Killed Covers

For authors and publishers, there are a lot of reasons for choosing a book cover - in other words, it doesn't mean the rejected covers are crap!

Two weeks ago, The New York Times hosted an Exhibition named "Killed Covers"(they are all rejected book jacket, however, they are still awesome), here is the link for those people who don't live in NYC.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/05/15/books/review/15covers-gallery.html

(Pic above: Design by Christopher Brand: "Heft")

(Design by: Will Staehle: "Manhood for Amateurs")

Creative Business Card

  

Business card is always an important part of visual communication, it shows not only the personality, charater but also style. Some designers focus on business
card's special edge or surface, some focus on creative ideas. No matter how, the point of business card design is making an eye-catching advertisement of the
card's owner and to be remembered. Below are several special business card design. Just take a look！

Collage Cover For Vogue Magazine

Canada designer shrubrub made this attractive
Vogue cover by superimposing all the covers of 12 issues in 2012. Then you get the image below - dark-haired, white-skinned model, centred.
 
 

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Web Page Design For Pine B&B

Recently, I was asked to design a website for a B&B in Yilan, Taiwan.
Here are two versions of different concepts.


Based on the brief, the concept of the first one is a burrow.
Like a shelter for travelers to escape from the rush realities of life.



The second one, I try to convey a vogue style, and buliding an image of fashion trend with cold tone colours.
I prefer the first one more, however, it all depends on the proprietor's decision. 

London unlimited

 

What is the london brand?  This image is designed by Nahim Afzal.

A visual and verbal 'brand toolkit' to help coherent cross-sector promotion. A political identity for collaborative work primarily for international audiences.

  

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Vogue Cover With Thread

 

Vogue, again！
But this stitched magazine looks really cool, right? It was made by Inge Jacobsen. 
Her main concern as an artist is how one responds to the mass of imagery in the world. Altering these is central to a lot of her work.
 
 
 

Penguin Design Award

   

Penguin (UK publisher) has announced the brief for this annual Design Award. The competition is open to students, and there are two briefs: one for Penguin, to design a cover for Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude; the other for Puffin, to design a cover for Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach.

Students may enter one design in either or both categories.

The closing date for entries is Friday 15 April 2011.

Below are three sketches I drawn for Puffin,  Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach.

I don't quite like the left one, it seems that if there are 100 students submit the work, 99people will draw this similar one.

The right one looks normal as well.

    

Compared with the other two, it looks more dramatic. However, if I do more about this award, I will update it.

Pick Me Up in London

    

Pick Me Up!
(for more information:http://www.somersethouse.org.uk/visual-arts/pick-me-up-2011)
We are gonna visit this amzing exhibition! (just can't wait)
If u r interested in Visual Arts and just in London, you must go and see this！Until 27 March

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After the exhibition!


Hey, just come back from Somerset House.
It's really a great exhibition, there are a lot of freelance illustrators showing their brilliant works, such as Anthony Burrill, Evening Tweed , Nobrow and Nous
Vous are showing and selling works as well as a selection of rising stars in Pick Me Up Selects. (Most of them are incredible young.)

 

 

Spring Is In! E-paper For ASOS.com

Every girl loves shopping, and so do I : )


ASOS.com is one of my favourite online fashion and beauty retailer.
I suscribe their newsletter for accessing their latest news, but I found out that there is not so much different between every issue, always photographs with type.


So I redesign it with a new look, it's a girl's face with flowers.
Here is my sketch for the image.

Then I coloured it.
This is what it looks like! : )

Letterpress @Workshop

The workshop @uni is about letterpress, something I've never done before.Seeing these old looking machines with beautiful shaped of letters transposing ink on paper really amazes me. 

http://vimeo.com/17156405

The link above is a video showing what the process of letterpress printing is.

It's very interesting, please take a look.

what is art?

As computer and the internet widely invade our life, traditional print based publication has undergone a complete transformation in the past. 


No matter how would change reader's habit between these two devices (print versus ebook), artists and designers still do really brilliant works on traditional print based publications. From my view, it's just like an incredible art craft.


The beautiful work below is created by Benja Harney, Sydney based paper engineer.
He made this beautiful Pop-Up Book for Harper Bazzar Australia.

pics from: http://paperform.wordpress.com/

These images are incredible amazing!!!! It changes my attitude to paper. 
There are so many potential possibilities for print based publications rather than just informing something to readers.