Loutsider

Loutsider is a French graffiti artist who's work has a real graphic design element .

Here are pictures from various series he has produced including 'Military' and 'Flags'.

His website features graphic work he likes with a 'Design of the Day' page and also pictures from his holidays....

http://www.loutsider.com/

Harry Beck and Subway maps

Beijing Metro

Washington DC Metro

Dehli Metro

Moscow Metro

Paris Metro



Chicago Metro

Milan Metro

Harry Beck's 1933 London Underground Map

Emptying my jacket pocket the other day I found a London Tube map and this set me thinking.

Firstly it made me think what a fantastic piece of design it is, one of the ultimate examples of form following function and secondly it made me think of how it has set the frorm for metro maps worldwide.

The London Tube map that is recognized across the world was the brainchild of Underground electrical draftsman, Harry Beck, who produced this imaginative and amazingly simple design back in 1933.

Beck based the map on the circuit diagrams he drew for his day job, stripping the huge Tube network down to basic forms.

The result was an instantly clear and comprehensible chart that would become an essential guide to London – and a template for transport maps all over the world.

Beck’s revolutionary design, with certain modifications and additions, survives to the present day and is set to serve London Underground and its millions of customers for many years to come as well as being one of the iconic pieces of graphic design of the 20th century.

I Love Dust

Nike chase from ilovedust on Vimeo.


I Love Dust are a creative agency, with offices in London and Southsea, that specialise in illustration, animation and design. We saw the Nike Chase video online and decided to investigate further and found that the same company was responsible for lots of other things that had caught our eye recently.

They ply their trade in 2 contrasting studio spaces; one located in the heart of East London, the other on the tip of the south coast. Just a short stroll from the ocean and surrounded by the rolling Hampshire countryside, the south coast team enjoy a distinct vantage point working in a former butcher’s workshop. Conversely rooted in the heart of creative hub Shoreditch, the London studio thrive on the buzz and energy of the city in a converted tool-maker’s foundry.

So what can we say apart from we love I Love Dust.
http://www.ilovedust.com/ild