Design of the Year — Design Museum

I took a visit to the design Museum after Easter to see the design of the year exhibition. Some fantastic work and amazing design of the actual exhibition set up. Again it was the interaction with certain products and projects that made them stand out to me. It was also great seeing a spectrum of designs — Product Design, Graphic Design, Fashion & Architecture — all subjects that I feel graphic designers can take a lot from in relation to their concepts and also potential client audiences.

OK—RM
Strelka Institute Identity

Amazing adaptable identity that works in two languages across all the deliverables. The identity for the art institute has some great contextual references and the simple colour pallet makes it a piece of work that inspires my own practice through simplicity and function.

John Morgan Studio
Venice Architecture Biennale Identity

This amazing signage was for another exhibition/ gallery space and with the simple creation of a minimal typeface using only certain aspects of the letters it works across a variety of deliverables and works as an identity that can be applied across a variety of mediums.

Studio Frith UK
Kapow!

This publication was created working with the authors of the book. Its de-constructed layout reflects that of the character in the story, running on strange tangents similar to his mental state. A beautifully simple idea really well executed.

Berg
Mini Printer

This mini printer reacts to recent news information combined with news stories taken from recent social networking sites on the users phone. Using this information it creates a personalised, well designed mini news story printed in a receipt style and mixing images and shapes to create a new and interesting method of reading the news.

A Practice for Everyday Life
Bauhaus Exhibition

This is another design that was discussed during the Typo Talks and features a colour pallet taken from non traditional Bauhaus methods of thinking. The simple shapes are a clear visual reminder of the principles of the Institute, combined with typefaces used at the time it was a wonderful piece of design.

Anish Kapoor 
Zumtobel Annual Report

The dull pieces of information were laid out in interesting methods and cobined with bold gradients of colour the publication offeres a bolder and more interesting format to an annual report. Again its alternative ways of thinking that made it a choice for design of the year and put it up there with some of the larger products.