Wednesday, 17 February 2010

More stamps...


Single Stamps...

Chemistry, Design: Jerczy Karo. Great shapes and overprinting. Nice use of simple imagery!

Celebrating the Centenary of the Telephone, Design Philip Sharland. Simple colour use works really well here.

Lovely use of line and colour!!!

These stamps are printed with a metallic gold and the printing and colour is great, clean and vibrant.

A beautiful set, great halftone images and typography.

Tuesday, 16 February 2010

More book cover from David Pearson...


Lovely use of a limited colour palette throughout the great ideas series, using different illustration styles to highlight the different books.

The book cover below works really well just using type alone, as his creates high impact within the design.

White's Books.

Illustration by: Petra Borner.
This style of illustration creates lots of impact for a book cover, really bold and simple use of imagery across the whole cover.

Illustration by: Stanley Donwood.
This cover design is so distinctively illustration by Donwood using the printing technique of lino-printing, which produces impact with the use of just line quality only. The colour within this cover again creates more impact as it work well with just the use of limited colour.

Illustration by: Joe McLaren.
Simple use of colour and quite a busy style of illustration for the cover.

Overall the set works really well even though each book cover has been illustrated by a different designer. They work so well because of the simple use of colour and the same layout throughout the series.

Popular Classics Relaunch by David Pearson.

Really simple yet effective book cover design. These were all printed on to recyclable newsprint which is good to see consideration of sustainable materials.

Penguin By Design - Phil Baines.





Monday, 15 February 2010

Re-design of all the Harry Potter Books.


This set of books were designer by M. S. Corley (as seen here...http://mscorley.blogspot.com/2009/02/harry-potter-redesign.html)

The use of just simple imagery work well within the book covers and gives them impact as first glance, which is also highlighted with the use of a limited colour palette.