Christine's Design Blog

On Wednesday Nina and I helped hang the upcoming TDC56 exhibition, showcasing the winners of this year’s Type Directors Club competition. There were amazing pieces from all around the world, and many of the winners will be present at tomorrow’s opening reception.

Plus, the show poster, designed by Paul Sahre, is hilarious, so come see that as well.

The exhibition will be up until August 19, so if you’re not a TDC member, you can see it for free then. But who can resist brushing shoulders with the winners?

Print & Pattern
by Bowie Style
published by Laurence King Publishers

Saw this book at the Strand, and am in love! It’s going on The List of Things to Buy When I’m Rich. Or at least moderately well off.

Nina noticed this hilariously simple yet direct sign on a little fence leading to the front door of an apartment building in the East Village today.

It’s quite basic, but that is one infographic that gets the point across.

I’ve just spent a solid 13 hours on today’s Make Something. But this one’s a lot more exciting than my drawing from yesterday.

A little over a year ago, my Pratt friends and I were frustrated with the typographic education we were getting. So we decided, in a very Dumbledore’s Army-esque manner, to take matters into our own hands, and try to teach ourselves as much as we could. We had a few events here and there, until this past school year hit us hard with work. So this is the revival of Type Club, in internet form.

Since some of us aren’t in the city anymore, and many of us are just too busy trying to figure this employment thing out, I thought it would be great to have an online resource where we can share information and fun tidbits with each other.

It’s not the most exciting piece of web design/Tumblr customization, but I’m quite proud of the results, having never customized on Tumblr before. Modifications were made to the Silo theme. There are still some things I’m trying to figure out, but it’s in fair working order. Some of the club members have already joined up.

Feel free to sign up for our RSS feed, or if you’re quite eager to make some typographically engaging friends online, send us an email!

Oh yes, there’s also a Twitter feed, but I’m not really sure where that’s going yet. It seemed the techie thing to do.

I’ve just popped over to check out this website I worked on last summer while interning at the Longitude, under the expertise of design partner Greg Wong. This project lasted pretty much all summer, as I worked on the logo, Powerpoint slides and the website. I don’t know if they went with the Powerpoint slides that I created, but they did not take the website suggestions (for which I don’t blame them — I had a very hard time with this project, since biomedical things I have a hard time wrapping my head around).

But I’m very excited to see my logo on their site! It’s always nice to see something real that you’ve created, doing its thing in the real world. I think Greg put it best when he said that it wasn’t the ‘sexiest’ project, but it’s still something in actual existence for my book.

Here are some early explorations:

The lab, run by Elliot Hui at UC Irvine (yay Anteaters), studies things that I clearly do not understand, but they look like this:

Anyhoo, that’s the final design. This was actually one of my first uses of Gotham, and I haven’t been able to stop since. Trying to stop now.