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snow white book. studio fall 2007.
the book is on the duality of fairy tales, mean to be part of a set, each book criticizing certain aspects and poking fun of classic fairy tales. commentary and criticism on classic fairy tales and how they are interpreted (or misinterpreted) in today's time.
french folding is used to create a hidden layer within the book. at first glance the book seems to just tell the version of snow white (the disney-fied version) that most people are familiar with, but hidden through the pages are commentary and criticism of this tale.
An 826 Seattle project, this time collecting the writing of students (aged 10-13) on the subject of overcoming one's fears. So I say, how about a maze with an icon representing one story in each of the seven chapters of the book? Sounds good.
How about I ask the talented Dan Zettwoch to draw it so it's a little less gloomy than my mouse-drawn comp and then I'll tighten up the typography? Sounds even better, they say, the kids thought the comp was a bit gloomy.
So I ask Dan and he does it in a day. Then I say, hey do you think you could draw me some treasure to put in the lower corner for balance? And he does that right away too. Thanks Dan!
From Henry Cohen’s series of inventive photographic covers for Gallimard's Idées series in the 1960s and early 70s.
See Rick Poynor’s ‘Bright Idées’ on the Eye blog, and his article ‘The shape of a pocket’ in Eye 81.
Mindy Housman, A Celebration is a book we designed for our client to commemorate her mother’s 60th birthday. This 40 page book is a combination of notes and images put together by her friends and family. Each page contained an image and a note. Keeping with the black and gold theme of her birthday, we converted all the images to black and white, and designed the pages to be a combination of black, white and gold.
Basil Wolverton is a legend of over-the-top cartooning but he also dedicated himself to reverently inking hundreds of illustrations depicting the Old Testament and Book of Revelations for the Worldwide Church from 1953 to 1974.
«mitunter überleben», poetry by renowned Swiss poet Max Huwyler. 96 pages, published in November 2011 by Verlag Martin Wallimann, Alpnach, Switzerland. All text in FF Legato.
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The Wolf Book, designed in 1990
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In first grade, our teacher assigned us a project. Each student was assigned an animal, and our task was to research that animal. We compiled our research into a short, ten page book. The animal I chose was the Mongolian wild horse, and the experience was a blast. I absolutely loved the process of researching, drawing pictures and maps, and ending up with a designed object.
A few months later, during the summer of 1990, I decided to make another book about one of my favorite animals, the wolf. I spent several weeks photocopying pages from National Geographic World magazine, redrawing maps and diagrams, filling pages with some very bizarre editorial drawings, and typing paragraphs on an ancient word processor. The finished pages were then comb-bound at my father's office.
While designing my recent book, Forgetting Oildorado, I recalled the process of making The Wolf Book. I travelled to my parents house where the book resided, and flipped through it for the first time in well over a decade. It's fascinating to revisit something that was once so cherished, and to see the striking parallels between something that was designed at the age of 7 and the work that I'm currently producing.
When I made this book, I had no idea that I'd end up a graphic designer. But it seems that from a very early age, I was -- unknowingly -- well on my way.
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Sample № 43 in Hermann Zapf’s Typographische Variationen. 78 Buchtitel und Textseiten als Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten der Typographie und Buchgraphik. Frankfurt am Main: Schriftgießerei D. Stempel AG, 1963
Titelseite mit Inhaltsangabe. Variante eines Entwurfs für die zweibändige Jean Giraudoux-Ausgabe des S. Fischer Verlages, Frankfurt am Main, 1961. Satzschrift: Janson Antiqua und Diotima Kursiv.
Today, Zapf turns 92½ years old. All the best!
"To Infinity and Beyond!: The Story of Pixar Animation Studios", 2007. Published by Chronicle Books. Design by Tolleson.
Earliest UK Lion's Skull (1280-1385) Credit Natural History Museum
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Royal Manuscripts: the Genius of Illumination
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"Deconstructing Cute" is the process book to "Design Benign", my senior thesis project. This book contains the graphics I made during my research, my sketches and thought process.
Design Benign is an ongoing research project about the role of cuteness in product design. You can read excerpts from it, as well as new material, at design-benign.blogspot.com
Nicole Peterson 2008.