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Long Live Play.

2011-10-07T18:20:00.003+01:00

This Playstation ad is brilliant.

The ad so well communicates why people LOVE games. It's the story, it's the challenge, its the epic-ness of it all combined!

Anyone familiar to the gaming world will recognise at least 1 or 2 of these characters (though most were a complete mystery to me - maybe i'm out of touch?).

I think it's more of an ad for gaming as an entertainment form, rather than for just Playstation 3. Brilliant either way!

GIF it up, GIF it up, GIF it up now.

2011-07-12T23:16:00.004+01:00

Could 'Cinegraphy' (i'm not sure about the term either...), a subtle, understated animation style be the saviour of the .GIF?

The format is usually associated with late 90s early 2000s cheap, brash and nasty web advertising. These examples show a modern, more subtle usage of the format, combining beautiful photography with a slight hint of movement; creating the effect of short piece of high quality video.

I think the first example (the fresher than fresh tomatoes) really displays how this format could be effectively used for neat little (and non-bandwidth taxing) moving web adverts.

More examples here, some OK, some great (the taxi reflection in the window is particularly nice).

Still Life

2011-06-29T22:37:00.015+01:00

I've never been a massive fan of The Horrors (I think I was probably a bit presumptive and was put off by the look of them, thinking they were just another 'gothy band'). Then I heard a couple of tracks, and it still seemed fairly run of the mill massively Joy Division influenced 'neo-post-punk'...if that's a thing.

But a couple of weeks ago I heard the first single 'Still Life' from their upcoming (July release) album 'Skying'.

It it pure goodness.

It sounds like it was made by a group who've been solely surviving on a diet of 80's John Hughes films and Tears for Fears tracks. Love it.

Hear here.

Have a delicious refreshing coke.

2011-06-24T22:26:00.000+01:00

Rather cool article about the first neon Coca Cola sign ever (i think ever!)

See it on Creative Review here.

Best wedding photography ever?

2011-05-10T22:59:00.005+01:00

These photos (with what you could maybe call, a 'light bit' of post-shoot editing) are apparently from a Russian wedding photographer.

As one of the commenters says "it's like a bad car wreck – so horrible you have to look (while you tell yourself how lucky you are not be part of it)". Ahh it's brilliant.

More here.

Symmetry and micro-blogging (though in techno-jargon surely mogging)

2011-05-09T00:20:00.005+01:00

I've realised I hardly blog these days, largely because of the main thing I do with the blog is show and share nice bits of art / design / culture, and frankly, facebook and twitter are much quicker and more of a 'two way conversation' than the blog (which feels more like shouting interesting facts into a bottomless abyss).

So as a result i'm going to try and do more short and snappy '30 second post' bloggs (this being a bit longer than that), where I get straight to the good stuff!

So here we go!

This is a very nice video by 'Everynone' (http://vimeo.com/everynone) on Vimeo.

Two camera shots, side by side, showing the opposites, the yings and the yangs of life (juxtaposition if you will).

E.g. A shot of a policeman next to a robber, a child crying to a child laughing, a baby taking his first steps to a man treading his last).

It's beautifully shot and short enough to keep you hooked.

http://vimeo.com/22564317

They've also got some other interesting videos, so have a gander.

The Bullitts

2010-12-06T20:15:00.002Z

New project from hiphop uber producer Jeymes Samuel, if this first release is anything to go by these 'guys' are going to be awesome. So good! Also always nice to drop in a bit of Salvador Dali for the visuals!

Get it! / Listen!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmozhjxSkGI

Becoming a grown up (hardly) and getting a dreaded j.o.b.

2010-10-03T21:34:00.005+01:00

Well, since last we spoke, i've graduated uni with a 2:1 (though i was just over 1% off a 1st, bit annoying but hey ho!). Our graduating (Graphic Design) class had our final show... which i think was relatively successful, despite the lack of a 'proper' London show (Bournemouth is not exactly the arts and design capital of the world).

The show was really good though, oddly enough despite everyone working on their projects for the last 6 months or so of the final year, you rarely got to see other peoples projects, in a state comparable to how they would look when finished. So it was really amazing / fresh to see everyones work!

Anyway, that seems long gone! As it was all about 3 months ago!

So, soon after the final hand in (after messaging, emailing, link-in-ing, twittering, facebooking, posting, ringing, texting, faxing, carrier-pidgeoning every design company in the northern hemisphere, as well as a few in the southern one) i landed a month internship with a company called Sideshow (based all of 20 meters away from where i studied, on the university campus).

