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Color Wheel history

A screenshot of the screen

http://imprint.printmag.com/color/wonderful-color-wheel-part-2/

Newspaper design

From the book Best Newspaper Designs

Golden section

Ems & Ens

Calliper

New Zealand designs

New Zealand Green Building Council

Old photograph with colour text boxes on it is nice

Vodafone New Zealand print ad

Antarctic toothfish

Ear

Baseline

GSM

Colour

Dominant & Subordinate Colour

Flood colour

Colour wheel

Colour wheel selections

Storm Thorgerson

Storm Thorgerson will be in Auckland for Semi-Permanent in August. I will be there.

How many ways can you fold?

Roll Fold

A piece of paper folded that has two or more parallel folds that fold in on each other. It may fold in from the left or right. To allow proper nesting of panels that fold in, inside panels are usually incrementally smaller than outer panels with the inside end panel being the smallest.

Concertina Fold

Typically simple zig-zag folds with 6-panels and two parallel folds that go in opposite directions. Each panel of the concertina fold is about the same size.

Closed Gate Fold

There are three parallel folds. The left and right edges of the paper fold in towards the middle, without overlapping, and then the document folds again at the centre fold. The outer panels are usually 2mm to 4mm smaller than the inner panels to allow for proper folding and nesting. This might be used in the middle of a magazine for a fold-out centre spread.

Open Gate Fold

There are two parallel folds. The left and right edges of the paper fold and meet in the middle, without overlapping, along a centre fold. The outer panels are usually 2 mm to 4 mm smaller than the inner panels to allow for proper folding and nesting.

Map Fold

The piece of paper is firstly folded in half along the short edge. This folded sheet is then concertina folded and finally folded in half. The map is then small enough to be carried easily and still be available for use without having to unfold them entirely.

MoMA: The Russian Avant-Garde Book 1910-1934

While I was looking up on El Lissitzky I came across this site - an exhibition by MoMA in 2002 - I like the bright warm red on a soft cool blue.
Check out this online exhibition and learn a bit about graphic design history.

Piet Zwart

How do I know about Piet Zwart? It started with Huffer - the logo to be specific, it reminds me of some old iconographic I saw in a design history book. Flicking through the pages and I saw it - the Huffer logo is exactly the icon that Piet Zwart created in 1924 for the NKF catalogue.

The Netherlands, 1885 - 1977

http://www.iconofgraphics.com/Piet-Zwart/

Vancouver 2010 website

http://www.vancouver2010.com/

Design Assembly in NZ

http://www.designassembly.org.nz/

Logos

Food Chain by Genevieve Gauckler

http://www.bigactive.com/illustration/genevieve-gauckler/food-chain