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The spreads in ICON, a men’s fashion and lifestyle magazine, are so compelling that you might wish you could step inside and have a proper look around. The photos look like they’d be just as at home hanging in an art gallery—perhaps with the typography next to it as sculpture. As the design team at Leftloft told us, they were trying to embrace an international point of view while embracing “made in Italy” standards. The firm managed to make the magazine feel timeless, elegant and innovative all at the same time.There are a lot of things to admire here, but the type might be the most seductive for design lovers. It’s always set in black-and-white, allowing images and illustrations to bring the color, and lives in an extremely flexible grid. The type palette isn’t large, but such fonts as Neutra, Dala Floda and Bernard MT are skillfully combined page-after-page.
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An extraordinary monograph created by Christian Louboutin, renowned for his beautifully crafted handmade shoes, in particular his elegantly sexy stilettos.
Firm: Rizzoli International Publications
Editor: Ellen Nidy
Photographer: Philippe Garcia
Book designer: We-We
Pop-up design: UP UP UP!
French translator: Mark Polizotti
Additional contributors: Eric Reinhardt, John Malkovich, David Lynch
Photographs: Philippe Garcia
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A 2011 wall calendar featuring cats dressed in exact miniatures from United Bamboo’s ready-to-wear collection
Firm: Studio Lin
Directors: Studio Lin: Alex Lin, United Bamboo: Thuy Pham and Miho Aoki
Photographer: Noah Sheldon
Client: United Bamboo
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Sasges Inc. was charged with creating a book to help persuade officials and influencers to embrace the idea of creating a major contemporary art institute.
Firm: Sasges Inc.
Creative director, designer: Rita Sasges
Designer: Tali Schtelzer
Photographer: Gerard Yunker
Illustration: Kasian Architecture
Writer: Janice Laurie
Project directors: David Leinster, D’Arcy Levesque
Writer: Tony Luppino
Printer: Blanchette Press
Client: The Institute of Modern and Contemporary Art
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The first truly comprehensive collection of Indian recipes, India the Cookbook features more than 1000 recipes from the furthest corners of India. Our challenge was to find a consistent way to hold this huge amount of diverse foods and places together. Every chapter is printed on different colored stock to suggest the texture and colors of India. The distinctive packaging is reminiscent of an Indian rice bag. Written in India, photographed in London, designed in Sydney and printed in Italy, the book is truly a global production.
Firm: Frost Design
Creative director: Vince Frost
Designer: Andreas Pranoto
Client: Phaidon Press
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Our task was to design a clear and defining annual report that would resemble the theme of co-ownership for War Child in order to illustrate what was achieved in 2010 with help from all parties involved.
Firm: 52 graden noorderbreedte
Printers: Arno Doornekamp. Ricoh Nederland
Client: War Child
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An unprecedented publication showcasing the Gucci brand as never before. Including beautiful design with previously unpublished contemporary and archival photographs, bound in a beautiful package.
Firm: Rizzoli International Publications
Creative director: Frida Giannini
Designer: Arnell Group
Publisher: Charles Miers
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When Old Spice reinvented the brand and rebuilt packaging, the team decided to celebrate by tossing dynamite into the air and screen-printing posters.
Firm: Landor Associates
Associate design directors: Joe Napier, Jay Hoffman
Senior designer: Jeff Maurer
Client manager: Stacey Dunaway
Associate client director: Barbara Carlotta
Additional team members: Gerhard Koenderink, Jens Martesen
Client: Procter & Gamble
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14-forty was selected to design and produce the I Am Waters Foundation “Dream” project for fundraising. The book is 8×12 inches, perfect bound with matte coated paper and an embossed cover.
Firm: 14-forty
Creative director: Pam Patterson
Senior art director: Benjamin Nicolas
Designer: Dain Blodorn
Copywriter: Elena Davis
Photographer: Peter Duke
Client: I Am Waters Foundation
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The book, STILLS – Wiel Arets, A Timeline of Ideas, Articles & Interviews 1982-2010, is about the power of thought in architecture by renowned Dutch architect Wiel Arets. Covering a period of twenty-nine years, the reader collects in chronological order some 40 texts written by Arets and a further 50 or so written about him—dark pages set in a single column for his own texts, light pages in two columns for the rest. To these, in the same chronological order, have been added photographs of his output as an architect. Because the entire book is in black and silver-grey, the pictures slip easily into the supportive role appropriate to them in a reader.
