Stef Lewandowski was the roving photographer at Plus and has started posting his very many photos online. Here’s his set with 171 shots so far and he’s asking people to add their own photos to the Plus Flickr pool, something I would endorse as a good idea. Check out the slideshow. Top: Pacman Plus. Bottom: … [Read more…]
The Fine Art of Saying “Hello” was a presentation given by TAK! to young illustrators on how they might promote themselves. In a smart piece of meta-promotion Dom’s put the PDF of the talk online so everyone else can benefit from it. This act is an example of something I’m very much in favour of … [Read more…]
The Plus International Design Festival starts today in Digbeth. Lots of exciting things are happening from talks to tours, more than I could attempt to summarise here so have a look through the site. Of particular interested to this blog, though, is the Exposition where many of the agencies from Birmingham and the region will … [Read more…]
John Bounds goes for a walk and a long chat with Ben Waddington who’s running the Type Tours this week around Birmingham. “The type-tours aren’t just about signs that are ‘printed’, the Digbeth one in particular will be as interested in hand painted notes and other letter-forms. You can talk about theory, but often you … [Read more…]
Stef Grindley is rather pleased with how his design work on Blink issue 1 came out.
As always there’s a lot of stuff going on a the MAC. Here’s a couple of things of relevance to this blog. First up is the Designer Maker Fair on the weekend of November 3rd-4th “showing the highest quality craft and design work to be seen in the region and beyond”. And, according to Birmingham … [Read more…]
Do you know this font? If it rings a bell do let Jane Anderson know as it’s doing her nut in.
BiNS has news of a series of walks lead by Ben Waddington of Birmingham Library concentrating on the design and typography history of the city as part of the Plus festival. Here are the dates: Type Tour of Digbeth – 17, 18, 19 October, 12.30 – 14.30pm Baskerville’s Birmingham – 20 October 12.30 – 14.30pm … [Read more…]