Village Green / Emotional Rescue / Artwork
My day job involves being part of a design studio called Village Green. We basically work image making, branding and designing for companies such as Nike, Granta and Penguin Books. The work is pretty varied and we like to do the odd piece of music design as its where the roots lie (the studio in...
The Typefaces Of Neville Brody
These are all taken from the highly recommended book The Graphic Language Of Neville Brody. As we’ve said before we have always loved his work, including his layouts and work on small icons around the pieces in The Face. These are six typefaces he developed during the periods of 1979 and 1986. Typeface One /...
Jean-Paul Goude / So Far, So Goude
Slight obsession going on with the work of Jean-Paul Goude right now due to a project I’m working on. I bet most of you have a sleeve with one of his images in your record collections. If you like his work there are some great books out there. Jungle Fever is the original one to...
The Face / The Hacienda / New Steps For The Leisure Industry
This piece comes from The Face in August 1982. Steve Taylor interviews architects and designers of The Hacienda Ben Kelly and Sandra Douglas with photography from Miss Moss. Pretty stunning club.
Tibor Kalman / M&Co
Have been looking into M&Co after a conversation at a friends on Friday. First up some Talking Heads related design then more general M&Co bits and bobs. I like the back of the watch. ‘Waste Not A Moment’.
Other Sites We Like / Center Of Attention
Loving this website. Center Of Attention is simple but very very nice. Hope the guy keeps it up as its a great reference for the design crew. Good taste finely displayed.
The Face / Kraftwerk / The Werk Ethic
This Kraftwerk piece comes from The Face in March, 1982. Ralph Hutter is interviewed by Steve Taylor with design and layout by Neville Brody.
Photographs / Factory Cassettes
If we have any long time readers who are super minted can they buy us this lot please? Starting bid of £699 on ebay as we speak.
British Rail Logo / Design Research Unit / Gerry Barney
I’m no expert on design but I know that the double arrow logo of British Rail is a beautiful piece of mark making. It gets better the more you look at it, has been taken up by countries around the world as the standard sign for railway station and was, apparently, originally drawn on the...
Tony Wilson And Peter Saville In Conversation
If I could listen to anyone discuss the classic Factory sleeves it would be Peter Saville and Tony Wilson so lucky for us someone got the two of them together with a tape recorder between them.
Peter Saville Talks Joy Division / New Order Sleeves
This piece seems to follow perfectly the Savage piece from The Face and is taken from a Gareth Grundy interview with Peter Saville in The Observer last week with Saville talking through his work for Joy Division and New Order. Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures (Factory, 1979) This was the first and only time that the...
The Face / The Age Of Plunder
Jon Savage (in a not always complimentary fashion) on the world of appropriation in design from The Face in January 1983.
i-D / Signs Of The Times
There was a time in 1987 when we used to roam the streets nicking VW badges from unsuspecting car owners (and teachers though that soon came to an end when our mate got caught with one in his school bag). It was a short lived fad on the streets of suburban Orpington but the Beastie...