Locals Only book - Art direction and design by Victor Lieberath, photos by Thomas Skou and edited by Anders Lund. Locals Only films by Simon Weyhe, produced by Anders Lund with graphics by Victor Lieberath.
Levi’s Locals Only
“Our mistake was the same as that of the creative person who places too much focus on How to create her work, while ignoring Why she is creating it. Questions about How to do things improves craft and elevates form, but asking Why unearths a purpose and develops a point of view. We need to do more than hit the right note.”
Frank Chimero - The Shape of Design.
The Shape of Design is a book about design as a method to plan and create change. It documents the hidden steps, methods, and thoughts of the creative process to produce a field guide for the emerging skillset: improvising, creating frameworks, storytelling, and delighting audiences.
These deceptively simple book jackets designed by Atelier Carvalho Bernau were created using a self-organizing design based on comparative data collected about the books. This data was used to create a graph grid and then the shapes for the covers were created from corresponding points on the grid.
onlab
The Swiss graphic design agency onlab – founded in 2001 and based in Berlin, Germany – works on commissioned, collaborative as well as self initiated design projects. The focus of the commissioned work lies in editorial design and visual communication projects.
The team is headed by Nicolas Bourquin, founder and creative director of onlab. He lives and works as a creative director and publisher in Berlin. He was born in Switzerland in 1975 where he studied graphic design at the School of Design in Biel. Nicolas was co-editor and designer of “Los, Dos and Tres Logos” and “Data Flow 1 + 2” (Gestalten). In 2003 he co-founded the independent publishing house ‘etc publications’.
Since April 2010 Nicolas and Thibaud Tissot have been holding a visiting professorship at the Bauhaus Weimar. Thibaud has been on board as artistic director of onlab since 2007. He was born in La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1984 where he studied graphic design at the Design Academy. Until 2007 he had been operating ‘Dynamo’, an independent platform for self initiated design projects.
Niloufar Tajeri joined onlab as managing director. She was born in Tehran in 1980 and she was trained in architecture at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. Before joining she had been operating in the field of publishing and research (Amsterdam/Rotterdam) as well as cultural management (Dubai).
Curious Stories
Andrew Rae, Emily Forgot, Oliver Jeffers and Steven Appleby are among fifteen illustrators that have contributed to Curious Stories, a book conceived by creative agency Dorothy to raise money for children’s charity Curious Minds.
Curious Minds works in the North West of the UK to make sure all children have access to quality arts and cultural learning activities, providing kids with opportunities to be creative. Dorothy’s idea for this fund-raising campaign was to create a book full of insights from well-loved British creative folk who were asked to contribute stories about what inspired them when they were children.
