The Redstone Diary 2003

 Another agenda from my collection.

Eye Magazine

We're moving. And by 'we' I mean the company I work for. Not far, though. We're staying in the same building. But it does mean that we're throwing out lots of stuff. Old projects, office furniture but also old magazines and books. And that's were I come in! I took a lot of 'garbage' home, great books and stacks of design magazines, such as these old issues of Eye Magazine. Great! I'll go through them and hopefully come up with a lot of new blogposts.

Is it a box or is it a book?

Eye love books is a great book/box from BIS publishers. It's an exhibition catalogue of children's books made by artists. With contributions by 53 Dutch artists/ illustrators. Nearly all the contributions are unique, made for the artists' own children or close friends. A poster is inserted, to cut-out and add to the artist-picture book description.

Susan Kare

Without actually realising it, Susan Kare infuenced and changed my professional life. She began her career at Apple Inc. where she was the screen graphics and digital font designer for the original Macintosh computer. Her icons made the computer accessible and even attractive to me. Before I got in touch with WYSIWYG, I was quite 'scared' of computers.
According to the Museum of Modern Art in New York Susan is 'a pioneering and influential computer iconographer. She has designed thousands of icons for the world's leading software companies. Utilizing a minimalist grid of pixels and constructed with mosaic-like precision, her icons communicate their function immediately and memorably, with wit and style.'

So, besides Steve Jobs, I would like to thank Susan for making me love my Mac!

Miscellaneous

Some small printed items from my collection of cards, tickets, tags, labels etc.

Pairs and opposites

My former post showed typographic sketches and this post shows what I was sketching for.

This book is a co-production of all the students in the second year of our graphic design department. We were all given a letter from the alphabet and had to think up pairs and opposites in the Dutch language starting with that letter. We were each given a spread in the book and we were supposed to layout the pages with these words. Of course it had to be obvious which were the pairs and which were the opposites.

I was given the letter S and I had by far the biggest amount of pairs and opposites. That meant a lot of sketching, with a lot of words... The first two photos show my spread in the book. Our teacher designed the cover and the title page. The book was actually printed in the school's printshop.

FontFont Focus - Meta

One of my all time favorite typefaces is Meta by German designer Erik Spiekermann. The designagency I used to work for in Amsterdam (Eden Design & Communication) merged with Spiekermann's company in Berlin (SpiekermannPartners). 
The comapny is now called Edenspiekermann and is situated in Amsterdam, Berlin and Stuttgart.

FontFont Focus

FontFocus is a publication by typefoundry the Fontshop and (who would have guessed) on a particular typeface. It shows first sketches, all the characters, weight overviews, text samples. In fact, anything to get you to purchase the typeface.

Kitsch Kitchen agenda 2005

Kitsch Kitchen is a brand and store/supermercado based in Amsterdam. They specialise in imported (kids' stuff) from Mexico. This agenda was given to me by the designer, she used to be a colleague of mine.