In an effort to bring their Exclusive Faces range to a larger audience, HypeForType approached graphic designer Ryan Atkinson to produce their first magazine release Typographic Revolt. The brief was to produce a 16 page A2 magazine with a twist. Instead of following the traditional convention, Ryan designed a quick read through A2 magazine which also doubles up as a set of 4 Exclusive Faces posters. Each page folds out to create a double sided poster perfect for your studio or home wall space. Typographic Revolt is printed as a limited litho run on 90gsm wood free paper, giving everything a premium newspaper feel which absorbs the inks to create a beautiful desaturated look and feel. Typographic Revolt. is available now through Amazon.

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A lovely looking little trailer for a new film on leading Canadian designer, educator and painter Burton Kramer by Greg Durrell of A Brief History Of. Also worth mentioning there is a lovely retrospective book available on a half century of identity work by Kramer.

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Intensely captivating sculptures from Guy Laramee entitled The Great Wall are created from single or multiple books and encyclopedias. Practicing as both a landscape painter and sculpture both of which feed into The Great Wall help Guy to create intricate detail that is astounding.

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Well travelled Italian Scots designer Pete Rossi has spent some time this year working at the fantastic Studio Astrid Stavro in Majorca, where he had a chance to work on some great publishing projects. The Spanish Advertising Annual 2011 ‘Club de Creativos’ is well worth a look; it features exquisite pencil drawn illustrations on uncoated paper stock in the annual’s ‘Ideas’ section, contrasted beautifully with full colour reproductions on coated paper for the ‘Execution’ section.
Pete has also recently returned from a visit stateside, where he was bestowed with the honour of Young Gun 2011 by the Art Directors Club of New York. A truly impressive achievement, doing Scottish design proud — congratulations Pete.

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In October 2011 Design Assembly turned 3. To celebrate this landmark they have retired the website and donated the past 3 years of energy and effort to a far greater cause — fighting cancer!

They’ve produced a book, 3 in fact, archiving the past 3 years of discourse, and showcasing new and exclusive material from leading industry professionals. 100% of the profits from the sale of this publication will be shared between 3 charities with a combined global reach:

Cancer Research UK, United Kingdom
LIVESTRONG, North America
WCRF International, Rest of world

The book is available from Design Assembly for only £40!

To coincide with the release of the book, the illustrator Paul Davis has produced a unique Limited Edition artwork, Charlie, on the theme of 3 with the cause firmly in mind. Also avaiable from the DA site and again, all proceeds will go to the chosen charities.

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Lilli Carré is a Chicago-based artist who works in illustration, animation and comics. I came across her work many years ago after reading her comic book The Lagoon – which I wholeheartedly recommend! I particularly like these book covers she did recently for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn published by Penguin Classics and Very Good, Jeeves! for W.W. Norton & Co. Be sure to stop be her site to check out her portfolio, and buy some of her fantastic books!  Besides The Lagoon, I would recommend her comic Nine Ways to Disappear.

There is a really great interview with Lille Carré on The Comics Reporter.

» Lilli Carré’s Portfolio

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FUEL are possibly best known for their self-published books and magazines which cover a range of topics, from Russian criminals’ tattoos to the design of Sainsbury’s own brand products in the 60′s and 70′s.

They recently launched a new website, which celebrates the work they have created during the last 20 years.

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Eight:48 have launched their first book, ‘Robert Samuel Hanson: 140 Colour Images’, a monograph focussing on the work of FFF favourite Robert Samuel Hanson. The book features 140 colour illustrations, organised into groups according to their subject matter. These illustrations are accompanied by an interview with the Rob about his work, life and accomplishments. You can buy a copy over at Counter-print for a very reasonable £27 – £32 (depending on where you live).

We got a hold of Céline Leterme of Leterme Dowling, who designed the book and are behind Eight:48 and Counter-print, to ask her some questions about their first published book.

Hi Céline, can you tell us a little more about how this project come together?

We have been working with Robert on an on-off basis since we started our design company a couple of years ago. (We actually first saw his work on FormFiftyFive, so massive thanks for that). The first project we worked with him on was a poster for one of our businesses, Counter-Print. It’s a cliche, but we were blown away with the result. The attention to detail was incredible, as was his ability to understand what we were looking for.

The project flowed really smoothly, so when we launched Counter-Print’s magazine, Eight:48, the first person we thought of going to for the design of a its cover was Robert. I suppose we cemented our relationship with that project, as there was always a lot of back and forth, including plenty of discussion in regards to how the magazine should look and how the covers would be perceived.

When Jon and I here decided that we wanted to dip a collective toe into publishing, we thought Robert would be a great subject matter to start with. We knew it would be a pleasure to work with him throughout the process, we were aware that he had a large body of quality work that people probably wouldn’t have seen before and asking him seemed like the perfect thank you for all the effort he’d put into our projects over the last couple of years.

Are these monographs a new thing you guys are going to get into on a regular basis?

We would ideally like to do more books and it would be nice to have something we could put out whenever we want, instead of Eight:48 which we seem to always have a deadline approaching for.

Did you approach Robert or did he propose the idea?

We approached Rob, he took some time to think about it. Maybe because we’d never published a book before or maybe just because he had to entrust us with representing what he is about.

After a couple of days he got back to us and said he’d love to be involved and that the trust we had built up with him, having worked on Eight:48 was the reason he would let us design his book. I think/hope our previous collaborations had proven that we wouldn’t produce something that wasn’t apt or an accurate representation of what he does.

In the end, creating a literal representation of what we thought ‘a Robert Hanson book’ would look like was the ‘big idea’ behind the design of the book. That’s why the cover of the book itself looks like a Hanson illustration – an almost icon-like design, which is seen when you pull the dust jacket off. It was also the reason we got Robert to illustrate the bookmark, as if it were also a graphic 2D icon.

Have you got any other artists lined up that you can mention?

No artists lined up for similar monographs yet, but we certainly would be interested in producing other books in the future. I suppose this one is a bit of a test. We like it, and if it amount to nothing else we’ll have a few hundred copies of Robert’s book to our selves. Perhaps we can make a chair out of them or something.

Was any of the work featured produced exclusively for the monograph?
Rob worked on the cover, book mark and divider pages in order to get the concept of the book across, the rest is all existing portfolio material.
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Make sure you check out Counter-print for more images and information.

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Nobrow 6 was released this week with bulging 128 page double flip-cover issue! With over 60 pages of Comics from the leading talents around the globe, as well as 60 pages of fantastic illustration!

To honour our Double issue, which will set the precedent for future issues of Nobrow, over 60 artists have contributed work to the theme of Doubles or Doppelgänger. The two covers were created by Gwenola Carrere and Tom Gauld.

Check out the rest of the artists involved and buy yourself a copy!

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Tsto is a multidisciplinary creative agency from Helsinki, Finland. Serving up some rather tasty print design.

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