That unpaid (damn you standard practices in design business) internship turned into a job, and since 1st August i've been employed as a Designer by Sideshow (http://www.thisissideshow.com/). The agency / studio / whatever the going term is, is a small (but quickly growing) 9 month old company based in Poole (with a London office), and its great!

It's a wicked environment, lots of fun, but also hard work! I've been working with a range of clients on a range of projects, from an independent ethical clothing seller to huge names like BT.

On the first day i got there 'The White Album' by The Beatles was blasting out, so i knew from then it was a sound place!

Moving Forward

2010-05-17T12:36:00.003+01:00

Last friday i had my final hand in for university! I have now handed in my 'final major project' alongside my portfolio, business cards and various other 'entrepreneurial elements' (including the website and blog).

Which cleverly leads me onto this... i have my portfolio website up and running finally, it's been in various stages of functionality for a few weeks / months but it had all come together nicely now.

The website can be seen here: www.jackdavey.co.uk.

Have a look, let me know what you think! (And feel free to employ me!)

Finding work for graduates with little long-term studio experience is notoriously difficult in design, especially in recent years with the economy and such and such.. I am beginning to experience this first hand after applying to many Design companies, however on the bright side i have shortlisted for some jobs and been to interviews (from which i still haven't heard the final decision!) and have been offered a longer-term placement at Dalziel + Pow (who i did a placement with last summer).

In the meantime the class is beginning preparation for the Bournemouth and London final shows, and hopefully i can fill my summer with freelancing, festivals, some work placements, and some of the self-initiated projects i've been itching to continue with for the past months (one of which can be seen on the website here)

Roll on the summer and the shows!

Election Day (Lazy Parody/Plagiarism)

2010-05-05T16:36:00.000+01:00

Well it's election day in England, have just been down to the polling station and given my vote!

Like many others, I've been watching the televised prime ministerial debates, who most people seem to agree turned Nick Clegg from being the new-boy to a (at least personality wise) favourite.

This election seems to have a surprising number of young people interested in voting, most of the people i know at university have actually got off their arses and gone to vote! Which is always good!

Who-ever you are voting for, there are a good range of tools on the internet to help you decide who your vote should be with. http://voteforpolicies.org.uk/ and http://www.votematch.org.uk/ are brilliant websites (and quite impartial from what i can tell!). Both of these sites present policies to you, from nameless parties, to which you simply say what you agree with and what you don't. It's a great way to see summarised policies, and also to get people away from voting for parties just for the sake of previous allegiances, getting you to vote for which one you agree with, rather than your favourite 'brand' as it were!

One thing that did annoy me was the how 'The Sun' ripped off Shepard Fairey's Obama 'Hope' poster (see below). The imitation poster hijacks the ideals Obama represented (of hope and change), attempting to apply them to Cameron, a man with completely opposing plans and ideas.

Whilst the 'borrowing' of Shepard's art style is nothing new, it has been overdone, and creates a completely void message when applied to certain subjects. This is not a personal attack on David Cameron, more one on The Sun for stealing artwork, and being unimaginative and lazy.

Gorillaz: Plastic Beach

2010-04-06T13:51:00.006+01:00

First Listen: Hated it, too much synth and weirdness seemingly for the sake of weirdness.

Second Listen: Still crap.

Third Listen: Amazing! I don't know what's happened but i suddenly am a loving this album. The synth doesn't seem as jarring, and following on from Demon Days (also amazing), it seems logical, it pushes previous experiments and sounds and is a huge leap forward (moreso than Demon Days was from the debut, which was a lot).

The guests on this album are as numerous as they are varied, the album intro has Snoop Dogg (i'm not a fan) rapping, followed tracks later by Mos Def and a classical orchestra, who is followed by various punks including Paul Simonon and Mick Jones (from the Clash) and Mark Smith (from the fall). To top it off art-rock legend Lou Reed makes an appearance as does sixties soul singer Bobby Womack.

Anyway, i think this album is a grower. Whilst it's sad that Blur aren't 'properly back' (or maybe it's a good thing, tarnishing former glory and such), the new Gorillaz album definitely makes up for it!

Rebuilding Paul

2010-03-17T14:44:00.004Z

I have been playing guitar for about 6 or so years, and am quite average at it! But i do love it!
I recently went to Swanage Blues Festival, a yearly festival blues festival in (predictably) Swanage.

