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27.12.08
Review of the year, 2008
Finally, finally, a gap to write our review of the year. We’ve had quite a few emails with thoughts and nominations, along with some thoughts of our own. So, let’s stop hanging around and get on with it before the year is actually over.
In no particular order... The 'wish we’d done that’ projects of the year This year it’s plural because there are various things we’ve loved. Like this beautiful coin installation in Holland by a certain Mr Sagmeister, currently taking time out in Bali (but have a nasi goreng for us Stefan, nice job). 
There are multiple blog stories on this one, but the ironic twist is that for an installation built entirely from coins, it only stayed up (down?) for hours before the Dutch police swept it up. There’s some huge hidden irony in there, somewhere... Keeping the coin theme going, these have to be in there. Lots of votes from our readers and blogged everywhere (and there’s a nice interview here). Very nice. Well done, Mr Dent. As one reader commented, ‘to have got a clever and relatively funky design through those clients, that’s amazing’.
From earlier in the year, this fascinating combination of Marian Bantjes, Michael C Place, of Build and some auto-generated Faber and Faber book covers also gets into our top three. 
The Marian Bantjes illustration prize ..goes to, er, Marian Bantjes for these lovely snowflakes for Saks in New York. 
Brand of the year Well, no surprises here, it has to be the Obama campaign and its attendant graphic surge. 
And we suspect that, in terms of sheer graphic power, 21st century graphic design has already found a contender for its Che Guevara, courtesy of Shepard Fairey. Logo of the year Tough category. The runners-up are Pentagram San Francisco’s lovely mark for the Culture Bus... 
...and Studio Dumbar’s multi-layered C for Omroep voor Kunst en Cultuur, a Dutch cultural broadcasting organisation (although we’re not completely sure if it’s an ’08 job or not). 
The winner has to be the excellent we/me mark for the Alliance for Climate Protection, designed by Brian Collins. Very, very nice.
Ad of the year 
Well, in Britain at least, we loved this ad by Wieden and Kennedy London, where skydivers fell out of a plane spelling out ‘Honda’, in a live ad break, all to prove that ‘difficult is worth doing’. Er, absolutely. But what a great idea. If advertising is becoming more about ‘stunts’ covered online, well this is a pretty good role model. Right up there too is this mad little Transport for London film by WCRS to promote road safety to cyclists and drivers. It’s hard to write it up without giving it away, so best watch it and see what we mean.
(New Year’s resolution: work out how to get videos on to the blog).
Steal of the year 
Well it has to be London agency Beattie McGuinness Bungay’s decision to ‘adapt’ the iBeer iPhone application for their client, Carling. Having seen it in the USA, and having had their request for a version turned down by developer Hottrix, they just developed their own. It seems that the ‘borrowing’ hasn't gone down too well, resulting in a $12.5m lawsuit. Ouch. Meanwhile TBWA, the agency they left (but nearly re-merged with) seems to have stepped sideways into design, with these rather lovely designs for some in-house tea bags. We really hope these aren’t a steal. Please. 
Music of the year Weirdly it’s been live album year in the johnson banks studio, from Rodrigo Y Gabriela in Japan, Buena Vista Social Club, Brad Meldhau, to John Mayer, Jeff Beck, and the Gotan Project... ...we love that crowd noise you see. Studio albums? Goldfrapp was hammered on the studio iPods for a while, and we can see why everyone loves the Bon Iver album and the recent TV on the Radio. (Still not sure about the Kings of Leon though). That Miles in India album was great too. But, rather predictably, when we think about which album has been played most, it has to be Elbow. Single? Well, very subjective, but the editor picks That’s not my name by the Ting Tings. 
Guitar geeks out there will surely agree that Where the light is (John Mayer live in Los Angeles) had to be guitar album of the year (although the bits where he talks are deeply bugging).
Gig of the year We’ve had some very cosmopolitan votes on this one. Andy (from Milan) wanted the Chicks on Speed gig in Milan, Grant wanted the Foo Fighters at Wembley, the editor wanted Bill Bailey and Eddie Izzard back to back this month in London, but by popular vote it had to be Radiohead in Victoria Park. 
Worst timed ads of the year... ..had to be these cross-track posters for Icesave that ran on London’s Underground just as the bank (and Iceland the country) ground to a fiscal halt. Ooops. 
