Tomato

Who or what is Tomato. Tomato is a collective of artists, designers, musicians and writers. On the musician end you may recognise Underworld. Tomato was founded in 1991 to work on commercial and research based multi media projects  and they work in advertising, architecture, fashion, public installations, music, television, film and graphic design. I have given a little sample of their film video work below.

water ink rorschach from TomatoMultiMedia Productions2076 on Vimeo.

OK with the piece above, tell me what you see.




tomato graphics from tomato on Vimeo.

The piece above Tomato graphics reminds me of the title sequence for Se7en which we had a look at earlier

Neville Brody

OK catch up time, what have I covered so far. Film set design, signage design, Cold War Modern and what makes for good design. So its Tuesday and this naturally means we need to go 2D and talk about layout and typography and for me the most natural place to start is with Neville Brody. Brody was art director at The Face magazine from 1981 to 1986. He studied at the London College of Printing during the mid to late 70's punk era in London and his work still exhibits some of the iconoclastic energy of the time. Pick up nearly any magazine these days and it is bound to have some echo of Brody's radical approach to layout and typography. He also worked with Arena magazine and designed a new Typeface for the London Times newspaper. I think Brody still likes to see himself as a radical. He is not afraid to criticise the design establishment.

magazine type layout

type 

Typography

In the video below speaks  about design and culture with particular reference to digital culture.



Neville Brody by Etapes. (2009). Neville Brody. [Online Video]. 2009. Available from: https://vimeo.com/7538439. [Accessed: 29 May 2012].


Images Neville Brody, (2010), various [ONLINE]. Available at: http://benstanley00.blogspot.com/p/neville-brody.html[Accessed 29 May 12].