The day of music got me re-inspired with rock and roll guitar music, so i have spent the last few weeks listening to Robert Johnson, Leadbelly, Sonny Terry, and early Led Zeppelin. As well as discovering new greats (for me) like Son House and John Mayall.

After having my (cheap) 'Les Paul copy' guitar for 6 years, i was a bit bored with the look of it. I wanted one that looked like Les Paul himself had owned it, and toured with it, dropped it, broke it, and ran over a few times.

I set out to sand, batter, scrape, the guitar, in a way that left it still playable and hopefully more interesting to look at!
Here are the pictures of that process!..

Heres what it looked like at the start (not mine but identical)

Here is my garden/workshop (i decided to start this project quite late at night!)

A bit of sanding and dismantling later..

Inspecting the good work

Sanding done, heres the back (a bit more paint, went a bit more arty here!)

Next day, time to rebuild!

Heres the finished headstock

And heres the main body!

I'm pretty damn pleased with it! Still want to change a few bits (like the humbucker holdings, and control knobs. But i like it!
I dont think there's been a day where i haven't blasted 'The Rumble' on it in a few weeks!

Design is...

2009-11-25T18:46:00.012Z

In the 1950's and 60's Dieter Rams designed a variety of standard products like radios, speakers, lemon juicers and lighters for the electronics company Braun.

The products look today, as new and fresh as they did back then, and the style and theory behind them has informed product design ever since (see anything Apple have made since everything they sold went minimal and white / plain metal).

Rams' was aware the world was being cluttered with confusing and overcomplicated design, so set out ten principles of design that he felt all designers / designs should follow.

Here are the ten principles for good design.

Good design is innovative.

Good design makes a product useful.

Good design is aesthetic.

Good design helps us to understand a product.

Good design is unobtrusive.

Good design is honest.

Good design is durable.

Good design is consequent to the last detail.

Good design is concerned with the environment.

Good design is as little design as possible.

Immersion Project

2009-11-01T23:15:00.013Z

'The zone' is a well known concept within sports, and really any mentally or physically demanding activity.

New York based photographer Robbie Cooper's 'Immersion' series shows children as they enter 'the zone' whilst playing engrossing and violent games like Grand Theft Auto 4 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.

The shoot shows a unique way of looking at gaming, by looking at the gamer. I'm sure i look like that playing Grand Theft Auto, from the look on their faces i can recall being so sucked into a game you sort of forget your surroundings.

The idea behind the shoot is great, letting the kids play the games for an indefinite amount of time until they appear to be in 'the zone', and the shots are great.

The kids are indeed too young to play these (18 certificate) games. However kids will, always get hold of them, and i think there is far worse things than playing games!

Robbie Cooper's Website

dalziel+pow, hydroponic potatoes

2009-10-20T12:10:00.005+01:00

i've been a bit lax on blogging recently!
had a very hectic end of summer, managed to get a work placement with dalziel and pow design consultancy, which was amazing!

was working on a huge range of projects, creating a typeface for a (as i have been informed to say...) 'well known high street brand', as well as designing logos for a cafe in dubai, and also designing posters for china's 60th birthday celebrations!

here are a few of the pieces / mid-developmental pieces i worked on whilst there..

typeface

national day cards

bite cafe

had an amazing time, and was good to get a glimpse of what i'll be doing for the next 50 years! i'm looking forward to it i think!

back at uni now for third year, terrifying stuff, however interesting too, currently working on a one week project consisting of 'eden project' style sections of supermarkets growing hydroponic potatoes and tomatoes etc..., been working on grow cycles and crop yield statistics for the last few days!

madness!
somehow i'm sure this relates to graphic design!

Collages, Wallpapers

2009-08-05T18:50:00.016+01:00

Recently i've been working on some collage art after seeing some really sick stuff other people have done recently, namely an old favourite Eduardo Recife, and more recently Agnes Montgomery's work.

Agnes' most famous work would probably be the album cover for Panda Bear's 'Person Pitch', however she's done various pieces for magazines etc.. one of the best (in my opinion) was an amazing cover for FACT music magazine (FACT always have amazing cover art).

Here is a couple of the bits i have done, designed to be used as desktops for 16:10 screens (1650x1080 / 1440x900). The images used in the collage are pretty much a mixture of this kind of stuff:

1. my own photos / screen prints / sketches / scanned objects /
2. various scanned or downloaded anciently old magazine adverts/record covers
3. downloaded pictures of people taking photos of old low quality tv in the 60s/70s

The first one was just a sort of 'testing out theories' thing, and the second one is more of a developed thing.

