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Published July 7, 2009 by

Book covers

Fresh MILK_PR Release 01.05.inddI usually use Google Reader to “star” posts and things I find inspiring. However sometimes the rss feeder extends only so far and I had gone off on an internet tangent when I came across this. I really like this book cover. I’m not sure if it’s due to the relative simplicity, how clean it feels or that rather beautiful ampersand (being a bit of a sucker for them).

I am needing to be looking deeper into book design. There are books out there – naturally both of the how-to/example variety ($$) and some superb specimiens of books themselves. I am keen to expand my repotoire of the interesting things people do with books both internally and externally. I will naturally be doing some of my own scouting, but if you know of any great blogs or just great examples I’d be grateful if you shared!

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Published July 6, 2009 by

Breakfast

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Inspired by Jon Huck’s marvellous breakfast series. I also have the flu of some kind (Swine? Yay? Nay? Don’t care?), it’s charming. I really admire conceptual work like this. And yes, I did only have a cup of tea for breakfast, because  woke up at almost 11am and the cup of tea/coffee is a pretty much the standard routine anyway. And yes I am rather annoyed I missed the rest of Wimbeldon after I gave it a small sleepy stab. But really, 4 hours of tennis when all you want to do is sleep or cough or wallow with a sore throat is not the perfect combination. Pleased Fedderer won.

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Published July 4, 2009 by

Penguin

onehundredyears Later this year I will begin to start seriously considering options for work next year – these options will be slightly constrained by a certain other structure that will come with the next two years (Yeah that thing I can’t talk about yet again, which is a little annoying, because it’s kind of fun, but could affect location). Alongside design firms I will also be checking out some publishers – like Penguin – in some kind of weird endeavor to combine my two loves.

Speaking of Penguin Books, there have been another 50 titles of popular penguins released for the lovely low price of $9.95(ish) each. I was very pleased to see that One Hundred Years of Solitude has made the list. So get off your bum and go get yourself this rather fine piece of literature. Yes it’s a little peculiar, and a little bit of a hard slog with so many similar names but it’s very worth it.

Books Design Uni Work

Published July 3, 2009 by

Marks

As personal blogs allow for some self indulgence, I’m happy to mention report that I went rather well at uni this semester with three Distinctions and a High Distinction. Two of my subjects also kept back my work for ‘example’ use – the grasshopper which you would have seen and my Communication Strategy assignment which was a thematic thing (I worked on one about Housing – particularly in a collective context) – where you researched and established your own brief and from that produced various design outcomes. This is certainly an encouraging terms of gauging that it was a good decision to leave work alone for this last year and just pull a few extra unnecessary things off my plate. It’s also rather nice that the HD was from my Design and Business class where I had a particularly difficult group to work with and I full well feel I deserve every bit of it.

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Above is some of the Communication Strategy stuff… my client was the Salvos, want to make VERY clear that it was and is just an assignment and has nothing really to do with them. Badcouch doesn’t exist. However for the sake of something or other, like the rest of any work/photos/writing I put up on this blog it’s © Rebecca Matheson. (I confess although some of my ideas were quite thought out, lots of the Com Strat stuff happened fairly late in the assignment game so finnessing mightn’t have been quite up there, I was a little surprised at the Distinction, but he must’ve liked it or how it all fit together or something).

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Published July 1, 2009 by

Dali and the echo

echoI got to visit the Salvador Dali exhibition today. Massive exhibit with a crowd to match – which seems odd as it’s been going a while and it was a Wednesday afternoon. Intriguing certainly. The guy was truly messed up on some levels but exceptionally clever. It freaks me out slightly that I felt some kind of affinity with his story and it interests me also that he wrote. Dali is truly insane, utter genius in his exploration of such a wide variety of both medium and style. The lobster phone was sweet – but not so impressive in person, some of the jewelery very beautiful. So much conceptual work.

The painting to the left: Morphological Echo was my favourite. I really love the repercussions through the image, the repetition, familiarity and yet there is still something disquieting.

I recommend a visit should you be in Melbourne, also take the time to watch the short film that Walt Disney and Dali collaborated on, it’s beautiful, beautiful animation.

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