Graphic Design | Swiss Legacy

Okumura Akio exhibition by UMA/design farm

22-01-2012

Exhibition design: Experience, Communication
[Okumura Akio and works]
@ddd gallery, Osaka Japan
January 18 – March 8, 2012

UMA/design farm designed an exhibition of graphic designer Mr.Akio Okumura. Contents is his 40 years work and ‘now-future’ work.

Exhibition was divided in four parts, Package / Poster / VI (logo animation and logo cards) / Mr. Akio Okumura’s studio (stay production).

Each part was separated by partitions that are 1,000 mm height. Visitors can feel Mr. Akio Okumura’s existence from anywhere in the room. And when they squat down, they can focus to appreciate his work.

Furthermore, visitor can order name card design and poster design to him. He will design in the exhibition studio, so they can experience his design process while talking with him.

photo: Yoshiro Masuda

Peter Ross wants to know which five people you would invite for dinner

By: Xavier Encinas

12-01-2012

Graphic Design, Photography, Print, Typography

A 20 page tabloid style promotion by designed Jennifer Lee at VSA Partners for Peter Ross portrait photography, in which the subjects are asked to name the five people that they would most like to invite to dinner.

Tout le monde connaît Roger Excoffon

By: Xavier Encinas

12-01-2012

Book, Graphic Design, Shopping, Swiss Heritage, Typography

Who doesn’t know typographer/art director from the 50s and 60s Roger Excoffon? Published for an exhibition at Musée de l’imprimerie in Lyon, this book gather more than 100 documents previously unpublished.

éditions Deux-Cent-Cinq
Format 14 x 19,5 cm / 128 pages
Softcover
French texts
1000 copies, printed in France!
Graphic design: Extrafine
15 €

James Kape, Speed Republic

By: Xavier Encinas

10-01-2012

Graphic Design, Portfolio, Print, Typography

Nice identity work by James Kape.

Speed Republic is a small start-up company specializing in trade and the resale of hi-end motor vehicles in South Africa.

The brief was simple, to create a clean and contemporary symbol that was to be applied to a variety of collateral as needed. The origin of the final mark stems from the trafficking symbol “No limit”. This reference was intended as a tribute to both the industry which it represents as well as the greater idea that Speed Republic are not in short supply of limited edition vehicles.