Context publication.

List of people I wish to include within the publication and why!

Peter Saville.
http://www.petersaville.info/


This makes sense as Peter Saville was the very first graphic design I was knowingly aware of and introduced to. His work still influences me to this day. Some of his designs are no longer part of my aesthetic influence, but his concept building and reasoning behind each design is something I strongly relate to. I was introduced to Saville's work back in 2007 through a film titled: 24 hour party people. This led me to become obsessed with the factory record story and ultimately look more into
Saville's work.

My particular favourite piece of his work is the poster he designed for Factory Records opening night.

Saville would often walk past an industrial sign which read 'USE HEARING PROTECTION' along with a illustration of the head of a man with his fingers in his ears. He managed to incorporate this found imagery into his work and it worked. The sign took on a whole different meaning and was applied to a new context. This was what fascinated me about his work.

The industrial theme doesn't stop there, he also featured industrial colours and heavy lines mixed with delicate type.

There's something quite charming about Saville's work. The poster was produced for Tony Wilson, founder of Factory Records, but the night went ahead without a poster only for Saville to turn up at the club with it. Late.

Not only was the poster late, but it had a typo. 'Russel Club' in fact has two "l's"

Since arriving at LCA I've found loads of new influences and forgot about Saville,
but found a book of his work in the library and instantly become, once again, obsessed.

So with all this in mind, it only makes sense to include him in the first page of my publication


Hey Studio

http://heystudio.es/


"Hey We are a design studio based in Barcelona. We mostly work in brand identity, illustration and editorial design. We always wanted to have our own style, and we believe we have archived it. Geometry, color, direct typography. Let’s say purity. When we look back over our work we feel it is consistent, but we usually prefer to look forward. Our personal projects are almost as important as the commercial ones. They let us explore, innovate, travel to other dimensions and meet nice people. We are small. We like it that way because it lets us stay close to our clients, be flexible and take care of every single detail at every step of the process. We’re sure you have read that before somewhere else, but we mean it. Work with us and you’ll see."

Hey Studio are relatively new influence and in fact a studio I probably woulndn've liked only last year.
They use a lot of primary and bright colours which was something I was against (for some reason) last year.

Using a combination a bold palette of colour and geometric shapes, Hey have managed to achieve a very unique and distinctive look.


Raw Color

http://rawcolor.nl/

It’s a relief to put names to projects and right now I’m feeling the same sense of euphoria as yesterday when the change in my pocket matched the price of a white chocolate kitkat exactly. Raw Color, an Eindhoven-based studio consisting of one Daniera ter Haar and one Christoph Brach, are responsible for a number of impossibly great projects and collaborations that I’ve seen spread out across the ether in a beguiling one-image-wins-prizes sort of way. There is the photo essay commissioned by Nowness with Martin Creed – a celebration of balancing food stuffs that appear on the menu of Pierre Gagnaire’s Sketch restaurant – the temporary, multiple-exposure recreation of trees with Mkgk, the contiguous paper still life constructs, wonderfully suggestive photoshoot for Dutch Invertuals, and, most recently, Cryptographer & Encoded Textiles. With multiple experts to help them realise it, Raw Color created a bleach printer that would draw out a custom code in place of your regular alphabet in an ever-changing pattern onto lengths of fabric. When concluded, the piece literally becomes part of the furniture (or accessory?) and suddenly the digital, intangible language is made real – and in tasteful geometrics!

Spin Studio

http://spin.co.uk

Spin was founded by Tony Brook and Patricia Finegan in 1992. Patricia Finegan – Managing Director: Patricia moved to London from Dublin in 1983, studied for a degree in Design Management at the University of the Arts, graduating in 1988. Tony Brook – Creative Director: Born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, Tony studied at Percival Whitley College of Further Education and then at Somerset College of Arts and Technology in Taunton. Tony lectures nationally and internationally and is currently an external examiner for the MA Brand Identity course at the London College of Communications. Tony is guest curator of ‘Wim Crouwel - A graphic odyssey’ a major retrospective of the Dutch master’s work currently on show at the Design Museum in London. He was admitted to the Alliance Graphique Internationale in 2006 and is the current president of the UK chapter. In 2009 Tony and Patricia set up Unit Editions, a publishing company with the designer, historian and author Adrian Shaughnessy. Spin has received national and international recognition winning awards in print, television and cinema graphics, digital design, poster design and typography. Exhibitions featuring Spin’s work include: ‘The Brit Insurance Designs of the year’ exhibition at the Design Museum, ‘Communicate’, an exhibition of British independent graphics since the 1960s, ‘Great Expectations’, a Design Council exhibition on contemporary British design, and ‘Stealing Eyeballs’, a group show at the Künstlerhaus in Vienna.