today i'm feeling turquoice

"Today I’m Feeling Turquoise” is an attempt to do something that should have been done a long time ago: pairing up colours with their respective moods. Because everyone knows that red means anger, green envy, and blue misery. But who knew that olive was the colour of deja-vu, brown the colour of indifference, or pink of laughing on the outside, crying on the inside?


The booklet is made up of double-page spreads of coloured paper sealed with a perforated edge. The reader selects a colour and tears open the perforations to reveal the mood it represents.


“Today I’m Feeling Turquoise” was produced by Pentagram as our 2011/12 holiday card—but it’s much more than that. It’s the first step on a journey to finally matching all the colours in the world with their corresponding moods.


http://pentagram.com/en/new/2012/02/new-workpentagram-holiday-card-1.php


Project Team: Domenic Lippa, partner-in-charge and designer, Naresh Ramchandani, partner and copywriter, Jeremy Kunze, Lucy Groom designers, Tom Edmonds, copywriter.

book design

I've been doing my dissertation for my final year at university and book design is something I've been learning about. It a lot harder than you'd think going into a project. The balance between text, image and white space is tricky business. Clarity of the text is important but so are smaller details that make all the difference to the reader. I'll post up some of my own work when I get it back from the printers!

In this post are a random selection of double page spreads that I've collected over the last year or so. Finding good examples of designers/studios that have been able to display text and image together well can be inspiring and help you to see what is good and what is not so good.

martin o'neil [designer]

Martin O'Neil is a designer/printmaker/illustrator who creates the most beautifully nostalgic images using found materials. He creates numerous editorial works, book jackets and illustrations which you should look at in more detail, because they are lovely.

http://www.designworklife.com/2011/12/02/martin-oneill-collage/

http://cutitout.co.uk/

Martin O'Neils studio is as filled and exciting as his work. Its a converted 1930s shop and houses his huge collection of ephemera and vintage stuff. His sketchbooks are the same which is nice considering how many people take sketchbooks for granted, they can be as good as the final piece sometimes.

http://cutitout.co.uk/studio/studio

heydays [design agency]

design can be fun and vibrant and still look clean and modern. Heydays have lessened the monotone and gone for a clever and inviting use of colour and graphics. A good variety of typography and layout as well as elegant use of materials and format.

http://www.septemberindustry.co.uk/heydays-norway/

http://heydays.no/

Blokk

digital / identity

Anorak

digital / identity

OD 2011

identity / illustration

Anthon B Nilson

editorial

Westerdals

editorial / print