richardturley: “Some sort of goodbye letter Four years ago, almost to the day, the redesigned Bloomberg Businessweek arrived on newsstands. The distance from that point to this seems to have passed within the blink of an eye, and has been one of the...

richardturley:

Some sort of goodbye letter

Four years ago, almost to the day, the redesigned Bloomberg Businessweek arrived on newsstands. The distance from that point to this seems to have passed within the blink of an eye, and has been one of the best and most unexpected adventures I’ve ever had. 

The risk Bloomberg took in hiring someone from another continent, with limited experience and little or no knowledge of business magazines struck me as brave at the time. What I didn’t realize then was that it wasn’t really bravery – more just a desire to not follow the conventional wisdom of what our magazine could be. 

That principle is the result of the people here, exemplified most notably by Josh. Hands down the best boss and editor I have ever worked for, but also and more importantly - my partner in crime, and someone who deserves far more credit for the design of the magazine than he ever allows himself to receive. I will miss him forever. But that spirit of adventure and experimentation that starts with him, runs throughout. No more so than within the art department, who so often pushed me far more than I ever pushed them; and who have an ambition I haven’t found anywhere else. 

The point of this isn’t some sort of self-aggrandizing nostalgia trip (but hey, screw it, maybe that’s exactly what this is), but a chance for me to say thank you; to everyone at Bloomberg, Josh of course, but specifically to Cindy and David, Tracy, Rob, Emily and Emily, Chris, Jaci, Chandra, Shawn, Lee, Evan, Alis, Meagan, Donna, Diana, Dorothy, Jane, Jennifer, Allison, Maayan, Kristin, Brad, Bryant, Ellen, Bryan, Jim, Chris, Eric, Emma, Kurt, Mark, Susan, Ken, David,  Karen, Norm, Jim, Lisa, Justin, Marc, Zazie, Katie, Caroline…  SO MANY MORE PEOPLE. 

Bloomberg is a place where design matters, and never more so than now, as our design thinking is being integrated all over the business. This is a good time to be here. To take what we’ve done so far, push it forward, and improve it. 

So why am I leaving? Well, after writing all this, I’m wondering the same thing.. but it’s time for me to learn something new and work with different content for a different audience. MTV has always created culture and ideas that define generations. The opportunity to work with animators, video artists, journalists, designers, musicians, artists - creating content, creating culture, for an audience as big as MTV’s is really exciting. Plus, it turns out there comes a time when your son’s approval of you becomes as - if not more - important than your approval of him. Apropos of that, promising him a ticket for the VMAs seems to have gone down well. (MTV doesn’t know about this yet. Please don’t tell them).

So farewell. Goodbye. So long. Bye. See you later. I’m going now. Yeah.. nearly there. Definitly going now. I’m off. See ya. Yup, I’m going. Haven’t quite left yet. Walking out. Now. Bye. Actually I’m around till Thursday. Just want to draw this out a bit longer. OK. That’s it.

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Laura Brelling - Prof Dev project research

This the work of German illustrator Laura Brelling. Her work is mainly one colour which is something to take influence from as our project is on a low budget production cost. Despite only having one colour these photos have great depth and detail. 

These illustrations tell a narrative well and clear. this could be done to the one colour simplicity of the illustrations. The top image is the style of illustration i like. A slightly conceptualised idea with a brutal truth behind it. the conceptualised head of the women makes you raise question to its reason and gets you thinking ‘whats this about’. alongside the other illustration the narrative is clear and i feel the conceptualisation of the face of the women gives off emotions such as anger, confusion, despair and envy. 

I feel the illustration in my group could take a lot off these illustration and get the minding thinking on how we can communicate what we are discovering about the liverpool skate scene.

Prof Dev Research - Assorted Visuals

This is a range of images from various sources (HORT, Itsnicethat, People of Print). As part of my development as a designer I aim to keep up to date with contemporary studios and design savvy sites like Itsnicethat. These are a range of visuals created in the past three months. Though the visuals range in visual finish, there is a lose and uneven construction of either illustrations or typographic images.

I have noticed this is a bit of a trend at the moment in design. with these lose and wild visuals. I like to call it ‘An well organised mess’. I would like to experiment with this approach but I want to interlace the concept and the visuals into one. I want to work on this part of my practise and try bring this creative thinking to the group and feel we would create something interesting visuals considering these little trend that is happening at the moment. 

Annie Vieux - Prof Dev Research

These are several images from a publication from Annie Vieux. These images are really interesting visually and i feel they could be conceptualised more into a idea. The visual feel of the publication has a very conceptual and deep set meaning but doesn’t communicate what the idea is easily. 

The process that has gone into the visuals looks a lengthy one. There has clearly been a load of experimentation to get to the final visuals. The order of the publication looks well considered which is something we need to work on as a group. The style of work is something i want to propose to my group as i feel we could create some interesting abstract visuals to convey the Reluctant Protagonist. 

Corinne Gissel - Prof Dev Project Research Couple of designs by Corinne Gissel. This is another aspect of the visual research I have done. I want to propose visuals like this to my group if our idea suits this visual tone. This style of work is...

Corinne Gissel - Prof Dev Project Research  

Couple of designs by Corinne Gissel. This is another aspect of the visual research I have done.  I want to propose visuals like this to my group if our idea suits this visual tone. This style of work is something i can wanting to venture into more in my practise. I like enjoy the medias and process that go into work like this. Visuals such as these tend to be heavily informed by the content of idea which really interests myself and feels communicates what your are communicate much better. 

Really hope i could have the chance to do this within the group project.