Michael Wong: peasouper – journey through London
This publication uses the idea of transportation to illustrate our journey back in time to repeat our own history.
Category: Education
Miriam Brüggen: The real world of ideology
Interview with Miriam Brüggen for the Baseline blog, discussing the ISTD project ‘The real world of ideology’. An…
Chai-Lin Lin: ‘A life’s work’ – a tribute to Frutiger
The concept of this project aims to combine the best of both and bring to the reader’s attention the uniqueness and characteristics of his typefaces in hopefully an approachable fashion that appeals beyond the academics.
Ben Hunt: Multicultural London English
Multicultural London English (abbreviated MLE) is a sociolect of English that emerged in the late 20th century. It is spoken authentically by working-class, mainly young, people in London.
Teona Teodorescu: IN–BETWEEN
Transylvania is a territory that has changed its borders at specific historical times, having its character shaped by various migration waves of distinct ethnic groups. Because of this, it challenges concepts like identity, borderland, memories of the past and present realities.
James Etherington: Institutes of the Christian Religion – a tribute to Frutiger
So the book before you is John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion typeset in Univers. The first thing you likely notice are the concrete covers, they relate to the bare stone and moulded concrete formwork of the protestant churches, especially the more modern ones.
Vinotha Panja Pillay: ‘A life’s work’ – a tribute to Frutiger
Frutiger visited India to renew Indian typography in a manner analogous to the development of European typefaces. Here a question arises: why is it that Indian typefaces should be developed in a similar way to European typefaces?
Perry Harding: Adrian Frutiger’s ‘Univers’
The Univers typeface family stood out to me not only in terms of craftsmanship, but also in the sheer scale in which it had been expanded. My concept concentrated specifically on the numbering system which Frutiger used to name the variants of Univers…
Mason Terrill: Nobel Prize
I answered the ‘And the winner is…’ brief that aimed to celebrate the Nobel Prize. My idea was to give a very full account of the Nobel Prize. From cataloguing every person who won it, giving background on the prize, case studies on each subject, and odd facts about the Laureates.
Jamie Bitmead: Element Grotesk
During my research, I came across the book Adrian Frutiger Typefaces: The Complete Works, within which, I found a list of seven typefaces designed by Frutiger that never taken to production. Among these, was the typeface Element Grotesk.
Constanca Castro: Lusíadas
From the beginning I wanted to do something related to my hometown since ISTD is an international society and I wanted to take advantage of bringing some Portuguese culture and design into my project. I decided to work with a well-known poem from Luis de Camoes that glorifies the Portuguese people on their maritime way to discover India.
Brief Cases competition winners visit Sweden
Brief Cases is a student competition with a difference. Created by Veronica Heaven of the Heaven Company, the competition is aimed at second year graphics students and designed to strengthen links between education and industry. This is done by use of real world design briefs and continuing interaction with clients while the students work on their design solutions.