PUBLIC SCHOOL is a group of creative folk working on the east side of Austin together, yet not together. The same studio, different professions. Similar tastes, varying favorite Bob Dylan song. Consistently unified love for the Mexican food on the east side of town.
Our collective and individual clients include Chronicle Books, Conde Nast, Sweet Leaf Tea, Iron and Wine, Baylor University, Ogilvy & Mather, LIVESTRONG, Pearson Publishing, Stussy, Time Inc., NIKE, The University of Texas, The Sunday Times of London, as well as a few other folks.
Last Friday we had about 13 cool kids from St. Edward’s graphic design student group Command G stop by for a visit. It was rad! We showed them around and did our best to answer their questions about design, the real world (not the tv show), forming a collective, and what the heck to do after graduation. My response to most questions is to make things and put them on the internet.
Get in touch with us if you’d like to stop by! Check out more photos after the jump.
Part and Parcel is the collaborative efforts of Damien Correll and Garrett Morin. They make good work all the time.
Our pal Ben just put together a new portfolio site for his moniker General Projects. We suggest checking it out. Chances are, you’re already familiar with his creations, which include The Book Cover Archive, Readymech (done while at Fwis) and Public School’s biggest web addiction, Svpply.
This week we’ve got a couple of world class designers whose blog you undoubtedly read. Armin Vit and Bryony Gomez-Palacio are the founders and publishers of UnderConsideration and all of the blogs it encompasses. We heard them give a presentation at Pecha Kucha night a month or two back and reached out about having them sitting for a portrait. Thankfully they agreed. I photographed them in front of many of the books they used to research their highly acclaimed Graphic Design, Referenced book.
Armin’s and Bryony’s background include well reputed positions at Pentagram and Addison design respectively. Now they run UnderConsideration LLC where they blog about things such as the good and evil of identity design alongside the not-quite-dead-yet print world. Personally, I have always enjoyed their rather blunt opinions on Brand New. At our studio we joke that the two most polarizing topics in this country are Health Care Reform and naming the Aol. rebranding job the #1 Best Redesign of 2009. At the center of the latter fight is Armin and his stance on that new identity.
Of course along with being distinguished designers, they’re also a family. I asked them what brought them to Austin from New York and they said that growing up in Mexico City has given them an inclination towards a warmer climate, so ultimately it was the warm weather. They also mentioned that kids and big cities don’t always mix well. With one daughter and another about a month away I can’t blame them for moving to our great city.
You can see larger versions of the images after the jump. Also, many thanks to Armin and Bryony for letting me come by on that rainy Wednesday and track dirt in to their nice clean new home.
Here’s some interesting work by Amsterdam graphic design studio, Experimental Jetset.
The image above is found under Typographic Architect. 2, a book design for an Wim Crouwel exhibition.
NOTE: You might have seen the ‘John & Paul & Ringo & George’ tshirt they designed.
Sometimes you see a photograph of a city and it makes you want to visit. Sometime I see an illustration and it makes me wish I could live in that world. The work of Borja Bonaque makes me feel that way. His simple cityscapes are interesting and have been in the New Yorker as well as Wallpaper.
See more here
While digging around the internets this morning, The Ministry of Type turned me on to this beautiful collection of end credits from Warner Bros films. The one pictured above is from Lady Windermere’s Fan. Along with each end credit is the title card of each film that appears when you roll over the image. Thankfully there are collections like this that remind us of a time when things weren’t designed using an offshoot of Papyrus.
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In related news. Our internet is still down at the studio. Things should be back online today but until we know more blogging will only take place in the mornings before we all head to the office. Film at 11.
