TDA

Just some research for a brief I am thinking of putting together.

Ali - photograph and type graphics

Saw these on Ollie's blog ages ago and they fit really well as research for the current designs I have done for the Greenpeace campaign on nuclear power.

leaflet formats

leaflet formats, very handy when considering different angles to approach design problems.

Greenpeace - on nuclear power

I am currently working on a brief based on nuclear power for Greenpeace, so what better research than looking at their view on the matter in more detail. All below is from their UK website.

www.greenpeace.org.uk

cartlidge levene

Really liking the bold type and layout used within Cartlidge Levene's design work. They have a good balance when showing colour and type together which I still struggle with sometimes as it can effect legibility of the words within layout.

Contacts ... an update.

Throughout my research I have developed a substantial mailing list. I have taken this and emailed requests to send design studios and designers asking if I could steal some of their time to answer a few questions. I have now received a few initial replies and full answers to my questions from Raw design and Eleven design.

I am over whelmed by how generous and supportive people have been with this project and the answers I have received are insightful and very useful as I have even been directed to further websites and sources that can aid my research further for my design context. Its really nice to receive information about projects I have admired from different studios and also valuable advice they have given me.

I chose not to post the interviews on my blog as I haven't asked permission to do so from the studios, as a personal project to me I benefit the most from the answers anyway so I guess it doesn't really matter much.

Lulu

Lulu was mentioned to us in a previous briefing for design context as a place to get short run publications printed. As I am interested in designing a publication for my context I had a quick look at the site and how I had to go about setting up an order and the options that would be available to me, e.g paper size binding techniques and importantly price. As a starting point this site is very useful.