England’s footballers will be wearing a new home shirt for their match against Bulgaria on September 3, with graphics designed by Peter Saville. Saville’s contribution is somewhat minimalist. A graphic of multicoloured crosses sits on the shoulders which is, apparently, “evocative of the basting stitches synonymous with bespoke tailoring”.
Like all england shirts theres not much of a difference from the last one in my opinion.
A portfolio well worth a flick through is that of Chris Maclean, a Creative Director over at Interbrand in Sydney. Chris, as well as being the world’s tallest designer, was the instigator of my journey over to Australia when he visited my Preston degree show back in 2008.
Australian Institute Of Company Directors (AICD)
The thought of moving into the world of ‘big brands’ was one that worried me a bit and i was quite hesitant at first, naively thinking that the work wouldn’t be as creative and/or challenging as i would like. But as you can see from some of the work Chris and the studio have been producing, i was very wrong.
Griffin Theatre Company
The team at Interbrand is now easily one of the strongest (and tallest) in Australia, I was lucky and got to work there for 6 months with some amazing designers whose portfolios are also well worth a browse through. Check them out > Christoper Doyle, Andrew Droog, Malin Holmstrom, Elliott Scott & Abi Singmin. Also not forgetting, TDOD’s very own Mike Rigby, who needs to sort himself out an interweb site.
Design For Obama
Just goes to show that, if your ideas are strong enough and you strive to be creative in everything you do, you can always produce good work. Whoever the client.
This is good. Paste the link into Safari or Chrome, enter your home address (preferably the one you grew up in) and then see what happens. It’s quite processor heavy so best to close all other browser windows. Enjoy…
If you’re just graduating and, for want of a better phrase, shitting yourself a bit about finding work. I couldn’t recommend looking abroad enough.
I graduated from Preston 2 years ago, pretty much to the day, and I’m now a midweight at a small agency called Re, who work out of global advertising big bollocks M&C Saatchi, in Sydney – Australia
Nice neighbourhood
I’m now heavily involved in, amongst other things, a scarily large 4 year re-brand of the entire place, that being the country of Australia itself, the whole bloody shabang. We put together this (Slightly cheesy) video not long back for the launch.
Watch it, and prepare to want to move here. Good weather, good food, good people, lots of jobs, amazing beaches and, if you’re in fear of being home sick, there’s more English designers here than you can shake an ‘insert typically Australian thing here’ at. So look into it, it might just be the best thing you’ve ever done.
If not, at least you’ll leave with a tan and some proof you’re willing to go a long way for the chance to work in design.
Friend of TDOD - Joao Perez – is one of a new breed of graphic designer. Comfortable working in a wide range of media. He has kindly sent us a link to this animation of the moshun typeface designed by calango. In his own words…
I really believe that there is a lack of synergy between the animated world and the graphic design world. Here’s is what happens when you apply some simple animation to a decorative typeface.
Moshun from Jeroen Krielaars on Vimeo.
The installation of the typographic roundel 26.08.10
