The Magic of Magazines
As one of our featured designers, Nicolas Bourquin, puts it: “It’s a hard time for magazines, but a fabulous period for editorial design.” To stave off the threat posed by digitalization, it seems that everyone in the print industry is being motivated to push the boundaries of this discipline to unprecedented heights of creativity. We talk to half a dozen experts in editorial design who are not only managing to survive but producing publications that can stand comparison with any that have come before them – about why they do it and how they see the future of “hard copy”.
IdN v16n5: Editorial Design Issue
Contents:
Surrealist approach still valid for modern motion artists
The magic of magazines
Prada art on parade
Off the Wall
Let there be light! Part II
Type Casting
Specifications:
101 pages
6 varying paper stocks
4 process, spot UV
98 minutes DVD Video included
IdN v16n4: Editorial Design Issue Sampler
The magic of magazines
As one of our featured designers, Nicolas Bourquin, puts it: “It’s a hard time for magazines, but a fabulous period for editorial design.” To stave off the threat posed by digitalization, it seems that everyone in the print industry is being motivated to push the boundaries of this discipline to unprecedented heights of creativity. We talk to half a dozen experts in editorial design who are not only managing to survive but producing publications that can stand comparison with any that have come before them – about why they do it and how they see the future of “hard copy”.
Featuring:
Very Elle by Non-Format / Domus by onlab / Plastique Magazine / Is Not Magazine / Wooden Toy Quarterly / Little White Lies magazine by The Church of London Design
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Surrealist approach still valid for modern motion artists
For more than a century, Surrealism has played a major part in almost all the arts, including theatre and film. But those who love to unleash their subconscious have so much more technology to play with now than when Dali and Co. had only brushes and paint to rely on. Brazilian designer and director Denis Kamioka, who works mainly out of Brazil under the pseudonym “CISMA”, and London-based Italian film-maker Enrico Lambiase love to let it all hang loose and neither of them believes in being too literal about anything.
Featuring:
Cisma Studio / Enrico Lambiase
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Prada art on parade
Major fashion labels are becoming increasingly involved with ambitious art projects these days. Following Chanel’s splendid “Mobile Art” last year, and Louis Vuitton’s “A Passion For Creation”, another high-end household name has joined the creative fray. Prada invited world-renowned architect Rem Koolhaas, Principal of OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture), to build a remarkable installation for its six-month fashion-art crossover event “Prada Transformer” in Seoul, Korea. It combines the four sides of a tetrahedron – a hexagon, a cross, a rectangle and a circle — into one pavilion. If you stand there long enough, you can literally feel the ground shift beneath you!
Featuring:
Prada
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Off the Wall
Most designers name music as their main inspiration and the art that holds most appeal for them outside what they do for a living. So for many, designing gig posters for their favourite bands and musicians would be a dream job. And with concert tours proliferating as album sales slump, there is plenty of work to go round for those with the requisite talent and passion. We talk to five of the best in the business and publish examples of the poster art they are proudest of.
Featuring:
Mark McCormick / Ghost-Town Studio / Methane Studios / Vahalla Studios / Clint Wilson
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Let there be light! Part II
Lighting is becoming, in itself, an increasingly popular medium for artistic presentation. Not only is it being combined with performance art as an integral part of the show, but more and more stand-alone lighting installations are being accepted as a valid means of self-expression. In the second part of our attempt to shed more light on this exciting development, we cast the spotlight on five more international practitioners of this very 21st-century addition to the creative canon.
Featuring:
Easyweb / Universal Everything / Moment Factory / Haque / Warren du Preez & Nick Thornton
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Type Casting
Starting from this issue, we will be carrying a regular typography column in the magazine. Versch Ontwerp, a design studio from the Netherlands, kicks off this series with an unconventional attitude to fonts – believing that they should always be fun to design and experimental in nature, whatever their ultimate function.
Featuring:
Versch Ontwerp
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Sydney, Australia
Sydney based animation and design specialists Sixty40 have won four international Promax’s, including a Gold Global Promax for their "TV1 Summer idents", and three Silver for Foxtel’s Winter Olympic interstitials.
Copenhagen, Denmark
“There is a strong masochistic side to much of the work I do…I deliberately don’t take the easy way out, I want to do the work, I want to dig the ditch so that I can feel at one with it. Because I created it."
New York, USA
If Bernstein’s illustrations filled the books you used to read as a child, you definitely wouldn’t have faked falling asleep!
London, UK
Check out London based Japanese artist Hiroshi Kariya and his works inspired by a unique combination of science fiction films and wood cut prints.
Warsaw, Poland
He is most inspired by his environment and surroundings, and his works are influenced by nature and a desire to recreate it in the simplest way possible while still preserving the complexity it represents.
Paris, France
Explore blindSALIDA's world of explosions, lines and movements, colors, and surreal, psychedelic designs.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
“I have learnt that it is not that easy to strike a balance with the environment. Awareness is important, but I think that the government should take a leading role.”
Chicago, USA
Check out the works of Dan Funderburgh, Mike Perry, Seripop and Sonnenzimmer at the 2nd annual Public Works design show. Opening night: 6th August 2010 6-9pm / Exhibition: 6 Aug - 3 Sept, 2010 / Andrew Rafacz Gallery, 835 W. Washington Chicago
Berlin, Germany
Verhaagen's work is like a child, high on sugar, feeling a sense of delusion and enlightenment!
Bath, UK
Keep your eyes on the simple, cutting-edge design works by Jack Maxwell, a recent graduate from Bath School of Art and Design.
Tokyo, Japan
“An optimistic mindset and a sense of humour and wit are more appealing to us than work that is too self-consciously serious.”
London, UK
“If I'm not at my desk drawing, you’ll probably find me outside somewhere, hopefully surfing or skateboarding or wandering around the woods, but my sketchbook will always be with me in case the urge to doodle becomes too strong.”
Hong Kong, China
Exhibition: 12 July - 22 August 2010 / Venue: New Gallery on Old Bailey / Location: 17 Old Bailey St, Soho, Hong Kong
Los Angeles, USA
"My work aims to draw a visceral response from the viewer through truth, humor and expose."
