future orange 660 Posted December 11, 2007 Report Share Posted December 11, 2007 more than your BS posts i am sure. to what extent are you involved in design? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted December 11, 2007 Report Share Posted December 11, 2007 I work for a London communications agency, we employ almost 50 people in 3 offices, London, Cardiff and Worthing. We have 5 designers in London and 1 in Cardiff, my job involves liaising with them almost on a daily basis, making sure the sites i develop from their designs are to their satisfaction, working with them up in the London office to make sure it's again, as they want.I'm also allowed to look through CV's of applicants and discuss who to call in for an interview, given, not for design but i often read the applications for design anyway just to see who i might be working with in future. I then of course get to see who was picked from those applications.That extent enough to justify my "BS posts"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
br3n Posted December 11, 2007 Report Share Posted December 11, 2007 Firstly Simon is one of the most competitant coders i've come accross, trials-shack and various other ecomerce solutions all w3c compliant etc is a big enough tick in my books...as for thisHaha im waiting to see how long it takes Charlie to make a pdf to mimic that cheese packet and how he f**ks it up That CD on body print i posted earlier along with the booklet and inlay designs etc were sent to the duplicators today for our young enterprise company (www.myspace.com/amplocal). If all goes to plan those CDs should be in Watford HMV soon Does anyone in this thread read design magazines or similair stuff? What do you read? I love reading magazines and wanna expand my range. At the minute i mainly read bmx, photography, art and lifestyle stuff.Im subscribed to ICON which also comes with a free subscription to grand designs magazine as its a sister magazine... ICON is ususally pretty good but i dont usually bother looking at GD as its crap.http://www.iconeye.com/http://www.iconmagazine.co.uk/I used to buy computerarts but it was a bit too "geeky" side of design and other than the pretty pictures I wasnt interested. Covered too much of a wide area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Booth Posted December 11, 2007 Report Share Posted December 11, 2007 (edited) Ocoasionally buy Wallpaper, but its gone wayyy to interior nowdays for my liking. When I can get it, I read ID magazine. Haven't had that for ages either But now days I just generally buy books, Recently brought 'the Universal Prinicpals of Design'. Awsome book, Highly recomended. Edited December 11, 2007 by Tom Booth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
future orange 660 Posted December 11, 2007 Report Share Posted December 11, 2007 I work for a London communications agency, we employ almost 50 people in 3 offices, London, Cardiff and Worthing. We have 5 designers in London and 1 in Cardiff, my job involves liaising with them almost on a daily basis, making sure the sites i develop from their designs are to their satisfaction, working with them up in the London office to make sure it's again, as they want.I'm also allowed to look through CV's of applicants and discuss who to call in for an interview, given, not for design but i often read the applications for design anyway just to see who i might be working with in future. I then of course get to see who was picked from those applications.That extent enough to justify my "BS posts"?admin jobs done by those who can't are better than jobs done for those who haven't the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted December 11, 2007 Report Share Posted December 11, 2007 What. Yeah, my job is admin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Quinn Posted December 11, 2007 Report Share Posted December 11, 2007 Ocoasionally buy Wallpaper, but its gone wayyy to interior nowdays for my liking.Yer that seems to be my problem with a fair few mags in that kinda category. They all seem to focus on architecture and interior alot and although i appreciate that i'm not into it enough to buy a magazine on it. I haven't read an Icon yet, cheers i'll pick it up next time i'm in borders At the minute i choose a random new design/art/photography magazine in their every week haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlynnP Posted December 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2007 admin jobs done by those who can't are better than jobs done for those who haven't the time.Someone please ban or warn this guy!Simon is an amazing web developer that is great at coding.Also a very helpful guy on this forum that helps amatures get their websites looking better and also coding them better which is alot more than you have done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonMack Posted December 11, 2007 Report Share Posted December 11, 2007 Does anyone in this thread read design magazines or similair stuff? What do you read? I love reading magazines and wanna expand my range. At the minute i mainly read bmx, photography, art and lifestyle stuff.I'd say Grafik, Wallpaper, and the more "high end" design magazines. Stay away from Computer Arts and things like that, althought they might seem nice, and sometimes do the odd decent article, Grafik is so much nicer.And it's set in Avant Garde, mmm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlynnP Posted December 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2007 Grafik is very useful and like Jon said has some great stuff in it.I have Web Designer magazine but like Jon said Grafik is a better quality.I only have web designer because my mums credit card or somthing offered her 6 months free subscription to it during this time the company went bankrupt and taken over by a new company.Which meant some were it was lost that we only had 6 months free i now how well other 2 years worth of free magazines i would say. and it some times has some nice show case portfolios for inspiration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