Design blogs of the year Well, we have four winners. Based on the simple rule ‘you can only keep 4 design blogs in your RSS reader’, it has to be equal billing to the CR blog, Design Boom, Yanko Design and of course Design Observer. Creative Review seemed to come of age this year, especially as a debating forum for UK designers. Design Boom just astonishes us with the sheer quality and quantity of its selections from around the globe. Very rarely do they pick anything duff, very rarely do you sense the hand of ‘corporate PR’. Design Observer needs no introductions, but perhaps Yanko does - a product design site that posts designs and concepts of the highest order. Have a look at their review of 2008, you’ll soon see what we mean. 
A mention in despatches has to go to Ben Terret and his blog, Noisy Decent Graphics, written by one man in a sea of multi-authored design sites. As Quentin Newark pointed out: ‘it always has something fresh and interesting... it hasn’t got an agenda at all, it’s far more genuine than that - so many blogs are thinly disguised sales promotion’. New-to-us blogs of the year Well, we’re genuinely intrigued by Brandsinger, always worth a visit. Design-wise we have to note the impressive arrival of none other than ex-D&AD President, Mike Dempsey... 
...and ex-DR stalwart, Michael C Place. We love those cats (Brockmann and Betty). The flickr set has to be visited too. 
Last year’s underground design trend gone overground Dan Gray wrote in and suggested ‘beautiful/unreadable infographics’ (and he’s got a good point). Robin Howie suggested spineless binding (true). But as last year we noted the preponderance of counterless, blocky designs on the likes of FFFFound, and in student portfolios, this has been the year when the style has ‘gone public’ (as one of our respondents, Jake Pover, also noticed).
So from Vodafone’s music campaign (by The Brand Union)... 
 
..to the MAD Museum in New York (Pentagram)... 
...to the über-copyright cops, DACS (by 300 million), it’s now public property, and everywhere. Still great, but very, very 2008. 
Maybe credit should be given to the style’s progenitors, Non-Format and the now sadly defunct Kerr Noble. Non-Format have already moved on, anyway. We love this Jeff Koons hedgehog. 
The other design trend of the year has to be all those cities using hearts for their logos. The ‘I really don't need one but I’d really like one’ award Well, there are quite a few ridiculous ones in this category. but we've cut it down to these lovely wooden iPhone covers (very nice)... 
and these fabulous inks-splat bookmarks. 
There have been some votes for this bunny plate rack/dryer too. See, told you they were essentially ridiculous. 
The ‘looks a bit dodgy but I’d still like one’ award ...has to go to this camera that prints its own inkless prints, on the spot. Wow, a kind of digital Polaroid? Yes please. Can we have one on ‘test’, maybe?
Conversely it seems from readers’ votes that all we really (really) want, camera-wise, is a Leica of some description. A D-Lux? An M8? We don’t mind... Cars? A Fiat 500. Neat web project of the year 
We weren’t too enamoured by the design of this site, and have no interest at all in the product on sale (sorry) but loved the idea for this site where photographer Nick Turpin toured the world for a month, taking pictures where location and subject were decided by the visitors to the site. Great. We’re going to see more of this. 
FFFFound find of the year? Has to be this. 
Design book of the year 
Not a vintage year. In a year where the designer monograph trend seemed to slow down, there were quite a few nominations from readers for Daniel Eatock’s book, but we enjoyed this Barney Bubbles retrospective the most. It’s flawed, yes, and frustrating, true, but finally the work has been collected in one place. You could read the two-years-and-still-going post that led to it here, or Rick Poynor’s recent review here. Or, better, just buy the book, a valuable record of an almost forgotten influence. Worst of the year? Well, readers votes mainly concentrated on more hatred of the Olympics logo (sorry, it was ’07) and there’s a lot of venom towards the Pepsi re-jig (as noted over here on Brand New’s review of the year). Overall, we have to point the finger at the whole marble/globe/globalised thing, best summed up by the Barclaycard and Xerox projects, neatly parodied on the CR blog here. In terms of greenwash, readers nominated ‘anything that came out of David Cameron’s mouth’ or ‘Tesco and Sainsbury’s bag advertising - we do all the work while they save money’. Some people nominated D&AD (that awarded no graphic design pencils this year) as ‘biggest disappointment of the year’ (ouch), but most people’s boring topic and biggest disappointment of the year seems to be the same - the credit crunch. Next year’s trend? 
