by Le Fist
New Glamour In Your Life_ I came across these the other day, a series of photographs of Chanel packaging and cosmetic campaigns from the 20s through 50s. With Peter Phillips’ animation of Chanel cosmetics hot off zee press it seems quite timely to go back to the original Design Classics. More so tan (sic) the clothes the graphic identity of Chanel never seems to date. Drool.
Categories: needful things, Uncategorized • Tags: branding, chanel, graphic design, typography
by Le Fist
Trust those Italians to add more than a dash of sex appeal even when trying to sell you manure! I thought these were hilarious. Our green-fingered faceless lady has digits as perfectly manicured as her bed of geraniums. This is the country that gave us Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, Nancy dell’Olio and Donatella Versace after all. La Dolce Vita indeed. These would work brilliantly as an ironic make up story. Very Stepford wives on holiday in Tuscany. Our Lady in […]
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: advertising campaigns, gardening, glamour, graphic design, photography, typography
by Le Fist
The man himself, Carsten Nicolai_ This is quite possibly the most beautifully designed record ever. As well as his music, Carsten Nicolai/ Noto/ Alva Noto also works as an artist. The two disciplines are two sides of the same coin – one aurally captures the diagramatic nature of sound whilst the other translates sound in the tactile and visual mediums of installation art and sculpture. See also Mikkel Metal, Raadiq, Matthew Herbert_ ——— http://www.carstennicolai.de
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Alva Noto, Carsten Nicolai, electronic, graphic design, music
by Le Fist
A simple conceit: negative versions of Piet Mondrian’s canvases. What would they look like?
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: colour studies, geometry, graphic design, piet mondrian, print
by Le Fist
A doorway I came across today. Love the retro typeface, how the different blues contrast with each other, the colour of door and the yellow of the text. Also love the graphic quality the metal grid lends and the dynamic between the resulting rectilinear forms, the yellow dots and curviness of the typeface. Its almost as if the whole thing was plotted on graph paper_ Doesn’t that deep blue scream Yves Klein? Yves Klein: Blue Cup, 2006 And all those […]
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: blue, colour studies, graphic design, london, photography, typography
by Le Fist
What better way to usher in the new menswear collections than with a tribute to Oscar Wilde’s A Picture of Dorian Gray? The novel was reissued Four Corners Books in a magazine format entitled “A Young Man of Extraordinary Personal Beauty”. The cover is in an unusual shade of sky blue but I’ve presented it here in monotone. I treasure it so much that I still keep it in its original cellophane sleeve. The artwork was by Gareth Jones and […]
Categories: oscar wilde, rare books, reading material • Tags: books, colour studies, Four Corners Books, graphic design, oscar wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, typography
by Le Fist
After reading Cathy Horyn’s insightful piece about the relevance of the internet and fashion’s somewhat lackadaisical response to this I thought I’d post some screen captures from some of my fave websites. They’re not all fashion or necessarily break the mould but they’re all well executed and give a real sense of what the brand is trying to convey_ http://www.hermes.com [Perfect - you'd imagine the Hermes site to be so stuffy. It isn't] http://www.gramercyparkhotel.com [You just want to stay there] […]
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: graphic design, websites
by Le Fist
A little digital doodle.
Categories: illustration, Uncategorized • Tags: graphic design, illustration
by Le Fist
Image courtesy of Bruce Sharp Absolutely love this lady. Found her on a great site called Mekong [http://www.mekong.net/random/theatres.htm] Loads of photographs of abandoned movie theatres. Really beautiful stuff.
Categories: graphics, signage, Uncategorized • Tags: graphic design, signage
by Le Fist
As white as the driven snow…Clean lines. White on white. Minimal, simple and oh, so chic. Just the way I like it. The lovely white folder icons can be downloaded from http://www.samuco.net/SW/. Look for Coloured Folder Creator Pro. About $5. Go on… Just click the command button + i key on the desired folder you’d like to change to open up the information panel. Drag the new folder art of choice onto the folder icon on the top left hand […]
Categories: colour coding, me and my Mac, straight jacket groupie, tonal studies • Tags: colour studies, graphic design, iMac, white
by Le Fist
Ironic that “Popularity is for mediocre people” is getting me the most hits ever! Does that make me mediocre? LOL Cheers guys!
Categories: graphics, writing • Tags: graphic design, popularity, slogans
by Le Fist
Couldn’t have said it better.
Categories: catchphrase, graphics, words of wisdom • Tags: graphic design, popularity, slogans
by Le Fist
Some random pics of a billiard table, some balls and a few cues. Don’t play the game. Useless at anything involving balls. Well, almost! But I like the colours. Quite nice, no?
Categories: ball games, tonal studies • Tags: colour study, graphic design, photography
by Le Fist
Thomas Demand Nationalgalerie Thomas Demand has a great name. Demand. Perfect. Thomas takes brilliant photographs. Thomas made my heart stop in the middle of Zwemmer’s on the Charing Cross Road on Wednesday. Thomas surprised me. Thomas’ very beautiful new book posed gracefully for me on my bed this morning. Thomas builds paper models based on images he has seen, moments from the past, snapshots from the media. Thomas then photographs these intricate reconstructions – works of art themselves – and […]
Categories: love love love, paper, photography, reading material, thomas demand • Tags: books, graphic design, photography
by Le Fist
With collage looking like one of the key trends for spring-summer 2010 I thought it was time to share with you some of my favourite collages by Hannah Hoch. Gorgeous. More to come
Categories: cut 'n' paste, hannah hoch • Tags: collage, graphic design
