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Mar 12, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Adrian Shaughnessy
Phil Baines, who has died aged 65 of multiple system atrophy, was one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary British graphic design. His work included books, posters, art catalogues and lettering for three important London monuments – the memorial to the Indian Ocean tsunami in the grounds of the Natural History Museum and the 7 July memorials in Hyde Park and Tavistock Square, commemorating the victims of the 2005 London bombings.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
bookbusinessmag.com | Adrian Shaughnessy
Graphic designer whose distinctive typographic work graced Penguin book covers, museum signage and London monumentsPhil Baines, who has died aged 65 of multiple system atrophy, was one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary British graphic design.
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Dec 27, 2023 | 
fastcompanyme.com | Jarrett Fuller |Adrian Shaughnessy |Manuel Lima
Design is in a moment of crisis. The dominant forms of practice, from design thinking to human-centered design, are being called into question as the pressing issues facing the planet are forcing the design industries to reconsider what they do, how they do it, and who they work with. Thankfully, there are practitioners, thinkers, academics, and historians who are tackling these challenges head on.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
designobserver.com | Adrian Shaughnessy |CMM Support |Jessica Helfand |Ellen McGirt
In their book, What is Post-Branding: How to Counter Fundamentalist Marketplace Semiotics, Jason Grant and Oliver Vodeb deliver a forensic take-down of contemporary branding practise. They align branding with a host of modern social ills: class division, rapid gentrification, exploitation of labor, and the arsenal of digital tools used to enforce marketplace dominance.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
designobserver.com | Adrian Shaughnessy
In their book, What is Post-Branding: How to Counter Fundamentalist Marketplace Semiotics, Jason Grant and Oliver Vodeb deliver a forensic take-down of contemporary branding practise. They align branding with a host of modern social ills: class division, rapid gentrification, exploitation of labor, and the arsenal of digital tools used to enforce marketplace dominance.
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Oct 9, 2023 | 
eyemagazine.com | Adrian Shaughnessy
Angela Lorenz’s best work has been done for a cluster of small record labels mostly engaged in the production of electronic music; music that is variously described as ‘glitch and click’, ‘micro-sound’, ‘lowercase-sound’ and perhaps most commonly, ‘laptop music’. The laptop computer may not yet be the Fender Telecaster de nos jours, but within modern music, the portable computer is as democratising and enabling as the electric guitar was in past decades.
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Oct 7, 2023 | 
eyemagazine.com | Adrian Shaughnessy
If Wallace Berman is remembered today, it is most likely as one of the faces on the cover of Sgt. Pepper, rather than as the significant figure in the Californian art scene of the late 1950s and ’60s he undoubtedly was. You can see him on the Pepper sleeve, wedged between the Hollywood cool of Tony Curtis and the flat-cap Englishness of comedian Tommy Handley. The majority of the faces on the Sgt.
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Aug 27, 2023 | 
eyemagazine.com | Adrian Shaughnessy
The phrase ‘Design Disasters’ is a bit of Helleresque sensationalism. Perhaps the great man has been spending too much time casting his connoisseur’s gaze over lurid pulp fiction book covers. The two ‘D’ words are cannily pitched to make us think about those hellish moments when work comes back from the printer on the wrong paper stock; or when the binding option we chose causes a brochure’s spine to crack; or when the client’s name is misspelt on the opening frame of an audiovisual presentation.
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Aug 21, 2023 | 
eyemagazine.com | Adrian Shaughnessy
‘If it looks a bit ECM-ish, that wouldn’t be a bad thing.’ An admirable sentiment and one I’ve notice cropping up with increasing regularity in design meetings with record industry clients. The high approval rating for Manfred Eicher’s Munich label (see Eye no. 16 vol. 4) comes from the most unlikely sources: managers of speed-garage acts; young guns from major record companies; owners of specialist music labels.
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Aug 3, 2023 | 
eyemagazine.com | Adrian Shaughnessy
Autumn 2019 Who cares if you read? Adrian Shaughnessy David Carson Chris Ashworth various designers Reviews Ray Gun: The Bible of Music and Style By Marvin Scott Jarrett. Essays by Liz Phair, Wayne Coyne, Dean Kuipers and Steven Heller. Design by Studio Roxane Zargham, Rizzoli, $65, £50 David Carson is indelibly linked to the notion of the ‘end of print’, encapsulated by the title of his famous book of that name.