Well, we’re hoping for more of those projects that feel less like graphic design, and we’re hoping that Uniqlo’s brave foray into dual languages will be the beginning of a whole move towards global brands that feel much more local. But we’re prepared to be disappointed. Anyway, that’s it, thanks for your votes, thanks for visiting this year, and have a happy new year. Thought for the Week is taking a break for a week or so. See you in the new year.
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19.12.08
Recycled Angels, 2008
Most of the autumn is spent agonising over ‘the Christmas Card’ in design studios worldwide. We too were agonising until we realised that we should take the easy way out and do a follow-up to last year’s recycled trees. So this year, in place of the tree, we designed an angel-shaped cutter which we used to punch-cut 500 magazines lying around our homes and the studio. The fun of this is how these odd collections of magazines survive the punching process, and then deciding which version should be sent to which person on the database. Who should receive The Economist, or Grazia? 
Who would appreciate a Michaelangelo angel? 
Obviously we had to take care with these, er, racier angels. 
As ever, industry stalwart Design Week magazine provided hours of amusement. That’s ex D&AD President Simon Waterfall’s head chopped in two, on the right. 
One of the magazines we design ourselves, AQ magazine for The Art Fund, provided these very nice bananas, which went to a good home. 
Last year’s card looked like this, in case you’re wondering. 
Now all we have to do is find a way to follow that in 11 months time. Mmmmm.
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18.12.08
Me-projects
Over fifteen years ago a shockwave was sent through graphics as designers put two fingers up to the ‘big idea’/’problem-solving’ tradition and turned to self-expression. They proclaimed the processes they used almost as important as the product itself, and, if they had the chance they’d be re-incarnated as conceptual artists.
Once the predictable flurry of hysteria from the traditionalists died down, it became clear that genuine good could come from this and the savvier students and professionals took the ideas on board. So from Tomato’s early experiments to Carson’s typographic blitzkrieg, the profession received a useful kick up its rear end that knocked it out off its cosy woodcut, centred, brushstroked axis.
How ‘self-initiated’ came to life varied, hugely. In the hands of students it veered into rampant self analysis: endless ‘embroidered-type-on-pillowcase’ projects on dreams and childhood memories; ‘mapping-my-journey-to-college’ posters, or impenetrable typographic essays as design donned Baudrillard’s intellectual beret for the first time.
Practising professionals took it elsewhere - Paula Scher began her typographic ‘map’ paintings at about this time, Stefan Sagmeister introduced his naked body as the canvas for a series of self-mutilation projects. Daniel Eatock has now taken it to new heights, coming the closest to tipping out of design and into conceptual art.
But recently ‘self-initiated’ has mutated into another strain, best described as ‘me-projects’. Taking Sagmeister as their cue, several designers have made themselves the epicentre of their work. 
We revealed Christopher Doyle’s work a while a go on this blog. Whilst holding down a day job in Sydney, he produced a set of design guidelines. OK, nothing new there – but the catch is that the guidelines are for himself. For the section on ‘black and white’, there he is, in black and white. ‘Clearance space’ is shown at first diagrammatically, but then ‘exceptional circumstances’ are allowed when girlfriend Sarah is involved. 
He recently entered it into a design competition in Australia, with additional material. The additional material? Himself. Doyle stood by his brochure for a day whilst the judges passed judgement on his kerning (and his shoes). 
Another classic example is Nicolas Felton’s annual report that he produces annually. For three years now we’ve studied how many miles he has run, how many emails and texts he has sent, which books he has read.
Last year we found out when he met Sarah (surely not the same Sarah?) and when he turned thirty (but were they linked?). We know how much money gathered in his coin bucket, how many photos he has uploaded to flickr, when he was attacked on the train, and so on. 
He’s taken this to the logical conclusion by setting up a website with interactive designer Ryan Case (called Daytum) which encourages others to collect them-data (or would that be me-data?) and publish it too. So as I write, I can tell you that ‘Hannah J’ wishes she ‘could draw better, could read faster and could skateboard’. (It looks like her new year’s resolutions are sorted then).