Firm: Mainstudio
Art director: Edwin van Gelder
Editorial team: Stijn Huijts, Hein Smedts, Roemer van Toorn, John Bezold
Publishing: 010 Publishers
Graphic design: Edwin van Gelder, Karen van de Kraats
Photography: Jan Bitter
Printing: robstolk
Binding: Patist
Client: Wiel Arets Architects
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Designer Matthew Egan created a system for designing the monograph, Architect for Art: Max Gordon, that reflects Gordon’s own approach to designing art spaces: no trim. The unembellished design provides a backdrop that lets the architectural projects speak for themselves.
Firm: Marquand Books
Project website: https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Architect-for-Art-Max-Gordon/149099645149518
Designer: Matthew Egan
Commissioning editor: David Gordon, Gordon Advisory LLC
Project editor: Holly LaDue
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Our task was to write and design an annual report for Zeestad CV/BV that would reflect the maritime qualities of the city of Den Helder and the new level of intimacy that is added to the city by Zeestad’s housing projects.
Firm: 52 graden noorderbreedte
Editor: Esther den Hertog, 52 graden noorderbreedte
Photographer: Bertil van Beek, Bertil van Beek fotografie
Printers: Stephan Wassenaar, Druno en Dekker; Frits van Vliet, Drukgoed en Paardekoper
Client: Zeestad CV/BV
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The new identity for Air New Zealand’s industry training school is modern and innovative, symbolizing a new edge in aviation thinking.
Firm: Designworks
Head of creative strategy: Michael Crampin
Creative director: Jef Wong
Group head of strategy: Noel Blackwell
Designer: Anzac Tasker
Designer – design house: Karen Munro, Air New Zealand
Client: Air New Zealand Aviation Institute
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Cover for the book Graphic: Inside the Sketchbooks of the World’s Great Graphic Designers.
Firm: Think Studio
Designers: John Clifford, Herb Thornby
Client: The Monacelli Press
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Monteith’s Single Source is New Zealand’s first “beer of origin.” Its name also describes the process of its creation, a story that is honored through every facet of the packaging.
Firm: Designworks
Head of creative strategy: Michael Crampin
Creative director: Jef Wong
Senior designer: Matt Hammond, Damian Alexander
Marketing manager: Russell Browne, Monteith’s Brewing Company
Client: Monteith’s Brewing Company
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In order to convey the theme of the book, Anxiety and Desire, it is designed in double-layered cover, overlapping and transforming the given typography by halftone pattern. The cover not only emphasizes the impression of co-existential phenomena of “anxiety and desire” but also illustrates the theme in a landscape-looking pattern.
Design: I:M (The Institute of Multidisciplinary for Art, Architecture and Design)
Directors: Changhak Choi (creative director)/ Yuyeon Cho (director of graphics)
Designer: Yuyeon Cho
Client: Korean Institute of Design Promotion
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Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment is a large-scale book comprised of photographs that capture the impact of human activity on the natural environment. Each image was selected from the Nevada Museum of Art’s permanent collection and strategically sequenced to express this dynamic relationship.
Firm: Brad Bartlett Design, Los Angeles
Creative director/designer: Brad Bartlett
Designer: Elaine Suh Bartlett
Editors: Ann M. Wolfe, Nevada Museum of Art; Ellen Cohen, Rizzoli, New York
Client: Nevada Museum of Art
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Theme poster design for the 18th International Lahti Poster Biennial. The museum was looking for a striking poster that would work well outdoors.
Firm: Laura Suuronen
Art director & graphic designer: Laura Suuronen
Client: Lahti Art Museum
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An event held by Taiwan and China together. The Chinese character is a kind of art, and the logo was composed by using the basic parts of the Chinese character to make a Chinese Opera Mask.
Firm: Ken-Tsai Lee Image Design Company
Creative director, art director, designer: ken-tsai lee
Designer: Yao-Feng Chou
Client: The General Association of Chinese Culture, GACC
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To revitalize and reposition the iconic British brand “Little Chef,” we developed the idea of “wonderfully British.” This was the core, driving thought underpinning the new brand identity we created, and it guided everything from food and service to packaging, environment and communications.
Firm: venturethree
Strategic director & partner: Philip Orwell
Creative director & partner: Stuart Watson
Project director & partner: Estelle Smithies
Designer: Mark Williams
Project manager: Amy Attridge
Strategist & writer: Joe Weir
Client: Little Chef
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A talented, young fashion designer with aspirations to build a lifestyle business meets a branding design firm to share a vision of collaboration between creative disciplines. Our approach was to create a signature solution to celebrate the designer. Custom shopping bags carry a quote from composer Leo Ornstein on the bottom: “By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There’s no specific line, as you know.”
