This June 1999 National Geographic magazine article is written and photographed by David Coulson who reports about the intriguing scenes carved in African rock shelters and on cliffs some 2500 – 9000 years ago.
The spread opens up with a gate-fold on the right and depicts a procession of giraffes, carved some 7000 years ago into the African rock.
Continue reading ‘Magazine design: Ancient Art of the Sahara’
Magazine layout design
The most beautiful and evocative photographs can be dismissed in the hands of someone untrained in layout design. Layout design, in this case for magazines, is when carefully chosen photographs are selected by the editing team – sometimes a combination of editor and art director – and then woven by the designer into a visual feast for the eyes and intellect; attracting the reader’s attention while proffering the contents.
Here’s an example of magazine layouts taken from a past issue of National Geographic magazine. This November 2000 article features Luis Marden; writer, photographer and explorer whose 64 years with the National Geographic shaped their magazine.
Beautiful intro spread. The loosely spaced headline is an Art Deco like typeface, it acts as a 1930's link to Marden's 64 years of involvement with the magazine. The pictorial page at right has a sepia-toned image of the man himself - with a Mexican sombero!. The contextual link is a memorabilia - a little National Geographic Society flag, which places everything into perspective.
Now in its 4th year, the President’s Design Award confers Singapore’s highest accolade on its top designers and designs across all design disciplines. Singapore designers and designs that are truly innovative and have improved the quality of life and enhanced human potential and national competitiveness are conferred the award through a process of public nomination and an international jury evaluation. This year’s President’s Design Award features 4 Designers of the Year and 7 Design of the Year Award recipients.
Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on November 20
Bruce Nussbaum is contributing editor to BusinessWeek. Previously assistant managing editor in charge of BusinessWeek’s innovation and design coverage, he was named one of the 40 most powerful people in design by I.D. Magazine in 2005.
“I was over at the President of Singapore’s residence last night to watch him personally give four Designer of the Year awards. Boy, are they promoting Design in Singapore!
The winners of this year’s Designer of the Year are:
Tham Khai Meng
Tham Khai Meng, the Worldwide Creative Director of Olgivy & Mather, New York.
Chris Lee
Chris Lee, founder of Asylum Creative (I had lunch with him and he’s great talent. Lee also spoke in Mandarin to his dad when he accepted the award—the only person in the evening to do so)
Koichiro Ikebuchi
Koichiro Ikebuchi, director of Atelier Ikebuchi
Look Boon Gee
Look Boon Gee, managing director of LOOK Architects
The US equivalent is to have the annual winners of the National Design Awards go the White House and be thanked by the President’s wife. So the message in the US is, what? Women know design and real men aren’t interested?”
Full List of Award Recipients for 2009 Designer of the Year
Koichiro Ikebuchi – Director, Atelier Ikebuchi Pte Ltd
Chris Lee – Founder and Creative Director, Asylum Creative Pte Ltd
Look Boon Gee – Managing Director, LOOK Architects Pte Ltd
Tham Kai Meng – Worldwide Creative Director, Ogilvy and Mather
Design of the Year
Genexis Theatre, Fusionopolis – Arup and WOHA
Henderson Waves – RSP Architects Planners and Engineers (Pte) Ltd
Paper Fold – Exit Design
Republic Polytechnic – DP Architects in association with Maki & Associates
The Met (Bangkok) – WOHA
Urband Origami – Nanyang Optical Co Pte Ltd
X-halo Breath Thermometer – Philips Design
THINKINGOUTTABOX congratulates the winners of the President’s Design Awards 2009!
Apologies if you're not that much into insects! The great "Mezzanine" album cover by Massive Attack from back in 1998. Art direction and design: Tom Hingston Studio, photography: Nick Knight.
If you ask graphic designers how they got into graphics in the first place, a lot of them will tell you about their favourite album covers or something else visually related to music. Enter London-based Tom Hingston: For over ten years, he has been designing quite a lot for music, from flyers for the legendary Blue Note club to Massive Attack’s covers. PingMag asks Tom about visualising sounds.
You can’t miss seeing them on the busy streets of Japan, logos with cute animals on courier trucks… Has kawaii mascot madness engulfed the Japanese transport business?
Continue reading ‘Speedy! Animal Characters As Japanese Shipping Logos’
Japanese rice wine, or sake labels have bold designs decorated with pictures of crashing waves, strong calligraphy letterings, gildings and whatnot. When you look closely at these sake labels, the designs are all so typically Japanese and there just seems to be a certain special feeling about it.
Continue reading ‘Packaging design & Japanese font workshop: Sake Bottles!’
The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, one of the largest and most popular parades in the United States, is a true New York experience that is magical for both children and adults. An annual parade presented by the departmental store Macy’s; the three-hour event is held in The Big Apple, New York City.
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Oohh… yeah! Will the REAL GI Joe please stand up?
If you’re still unsure, here’s the ‘humanised’ Hollywood version below:
For a 45 years old toy soldier, G.I. Joe has certainly seen a lot of action. Depending on your age, G.I. Joe would have been a dress-up toy, a comic book, a cartoon, a scale-down action figure, several videogames and now a live-action film.
Katherine Lanpher — along with Alaska and Hawaii — is turning 50 this year, but Barbie is getting there first!
Photo.net’s extensive learning section provides articles and guides on photography … Learn Photography: How to Take Photographs; Cameras, Lenses, Film …
From Kodak.com comes these tips to get you on your way to taking better pictures. Each tip has pictures illustrating the tip in action and instructions detailing the tip.
Top 10 Tips for Great Pictures
Photographing People and Animals
Photographing Vacations and Travel
What are the most famous kisses in movie history? Some say it’s the beach kiss from the movie “From Here to Eternity” or “Gone with the Wind” with Scarlet O’Hara and Rhett Butler or even the Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis movie “Some Like it Hot”.
Gestalt Principles are used everywhere, we just have to open our eyes to see and recognise them. Leafing through the November 2009 issue of Fortune magazine, I came upon this enticing spread about Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs – voted CEO of the Decade – with an artwork portraiture by Megan Caponetto utilising the Principle of Closure. Photography was by Christopher Griffith.
The Principle of Closure:
When looking at a complex arrangement of individual elements, humans tend to first look for a single, recognizable pattern.
Or in simple words, the Principle of Closure applies when we tend to see complete figures even when part of the information is missing. Kind of frightening huh?
Okay, let’s see how effective this portrait engages the Principle of Closure: A close up of the portrait shows Apple hardware – various iPod cases, mouse, keyboards and cables against a black background.