Felton and Doyle’s link is that they are practising designers, and have chosen to adapt known (and groan-inducing) aspects of life in graphics (the manual, the annual report) and turn them on their heads, away from dry instruction to bizarre 21st century pastiche.
But why have they done it? When quizzed, Felton’s admits that ‘it satisfies a real curiosity that I have about my habits. Why is it a popular document? If there are numerous people out there who think it is fascinating and don't even know me... imagine how fascinating I find it’. At first your reaction is ‘oh please…’ but soon you are scouring the pages to see which was the most visited restaurant, his most-drunk beer, a sort of typographic Truman show but authored by Truman himself.
Doyle acknowledges a long held desire to do more personal work but ‘never found the time’. He also admits that it was difficult: ‘I hadn't counted on the self-examination. What this forced me to do was present myself, raw and true. I’ve always had issues with my weight, so it was it was a big thing for me to pose the way I did’.
The fact that Felton is now extending his ideas on-line come as little surprise - it’s here that an up-and-coming designer, or blogger (or both) can grab their moment of fame as the world’s design sites continually trawl for new stories and images. 
Sometimes the level of profile some can achieve this way belies their youth: Craig Oldham’s projects gathering hand written letters from designers and ‘12 in 12 things you might learn in your first year as a designer’ publication have been linked everywhere, but in reality he’s a designer two and a half years into his working life at The Chase in Manchester. Kate Moross’s design career has only really just started but she’s already confident enough to call herself a ‘maestro’ on her home page. And why not?
Then there are the blogs themselves, perhaps the biggest me-projects of all. The freedom to publish any thought, at any time, on anything can lead to criticism, some of it justified. Many design blogs are still written by people whose work, when you follow the ‘portfolio’ link, is often a little underwhelming. Although it’s telling that recently the ranks of ‘designers that blog’ have been swelled by British veteran Mike Dempsey and über-gridnik Michael C Place. Their daily musings and observations are fascinating; even when they veer into the banal it still works, somehow.
But Felton is honest in appraising his me-projects: ‘I’ve been truly fortunate that it’s developed a following. As a result, I strive to make each year more special and more interesting than the previous year, and it has been an incredible promotional piece for my design practice’. Aha. Now we’re getting to it: it’s a promotional piece, and guess what – he also sells thousands of copies of it each year.
And what became of Doyle’s award entry? Well, he won. Perhaps these ‘me-projects’ are just another form of ‘me-promotion’, after all.
This is an adaptation of an article written by Michael Johnson for the January issue of Creative Review
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17.12.08
IamHiBix and the Review of the Year
Hello loyal readers, we are slightly caught in the Iam-Hi-Bix storm (that’s 'I Absolutely Must Have It Before It's Xmas’, in case you’re wondering). But the Review of the Year is on it’s way and you now have until the end of this Friday to cast your votes. As reported last week, the categories (currently) are as follows, feel free to suggest more if you wish. The ‘wish I'd done that’ design project of the year
Design trend of the year
Your tip for next year’s design trend of the year
Most visited blog/website
Most pointless blog
Best new blog on the block
Best web article of the year
‘Wish I had one of those’ products of the year
Most beautiful but useless object of the year
Album of the year
Gig of the year
Logo of the year
Brand of the year
Worst logo/rebrand of the year
Best ad
Worst ad
‘Greenest’ idea of the year
Biggest piece of Greenwash
Book of the year
Boring topic of the year
Biggest ‘steal’ of the year
Biggest disappointment
Copy the categories and your nominations into an email and send to info[at]johnsonbanks[dot]co[dot]uk.
If you have a category you think we've missed, tell us that too, with your nomination. You can’t, of course, vote for your own work or projects, and don’t vote for any of ours please.
Best emails with the funniest comments get really great prizes. Honest.
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14.12.08
There’s something up in blog-ville
Over the last few months there have been recurring phrases in cyberspace. Have you noticed? There’s the tendency for various writers to ‘take a break’, or to profess to writer’s block. Some, like the much-admired 1+1=3 blog, have simply closed their CMS and stopped altogether. Others who were regular, almost obsessive commentators have slowed down, just posting occasional pieces when the mood takes them. Some trail-blazers, like Rick Poynor on Design Observer (who contributed 30,000 words to its early days [update: 70,000]) can still be read, but only rarely.
