The 2011 D&AD annual arrived this week and, as usual, the cover has created a great deal of interest. This year Harry Pearce from Pentagram was given the brief to design something that “celebrates the world’s finest design and art direction”. Only this year his brief also included, “and pushes the boundaries of environmentally conscientious publishing.”
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V&A Illustration Awards
Monday, September 26th, 2011
I stumbled upon the V&A Illustration Awards quite by accident. Although I’ve lived in London for a number of years, I’d never been to that museum, so I decided to pop along to get some inspiration for this week’s blog. It’s a deceptively large maze of rooms, laid out chronologically, and I spent a couple of hours wandering around soaking it all in. But then, when walking from one room to another (and having not found anything I especially wanted to blog about) I chanced upon the V&A Illustration Awards 2011. Although it’s a very, very small exhibition (literally taking up three walls in a small corridor-like room) I found myself spending more time studying the intricate illustrations than I had in any other room.
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Annie Leibowitz and the ultimate Rolling Stone magazine cover
Friday, September 2nd, 2011
It is December 8, 1980. Photographer Annie Leibowitz is greeted by John Lennon at the door of his New York apartment at The Dakota. She is here to take a shot of Lennon for Rolling Stone. “It’ll be great,” she promises the former Beatle “I’ll put you on the front cover.”
Benedikt Taschen. The publisher who breaks coffee tables.
Friday, August 12th, 2011
“I certainly don’t believe in this high-and-low distinction. What’s high art and what’s low art is a matter of fashion. What is respectable now might be different tomorrow, and will certainly be different 100 years from now.”
Cog-eyed. David Pelham’s cover for Clockwork Orange.
Friday, May 6th, 2011
The designer and illustrator David Pelham is not happy. He has commissioned a top airbrush artist to create an illustration of a movie poster for a new print of ‘Clockwork Orange’ by Anthony Burgess. Unfortunately he has been badly let down. The artist has delivered a pretty poor job. Worse, it has arrived hours before the artwork is due for proofing. Pelham calls the airbrush artist and rejects it. Looking back on that day in 1972, he remembers; ‘It was a hateful thing to have to do because we were now right out of time.”
Paperback for good.
Thursday, October 13th, 2011In short, when a creative endeavour meets a good cause the outcome is often far more productive and satisfying than a straightforward cash donation. And so it is with the new book by Alex Pearl.
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