NEWS
Pattern Font
Every quarter we receive an Emigre magazine, a publication that informs us about new fonts. The latest copy is “The Emigre Coloring Book.” The books pages are designed with a new font called “Crackly.” Crackly was designed by Zuzana Licko and is composed from straight lines that intersect at various angles.
The idea for Crackly came from Licko’s ceramic stacked totem sculptures, which are made from modular cones and disks of different sizes and angles. She made herself a font so she could type out various sculpture compositions before assembling them. When Licko was experimenting with the Crackly patterns, it occurred to her that the compositions would make excellent graphics for coloring, so a coloring book was created.
The pattern fonts can be used to make compositions and to generate your own coloring pages. Or use Crackly for any other pattern applications, such as backgrounds.
You can download a free PDF version of the Emigre Coloring Book from the Emigre website. https://www.emigre.com/Fonts/Crackly
Design Interface Legacy Book
We are proud to present the publication of our book, Design Interface Inc. – A Legacy. It records the projects we are most proud of from the past 35 years. Addie Lutzo, our summer intern, was charged with creating the book. The DI team sifted through old boxes and digital archives to come up with the content, then Addie interviewed us to write the story. Her use of patterns, page layout and treatment of photos, along with our art direction resulted in a very handsome book indeed. The 46 page PDF was then sent to PrestoPhoto.com for publication. When it arrived, with it’s glossy white cover, it was like opening a “this is your life” moment. Time well spent!
~Carla
View Design Interface Inc. – A Legacy PDF
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2019 IDEA Winners Announced
The Industrial Design Society of America (IDSA) has recently announced the results of the annual International Design Excellence Awards. Each year companies large and small submit their best designs from a variety of fields that are judged for being exceptionally well done. Check out the winners on their website.
A. GE Air MRI Head Coil for brain tumor detection.
B. Stagg EKG, Electric Water Kettle is designed for the countertop.
C. Zip Top reusable containers combine the features of a structural container and bag.
D. Elea Office Chair encourages moving while sitting.
Alessi: Italian Design Through the Years
From the original moka pot to Richard Sappers “9090” coffee maker design, to the “Juicy Salif” lemon squeezer by Philippe Starck, Alessi has been innovating and changing the way we look at everyday objects for almost 100 years. During these years Alessi has challenged the idea of “art” and the value of “multiplied art.”
The creative world is ever changing, but there are certain things that we remember and special things that stand out. Alessi is one of those things. Alberto Alessi was known to be a risk taker, and he was able to build off of that to become one of the world’s top design brands. His collaboration with other designers and artists was something that brought the company even further in it’s success. A group of creators ready and willing to push the boundaries of critical thinking, that is how you become great. That is how you grow.
Thank you Alessi for 100 years of design inspiration.
You can read more about this topic at the link below:
www.designwanted.com/design/alessi-10-facts-100-years-of-design/
New Designer at Design Interface
We are pleased to welcome Anna Woo back to Design Interface. She interned with us in 2017 and recently graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art (2019). Her thesis project was a system for connecting older adults with others and featured a photo system called Avant Garde. She also participated in the IDSA Student Merit Award Presentation and was CIA’s first runner up. Adrian and I enjoyed having her as student. At Design Interface she’ll be working on packaging and medical regulatory compliance. Anna is a native of Dallas, Texas.
~Carla
Label Design—Christmas Cookies In July!
I LOVE Christmas. I love the music. I love the smells. And, I love making Christmas cookies! That’s why I was so excited when Fowler’s Mill asked us to design Christmas cookie labels for their Sugar and Gingerbread cookie mixes.
When designing a label, we first talk to the client to see if they have anything specific in mind for the imagery and/or content on the label. Fowler’s Mill gave us some photo and copy direction for the labels and then let us use our creative skills to come up with a label that makes the customer want to try the product. Their mixes are sold at farm markets, specialty food stores and their Fowler’s Mill store, so the package needed to reflect the farm market look and stand out on the shelves.
We came up with the following:
• The front of the cookie label has the look and feel of the Christmas season with red and green as the primary colors. The background photo also reflects the package content.
• The label back contains nutrition information, ingredients and cookie mix recipe (not shown).
Need an eye catching label for your product? Design Interface can do that! Call us at 440-871-0600 or send an email to: contact@designinterface.com
~Anita
Sustainability In Design
Hi, I’m Addie, the Graphic Design intern at Design Interface this summer. I am currently a student at the Cleveland Institute of art studying Graphic Design. There are so many opportunities in the design field and as thinkers, makers, and creators, we need to push the idea of exploring new options for sustainable design even further…because, well, plastic is still being produced.
Something I think a lot about in my practice is how we will change the way the design industry is impacting the environment. I’ve come to think that it starts with the material and the decision to find alternatives to harmful substances commonly used in packaging and product design. Pushing past plastic and exploring more eco-friendly, compostable, energy-saving materials that we can find in the natural world. By mimicking mother nature we are able to guarantee the preservation of the planet and allow for the earth to reclaim its land and water.
Emeco, a chair and table company based out of Pennsylvania, has been changing the way we look, and sit on materials since 1944. They have developed new materials such as Reclaimed wood polypropylene and Eco-concrete. Both of these materials are substances that take the idea of recycling and push it even further. Lets keep this idea moving and continue creating beautiful, harmless things.