Technorati’s 2008 ‘State of the Blogosphere’ notes that since its records began in 2002 they have logged and indexed 133 million blogs. That’s a big number. But only 7.4 million have been updated in the last 120 days. Now that’s a lot of idle web pages.
So what’s up?
Writing a while ago in Wired, Paul Boutin offered a fierce perspective. ‘Writing a weblog today isn't the bright idea it was four years ago. The blogosphere, once a freshwater oasis of folksy self-expression and clever thought, has been flooded by a tsunami of paid bilge. Cut-rate journalists and underground marketing campaigns now drown out the authentic voices of amateur wordsmiths. It's almost impossible to get noticed, except by hecklers. And why bother? The time it takes to craft sharp, witty blog prose is better spent expressing yourself on Flickr, Facebook, or Twitter.’ 
His analysis seems a little harsh, but think about it? Those epic days of long, amazing discussion strings on Design Observer feel like they’ve gone. Paula Scher’s great blog diagram doesn’t feel so appropriate anymore as discussions are simply liable to collapse into personal insults, rather than informed opinions. Even the regular commentators whose life-purpose seemed to be inclusion in every discussion string going (such as ‘Design Maven’) are quieter, or have retired altogether (like the Maven himself).
On this side of the Atlantic, Creative Review’s admirable blog goes from strength to strength, but is regularly hijacked by a handful anonymous posters who glory in throwing rotten tomatoes at virtually anything posted on the site. This leaves its editors in the difficult position of either having to sift out the vitriol or leave it in, as much for the controversy it then creates.
Some of the original design blog stars are still there, like Swiss Miss, but the charm of observing the batty observations of a European in Manhattan are now regularly peppered with posts about it’s editor being featured here, or there, or speaking somewhere. But no-one can blame Tina Roth Eisenberg for turning her anonymity into some more marketable – she doubtless felt that years of posting about cool products had to lead somewhere, eventually, and her blog-fame may well help her design-fame. Maybe it makes sense to ‘monetize’ after all.
Just the pure fact that The Economist is even discussing blogging probably signals its move into the mainstream. It reported recently how one of the original and most revered bloggers (Jason Calacanis, a founder of Weblogs Inc) has moved away from the medium. ‘“Blogging is simply too big, too impersonal, and lacks the intimacy that drew me to it. It was, he said, “the pressure” of staying on the A-list—ie, of keeping his blog so big and impersonal—that got him. Only a few years ago, so few people blogged that being a blogosphere celebrity required little more than showing up. Now it takes hard work. And vitriol. “Today the blogosphere is so charged, so polarised, and so filled with haters hating that it’s simply not worth it.”’
Whilst personal blogs seem to be on the wane, corporate, or ‘collective’ blogs get stronger and stronger. From what seemed a gentle start years ago, sites like Design Boom, with just a handful of full-time staff in Milan, offers up dozens of amazing examples of contemporary design, every day. Frankly it’s an amazing destination and almost worth the price of the internet on its own. Meanwhile, corporate blogs like Wieden and Kennedy’s in London offer insights into life at one of London’s most creative agencies, and most regular readers are probably charmed by the general (albeit self-obsessed) musings of its team. It will merrily veer from reports on in-house baking competitions to updates on weekends spent on pitches, and occasionally launches a bit of critique (even getting itself into occasional hot water). 
Whilst blogs are under pressure, and other, quicker mediums are taking over, it’s still possible to see a post and its attendant comments go into uncharted territory. Michael Bierut’s post on the late Lou Dorfsman attracted genuinely touching comments, as did Creative Review’s page on Alan Fletcher a few years ago. More amazingly, a piece posted nearly two years about Barney Bubbles… got added to and added to... until (198 comments later) it finally led to a book on Bubbles’ work. Fantastic. You see, the internet still works the way it should (sometimes).
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10.12.08
Kerning notes from Copacabana
One of the johnson banks team has just returned from a fortnight in Brazil. Briefed to ‘take some cool pics of weird Brazilian type’ here’s just a few of the things he found. The picture above is pretty funny given the national tendency to simply ignore all street signs anyway, so the fact it’s upside down makes no difference really.
This was a real stand-out, tiled signage... 
...that on closer inspection is made up of all types of miscellaneous tiled elements. Love this ‘E’. 
You can’t go all the way to Brazil and not get some stencilled beach type. 
