links for 2008-08-29

• smarta – think create grow
  (tags: startups entrepreneurship inspiration business socialnetworking startup networking)

links for 2008-08-28

• alex trochut
  (tags: design artist illustrator inspiration typography)
• Dear Adobe
  (tags: adobe design bitching bugs rant feedback)

links for 2008-08-27

• Aviary – Creation on the fly
  (tags: design air flex 3d application editing tools photography)
• Fotolia.co.uk – Royalty Free Stock Photos
  (tags: stockphotography reference stockphoto photographs pictures resource)
• Thinkbox
  Thinkbox is the television marketing body for the main UK commercial broadcasters – Channel 4, Five, GMTV, ITV, Sky Media, Turner Media Innovations and Viacom Brand Solutions. It works with the UK marketing community with a single ambition: to help customers get the best out of television.
  (tags: design reference adverts inspiration marketing)
• Otl Aicher 1972 Munich Olympics
  (tags: reference aicher typography Design inspiration gallery identity olympics)
• Barbarian Group – It's Gonna Be Awesome
  (tags: design interactive blog studio company portfolio agency inspiration)
• 11 Sites to download Free Vector Logos
  (tags: vectors brands logos reference resources)

links for 2008-08-22

• Cymbolism | Words & Colors
  (tags: design words colors reference psychology visualization inspiration)
• FUMSI — Intranet 2.0
  Intranet 2.0 – Thousands of corporate intranets are seldom-used, impossibly complex beasts. In contrast, next-generation intranets are simple, social platforms that can change the way people work (for the better!). But getting to intranet 2.0 isn't so easy. Here are my ten steps to getting there.
  (tags: intranet2.0 enterprise2.0 web2.0 business collaboration socialnetworking)

links for 2008-08-21

• MailChimp | You Design. Me Deliver.
  (tags: newsletter tools mailchimp emailmarketing resources software email)
• Free and simple CMS » CushyCMS
  (tags: cms tools editor design webdev software development)

links for 2008-08-19

• Mygazines.com – upload. share. archive.
  (tags: reference articles archive community magazine)
• Howard Baines – Strategy, Design, Development
  (tags: design blog studio agency strategy consultancy)

Recreating a masterpiece

Anyone who knows me may also know how much I love the work of Wim Crouwel. A dutch designer or some repute, he rose to design fame through the 60s with some beautiful typeface and poster designs.

One partcular poster of his ‘Vormgevers”, created for an exhibition at the Stedelijk museum in Amsterdam in June 1968, is a particular favourite and one of his most famous pieces.

Fast forward 38 years. Mark Blamire of the poster website Blanka wanted to offer copies of the poster for sale on the site. Unfortunately, after contacting Wim Crouwel it emerged that no original artwork or plates existed from which to create a replica.

Copies of the poster only come on sale every 3 years or so and run to €1000. Mark ended up putting his hands deep into his pockets to get hold of a copy from a dealer in Switzerland. It was then that the real work began. Remember, this was 1968. It wasn’t artworked up in Quark or Illustrator. It is riddled with little idiosyncrasies that only a hand-drawn piece of artwork would be.

Creating the replica prints is a fascinating story of perseverance, dedication and commitment to maintaining the imperfect beauty of the original and which rolls out over two years.

The story continues on the Creative Review blog.

Slide over the the blanka website and get your order in. Mine is.