On Sunday, I wrote a post regarding the 3D-printed letterpress font that Dan and I saw at the V&A for The London Design Festival (if you missed it, read it here) I told you that I will be updating my blog when Adrian Harrison’s film is released. Alas, it has been uploaded. Originally uploaded and announced by Creative Review, you can see Adrian’s short film here on his vimeo and you can also see the other cool projects that he’s been working on, such as the Joby Carter signwriter I mentioned in my previous post.

Go and check him out.

The London Design Festival 13-21 September 2014

Today found Dan and I at The London Design Festival at the V&A.

Yesterday whilst checking Design Taxi, I noticed a really cool article about 3D printed type. Instantly interested, I had a read and showed this to my colleague Ben, who has just built a 3D printer, see his tweets here. He also printed me a letter R which you can see on my Instagram here. He's looking for new little projects and cool things to print whilst he's prototyping and learning to built design in CAD.

After a little research into this cool little project, I realised it was The London Design Festival 13-21 September 2014. We looked online and I instantly knew that we should be attending this short film held at the V&A.

Before that though, whilst checking out this really cool 3D typeface project, I was led onto a Vimeo page of Adrian Harrison. I was watching a film he made on 'Learn to Sign Write' with Joby Carter who is a traditional signwriter and sign restorer. His work is truly inspiring. I remember for my birthday a couple of years ago, asking for a couple of sign writing books to pick up this fantastic art form after watching David Adrian Smith create something similar with glass. I found him after researching who did John Mayer's intricate album cover for his 'Born and Raised' album. I was blown away by this incredible skill. I still have yet to get round to digging out my signwriting books and making a start but I hope to soon as I've been so inspired.


So, back to today. Dan and I headed our way to the room in the V&A and noticed the guys were giving an extra screening of the film at 1pm - perfect timing! They had the 3D printed typeface on the desk and Beatrice from the New North Press was creating some prints in front of us. It was a pleasure just watching it. Shortly after sitting down, the film was played, introduced by Adrian Harrison. I was thinking "Where do I know that name? I know that name!" before realising is was the film-maker who created the short film for Joby Carter the day previous. Awesome sauce. The film was fantastic and Richard Ardagh talked through his idea about bringing the old letterpress with the new 3D printing technology which is now taking off and being used reasonably wildly. Richard went through the initial idea to the prototyping, with the font designed by A2-Type and 3D-printed by Chalk Studios and through to final testing and adding it to the thousands of typefaces they store at New North Press as an actual working font. This film, this work reminded me of why I got into design. Why I was excited. I found it exciting. It reminded me of the work experience at Newton Press Ltd a couple of years ago when I was still studying. I was learning about the old letterpress machinery, from the heidelberg's to the new Presstek 34DI digital offset printing press.

After the short film, Dan and I got chatting to Adrian and I told him I'd seen his previous films. We were chatting about his current work and some exciting projects he's got coming up. I'll be posting his short film about the A23D, a 3D-printed letterpress font when it's published on his Vimeo.

After having a good old chinwag with these very talented people, I even got the chance to letterpress my own initial with their 3D printed typeface. Absolutely so chuffed.

I cannot get over how creative and refreshing this idea is. I'm throughly impressed and it's great there are so many talented individuals in this project. Check out the New North Press's website for more info.

Thanks to all those there today who inspired me.

The Week Illustration: Family Matters

A few weeks ago Dan and I had a job in for an illustration for an Newspaper called 'The Week'. On Thursday last week, the illustration went live on their homepage.

It's an interactive which discusses all of the common questions and worries than family member have for one another, which then links through to articles answering them. Check it our via this link to their homepage or the images below.

Arthur Razor - Website Launch!

Yes, this is a very belated post, as most of you know!

A couple of weeks ago, DANDILLY (Dan and I's newly formed design duo freelance business!) had the pleasure of launching Arthur Razor's brand new website. Having been working hard on the designs for a couple of months, we finally launched the site on April Fool's with a cheeky 404 page...(click here to see it!)

We're super pleased with the site, and it was fantastic working with Arthur Razor. 

You might even find a few very interesting testimonials too. Having initially emailing Tim Vincent (former Blue Peter presenter) the site to see what he thought, he tweeted it before it even went live.

Deary me! 

It all ended very well though, and Arthur Razor has had excellent feedback, including that of an employee of Google with also a dramatic increase of their online bookings.