How about some counterless, ripped, vernacular, edgy stuff? 
Some lovely (or just weird) hand painted pieces. 
More tiling... 
...and some 3D stuff in the park, obviously (are those Christmas trees?) 
And, of course, a manhole cover. 
Great stuff. Almost feel like we were there too. Kind of.
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08.12.08
Review of the year 08, vote now
About this time last year we published a Review of the Year during a period of lazy-make-a-list-and-go-home-early journalism. It was oddly popular, predicted several mainstream design trends and even tipped a D&AD Gold, so this year we’re taking it a bit more seriously. To make it a bit more democratic, we’re asking for your votes this year. We haven’t entirely nailed the categories, quite, but the ones we like so far are posted below. They are: The ‘wish I'd done that’ design project of the year Design trend of the year Your tip for next year’s design trend of the year Most visited blog/website Most pointless blog Best new blog on the block Best web article of the year ‘Wish I had one of those’ products of the year Most beautiful but useless object of the year Album of the year Gig of the year Logo of the year Brand of the year Worst logo/rebrand of the year Best ad Worst ad ‘Greenest’ idea of the year Biggest piece of Greenwash Book of the year Boring topic of the year Biggest ‘steal’ of the year Biggest disappointment Voting is decidedly lo-tech, sorry, just copy the categories and your nominations into an email and send to info[at]johnsonbanks[dot]co[dot]uk. (Please don’t use ‘thought’ it’s thick with spam). If you have a category you think we've missed, tell us that too, with your nomination. You can’t, of course, vote for your own work or projects, and don’t vote for any of ours please because people would then think it was a fix and it would all get a bit messy. So? Votes close on Friday. Best emails with the funniest comments (which we’ll quote, unless you want to be anonymous) get good prizes. True.
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04.12.08
It doesn’t get any better
The current exhibition running at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in South London on the late US illustrator Saul Steinberg has inspired us to dig out some of his classics and feature them here. 
Here’s a selection of classics from two very early books All in Line and The Art of Living, both from the forties. 
A marvellous set using blank musical notation paper. 
You should beg, borrow or possibly steal a copy of his fifties classic, The Passport. 
We love the graph paper architect series too. 
The benefit of the exhibition is, of course, a gleaming new book, Illuminations, with some pieces that are less familiar, or shown in colour for the first time. 
Here’s Twenty Americans.
3 liberties.
And one of the famous New Yorker pieces. 
And on a festive note... 
We’re not going to attempt to point out Steinberg’s influence on countless designer’s and illustrators, that’s probably pretty obvious - what’s amazing is that some of these drawings are sixty years old. It really doesn’t get any better.
Saul Steinberg: illuminations is at The Dulwich Picture Gallery, London until 15 february 2009. Abe.books watch: there’s quite a bit there but if you want the special edition of The Passport inscribed to Paul Rand you’ll need about $2,500 (!) But you can get catalogues of the Whitney Show from the late seventies for as little as $7. Bargain.
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03.12.08
A quiet night for Benchmarks
The economic gloom seemed to affect last night’s Design Week Benchmark Awards judges, who only managed to find winners in just over half of their categories. Still, it was nice to see our ‘Mouse’ scheme for the Microsoft Digital Advertising Awards shortlisted... 
...and to be commended for the Save the Children project. 
Our congratulations to Hat-Trick design, who won best of show with their scheme for the Sumatran Orangutan Society.
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02.12.08
It’s raining in Tokyo
We’ve received some images of our latest project in Japan, an umbrella design for the Creation Gallery in Tokyo. Every year they ask us and many other artists (mainly Japanese) to take a basic design form and decorate it. This year they wanted to see if they could encourage young Tokyo-ites to re-use their umbrellas more (there’s a tendency there to see umbrellas as disposal items). So our design links the umbrella to our melting planet. 
It say’s ‘a drop of rain... ...a melting planet’ on one of the panels. Here’s a view of the show.
And more exhibition images. Look, you can try before you buy. 
There are, of course, some fantastic other designs. Here are two of our favourites, by ä¹…ä¿?æ‚Ÿ and DONA.
If you’re in Ginza this month the details are here. All the designers and artists donate their time for free, and all proceeds are given to Unicef. Our previous designs for this gallery have included a T-Cup, and an environmentally aware fan.
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