If there is a graphic designer in your life, you already know that they can be the hardest people to please with a gift, and this task becomes especially complicated before Christmas. Gift buying for the design-savvy is not only difficult and time-consuming, it can even become intimidating. Graphic designers might seem a bit weirdoes… Continue reading Nightmare before Christmas
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Music copyrights f**k
Since the origins of humankind, music has enriched people’s personal lives, but today, we also know that music can enrich our professional life too. Some studies affirm that, people who listen to music while they work, perform quicker and make fewer errors. Listening to music while working is, in fact, very important to me. For… Continue reading Music copyrights f**k
Ink traps ahead of times
Last friday I attended the opening of the exhibition “Metodo Simoncini. Ricerca di un’estetica dell’insieme” at the Museum of Industrial Heritage in Bologna. The exhibition lives in the context of “Griffo, the great gala of letters” curated by Elisa Rebellato and Antonio Cavedoni under the art direction of Dina&Solomon. It is a journey through the successful business model and creations of Francesco Simoncini, a key figure for the fifties-seventies typography… Continue reading Ink traps ahead of times
Punk & Paradox
Can you mention a craft where discipline and patience are very necessary other than Type Design? Surely there are a lot, still I believe designing a typeface is among the most intense. Probably constraining yourself to urinate for six months onto 50cm framed bed sheets is quite intense too. And you need a lot of discipline. Not… Continue reading Punk & Paradox
Please welcome (back) title safe area
Anticipated by spoilers the iPhone X is here, and rounded corners are back with a vengeance. I did not peek through the leaked iOS 11, I probably wouldn’t know where to look for because I am a designer, not a developer, still, using the official marketing images I took sometime to imagine the measurements of the… Continue reading Please welcome (back) title safe area
Goodby to Medium isometric flat hills
As you probably already noticed Medium has just gifted itself with a new logo, again. The last one did not last two years, and for how much I did like the style I never quite understood the design process behind it. The today one makes much more sense to me as it fits in a… Continue reading Goodby to Medium isometric flat hills
On what is alike and what is not
A question is baffling me since a week or two… Are we measuring the words “equal” and “different” depending only on the context? Fact: PayPal sued Pandora over alleged similarities in the two logos. Now, let’s be honest, first of all we are not talking about the logotypes but the monograms. The logotypes are totally different and the only thing… Continue reading On what is alike and what is not
Monotype Loves you*
Monotype just released its new Library Subscription, and it will cost you less than a Mermaid Caffe Latte per week… Ok, I cheated already, It would be €299,99 (that is to say €8,34 monthly, or less than €2 weekly, you’re welcome for having me calculate that for you) only if you are committed to pay for a 3… Continue reading Monotype Loves you*
Spain National Awards
This morning, the King and the Queen of Spain, together with Carmen Vela, Secretary of State of Research, Development and Innovation from the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness are presiding over the awards ceremony of the National Awards for Innovation and Design 2016. And once again I’m delighted to be part of this amazing event. This year,… Continue reading Spain National Awards
Graphic Means Preview
Last month I was among the few fortunate ones watching the first public preproduction screening of Graphic Means, the documentary exploring graphic design production of the 1950s through the 1990s by director/producer Briar Levit. It all happened at Fruit Exhibition, in Bologna, Italy. Very rarely we are witness of such world premieres but, thanks to a… Continue reading Graphic Means Preview