David Airey

Author: David Airey

  • On finding design work in a new country

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    Romanian graphic designer Iancu Barb?ras? shares the story of his 2010 move from Bucharest to London, and how he found design work in his new home.

  • “Nobody bought the cheapest option.”

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    People were offered 2 kinds of beer: premium beer for $2.50 and bargain beer for $1.80. Around 80% chose the more expensive beer. Now a third beer was introduced, a super bargain beer for $1.60 in addition to the previous two. Now 80% bought the $1.80 beer and the rest $2.50 beer. Nobody bought the…

  • Bob Gill, so far.

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    The definitive book on the work of Bob Gill, with more than three hundred pieces of his most inventive work, collated from his eighteen books along with some thoughts about how to come up with an original idea. “If anyone who can type can do much of the work previously done by well-paid specialists, what’s…

  • Bob Gill

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    I enjoyed looking through Bob Gill’s website. Born in Brooklyn in 1931, the renowned graphic designer has a talent for turning project briefs into memorable, appropriate, witty outcomes. Ecumenical (today’s new word) = general, universal. I missed the release of his latest book, Bob Gill, so far, published by Laurence King in October last year,…

  • Studio Culture at the Design Museum

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    If you make what you want to make, that’s what people will pay you to make.

  • Nicolas Ritter: One

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    Nicolas Ritter’s photography project, One, caught my eye.

  • Designer headaches

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    I get headaches. A lot. Medication, physiotherapy, acupuncture (painful on the NHS), food diaries — no joy. Earlier this week, after a 10 month wait on the NHS, I had my third appointment with a different consultant neurologist. He told me it’s just bad luck that my brain is wired in a way that leaves…

  • The Tate Gallery by Tube

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    Tate by Tube is reportedly the best-selling poster in the London Transport Museum Shop. A fantastic design created by David Booth in the late 80s. It was commissioned in 1987 as part of “Art on The Underground,” a campaign set up the previous year to re-establish the London Transport poster tradition. David Booth, working at…

  • Anti-abortion ad campaign and morals in design

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    Following up on my previous post about what type of projects designers avoid, regardless of payment, for me, this is one of those. Ireland’s abortion laws are the strictest in Europe, and anti-abortion group Youth Defence has launched a national campaign that urges women with crisis pregnancies to seek any option but abortion. The ads…

  • USB microphone recommendation

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    I’ve been looking for a good microphone (for video calls, podcasts, etc.). Three desks out of these 20 (the ones belonging to Jeff Croft, Dan Mall, and Veerle Pieters) are seen with Blue Microphones Yeti USB Microphone. Jeff Croft’s desk with Blue Yeti. Looks a good shout. If you have a mic recommendation it’d be…