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TEDxPortland

Client: TEDxPortland
Agency: Wieden+Kennedy
Creative direction: Susan Hoffman, Renny Gleeson
Art direction and design: Sarah Hollowood, Steve Denekas, Ken Berg, Derek Kim
Studio managers: Michael Frediani, Lisa Reinhardt, Lis Moran, Shari Eiesland
Production: Ademar Matinian, Walker Cahall
Photography: Kyle Pero
Interactive and technology direction: Dom Murphy, Igor Clark
UX design: Pete Hensing
Interactive production: Aubrey Dean
Interactive development and design: Josh Perez, Jason Strand, Mirtho Prepont
Motion and audio design: Peiter Hergert, Masataka Odaka

TEDxPortland approached Wieden+Kennedy to create a unique and memorable identity for their event, the first of its kind in Portland. W+K Studio designers Sarah Hollowood, Steve Denekas, Ken Berg, along with myself were tasked to art direct and design their entire identity from scratch. Our brief was simple: Crossroads. We decided to use a lenticular-effect as the unifying aesthetic for the identity. It was a simple and effective solution to our brief; it uses the motion of the lenticular to create a visual crossroad. The adaptability and versatility of the aesthetic we developed allowed us to easily translate it into different mediums ranging from print, to interactive and motion design.

Font used: DIN

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Stanford University

Client: Department of Medicine at Stanford University
Art direction and design: Derek Kim
Photography: Qiao Lin
Production: Fran Bittakis, Nick Bittakis

The Medicine 2.0 Fall Conference 2011 will be hosted in Silicon Valley, home to many of the world’s preeminent technology companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook, Yahoo, Intel, and others. Rather than focus on the presentation of research findings and scientific data, the Summit will present forecasts from luminaries—from e-patients and bloggers to executives and industry insiders—and ignite discussions about the development and use of technologies being built by academia and industry that will shape Medicine 2.0 in 2011 and beyond.

I was approached by Stanford University in order to create a poster that would create a greater awareness for this congress. My approach consisted of a simple depiction of connected patients with doctors and how this immediate connection could become much closer with the help of social media.

Font used: Helvetica Neue

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Departamento

Client: Departamento
Creative direction and editorial design: You vs. Me
Art direction and design: Derek Kim
Production: Gordon Hewitt

Departamento is a magazine centered on design, society and art. Several concept issues were created for their first editorial run. I was approached to concept an identity that would emphasize the creative nature of this magazine with intricate layouts and a flexible grid system. Therefore, the Departamento identity follows a playful aesthetic, where the main logotype is always able to be broken in different ways. This would allow designers to freely manipulate the identity into their own hands. Additional elements for promotional purposes were designed using a similar “broken-grid” system.

Font used: OCR B Regular

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Grafik Magazine

Client: Grafik Magazine
Co-editors: Caroline Roberts, Angharad Lewis
Photography: Derek Kim
Art direction and design: Michael Bojkowski, Derek Kim
Editorial design: Michael Bojkowski
Production: Deux Ponts

Grafik Magazine approached Michael Bojkowski and I to collaborate on an issue centered on design education. After several rounds of brainstorming, we ended up with a simple representation of books stacked upon each other and using a mix of graphic and photographic elements.

Font used: Neuzeit Textbook, BP Romain

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Kenya Hara

Agency: Wieden+Kennedy
Creative direction: John C. Jay
Art direction and design: Derek Kim
Production: Walker Cahall

Kenya Hara, MUJI’s design director, visited Portland and agency Wieden+Kennedy on May 2011. I was approached to design a poster in order to commemorate his visit to “Stumptown”. I tried to be as careful as possible when designing these posters as I was designing them for someone whom I admire to great heights. In addition to the main poster, two other supplemental posters were created as a personal homage for Hara-san.

Font used: Sabon and リュウミン (Morisawa Ryumin) Pro

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Canción Magazine

Client: Self-initiated
Art direction and design: Derek Kim

Canción Magazine is yet to be published and is an on-going personal effort. The magazine aims to cover the relationships between graphic designers and the music they listen to. I plan on launching this magazine sometime over the next 2 years and it will be completely free of charge.

Font used: Sabon

http://www.networkosaka.com/

I’m sure you’ll agree that Mr. Network Osaka AKA Derek Kim is producing some really interesting work (to say the least ;-) taking traditional modernist design principles and fusing them with his own contemporary sensibility. With clients including Nike, Esquire, Grafik and regular work with Wieden+Kennedy, the portfolio this “artist pretending to be a designer” is only getting better with age and it gives me great pleasure to feature a handful of Network Osaka‘s work in high-res; None of that, “clicking the expand image button on Flickr only to find that the image is 500px wide” ;)

www.networkosaka.com

A very big thank you once again to Derek for making this feature possible and for being a big supporter of SI :)

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BBC Radio 2 – Live in Blackpool Identity & On-screen Branding
Design KentLyons

“This years Radio 2 Live event was held in Blackpool this weekend. KentLyons have designed the events identity, website and on screen branding, with sound design by Eye On The Wall Recordings.”

“The brief was quite open in that it was a case of “It’s BBC Radio 2, it’s Blackpool, go!” So our main challenge was to distil the sights, sounds and personality of Blackpool in a way they appeals to the Radio 2 demographic. Blackpool is known for a lot of things, so it was quite a task to reflect as much as possible, while maintaining a relative touch of class!”– Adrian Ridley

The main video title sequence (and other stings) can be seen at the KentLyons Vimeo page. Cheers to Adrian for getting in touch :).

Channel 4 rebrand
Design Rudd Studio

“There are few greater challenges in brand design than taking an iconic, well-loved, universally recognised brand… and making it better.”

I was introduced to the diverse work of Rudd Studio some time ago (thanks in part to the chaps at KentLyons who designed their website). The last thing I expected was for them to write in requesting a post! Nonetheless, I was more than happy to showcase one of their older projects (a rebrand for Channel 4) and in process introduce their work to a wider audience. Go check them out they’ve updated their site apparently :)

The Big Pink ‘Dominos’
Direction Timothy Saccenti

It’s Friday, so what better way to celebrate than with this slick new music video directed by SeptemberIndustry favourite: Timothy Saccenti. Honestly this video is so fresh it isn’t even on Timothy’s site yet! (I have my informant to thank for that). You can watch it here.

‘Interim Camp’ Movie Stills
Design FIELD

Last week I was casually browsing Flickr (like you do) and happened to stumbled across this rather stunning set of /images. As you know, I’m heavily into landscape photography and whilst these /images are entirely computer generated, they still resonate within me. So I followed one link to another and subsequently ended up at the website of FIELD, a London based studio that creates generative design & interactive art for a variety of clients. The rest, well you can discover that for yourself ;)

Only one post today but it’s a good one nonetheless:
The recent release of the music video for ‘Race for the Bone‘ by Hook and the Twin, marks William Hall’s directorial debut, and a successful one at that if you take into consideration that the budget for this project was £Zero.
William is also involved with all aspects of the band’s art direction and a subsequent archive of flyers (amongst other things) is available to view here (lovingly set in Akzidenz Grotesk).

Channel Redesign: Original Screen Graphics, Design System, 60+ Idents + Audio Design for MTV2
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