Going further with the circles

Bruno Maag

The character ‘o’ formed with circles. I have done two versions, one with big circles and the other one with smaller.

Version 1
How it would look with the slipcase

Without the slipcase

Both back and forth covers

Version 2

 

Version 3

Anthony Burrill

I have made two versions here, the one while in the slipcase it shows the circle and then when it comes out you can see some lines behind it. The other version, when being in the slipcase, the cover shows only a part of the colour circle and when it comes out shows the rest of it.

Version 1

The cover how it looks in the slipcase

The cover how it looks outside the slipcase

Back and forth covers

Version 2

 

Stefan Sagmeister

I struggle a little bit with Sagmeister’s circle, as I can’t find anything else than a blood drop. I used the same one and some other photographs which show a paper where I placed my finger in my attempt to make a circle

Version 1

Version 2

I also thought about placing the same image for the back cover as well

Slipcase design

I added some text with the logo, I think it’s better. The text says ‘A special publication by the Typographic Circle dedicated on [name of the designer]’

Mocking up

Deciding on the publications’ size:

W: 173mm H: 243mm

The reason I want them that small it’s because they feel more special/limited smaller.

For the slip case I would like only the logo. I like the sophistication that the Circular has and I think by keeping it simple I could achieve that..

I printed the first visualisations of circles I have done, photographed them with the a slipcase made with a card and made a short animation (I took advantage and I had some fun)

Mocking up a slipcase from Savvas Zinonos on Vimeo.

 

Circles and designers

Stefan Sagmeister

First of all, I didn’t harm my self. Let’s say it was an accident with a pin! Yes I did that. Anyway, it was just a drop of blood, I zoomed in so that it looks bigger. The thing is that it doesn’t look like blood.

Anthony Burrill

Ok, here I had fun! After looking at Anthony Burrill’s geometric, bright shapes, I started making my own

 

Bruno Maag

I started visualising Bruno Maag as a pixelated ‘o’ character. Because he always has to do with the details and I also remember from his talk at UCA he was talking about web rendering of the fonts, the pixels they take etc.

Then I remembered he likes cooking. After looking at dalton maag website, I found out that Bruno talks about a cooking tool he likes. I looked in my kitchen and found out a similar, functional object (always circular) which is my measuring cup:

 

Post tutorial notes

Thinking about the three designers..

Where does inspiration come from? I could probably ask them? I know Bruno Maag likes cooking and, from what I heard, he’s not that neat with cooking as with typography!

What would the three designers disagree on?

Thinking again how they would visualise a circle:

Stefan Sagmeister: something really extreme is more of his character than sausages or onions. Blood, or a scratch on human’s skin!

Bruno Maag: probably tiny black, clean and aesthetic black spots-to show the obsession with the detail

Anthony Burrill: the essence of geometric circle. What’s the most geometrical circle I have ever seen?!

Production ideas for the circles idea:

-Lenticular technology. I could print all the different circles using lenticular technology. The covers will be all the same. This kind of printing has gone so far that it can contain 30 images- a short animation! Examples here.

-Moving card/spinning circles. This can only be visualised in 3D. Here’s a small mock-up I did in order to visualise it:

Although, this seems as something that could be destroyed really easy (well, designers are always neat with their books and magazines-consider that). I also don’t like the idea of having a 3D object sticking out of the cover (I haven’t seen anything similar with Circular’s covers).

 

 

 

 

-Slip case which would contain all the special editions and it will have a cut-out circle in the middle. Through that cut-out circle you will be able to see the circle on each of the covers (inspiration came randomly from Sagmeister’s book ‘Things I have learnt in my life so far’).

 

I think I will stick with the last one, as it seems the one that I can manage to do in one week’s time, it’s interesting and interactive (because you can change the circle you can see through each time)