Graphic Design for Fashion

Okay, so we all know graphic design is a massively significant area in the fashion industry, but it wasn't 'til we sat down and read 'Graphic Design for Fashion' by Jess Hay and Simone Pasztorek that we understood just how immense the impact of graphic design really is in the fashion world.

Split up into four chapters, the book explores a few different aspects of fashion in which graphic design is the most influential: Branding, Invitations, Lookbooks and Packaging. It features work from some of the most amazing graphic design studios worldwide which have collaborated with the likes of Paul Smith, Viktor & Rolf, Yohji Yamamoto, Chloe Sevigny for Opening Ceremony and ACNE to help create the brands as we know them today. 

Graphic Design for Fashion explores the creative processes that go into designing iconic logos for branding, memorable event invites and eye-catching packaging, and the relationship between the graphic design studio and the designers and brands they work with, all presented in a format that is truly worthy of the inspiring content of the book itself. 

From the minimalistic yet striking layouts to the subtley embossed hardcover, Graphic Design for Fashion is one of those books that inspires you before you even open it. And in our opinion, it's a total must have for every fashion/graphics/book geek.


words: Navneet Gill
image courtesy of Laurence King Publishing

Graphic Design for Fashion by Jay Hess and Simone Pasztorek

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'I Wonder' by Marian Bantjes

We've said it before and we'll say it again, we love pretty books. Books so beautiful that you really dread leaving your mucky little fingerprints all over them. So imagine our total joy when a copy of 'I Wonder' by Marian Bantjes landed on the paint-splattered desks at Tantrum. 
On first impression the book looks, well, magical. Like it belongs on a shelf way up high in some super-old secret library. Like it contains all sorts of special charms and spells. Like opening it will transport you to a completely different dimension. And upon opening, it sure doesn't dissapoint.

'I Wonder' lets you have a sneak peek into the imagination of Marian Bantjes, the Canadian typographic illustrator and graphic designer extraordinaire. Each of the gilt-edged 208 pages is enchantingly filled with a combination of graphic art, illustration, quirky street signage, pasta-art and unconventional musings and anecdotes from the mind of Bantjes herself. 

'I Wonder' is one of those books that just can't be done justice in an online review. It's something you need to hold and experience for yourself. And we promise you'll be just as spellbound as us by this stunning, one-of-a-kind book which is a work of art in itself.

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images via http://www.bantjes.com/i-wonder/about-book
We tried to take our own pics but the book kept closing and we didn't want to wreck the pages...

Plastique dreams.

Plastic jewellery is cool. It's a fact.

It reminds you of being eight and having an entire collection of plastic rings that you got from a gumball machine for 20p each. Oh, those were the times.

If your days of pocket-money pieces are long gone and you're looking for a way bring back the precious plastic-loving memories of yesteryear with a contemporary twist, then we suggest you get yourself over to Plastique.

This L.A based company offers amazing, minimalistic pieces of plastic-fantastic jewellery. Choose from retro cassettes and boomboxes, city skylines and graphic shapes all made from high-quality laser-cut acrylic by graphic designer, Jen Murse.

 

 

Our faves have got to be the Tower Bridge 3-finger ring and the Paris cityscape necklace, but we'd buy 'em all if we could. If only plastic jewels looked this cool when we were eight...

available at www.plastiqueshop.com