SURVIVING – How Animals Adapt to Their Environments

I'm hoping an "Editorial Design" is a book, catalog, or magazine... My research wasn't very helpful.

I found this book at half price books in the science section & I've been so excited to share! The photography in the book is delicious, in-fact the layout of this book is very similar to the layout of my catalog.

I believe the two fonts paired are Bodoni & Avenir. The section titles are set as a water mark behind the text (in Bodoni) and the body copy (Avenir) reflects the large spacious gaps for breathing room with the roomy leading. The read is easy because it's not a whole book of text, the most text per section are two full two page spreads back to back so it's doesn't get too overwhelming. 

Grid Girls

Below is the grid system chart we created during our meeting on Wednesday. With the information we were able to see the following pattern: there is no pattern.

In our group there were two types column styles. Two catalogs had a one column (two column span), and two had a two column layout.

Another design decision we found our catalogs were that some had an index and others did not, we noted that if they were present the grid system got significantly smaller.

Below are some spreads from each of our catalogs:

Grid systems are an important part of the designing process. We agree that choosing that system and how it works for your design is completely up to you as the designer.

Thanks for reading!
Whitney, Raven, Laine, & Mia-Sara

HAND MADE TYPE | Tien-Min Liao

Tien-Min Liao designs and creates her type literally by hand. She paints the figures on her hands and arms, creates upper and lower case characters. She encourages the viewer to think critically not only about the methods by which the forms are created but also the shapes themselves.

www.behance.net/TienMinLiao

Heavenly Creatures

The images below are the invitation and catalogue from the Heide Museum of Modern Art's exhibit of Heavenly Creatures, curated by Melissa Keys. The exhibit was open from December 4, 2004–January 30, 2005. The range of works represented in Heavenly Creatures was assembled from public and private national collections, and included important works by Australian modernists such as Arthur Boyd, John Perceval and Mirka Mora.

The invitation and catalogue were done by Design by Pidgeon, the die-cut turned the two dimensional products into three-dimensional objects. I think they’re beautifully designed and really convey the feel of the exhibit. I wish I could put my hands on them!

www.pidgeon.com.au

www.Heide.com.au

THE HUNGER GAMES!!!!!!!

I love love love these books. They are so easy to read not because the story is so good, but the flow of the text is really nice. It's set in Adobe Garamond Pro which is always a winner—and there aren't hardly any rivers or other type faux pas. The book was designed by Phil Falco www.philfalco.com I checked out of his website and it actually didn't have this in his portfolio (it looks like it hasn't been updated in a while). I'm not sure what the other stylized typefaces are, I tried to look them up but was unsuccessful. I just love the "theme" of the book, I feel like you can really get lost in it and believe you're in this futuristic world.

"Keming"

I was looking through imgur searching "bad type" because I feel like seeing people's mistakes keeps us on our toes, and I came across the first image below. Well of course then I wen't straight to Google and searched for "Bad Kerning" and the other images below were some of the other examples! As discerning typographers I thought it would be great to have some reminders about how important kerning is––and of course to have a monday laugh! ENJOY!

Life is Beautiful | Farhad Moshiri

I thought this was AWESOME! This guy Farhad Moshiri did this "Life is Beautiful" installation at Palazzo Grassi, Italy. The clever thing about this piece is not the tender heart felt message that "Life is Beautiful" but that the message is STABBED into the wall with knives! I think the artist has an amazing eye for detail and a sense of humor. 

And a close up...

I was perusing pinterest when I found this pinned from the following blog:
http://plentyofcolour.com after going to his site I found that he has quite a few installations of this style. Check them out here http://www.perrotin.com/artiste-Farhad_Moshiri-40.html

Wall Street Journal Magazine

What is WSJ?

THE WORLD’S LARGEST LUXURY MAGAZINE

"WSJ. Magazine features the business of luxury and discerning lifestyle content. It is relevant to the Journal's readers, who are the world's most powerful and influential consumers. It acts as an escape and inspiration for their diverse and sophisticated lives. Reaching the largest number of affluent consumers globally, WSJ. Magazine is the World's Largest Luxury Magazine."

The three images below are the ones I've chosen to showcase for my typography elements.

Twenty-Two Tips on Typography | Enric Jardi

Twenty-Two Tips on Typography 

by Eric Jardi

This book is basically exactly what it says it is. There are 22 "commandments" you could say of Typography Do's and there are 22 "oh no she diehn'ts". He starts out the book discussing how less is more, he says that when mixing typefaces to stick with only a couple, more than three gets VERY congested VERY quickly and is more of a distraction than anything. I particularly enjoyed when he says to think of typefaces as you do voices, "The more we restrict our typographical pallet, the more expressive resources we will use, like contrast rhythm, symmetry, and movement".