A new regular feature.

I have started a little project for my third year.
It's called 360 at 3 and will involve me taking a 360degree photo every day at 3pm check out the daily photos at 360at3.blogspot.com

Enjoy

Printers & Paper

Good news, I've now joined forces with the brilliant Bethnal Green printer co-operative that are Calverts they have agreed to take on all 8 issues of CUB this year as well as helping me to find a lovely paper company based out of Bow in East London. So all future issues of CUB are going to be printed on a fantastic 100% recycled 140gm uncoated paper and with glorious vegetable oil based inks and produced/supplied within a 2 mile area.

I think I'm going to go have a tyre bonfire to celebrate.

Before

I'm starting completely from scratch on the CUB design, and hoping that they will let me change pretty much everything. Below are a couple of snaps of one of last years issues.

Plans for the changes include:

- Size & Format - Currently cub is A4 the which I don't think is very practical for a free magazine that you want people to pick up and pop in their bags, so exploring a range of alternative sizes that will help it to stand out as not just another magazine on the shelf as well as make it easier for people to carry with them. This should also mean a higher page count making it a less flimsy item.

- Paper, Printing & Enviroment - At the moment cub is printed on the kind of paper that should only be used as a kebab flyer and at a printers located just outside the EU, conveniently EU sustainable printing rules don't have to apply. I'm currently trying to source some local printers and paper companies that we would be able to work with to improve the print quality as well help us to reduce the currently huge carbon footprint. Keeping my fingers crossed that I'll be able to find a nice recycled paper and printer that works with vegetable inks, we shall see.

- Photography & Illustrations - An area that really lets down the magazine at the moment is the quality of its visuals so on the hunt for some student photographers and illustrators to with with on future issue. If you know anyone get them to send an email to introducingluke (-at-) gmail.com

CUB Magazine

After wanting to get involved with some more live briefs and get some production experience I have not managed to become the sole designer for Queen Mary University's student magazine called CUB.

I've agreed to take on the design of all 8 issues this year and this should hopefully be a real chance to have a lot of fun with a live project.

Check back for updates on how its all going.

Sorry I'm late

Wow this stop motion video puts most others to shame, so fantastically crafted.

Sorry I'm Late from Tomas Mankovsky on Vimeo.

Flat our winner

A really beautiful piece of product design, such a simple idea with an elegant solution. I look forward to seeing these everywhere.

via yankodesign

Wooster in the Whitehouse

Nice to see that the new Obama administration is engaging grass roots art collectives. Wooster have a nice article on how they felt about being invited, especially being an art group that champions street art and graffiti. Hopefully the UK government will be watching what's happening across the pond and taking notes.

The full article can be found here