Friday, 6:12am
24 August 2012
Noted #43
Harry Beck’s beasts, Pentagram fakes it, Art Vinyl, undesirable Harry (Potter) and Design Yatra.
Here’s a random-ish selection of (non-Olympic) things that caught our attention in recent weeks. Next week: Paralympic graphic watch.
Harry Beck’s menagerie, aka Animals on the Underground (with thanks to Rob Waller aka @SimpleRob).
Right: ‘Hounslow West the hound’. (Old Street doesn’t yet feature on the site.)
Pentagram’s Luke Hayman reveals the process of faking The Atlantic’s September cover of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney boxing.
Photographer / director / producer: Alison Jackson.
Creative director: Luke Hayman (Pentagram).
Photo director: Ayanna Quint.
See Simon Esterson’s article about magazine design (including Hayman) in Eye 61.
Music design at twelve inches square – what do you think so far? Best Art Vinyl 2012 has a Pinterest board.
The Printorium (run by the Anglo-Brazilian design team of Miraphora Mina and Eduardo Lima) is selling signed prints of their designs for the graphic movie world of Harry Potter. (Thanks to Alex for this one.)
Top and right: The Daily Prophet poster from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
And … Design Yatra (see Julie Fairless's Review in Eye 70) is back, with a speaker line-up that includes Paul Barnes of Commercial Type (see Eye 82), Marian Bantjes (see Eye 72) and Hanif Kureishi from Wieden & Kennedy in Delhi.
Please Tweet your suggestions for ‘Paralympic graphic watch’ next week.
Eye is the world’s most beautiful and collectable graphic design journal, published quarterly for professional designers, students and anyone interested in critical, informed writing about graphic design and visual culture. It is available from all good design bookshops and online at the Eye shop, where you can buy subscriptions and single issues. Eye 83 is out now, and you can browse a visual sampler at Eye before You Buy.