Click the thumbnails for fullsize downloadable desktops.

1. ' Speed'
(Using images loosely based around the idea of speed)

2. 'Hot Pastrami'
(Started off being about Manhattan, ended up being something else?)

glastonbury

2009-07-03T15:17:00.008+01:00

just back from glastonbury (well a couple of days ago!). still feel knackered, and mucky to my core!

was 'hard work' this year due to me having nearly severed my right foot 5 weeks ago, and so have been in a leg cast ever since, and will be for another 4 weeks atleast, which is something of a bummer! and also meant had to move around the 900 acre muddy site on crutches! was a great weekend though. neil young, the specials, blur and ofcourse 'the boss' himself were amongst some of the great acts.

Q music magazine held a competition before the event asking for glastonbury t-shirt designs, one of which would eventually be chosen as the official tshirt of glasto'09. i drew some designs up, but because of my lack of organisation never found a bloody stamp to mail my designs in to Q with!

here are a few of my (quick) designs

i like 'em! the first two atleast, gets that summer fun mucky vibe over, i hope! annoyed i didn't send them in as i saw a few t-shirts similar to the first design at glasto!

in three words

2009-06-18T14:07:00.005+01:00

'in three words' is the graduate exhibition of BA Graphic Design students from the Arts Institute at Bournemouth (AIB).

The students were asked to sum up their projects in three words for gallery visitors. The exhibition has been put on by fellow students one year my senior at the AIB, meaning us year 2's have a lot to live up to!

The exhibition has the students work split into various sections, identity based projects, social issues, user centred design etc... and displays a great deal of innovation and well, good design practice by the students! The exhibition has been featured in creative review, and various international design blogs.

'in three words' is held at the AIB campus from the 18th - 26th June 2009 from 9.30-5.30.

inthreewords website

in a related note, the Arts Institute Bournemouth (AIB) will become the Arts University College Bournemouth (AUCB) next week, signifying the institutes recent upgrading to a full degree awarding body, whilst this is great news for the institute, the 'A.U.C.B' doesn't roll of the tongue quite as well as the 'A.I.B'!

Bored Shorts.

2009-05-17T15:57:00.009+01:00

Finally, found a way (a housemate) to shrink the size of this video down so it could be uploaded.

Bored Shorts. from Jack Davey on Vimeo.

This is the end result of our Motion Graphics project. The brief was to make a 30 second intro title scene for a fictional entertainment program (to be decided by the students). This was a 2-man team project, both of us involved in the project participate in surfing, skating and general 'boarding' sports and culture, so decided to centre the show around that.

The title 'bored shorts' was chosen as the show would contain 'short films' or 'shorts' showcasing individual skaters and surfers (and it's a pretty bad pun referring to the clothing, and boredom).

The concept was to have this black line separating the top and bottom halves of the screen, where we could juxtapose skating and surfing actions, showing the similarities and differences between the sports.

The video was short almost entirely on SLRs using stop motion photography, using Bournemouth beach, and Kings Park skate park as our key shoot locations.

Song: Status Quo - Pictures of Matchstick Men

Gig Photography

2009-05-16T23:30:00.010+01:00

Since i have now finished uni' for the year (only one left, crikey), i am trying to get some coins together over the summer to pay off a bit of the huge debt looming over me.

A friend is possibly able to get me some (payed!) gig photography for a London based events company at UK festivals and day events in London, which would be absolutely amazing. Really love doing gig photography, despite being constantly lifted up and chucked out of venues by security (usually despite having the appropriate passes), along with sport photography it seems to be one of the few areas of the discipline that involve crazy amounts of energy and movement.

In anticipation i have dug out some examples of gig photography i have done over the last few years to show the company. Thought i may as well put some of the ones i like up here..

Seasick Steve @ Glastonbury

Seasick Steve (hitting the whisky) @ Glastonbury

Mystery Jets @ Azuza

The Rumble Strips @ The Anson Rooms

Dirty Pretty Things @ The Anson Rooms

Dirty Pretty Things @ The Anson Room

Metro Riots @ Nambucca

Metro Riots @ Tap'n'Tin (Infamous Venue, Tattoo Parlour and Launderette)

Hopefully if i get the job, there will be more of this to come in the future!

Running Man

2009-04-16T18:37:00.005+01:00

I'm a big fan of A-Trak (Canadian [i think] electro DJ), seen him play a couple of times, always sick.

