August 17th, 2010 - by Colm
Charlie don’t surf the web during working hours, for
Charlie Hocking is out newest intern and therefore has more respect for the job than the rest of us, who idly spend our days watching
Star Wars parodies, ranting on football blogs and buying shoes.
Anyways, Charlie is recent BA(Hons) graduate in Graphic Design from London College of Communications and has joined Airside for a three-month internship where we’ll presumably unlearn all them good habits picked up at LCC.
Charlie’s past work saw him shortlisted in the
2010 D&AD Student Awards’ Brand Communications category for his take on a campaign for
The Body Shop, while he has also co-authored a book with fellow
LCC graduate
Alex Hunting about their initial experiences in the world of design, called
Be Brave.
One of the first things Charlie will be working on here is the 2011 Airside Calendar. Excitingly we are moving on from the landscape format of the past few years and we are really looking forward to seeing the brand new typeface that Charlie is creating especially for it. More on that later but for now, welcome to Airside, Charlie.
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August 10th, 2010 - by Colm
Last Friday, Airside had the pleasure of a visit from a group of budding young designers, currently undertaking a short summer course in graphic design at Central St Martins. The month-long course at CSM looks to give its student an insight into the world of design by exploring a variety of London’s design studios, shops and exhibitions.
The 13 students (pictured below) and their course head Lisa Gellender spent an hour at Airside’s studio, meeting the design team and watching the latest version of our showreel. According to Lisa they left “feeling very impressed and inspired”, though they saw the messy side of design, as we spent much of the afternoon dealing with server problems.
Airside opens its doors to student groups every month.
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August 5th, 2010 - by Colm
Our friends over at design studio
Telegramme sent us this lovely print that is part of their
Calavera Summer Series. The colourful combination of flowers and bone has the effect of summoning the ghosts of summers past, whilst celebrating the last vestiges of the current fine weather.
Telegramme’s Calavera Summer Series is a set of three A3 Risograph prints that can be purchased on their own or as a complete set of three. There are available over at the
Telegramme website, where you can also enter a competition to win one of five limited edition sets.
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August 4th, 2010 - by Colm
Last month the
Association of Illustrators hosted an event at the
London Transport Museum to announce the winner of its
Cycling in London poster competition.
Airside went along, as
Jamie’s Joy of Cycling poster was short-listed for the top prize.
While he didn’t win, it was great to see his design adorn the walls of the
LTM as one of the 50 illustrations chosen from over 1,000 entries. Check out some more photos from the evening and the other short-listed prints over at
Jamie’s blog.
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July 1st, 2010 - by Colm
Our Studio Manager, Natalie is taking a year out to propagate the species and while she is off on maternity leave, she has left Airside in the capable hands of George Thomson. George is an old friend of Airside who enjoys organizing and is at his happiest when surrounded by ring binders and unorganized documents that require alpha-chrono arrangement.
George’s background is in music and as he says himself, he has “an unhealthy fascination for music and a deep respect for all creative arts”. His occupation with music has gone from the dying art of retail through promotion and management and, now, performance. Check out George’s music at his
website or
soundcloud page.
George is married to
Airside’s fashion guru
Laura Lees, and they have a two-year old son, Sidney. Looks like that’s another one for Maloo to add to the
Airside family portraits.
So, welcome to Airside, George. Why don’t we let the man himself have the final word: “I like to run a tight ship much as the tight ship runs me. I like ice cream and seafaring analogies. Land Ho!”
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June 29th, 2010 - by Colm
Airside: The Next Generation take their first steps in the world of illustration in this gorgeous set of drawings from the prolific (Wacom) pen of Malika.
Maloo was using Airsiders as references for an illustration job (more on that, coming soon!) and decided to complete some family portraits in her spare time.
Here they are: the four Airside families. Though that does makes them seem like warring mafia gangs – we’ll have multiple murders intercut with a religious ceremony before we know it.
Let’s try, here they are: four Airsiders, their partners and young ‘uns. That should be this year’s family Christmas card sorted for these familes. Can you draw Santa hats, Maloo?
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June 17th, 2010 - by Colm
Last month we mentioned that
Airside is speaking at
Typographic Circle’s next monthly event. Well, we’ve also done a poster advertising the event, which takes place at
JWT in London’s Knightsbridge on Thursday 24th June 2010. Check out our pretty damn sweet piece of design below.
Typographic Circle is a not-for-profit organization, formed in 1976 to bring together anyone with an interest in type and typography. Their series of monthly lectures have featured talk by well-known type types, including
Trevor Beattie,
Anthony Burrill and
Richard Morrison.
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June 16th, 2010 - by Colm
Airside’s pack for
Granimator is now available
here.
Granimator is lovely free app that allows you to create sound based wallpaper for your
iPhone or
iPad.
Developed by the clever folks at ustwo, it recently featured in the What’s Hot for iPads section of the US iTunes App store.
To help launch the app, ustwo asked Airside to create a themed Granimator pack. The idea behind Airside’s pack is to give the user creative freedom that is guided by certain rules to ensure that any arrangement they come up with will looks great.
Or in the words of our Interaction Designer Guy Moorhouse: “Our pack works on an isometric grid where shapes can always be made to interlock when rotated or scaled. These rules will make creating lovely patterns easier.”
Airside’s Granimator pack is called Eyejazz and along with visuals by our crack team of designers, it features exclusive new music by Fred Deakin of Lemon Jelly and superstar DJ fame.
Eyejazz is available to
download now for your
iPhone or
iPad from the
App Store. To get a taste of what’s possible, check out some more
Eyejazz creations
here.
