Simply Complicated™

Yup. These are (for the most parts) all the books you will ever need.

(Compiled by ywft’s Mike Cina.)

A super collection of design goodies.

For our final project, there are three corporate logos that need your help.

The first two, at&t and xerox are going through mid-life crisis, they went from muscle to plastic surgery. The third one, ebay, was just born a typographic flipper baby.

You have a free range. Geometric shapes, colors, Futura… or not. Stay grounded in what we’ve learned and experimented with so far, but other than that, you’re on your own.

I want to see preliminary work for all logos for this Thursday 0501.

Next week we’ll do a class critique at Armchair.

Perfect contrast for scalability. Thickest at 1 unit black, thinnest at 1/4 white.

Originally posted by the amazing Maryellen McFadden on flickr. Go spend time on her stream for immaculately selected images of graphic design.

Nicole Peterson, a recent graphic design graduate from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, designed these book covers for Dante’s Divine Comedy. “I…employed simple geometric shapes and color to represent these places…” See the rest of the article on CR.

Assignment 1: Complete revisions of the shape we selected and post by midnight Thursday 0410.

Assignment 2: Add color and type to each logo and post by midnight Monday 0414. See image above for exploration ideas. We’re only allowed to use red and black. Use Futura for the type (not bold).

The new logo class holding their first creations.

Assignment 1: Complete revisions of the 5 shapes and post on flickr, with the tag: “pclogoclass01″, by midnight Thursday 0117.

Assignment 2: Add color and type to each logo. We’re only allowed to use 1 color of your choice plus black. Use Futura for the type (edit: not bold). Post on flickr, with the same tag by midnight Monday 0121.

A few examples: