The first weekend I spent in London with my family, we went to Exhibition Road to see the London Festival of Architecture, and by chance stumbled onto the Royal College of Art Grad show!
I think the first thing that tipped us off was the rather small sign outside the building.
The show was divided into several days of studies, and thankfully the day we found it, it was the show for all of the design students. There was fashion, engineering, architecture, and a plethora of other smaller disciplines, and of course, graphic design!
Now I wasn’t able to take very many pictures, since photography was not allowed, but when I asked the graphics students they were cool with it. The pictures below are from the graphic design portion of the show only.
Here’s a poster promoting the use of the exclamation colon, a typographic symbol combining an exclamation mark and a semi-colon. The poster said to find info about the symbol online, but I can’t seem to find anything.
The above project takes the cake for me.
Everybody hates Comic Sans, yes? Well, I know many graphic designers and students alike loathe it. These students have created Serious Sans, a typeface based on the proportions of Comic Sans, perhaps in an attempt to make peace between lovers and haters of that god-forsaken typeface
. There were no specimen sheets or posters, which is a shame, but this is very impressive stuff!
Designed by four students, Valerio Di Lucente, Hugo Timm, Filip Tydén, and Erwan Lhussier.
A more complete documentation of the show can be found here: http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/degree-shows-08-royal-college-of-art-show-2
Next post I’ll be putting up images from the London Festival of Architecture. Someday. LOL







some nice work here Tim. I’m diggin’ the exclamation poster and the circle made out of arrows poster too.