Firm: Duffy & Partners
Senior designer: Missy Wilson
Client: Society for Rational Dress
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Since 1963, Stepping Stones has been helping people with disabilities on their path to independence.
Firm: Landor Associates
Designer: Kris Linkugel
Senior designer: Adam Waugh
Associate client director: Elizabeth Heist
Associate design director: Joe Napier
Client associate: Tim McDonald
Executive creative director: Richard Westendorf
Copywriter: Lisa Dolan
Client: Stepping Stones
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A comprehensive launch campaign for Kohler’s most advanced toilet, Numi, included video, photography, web, print, packaging and merchandising components.
Firm: Ammunition
Creative directors: Brett Wickens, Tristan Butterfield
Art director: Jeremy Matthews
Strategist: Matt Rolandson
Producer: Liisa Turan-Walters
Writer: Jenny Shears
3D artists: Christopher Kuh, Xuan Shu
Photographer: Paolo Zambaldi
Client: Kohler Co.
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Annual Report for Concern Worldwide, which is committed to improving the lives of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people.
Firm: Red Dog
Graphic designer: Kim Robinson
Creative director: Mary Doherty
Communications manager: Eithne Healy, Concern Worldwide
Client: Concern Worldwide
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The newly evolved Redfeather identity system was designed to capture the simplicity of an age-old sport, in a more modern, athletic presentation. A sense of bold confidence to stand out at retail. A hint of naturally inspired style for the adventurer. Elements of the visual brand language were applied across the full line of snowshoe graphics as well as on business and marketing materials.
Firm: Duffy & Partners
Design director: Joseph Duffy IV
Client: ORC Industries
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Identity System and usage guidelines for Russian publication’s corporate identity, including stationery, posters, brochures, collateral and more.
Firm: TENDER Creative
Partner: Adam Berninger
Design director: Michael Freimuth
Art director: Nelson Wallace
Client creative lead: Dmitry Paperny
Client: Snob
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As part of the 125th-anniversary celebration for one of America’s top art and design colleges, the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) published MCAD Creates: 125 Stories. The project is a portfolio of MCAD’s history and impact, told primarily through the accomplishments of the college’s alumni.
Firm: Kindra Murphy, Annie Yiling Wang
Designers: Kindra Murphy, Annie Yiling Wang
Writers: Phil Anderson, Georgia Gould-Lyle, Carleen Pieper
Photographer: Rik Sferra
Publication management: Lisa Nebenzahl, ’79
Vice president, institutional advancement: Joan Grathwol Olson
Client: Minneapolis College of Art and Design
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An identity program for Nalta, an IT company that developed a geometric grid technology that can be used with anything.
Creative director: Erin Kim
Client: Nalta
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A fascinating introductory essay and numerous photographs make this volume an indispensible primer on the work of Man Ray in Paris during the 1920s and 1930s.
Firm: Getty Publication
Senior designer: Kurt Hauser
Senior editor: Dinah Berland
Senior production coordinator: Stacy Miyagawa
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Latest annual report for Arcus Foundation, a leading global foundation advancing pressing social justice and conservation issues. Specifically, Arcus works to advance LGBT equality, as well as to conserve and protect the great apes.
Firm: Emerson, Wajdowicz Studio
Creative director/partner: Jurek Wajdowicz
Designers: Lisa LaRochelle, Yoko Yoshida-Carerra, Manuel Mendez, Jurek Wajdowicz
Editor: Carol Snapp
Photography: Jurek Wajdowicz, Kike Arnal
Client: Arcus Foundation
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Having achieved some considerable milestones in the past few years Auckland Airport’s Annual report theme and title for 2011 was New Horizons. Focused on continuing to grow, the imagery told a story of an outlook full of possibilities, with the use of a horizon line device appearing as a means to guide readers through the report.
Firm: Designworks
Creative director: Jef Wong
Design director: Sarah Melrose
Photography: Chris Williams and Pam Goode, Blackbox
Corporate relations manager: Richard Llewellyn, Auckland Airport
Client: Auckland International Airport Limited
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A poster for a documentary about how radio empowered a democratic movement in Sierra Leone.
Firm: NAIL
Creative directors: Alec Beckett, Brian Gross
Art Director: Myles Dumas
Photographer: Jonathan Beller
Designer: Colin Gilespie
Client: Leh Wi Tok
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