You can see this project on our website and live at www.arthurrazor.com

London Transport Museum

Last weekend saw Dan and I take a trip to Covent Garden to visit the London Transport Museum to see the last exhibition for the 150 Years of the London Underground Tube posters.

We started out with a yummy burger at Shake Shack and it was the best burger we'd both had in a long time. The chesesy fries are literally, delicious.

After some nibble, we headed to the museum. After a lengthy wait we headed in to look around.

It didn't take us long to find what we were looking for, rooms and room full of beautiful posters dating back to as early as 1800's. They are so beautiful, with the old type and print screened imagery.

Dan and I liked this one, so much we bought the replica which we'll hang in our flat :)

Something which caught my attention was the old ticket stubs that were used. They are the classic vintage style you'd expect, which is also taking a come back in a lot of graphic design work and on sites such as Etsy and NotOnTheHighStreet.com . This is the style of design which I will always be drawn to, especially because it's so beautiful.

After a few hours of looking around and getting annoyed at children screaming, we headed out and round some shops. A quote which caught my attention that also rings truth.

"Don't be encumbered by history. Go off and do something wonderful"

144 train tickets on an A1 frame

That's right! Dan and I finally finished our mini-project yesterday- and it looks great! 

We decided to do something with all our train tickets that we collected from March this year after getting back from HK. After a few ums and ars we decided to put them on in a striped format. 

It certainly gives the train tickets a new lease of life. Just goes to show anything can be made into art.

:)

Here is today

I came across the website a few weeks ago and I've been meaning to share it.


It's called 'HERE IS TODAY' and shows you how you are such a small part of a huge existence.

It shows you in a illustrative form the extend of time. It's so great.

Have a look, it will make you seem small, almost insignificant (but in a humbling way).

HereIsToday.com

Timbergram Work at Pulse, Earl's Court London

EXCITING STUFF!

I did some work for Timbergram a few weeks ago. Yesterday I went along to the Trade Exhibit to see the Timbergram stall and to see my work featured. The work was featured at Pulse in Earl's Court Exhibition Centre.

I did a Christian range of well known, beautiful bible passages but in a typographic, illustrative style. I also created some other typographic pieces in the style of a letter board at the opticians. You can see my full in the Timbergram catalogue which you can download here: Timbergram's Catalogue 2013 , My designs are featured on pages 58-61 . Apparently there's already been orders for the Christian Range. Check out the other designers too, there's some absolutely beautiful work.

Have a look at Timbergram's website here. You can also follow them on twitter and you can like them on Facebook.

I'm featured on Rawz Abduzeedo !

Today you can see my 'David Bowie Vinyl Cover Design' on Raw Abduzeedo. Click here to see it on their website! 

You can also see a summary of the work on my website here, also.

Vote for us!

Hello everyone! Please would you be so kind to vote for mine and Dan's personal mini project that we just completed. We need to get as many votes as we can. http://lookslikegooddesign.com/toiletwall/ (top left at the moment 'The Rectory Packaging')

No need to sign up, just click the like button :) Thank you!! Ruthay x
(for more of the project see below! or visit www.ruthdandilly.com)

Guest blogger ... published!

So a few months ago I was researching my dissertation topic of 'Inspirational Women in Design' and came across a blog named Snap2Objects which listed '30 designers that changed the world'. After looking through these designers, I noticed only two of these were women. After leaving a comment, I was asked if I'd like to be a guest blogger and write a couple of articles about female designers. So, with no further a due.. here is my article...

 'Extremely influential women designers that have shaped the world of design'.

Enjoy the read and as always, let me know what you think!

David Bowie -Diamond Dogs Vinyl Design - New Project!

My David Bowie 'Diamond Dogs' vinyl cover design.

Known as the 'Red Reveal' effect, David Bowie changes from a man to a dog by a simple play of colour and red acetate.

Guest Blogger!

A few weeks ago I commented on a blog named Snap2Objects which listed '30 designers that changed the world'. After looking through these designers, I noticed only two of these were women. After leaving a comment, the gentleman that runs the blog emailed me asking if I'd like to be a guest blogger and write a couple of articles about female designers. Obviously, I have jumped at the opportunity. I'm currently writing a dissertation on influential women in design. You can see more by clicking here. I'll post later on this month with the progress of the article for this blog.

What are your views and opinions on women in design? Should they receive the same recognition as men? Do you feel as though they are hiding in the shadows of their male counterparts? Let me know what you think!

You can comment on here or email me at ruth@clune.org.uk