bareback : a tomato project

04/08/2014 by alaundre

recently acquired an old book from my wishlist . Written and Designed by Tomato Bareback is brilliant. A stunning collection of personal work created and compiled by the members of the world-renowned, London based art collective, Tomato. It was 1991 when Steve Baker, Michael Horsham, Karl Hyde, Jason Kedgley, Rick Smith, Simon Taylor, Dirk Van Dooran, John Warwicker and Graham Wood pooled their creative talent and started a journey that would become one of the major success stories of the […]

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[ art book : ballpoint pen ] “57577”

04/30/2013 by alaundre

Managed to track down this illustration book by Shohei Otomo (his father, Katsuhiro Otomo is the creator/director of the classic Akira manga and anime). Amazing photorealistic illustrations using ballpoint pen as the medium. The illustrations are sized down in the book making the stippling appear like pencil shading and crosshatching. • —  • Shohei Otomo   |   Erect

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gallery vol. 15

06/27/2012 by alaundre

gallery : the world’s best graphics just noticed it’s from Feb 2012. i thought i picked up a more recent one //

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computer arts collection: typography issue

03/30/2012 by alaundre

– Finally found the battery charger for my digital camera…picked this up a few weeks back but still haven’t read through most of it, it’s crammed with stuff I’m interested in though: // Computer Arts Collection Volume 01 Number 02 : Typography Includes Sawdust Studio’s creation of a font from start to finish; Interview with Jonathan Barnbrook (one of the more prominent typographic designers of the mid-late ’90s featured in countless typography/design books from that time); articles on 3 bordering […]

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idn vol.18 no.6 : design in contempt

03/09/2012 by alaundre

IdN v18n6: Humorous Design — Design in Contempt Who doesn’t like to make people laugh? An ability to do this always adds something special to the message being conveyed, however serious its ultimate intent, and the rewards for those designers with a universal sense of humour, and technique to match, can be huge. In this issue, we have gathered together the work and words of 11 genuinely funny designers, who all have radically different approaches. If you think that you […]

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i think i’ve found a new favorite design mag/book

02/23/2012 by alaundre

– was wondering what this was, gallery : the world’s best graphics…really? first i was like… then i was like oh yeah…

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1000 Bags, Tags & Labels

01/22/2012 by alaundre

– Picked up another one of these. I miss doing packaging. 1000 Elements is I think the last one on my wishlist.

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