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In 1969, Saul Bass pitched Bell Systems on a complete redesign of their brand. This brilliant half-hour video was produced as part of the presentation. Watch and enjoy.
In 1969, Saul Bass pitched Bell Systems on a complete redesign of their brand. This brilliant half-hour video was produced as part of the presentation. Watch and enjoy.
Bry Spy Vol. 18
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This video was a commercial produced for Bic pens featuring Alexis Taieb, a graphic designer and type designer from Paris, France. View more of his work here.
Bry Spy Vol. 17
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400 of these newspapers were laser printed in black and white by Say What Studio as a self-promotional piece. The work is a prime example of grayscale printing looking like a luxury. The newspaper contains 64 pages printed on 80 lb uncoated paper. The signatures were sewn by hand.
View more of the work here.
Bry Spy Vol. 17
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A great short film on two Los Angeles businesses, a specialty paper company and a letterpress shop (lead-type traditional letterpress). The titles of the film are set on a Linotype machine!
Bry Spy Vol. 16
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Erik Spiekermann, born 1947, studied History of Art and English in Berlin. He is information architect, type designer (FF Meta, FF MetaSerif, ITC Officina, FF Govan, FF Info, FF Unit, LoType, Berliner Grotesk and many corporate typefaces) and author of books and articles on type and typography. He was founder (1979) of MetaDesign, Germany's largest design firm with offices in Berlin, London and San Francisco. Projects included corporate design programmes for Audi, Skoda, Volkswagen, Lexus, Heidelberg Printing and way finding projects like Berlin Transit, Düsseldorf Airport and many others. In 1988 he started FontShop, a company for production and distribution of electronic fonts.
See more of his fonts here.
Bry Spy Vol. 15
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Moving Brands partnered with HP as their lead agency to set a creative vision for the HP brand. The vision was to transform the world’s biggest technology company into the world’s most powerful brand. HP would become the blueprint of a moving brand, built for a moving world.
See the process on the Moving Brands web site.
Bry Spy Vol. 14
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A documentary from 1979 about stone letter cutting. The filmmakers were given complete access over a two year period to the work of the craftsmen of the John Stevens Shop in Newport, Rhode Island, the oldest business in the United States still in continuous operation in the same colonial building. It chronicles the work of John Benson, then the owner and principal designer, and, arguably, one of the most accomplished letter cutters in the world.
Shown below is the trailer for the film. The full documentary can be watched here.
Bry Spy Vol. 13
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"The Decanter," a promotional film produced by Walter Landor and Associates in the 1960s, shows the start-to-finish process of several of Landor's designs for Old Fitzgerald whiskey. Narrated by Walter himself, the film depicts creative teams illustrating and critiquing designs, industrial designers fabricating models, and research teams conducting focus groups and testing in Landor's supermarket laboratory. All takes place on the famed Klamath ferryboat docked at San Francisco's Pier 5, which housed Landor's offices for some 20 years. Enjoy!
Bry Spy Vol. 12
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The new fashion-forward identity of the Canadian Olympic Team designed by Ben Hulse Design. Based on the geometry of the maple leaf, the concept was inspired by Canadian artwork, iconography, the tradition of quilting, and Canadian athletes’ remarkable performance and pride. Thanks Chris K for Showing me this.
