeing this early piece of work. There is something very exciting about the angled headers and images.

Dennis Bailey

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 May 2011 11:06:00 +0000

Dennis Bailey designed this contents page in 1963 for Olympia magazine

Varoom 15

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 03 May 2011 14:24:00 +0000

The lastest issue of Varoom Magazine is out which is full of things we liked the look of.

Airside's illustrations for How To Make a How To Film. The animated versions are well worth checking out on the website.

Penguin's new editions of Nabakov featuring illustrators such as Luke Best, commissioned by Pentagram. It's a great contemporary angle on the very successful Poetry series patterns of the past.

Above: Illustrations by Astrid Chesney and ]Agnès Decourchelle. See more of these on Pentagrams website

It's quite interesting to compare them with the John Gall Nabakov covers, all of which you can see on Design Observer.

And of course, Marian Bantjes' map of an Isle of Knowledge charting all the ups and downs of the illustrator's world is beautifully rendered. The delta of common sense is not somewhere I hang out a lot and the swamp of failure seems to be ominously large.

There are more details on Marian Bantjes' website. They're well worth some scrutiny.

Wim Crouwel

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:43:00 +0000

Wim Crouwel; design hero. Even if you think you've seen it all before, the Design Museum have really come up trumps with their exhibition: Wim Crouwel: A Graphic Odyssey on from 30 March – 03 July. You can't help but be impressed by a huge wall of the posters we've all seen. It's an epic collection beautifully laid out. We here at Things to Look at particularly appreciated this poster.

Stilla: The Greatest Numerals

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 14:54:00 +0000

According to Herb Lubalin in the 1975 Second edition of U&lc (Upper and Lowercase magazine), which can now be downloaded as great hi res PDFs from the fonts.com blog. They're up to six issues in what must be a time-consuming endeavor. It's such a great idea and I hope they continue to upload what was a great example of Herb Lubalin's love of typography and contains many gems that don't feature in the book.

The numerals are shown in Stilla, designed by French type designer, François Boltana in 1973. A perfect example of the 'Fat Face' type style. The commercial face differs slightly from the above version which surely must have been hand drawn by Lubalin.

PORT : Could this be the modern man?

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:20:00 +0000

What do all those men not buying existing magazines want in a magazine that isn't offered in one publication? PORT could just have the answer. Behold the 'modern man' in bold spreads, with pensive words and amazing photographs. Check out the video on the website to see the all-star content.

Flipboard on the iPad

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 20:37:00 +0000

In order to acknowledge modern technology, Things to look at have set up a sparse Twitter account in order that people can import the feed into their Flipboard on the iPad should they so wish. Here's what it looks like.

Helmut Krone

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 10:40:00 +0000

Designer: Helmut Krone
Photographer: Bert Stern
Process: Letterpress
Typeface: Century
Compositor: Typographic Craftsman, Inc.
Engraver: Walker Engraving Corp.
Client: Polaroid Corp.

Agency: Doyle Dane Bernbach, Inc.
Art director: Helmut Krone
Copywriter: Robert Levenson
Photographer: Bill King
Client: Ohrbach's

The great Doyle Dane Bernbach art director Helmut Krone, (July 16, 1925 – April 12, 1996), mostly known for the 1960s Volkswagen Beetle work. Here are a few things that caught our eye. There is a book about his work, examples of his work on the AIGA website and information about his life and work on Design Observer.

From The Archive

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 11:28:00 +0000

A random book cover we like the look of due to the very ornate typeface used to represent conflict

Fictional Book Covers

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 10:54:00 +0000

There was a trend last year in creating fictional retro book covers for films and video games. It's a very satisfying project. We hate to leave people uncredited which is why this post never made it up on the blog. If anyone knows who did the bottom three covers then please let us know as we think they are great and would love to link to that person's site.

The above are from Spacesick

Colour Theory

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 10:36:00 +0000

There is so much to say about colour theory, that we just won't say it. If you throw all that aside and boil it down to its simplest level, then we can all agree that their is something very fulfilling in explaining a complex idea through the placement of a few humble shapes.

Wrapping up 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 09:12:00 +0000

A few random things from the archive that we like to look at

Contemporary British Printmakers

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:28:00 +0000

A great book cover using simple geometric shapes

Filmkonst

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:18:00 +0000

Cover of Swedish Magazine: Filmkonst March 1998

Faber & Faber

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:30:00 +0000

Book: Faber and Faber: Eighty Years of Book Cover Design
Author: Joseph Connolly
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Year: 2009

Back to the all type cover. Sometimes simplicity is missing these days. Although the above examples might not be your classic Faber & Faber book cover, they are a surprising delight. The book has a huge variety of cover designs in it from which we showcased a selection of all type covers that just caught our eye here at Things to Look At.

Andrzej Klimowski

noreply@blogger.com (Kuchar Swara) — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:31:00 +0000

Stumbled across these gorgeous covers by Andrzej Klimowski for the republished works of P.G. Wodehouse.
A great marriage of typographic style and illustration.

Publisher: Everyman's Library