Pictures of People

I have found this book in children section in bookstore where I was watching it every time I came back. Very simple design which describes different people and the usage of colors is very powerful. Also the idea using the spread to show contrasts between or of people: nudist and invisible man, sleeper and ill person or dancer and plumber. All pairs or couples on different spreads are connected by symbols which would never come to your mind.

This book was also awarded in 2009 by the prize of the nicest book on the world. The author of illustrations is french and calls himself Blexbolex.

The Nutcracker

Finally I had time to see one of the performance from Bolshoi Ballet from Moscow which are broadcasted live in the 450 cinemas all around the world and luckily also in our theatre in Zlín. Because it is only few days before Christmas yesterday performance was The Nutcracker. As I love ballet I was so amazed by the dance, music, costumes and how all arrangement went so beautifully together. Before the performance I was afraid of watching the ballet in the cinema but the atmosphere was surprising for me.

Art of collage

Collages of famous persons by Jason Mecier.

More on: http://www.jasonmecier.com/

illustration

I have found this morning great illustrations from Káťa.

Your secret

I have found this video on the blog of young primitive and want to share with you.

Wrapping

Wrapping presents not necessarily only for Christmas is always my small personal project.

Tarakan

Another inspiration for notebooks for professional communication from Tarakan.

Verica's animation

I have to share with you this video. It is a graduation movie of my friend Verica and I can't stop thinking how beautiful it is.

This film is dedicated to all those who have never given up hope.

No matter what.

Comenia Script

Comenia Script is a font and also a set of an exercise book, a poster, different "games" and other helps which was created to help children and students to better understand text, better write and simply like czech language. I really like and admire this work.

This set was designed to be used in Czech elementary schools to supercede classic written alphabet. More can be found here.

Amedeo Modigliani

Today I went to Amedeo Modigliani exhibition in Municipal House and honestly I was expecting little bit more of his paintings there. Chosen place fits to this exhibition very well. And it was also nice to see photos from his life, movie and sketches. However there could be more of his paintings at the expense of all other mentioned materials. His works are beautiful, I admire them a lot but I wanted to see more of them. I also liked an idea to show the movie at the exhibition which maybe tried to balance the lack of shown paintings.

Library

Conflict Resolution brief

The final look, finally done.

Learn something every day

Page where you can learn something every day as the name says.

Wall art

This wall art reminds me notebooks from Deaf messanger I have wrote about earlier. It is combination of collages and stencils used over it.

Book cover design

Designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.

ABG website

The bookstore and gallery for which I have created a shop window, wallpapers and wrapping papers asked me to do also a website.

Future of the poster

Yesterday I went to the discussion about "Future of the poster" in Goethe Institute. The event was organized by Filip Blažek who is a redactor of Typo magazine and he invited graphic designer Jan Solpera, Robert V. Novák, Petr Bosák and Robert Jans. All five discussed what actually poster is, how big it should be, if there is something as decorative poster etc. I really like the different ideas of graphic designers from two generations. But one opinion was same for all of them: the poster is disappearing from the streets and in next few years will lose forever.

posters by Jan Solepra and Robert V. Novák

Linocut print

This is the result from the linocut printing I did yesterday evening. since I bought only white and black colors I experimented with different types of papers.

Papelote

Another inspiration for the travel diary but today by Papelote.

Linocut

Zlínská školka architektury

Yesterday evening I went to the opening of exhibition "Zlín's kindergarden of architecture". It is a tradition held by an architect and a teacher Jan Čančík who were preparing these 8 exhibiting students for universities of architecture in the Czech Republic 4 or 5 years ago. Now when they are about to finish their studies, they organized this exhibition to show how day have improved.

My favorite by Zdenka Havlová.

Travel notebook

Inspiration for my travel notebook for professional communication from the diary of Deaf Messenger.

Children's Day

As I was still working on the presentation of LP module or writing dissertation I took one night of and created main photo for poster for Children's Day which will be in our town before Christmas.

Different chair than Danes do

Valdemar Andersen

I found this beautiful poster while I was writing my dissertation about Danish design. The artist is called Valdemar Andersen and is from Denmark. I have to say this is so far the second graphic design from Denmark from first half of 20. century I like (another is typography from Karina Petersen).

our new kitchen

Yesterday evening and almost night we decided to finally changed our kitchen furniture with four color sticky wallpapers we had. Because all of us have a lot to do to school we did kind of a night off. It took us about five hours to finished but watching the result it was worth to do so.

New friend

After the passed weekend I have chosen a brief which I will be working on for the rest of LP&C module. The funny thing is I actually didn't want to take this brief at the beginning, I was much more interested in final show and ISTD gardens. I toke the Conflict resolution project only to have minimal number of briefs. First of all I wanted to design some poster, t-shirt with typography design but when I got deeper, did brainstorming and started to arrange my ideas I realized by the end of previous week that this case is the most developed in my sketchbook.

I have chosen conflict between parents which influences their children by the fights, separation etc. I have created project with toys which help children to get over the hard period of their childhood.

ID občanský průkaz

Another good movie I have seen this week. The translation to english would be simply "ID". The story is set into the communist regime year 1975 and show how ridicules the life was. Even I am living in the Czech Republic with history which pissed me off fortunately I was enough lucky to be born only two years before 1989. My parents talked about their childhood and teenage age a lot but at the beginning I couldn't believe that actually something like this could happen. When I was growing up and people started to loos shame and fear a lot movies about ridicules communist regime where made and many of us born plus-minus 2 or 3 years around 1989 started to better understand the period.

Watching the movie I had my head full of question starting with Why? Why? and Why? ... People who were "normal" automatically became enemies of state. Talented people tried to escape behind the border of SSSR because sometimes they didn't get chance to continue to university. People were treated as animals - ridicules lines for meat and bananas, special licence to go for holiday, "Public Safe" police which should secure people but actually only dived them and the fact you couldn't believe to anybody. "What now for you seems so obvious we couldn't imagine to have" I started to understand this sentence more and more.