Category: Print
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
According to Kim Ji-Hwan and Jin Sol from zero per zero, each city’s various railway systems should reflect the character of that city. In an effort to infuse the city’s identity into its subway map, while also trying to simplify the original map, the designers produced a series of original maps for three cities (Seoul, Tokyo and Osaka) in the size of 100 x 70cm (39” x 28")
Seoul Railway
Seoul boasts 600 years of history as the capital of the nation, and features the grand river, the Han Gang, flowing across it. The Han River is the symbol of Seoul. Representation of the Han River in this map mimics the curvature in the middle of the Tae-Geuk mark of the national flag of Korea. The overall circular shape of the map was also inspired by the Tae-Geuk mark. The brighter area in the centre of the map, seen up close in the detail shot 1, shows the territory of Han Yang, the old capital of the Cho-Sun Dynasty. This was the old Seoul marked by the Four Gates, and the growth of the city becomes clear when compared to the modern metropolis.
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Tobias Hoss and Christian Schwentke from the University of Applied Sciences Konstanz, Germany designed an A1 size wall calender portraying the company MBTech, a subsidiary of Mercedes Benz, from a new angle. The calendar shows the services of this company in an unorthodox way and translates the highly technical processes in a friendly, humorous world. They created a world out of paper and cardboard showing the different fields MBTech is active in. Everything was cut, pasted, and photographed - no Photoshop. Beautiful illustrations!
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Monday, September 29, 2008
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This project from Toby Ng Kwong To is based on the scenario – If the world were a village of 100 people. There are a few different versions of this text in circulation about the world’s statistics. He neatly summarizes the world that we live in. He used information graphics to re-tell the story in another creative way and designed a set of 20 posters which contain most of the information. Toby Ng used simple vector graphics that related to a statistic in order to present the information in the simplest and most accessible way.
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Wondering why there is a giant purple Helvetica 5 on this bill, that doesn’t seem to match the style, colour scheme, or historical reference of the rest of the design? Well apparently it’s for people with low-vision.
Apparently someone forgot to tell the US treasury that taste does not have to be left at the door of accessibility.
gethelveticaoffourmoney.com
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