Student Spotlight: Kanonkop Wine Packaging - TheDieline.com: Package Design
A fellow Vega graduate and good friend, Juanel van der Walt, created this amazing packaging for Kanonkop wine estate.
Touchpoint
The Loudness Wars: Why Music Sounds Worse : NPR
The downside of digital music explained — and why you really should buy that vintage record player.
Fashion decade in review 2000 - 2009 - Telegraph
ID dies
I read on AdAge today that iconic design magazine “ID” has pulled.
So. Another one bites the dust. And I thought the recession was over. I wonder how long it is before the tide of magazine closures is stemmed.
Vintage finds in turquoise, Pantone's 2010 color of the year - The Magazine Antiques
In Use: Plantin for Monocle | The FontFeed
Books are better. Amazing paper stop-motion ad from New Zealand’s Book Council
Mind the Map: Places: Design Observer
“Last month, TfL released a new version of the Underground map that boldly attempted to de-clutter the 75-year-old classic by wiping away, among other things, fare zones and the River Thames,” writes Ian Baldwin in this fascinating look at the history of the Tube’s iconic map.
High flyers
Check out this cool Royal Air Force ad with direction inspired by the military cartoon books of the ’60s and ’70s.
via Campaign
London Olympics posters - modernism meets modern
Alan Clarke has designed a set of remarkable posters for the 2012 London Olympics. They’re crisp, clean, and quite remarkable — tapping into the city’s love affair with modernism and of course the iconic ’30s simplicity of Gill Sans font used on London’s public transport.
Let’s hope these get the thumbs up from the powers that be. Boris Johnson take note!
Thanks Cherryflava.
These are the set from Clarke’s website:
