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Four Seasons Magazine
Designer and co-founder of Port Magazine, Matt Willey most recent project: the redesign of the Four Seasons Magazine.
Designer: Matt Willey
Location: UK
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So it seems the U.S. Postal Service doesn’t like ATHEIST-branded packages, as this little study reveals.
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We drove around the city from midnight to 5am going from bars, to porn shops, to McDonald’s that wouldn’t give up the goods to me.
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Late Nights
These late nights are making me happier than I’ve been in awhile. Staying up watching Star Trek, designing, writing music and drinking tea is a way I could live my life for a long time.
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10 typography jazz record covers Vol.1
you will love…Jazz is one of the most popular genres in music where people got inspired from. This inspiration could be found in the typography illustration of these record covers.
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Bag Tags
UK-based illustrator and graphic artist Neil Stevens has created a series of beautiful minimalist posters that are inspired by old airline baggage tags.
I want to start collecting and hanging these as reminders of the places I’ve been.
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Dwell - Coastal Cities Revisited
Idea and visual identity for a travel guide to coastal cities around the world, but from a rather offbeat and alternative viewpoint that is slightly different from the usual glossy travel magazines that focus either on popular tourist attractions or luxury travel.
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Uncovering the First, Fascinating Rulebook for Subway Sign Design
The 180-page binder, the key to the system’s iconic design choices, outlines a meticulous vision of signage intended not merely to look good — though it does — but to simplify navigation of the subterranean labyrinth. In its attention to passenger behavior, the manual goes above and beyond what most of us would term graphic design.
“The subway rider should be given only information at the point of decision,” proclaimed the designers. “Never before. Never after.”
Read more. [Images: NYCTA]
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Tour Type
I was recently looking through the portfolio of graphic artist Neil Stevens and saw his retro-style posters for the different Tour de France stages. As a keen cyclist in and around London, these really appealed to me. The lettering based compositions successfully mix a number of historical graphic styles all hinging around the ’50s looking cyclist.
I spoke to Neil about the typefaces used. The chunky numbers used as the main character in 1, 4 & 5 (together with their ‘2012’s) are Pompadour and numeral only typeface by Andy Mangold, inspired by Rockabilly hair. The uppercase typeface, with the horizontal spurs through the middle, is Haymaker, They are both available from the Lost Type Co-op, a fascinating ‘pay-what-you-want’ foundry. The outline type (“2012” in no.7) is Post Office, a free font.
“In some posters I customised Haymaker a little by placing key lines within the font so at times it looks a little different. This was just to add a bit more of a ‘display’ element to it.”
Neil is based in St Albans and London in the UK. These 2012 Tour prints have featured in The Sunday Telegraph, Esquire, Cycle Plus, Cycle Active, Sport Magazine and Phaidon.com and are available to purchase.
