Jeffrey Docherty
Art director, Jeffrey Docherty has updated his portfolio quite nicely since I last featured him. Go take a look.
Via Collate
Jim Tierney
Saw this student project, was impressed.
More super illustration work over at Jim Tierney's site.
Thanks to Ben Oliver
Smile for London
A new creative initiative called 'Smile for London' will be launching, on London Underground, just in time to tackle the January blues.
Platform screens will be taken over with a programme of film, art and animation, exhibiting the best of London’s emerging and established artistic talent.
This is a call for submissions, with a brief to create a twenty second silent piece of moving image with a view to pushing the boundaries of the medium. You can learn more here
Submitted by Jo Kotas
Ah&Oh Studio
Eliot Rausch: Last Minutes with ODEN
Vimeo's Winner for Best Video; Simple, beautiful, and incredibly heartbreaking.
Directed/Edited: Eliot Rausch
Director of Photography: Luke Korver, Matt B. Taylor
Generation Press: Image Library
Mmm, lots of high quality eye candy for you over at Generation Press' new 'Image Library'.
Via Cpluv
Essential reading. Expanded.
Two books, that most of you may or should have come across, How to be a graphic designer without losing your soul (Adrian Shaughnessy) and Thinking with type (Ellen Lupton), landed on my desk recently, thanks to Princeton Architectural Press, except that these were the new expanded and updated versions of the books.
I had the original H.T.B.A.G.D.W.L.Y.S, and although I have only dipped in and out of the new version, I can say that the new interviews do make for interesting reading, the main content is incredibly grounded, and the book still has me looking up every now and then, with that frowned, deep in concentration look on my face. In short, good digestible stuff.
'Think with type' is simply a really good typographic reference, and although not exhaustive in any particular area, regardless of how experienced you are, this is something to be kept close by at all times.
The originals could certainly be listed as 'essential reading', however changing attitudes towards creative work as well as the ever changing landscape of technology, mean that these expanded versions are indeed very much worth having too.
