Friend of TDOD Craig Oldham (working at Manchester’s Music) has just released this publication featuring 10 short essays on Graphic Design. It’s an educational day-glo booklet, namely for students of Graphic Design, and is available from his site.

Craig explains:

Next time you pick up a ubiquitous object think ‘what if…’. Thanks to Rachel for this.

Colosseo: Reimagining the Roman Coliseum with type (Canon 7D) from Cameron Moll on Vimeo.

Over the course of 12 months, this artwork was handcrafted character by character, totaling roughly 250 hours of work from start to finish. Characters from the Goudy Trajan and Bembo Pro typefaces form the Coliseum (or Colosseum), also known as today as Colosseo (Italian).

Hat-Trick Design has created a beautiful set of 11 metre high illustrations of the greatest players in Rugby for the hotel at the Twickenham stadium, these images are displayed in the connecting atrium between the hotel an the stadium. The images are made up of individual Rugby shirts using the appropriate colour for that players nationality. The illustrations are printed onto the shirt material commonly used in Rugby this adds to the branding that Hat-Trick Design have already applied to the stadium visit their website for more details.

My name is Elizabeth and I am studying Illustration at UCLAN, currently in my third year.

As part of my final project, I intend to illustrate Preston through stories told by people who have spent time here, as a resident, student, visitor or other.

In order to do this I need your stories! Whether sad, funny, good or bad, surprising and/or interesting or just your experience(s) of the city. One word or a thousand, a sentence, phrase, or poem, anything.

As these stories will be the basis of my illustrations, I need your help. I am extremely thankful for your time and if you could get in contact with me this would be wonderful!

I look forward to hearing from you.

Thanks in advance,
Elizabeth Dunning 3rd year Illustration University of Central Lancashire Preston

Thanks to Stephen Mcnally (1st Year Graphics UCLAN) for sending us this.

In the 1970’s & 80’s the youth of our nation were politically aware and had opinions. They were pro -active and got involved through various causes in voicing these opinions and trying to change society and the world for the better. They were idealistic, pro-active and in a constant battle with some form of  authority. Today we have facebook and all is well with the world?

The above flyer is taken from our ephemera archive. Circa – 1978

Probably the most guilty software package for bad graphic design is now 20 years old… Read on here.

(Article and site produced with the aid of Photoshop).

Great little animated film showing that idea generation should be fun.