Anyway, last year A-Trak (in collaboration with Nike's 'Original Run' series) released Running Man, a 45 minute mix, designed to set and keep your pace whilst running

roughly:

0-15 minutes: slowly build up

15-20 minutes: level off and cool down

20-30 minutes: build up much more

30-33 minutes: momentary cool off

33-40 minutes: build up again

40-45minutes: cool off and finish

(a simple curve line in the bottom right of the album cover shows it better than i can explain it)

I like the idea of projects like this, music made in an almost design way, following a brief to aid a certain task, but i did doubt it's effectiveness, however!

After using it to pace gym sessions about 3 times now, i think it's actually pretty sick, especially when you've listened to it several times and can recognize the milestones coming (e.g. that in a couple of minutes everything will slow down and you can chill for a bit)

The mix stands up by itself as 45 minutes of great music too, i recommend checking A-Trak out, he's a bit of a turntable genius.

iLG iArena iKM900

2009-04-03T12:51:00.003+01:00

lg recently released the catchily titled 'arena km900', it looks like a pretty good phone, but Apple already released it about 2 years ago.

there's so many iPhone clones out there, samsung released a pretty close one a few months ago as well, it's verging on pathetic. if somebody has made a really slick piece of hardware/software, you cant then just copy the look of it, and charge more, and expect people to buy it! it's ridiculous. even the camera and calender etc.. icons look the same, weak

i would love to have been in the room when the LG design team proposed this 'innovative' phone to the board of directors, man that must have taken some blind guts

The Number One

2009-04-01T18:06:00.006+01:00

A remix of a cover doesn't initially sound like the best start in life for a song, but this mix of Aimee Mann's cover of Harry Nilsson's 'One' (aka 'one is the loneliest number') is amazing.

It fully utilizes the great a-cappella vocals, dropping the bass almost strictly inbetween verses. Great record, look forward to more from Stenchman (possibly the worst artist name ever though?).

Check it!

a nightmare on me street

2009-03-17T17:50:00.001Z

this was a 2 double page spread magazine-layout project undertaken in first year at aib, one of the few first year pieces i am still proud of, despite having many things i would change about it now, which i should do..

the article re-layed out was from vice magazine's halloween 'fear issue', and was about hypnagogic hallucinations, a condition where sufferer's who are asleep, become half-concious, yet still paralyzed, and see dreamlike (and nightmarelike) hallucinations in their real surroundings.

it sounds like a geniunely terrifying condition!

london underground

2009-03-17T17:36:00.001Z

this is a small mini-self-project i did on a weekend in london attempting to capture the constant flow and movement of the system, which i guess it's designed for.

Screamin' Gansta/20 Years Later

2009-03-17T17:33:00.002Z

Chuck D, aka Carlton Douglas, aka lead writer/rapper/producer of Public Enemy has an arts degree in Graphic Design. Studying design just got a little bit more hip.

Anyway, been listening to Public Enemy's recent(ish) album 'How You Sell Soul...' a lot recently. It's got a couple of good tracks on it, it's no 'Nation of Millions' or 'Fear of a black planet', but one song on it that has become by far my favourite P.E song ever very quickly.

'Harder Than you Think', released 20 years after their debut record, reminises on their career, and confronts modern (shite) rappers for selling records by using the amount of times you've been shot to advertise.

it's also a pretty fucking good song.

just like that.

ten things you should know about: everything

2009-03-17T17:31:00.008Z

a recent typography brief that asked us to research, write, design and produce one book of a series, the title had to start with 'ten things you should know about...' and the book had to be in the field of science, travel, or hobbies.

we had to produce one of the 10 books in our proposed series. i chose the field of science, and science that does/will affect everyone, hence the title 'ten things you should know about everything', this book of the series was about the Large Hadron Collider in geneva, and is designed to be loose-leaf in a pencil case-style package, which i shall photograph asap!

the subject matter was chosen after watching (too?) many TED videos, in particular Brian Cox's fascinating talk about the Super Collider, i really recommend you watch it here

click on the individual pages to see them big!

the other total ten book series would be:
1. Braneworlds: The Big Bang
2. String Theory
3. Time
4. Dark Energy and Matter
5. Super Colliders (Black Hole Machine)
6. DNA
7. Evolution
8. Climate (Humans effect & ice ages)
9. Biosphere (The Ecosystem of earth)
10. Sustainable Energy

microtecture

2009-03-17T00:19:00.003Z

it's like architecture, but micro!

these pieces are part of the overall identity created for a branding/identity project completed a little while ago, the brief requested an identity for a company selling modern pre-fabricated houses, focusing on 3 individual houses (system3, yourHouse, and the m-ch).

these houses are real, and in concept/production stage, the company however, is unfortunarly not, however i do recommend viewing the system3 house, but i shall do a post on that in the future..

here are some of the outcomes i err, came out with

you may recognise the master logo for microtecture from the top of the blog, as i'm finding it very hard to make a logo of myself, too subjective, too hard a client.

