London 2009

I've just recently been to London to visit the D&AD Design awards. On my travels I came across some lovely, subtle, humerous street art and grafitti.

Stanley Donwood

My favourite designer is Stanley Donwood. He does all the artwork for the band Radiohead's album covers. He works on a very large scale using ink, print, paint and pen. I particularly love his work because it's very expresive. He combines very loose, expressive brush strokes with controlled, intentional imagery and type.

This piece has been done using pen and ink. I love the ways in which he can jump from medium to medium and create similar works.

This is another brilliant book all about the history of magazine covers, the sucess of the most popular magazines ever, and interviews with fantastic designers, such as David Carson and Peter Saville.

One of my main interests lie in Editorial Design, in particular magazine design. At the beginning of 2nd year I bought this book to help me through an editorial brief I got. It's really useful, offering lots of information on grid structures, colours, imagery, layouts etc.