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The others said goodbye with embraces and glances of quiet encouragement. Their faces showed so much hope and so much fear, it was hard for me to look them in the eyes. After all, I was the one who had planned the expedition. I was the one who had insisted most forcefully that it was possible to reach Chile on foot. I know the others saw my behaviour as confident and optimistic, and perhaps it gave them hope. But what looked to them like optimism was really nothing of the sort. It was panic. It was terror. The urge that drove me to trek West was the same urge that drives a man to jump from the top of a burning building. I had always wondered how a person thinks in such a moment, perched on the ledge, cringing from the flames, waiting for the split second when one death makes more sense than another. How does the mind make such a choice? What is the logic that tells you the time has come to step into thin air? This morning I had my answer.

Miracle in the Andes, Nando Parrado

The Opposite of Death, Pg. 168

Interbrand Australia have rebranded the ‘Queensland Art Gallery|Gallery of Modern Art’ in Australia, one of the leading visual arts institutions in the country. The logo clearly portrays the two sided nature of the gallery; “the historical (pre-1970) collections are displayed at the Queensland Art Gallery, while the contemporary collections (1970 onwards) are displayed at the Gallery of Modern Art.”

I particularly like the tag lines used on the posters and feel that the new logo is both iconic and memorable. Interbrand Australia have done a good job in creating a modern and dynamic visual identity for QAGGOMA, as the two distinctive galleries, which are brands in themselves have been brought together using the striking logo to unify them whilst still displaying their unique personalities.

It looks like Interbrand have done some nice work, shame about their website.

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A touching song

Mulberry’s Autumn/Winter 2011 invitation. Pushing the boundaries of the traditional invite format, the in-house design team have created a lovely interactive piece. 

The hand finished piece of paper engineering is packaged in a black box with slip lid. The corners unfold to reveal the details about the event and uses a combination of foil blocking in gold and screen printed white ink. Innovation in the realm of invitations

Lee Goater has designed some beautiful programs using lovely type and photography for award winning theatre company Slung Low who have have created five new performance pieces for five North Yorkshire Festivals. 

A video showing The Partners design studio and how it works, past and present. An interesting insight.

Some work by art director and designer Jordan Butcher. Some nice branding for music artists amongst other things

This is the identity for the the Moscow Design Museum, set to open its first exhibition this year. It will be “an international exhibition and education platform and the first, the only and the unique design museum in Russia. It is a space where the general public will be able to view the best examples of international and Russian design.”  

Inspired by old Russian glass patterns, the icons for the logo are generated on a hard-angled grid that can render dozens of interesting shapes, resulting in a flexible logo with many variations but a very distinct DNA across all of them. The icon sits big and monolithic next to a simple and very serious, condensed, rounded sans serif — a contrast that works very well.

Sweet lil’ identity by Dalston Creative, a Stockholm based agency. You’ll find more lovely stuff on their website. Check them out

But keeping secrets is a discipline. I never used to think of myself as a good liar, but after having had some practise I had adopted the prevaricator’s credo that one doesn’t so much fabricate a lie as marry it. A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship, it must be maintained, and with far more devotion than the truth, which carries on being carelessly true without any help. By contrast, my lie needed me as much as I needed it, and so demanded the constancy of wedlock: Till death do us part.

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Lionel Shriver

pg 208 

The truth is, the vanity of protective parents that I cited to the court goes beyond look-at-us-we’re-such-responsible-guardians. Our prohibitions also bulwark our self-importance. They fortify the construct that we adults are all initiates. Be conceit, we have earned access to an unwritten Talmud whose soul-shattering content we are sworn to conceal from “innocents” or their own good. By pandering to this myth of the naïf, we service our own legend. Presumably we have looked the horror in the face, like staring into the naked eye of the sun, blistering into turbulent, corrupted creatures, enigmas even to ourselves….
The last thing we want to admit is that the forbidden fruit on which we have been gnawing since reaching the magic age of twenty one is the same mealy Golden Delicious that we stuff into our kids lunch boxes. The last thing we want to admit us that the bickering of the playground perfectly presages the machinations of the boardroom, that our social hierarchies are merely an extension of who got picked first for the kick ball team, and that grown ups still get divided into bullies and fatties and crybabies.

We Need to Talk About Kevin
Lionel Shriver

A good friend of mine interning at Neubau design studio in Berlin invited us up to see the amazing space he works in. It was amazing and we even got signed posters from the studio’s director Stefan. The studio has a completely different ethos to the agencies I have had work experience at so it was very interesting for me. I will gladly tell anyone interested all about it.