Searching for ideas, manipulating connection between concepts, creating relationships between words, pictures, defining new ways to see things… These activities are a large part of the designer work, before any production work. In the same way a developer combines logical blocks, handles variables and conditionnals, the graphic designer orders ideas and visual combinations in an original, efficient and unexpected way.
Higher is a design agency founded in 2009 and based in Czech Republic. For this agency, a corporate identity is more than a simple logo and live on varied different medias, in order to develop a real relationship with the customer. Very clean corporate designs, with a special work on typography.
In the days of digital, of mp3, of ITunes and downloading, the relationship between music and graphic design is getting less and less visible. It still exists, of course, and I presume it finds its future into video or interactivity. But if we have to compare to the visual richness of 50's, 60's, 70's and even the mid 90's, the musical graphic design of today is less rich and creative.
This eveolution not depends only on internet, because the raising of CD, with its more little display surface than vinyl discs, has restrained the graphic design expression surface. More over, some discs contained real edition works with posters, leaflets, allowing the designers and bands to really developp rich and detailed visual universes.
Today's young designers (like me), don't know for the most this interesting past of music design. However, it has create varied and experimental design, through the different music styles. It's in this objective that I introduced in an old article the Storm Thorgerson's work. Today I write this post about another great music designer, Reid Miles, who marked another music style, jazz music.
Lundgren+Lindqvist is a swedish design bureau based in Gothenburg. They mainly work on branding, including logotype design, graphic charts, printed or web communication tools, and even illustration. Even if the team is intentionally small, the bureau works with a large network of co-workers, including motion designers, copywriters and some very talented photographers.
Their productions are characterized by a minimalistic approach of design, and a high consistency into a whole project. Brandings they create often plays with two or three colours, with geometrics shapes and a rationnal use of typography and layout grids.
Pictures and links in the rest of this post.
Web allows definitely great meetings, and I'm very happy to have this blog when I can publish articles like this one. I found on Behance the work of Andreas Leonidou, a graphic designer and font designer based in Cyprus. His typography works are very original and structured, featuring a real search for new shapes.
I was lucky to exchange some emails with him later, and I introduce his work today with a little interview about typography, graphic design, and about the design scene in Cyprus. Pictures, texts and links in the rest of this article.
Found by chance on the web, Skin is a design studio based in Norway. Their works, mostly for print and edition, are very worthy. You'll find in the rest of this article pictures in which photographs have a special treatment and a strong place, often playing with deconstruct typography. Their identity and package design works are very clean too.
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