br3n Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 (edited) Seeing as someone mentioned architecture, I thought id post some amazing stuff just to get you thinking...Im big-time into architecture find myself using it for inspiration for smaller projects, I'd love to have been an architect and if I actually get to a point where I could support myself financially for another 7 years would happily train for it... I really like my brutalist architecture, sometimes modernist.. King of this is Tadao Ando:Just a tease... Soooooo many more amazing projects! lol.Also, of course zaha hadid, my favourite is in cincinati..Also vitra fire station is mental..Found this on mocoloco, wicked idea!http://www.zerohouse.net/Theres another cool building i found, Links graphic design and architecture completly... Need to remember the site so i can hotlink if not i'll upload my saved piccies.Anyone got any good design blog kinda websites, www.mocoloco.com is the only one i'd recomend to people.(ps I havent written much about any of the architects/buildings as i assume people dont wanna read... also just finished a 7000 word essay on tadao ando and previously did one on hadid.. lol ) Edited December 12, 2007 by br3n Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Quigley Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 I agree with you Bren that Tado Ando and Zaha Hadid are awesome Architects, But for me it has to be Peter Zumthor. His Thermal Baths are truely breathtaking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
br3n Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 Peter Zumthor:Ive never heard of him so assume these are the works your talking about (so others can see) in my opinion, theyre nice but not fantastic or radical, Again my opinion but a completly different league. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Quinn Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 Yer that stuff is amazing Bren Like i say i'm interested in it and would love to read an article about it or two in design magazines. But i'm just not involved enough in it to read a magazine with the majority of content being architecture.As for blogs, i've got alot that are on design/art//architecture/photography etc, heres a few just copied off bloglines:http://intelligence.arkitip.com/http://www.itsnicethat.com/http://www.mumblemagazine.com/http://swindlemagazine.com/http://www.wearehomegrown.co.uk/blog/http://mediastorm.org/blog/http://2modern.blogs.com/http://www.designobserver.com/http://www.designers-who-blog.com/http://blog.defgrip.net/Not all of them may be that good but it's just stuff i've accumulated over time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Quigley Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 Yes that is the Thermal Baths. Pitty you couldn't find any images of the interior (pools) the use of light and materials used is brilliant. Well that's my opinion anyway, probably a bit more restrained in terms of the exterior aesthetic than that of Ando or Hadid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
br3n Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 find some pics then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Booth Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 If were goign into Arhitecture....Eero Saarinen Stunning architecture, I recon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
br3n Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 aarrffffI must agree, Tis very eye catching and good design, Theres just nothing about any of those that make me...... jaw dropped. Still not got the wow factor for me, Would happily keep turning the pages if I saw them in an architecture book.I appreciate thats not the case for everyone, But i will endevour to find some more examples! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Jennings Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 (edited) Have you guys heard of Bauhaus? There awesome designed buliding's. My dad is moving to a bauhaus house. Ill post some pics There pretty cool design. It is originated in germany (like most good things [apart from the nazi])Jon. 1. I'm not legally allowed to post a PDF. 2. I'm not at LazerType (company) anymore.Also: I'm currently re-working the graphic's on my site: www.onemotion.co.uk and using flash (as we have a new colleague) [Jacob] Edited December 12, 2007 by iCharlie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
future orange 660 Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 lolthat is the first word you learn in design history.things are still being designed in that style.even the new audi tt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonMack Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 Wow Bauhaus, I've never heard of that![/sarcasm] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gavyn. Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 not to mention those pics aren't exactly the peak of his work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Aston Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 Have you guys heard of Bauhaus? There awesome designed buliding's. My dad is moving to a bauhaus house. Ill post some pics There pretty cool design. It is originated in germany (like most good things [apart from the nazi])Are they the ones that are built in massive peices in a factory and then erected on site or is that some other German housing system. Im sure i saw a bauhaus house on grand designs. I may be wrong.Joe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
future orange 660 Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 just to clear. there is no 'his' workBauhaus is a design movement in germany. design school early 1900's..didn't last long. 14 years or so.so yeah, many designers belonged to bauhaus. there are even pictures of hitler sitting on their chairs. he then later stopped Bauhaus because of the irrational ethics of the eccentric students. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gavyn. Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 yeah lol just realised i was thinking of the wrong thing/person. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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