Jawa and Midwich

2009-03-17T00:14:00.002Z

Jawa and Midwich are a design/illustration studio based in both LA and London.

Whilst this sounds like the starts of a huge multinational corporation, well, not really. It's two designers living either side of the atlantic who run a modern, grassroots design agency.

Midwich (aka Simon Dovar) is a british designer living in London, and
Jawa (aka Nils Davey) is another british designer living in Los Angeles, he's also a taller skinnier version of me, and is my brother.

The duo have worked for many clients, big and small, including Metro Newspaper, and the big kahuna, Walt Disney himself (well Disney atleast) branding planets and spacecrafts for the instant classic film adaptation of 'Hitchhikers guide....'

Awesome.

Although personally my favourite piece of work by these chaps is probably the work for ninety nine giants , not really sure why, nice simple illustrations, nice effects on the type, yeah that'll do it.

Also a few selected sweet logo designs here http://www.jawa-midwich.com/FSlogos.htm

Main site: http://www.jawa-midwich.com/index.htm

tapeography

2009-02-26T15:26:00.002Z

a relatively old project completed for foundation degree yeaaaars ago, from memory, and visual deduction i think the project was to do with creating type in an original and innovative way

(the type is all made from tape, crikey!)

Experimental&Jetset&Design&Yep.

2009-02-26T02:19:00.006Z

Aaahh, what can i say...

experimental jetset are an amsterdam based design studio, you've no doubt seen some if not lots of their work, knowingly or otherwise. they produce some sharp designs.

you know all those 'John & Paul & Ringo & George' tshirts that you've seen everywhere, and have been flooding out of Camden like doc martins for the last few years,

yep, them ones! they designed those, and caused the endless ripping off of their own design, not only just people making fakes, but just taking the idea, and parodying it,

Mick &
Keith&...

Dre&
Eazy&... etc.. etc..!

infact they have a page devoted to the amount their design has been homaged, some really good ones too!
http://www.experimentaljetset.nl/archive/t-shirtism.html

main site here: http://www.experimentaljetset.nl/

brewdog!

2009-02-26T01:19:00.004Z

beer. good stuff.
although being a student more often than not, it's not 'good' stuff.
it's dirt cheap, tinned crap made by CAR-something or FOS-something.

a year or two ago two scottish students were sick of this, and realised that beer, is one of the few things that the UK is actually quite well set up for making, you dont need huge amounts of sun, or a french sounding name, or an orchard.

the folks i am talking about are 'brewdog', a cottage industry fermenting straight out of scotland, where 2 (beer loving) lads have set up a brewery to brew beers with passion, and as much alchohol for your penny as they can squeeze into every bottle, to the point where the scottish government are threatening banning many of their beers due to them being regarded 'anti-social' because of the alchohol levels.

but its not just about that, its the taste! (i hear anyway, i plan to test very very soon)

i first heard about them from bbc2's 'oz and james drink to britain', and looked them up because, well i thought the bottles were well designed and they sounded like good brewers/mentalists

also the idea of a 'punk ipa' sounds too good to miss. £12 for 12 bottles? that's pretty cheap too

have a gander

http://www.brewdog.com/

misprinted type

2009-02-26T00:54:00.001Z

thought i'd start off this blog talking briefly about illustrator/designer/typographer Eduardo Recife, and his website misprintedtype.com.

firstly the website isn't all bells, whistles and 'cool-as-fuck' electro which is a welcome change for a designer's website. but it houses a decade of Eduardo's work, of which a great deal are great digital patchwork illustration/design pieces, consisting of anything from blueprints, 50's cereal adverts, baby's heads, rainbows, medical cross-sections etc.. etc.. making dream (nightmare?) like pieces that are great to endlessly search through.

the site also gives free access and download to some of his font designs, which when released seem to be a good indication of where font trends are going, and i know i've used them over and over to make my design work look that bit better.

check it out

http://www.misprintedtype.com/v4/