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Joe Leadbeater
01 / 06
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The designer never sleeps.
Joe Leadbeater
OUGD602
01 / 06
— Studio visits; Passport, Colophon Foundry, Here Design & Magpie Studio. — Intern at Magpie Studio, Shoreditch. — Type Clinic, Slovenia.
Joe Leadbeater
OUGD602
01 / 06
— Studio visits; Passport, Colophon Foundry. Here Design & Magpie Studio. — Intern at Magpie Studio, Shoreditch. — Type Clinic, Slovenia.
Joe Leadbeater
Colophon Type Foundry, Hackney.
OUGD602
01 / 06
— Type design can be really conceptually open & interesting. — It's extremely technical, and (at the time) I seemed out of my depth.
Joe Leadbeater
OUGD602
01 / 06
— Studio visits; Passport, Colophon Foundry, Here Design & Magpie Studio. — Intern at Magpie Studio, Shoreditch. — Type Clinic, Slovenia.
Joe Leadbeater
OUGD602
01 / 06
— Studio visits; Passport, Colophon Foundry, Here Design & Magpie Studio. — Intern at Magpie Studio, Shoreditch. — Type Clinic, Slovenia.
Joe Leadbeater
OUGD602
01 / 06
Magpie Studio, Shoreditch.
— Confirmed I want to be a graphic designer, as I really enjoyed it.
(Placement)
— A small studio is a really welcoming environment to work in.
Joe Leadbeater
OUGD602
01 / 06
— Studio visits; Passport, Colophon Foundry, Here Design & Magpie Studio. — Intern at Magpie Studio, Shoreditch. — Type Clinic, Slovenia.
Joe Leadbeater
Type Clinic, Trenta, Slovenia. (Workshop)
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01 / 06
— Travelling abroad alone isn't that scary. — Slovenia is beautiful, and really cheap.
Joe Leadbeater
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OUGD602
01 / 06
Madison is a soft serif with subtle curves. It’s serifs are influenced by s advertising display type, designed on Madison Avenue, New York City.
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Madison has emphasized serifs, and a lighter weight, allowing great readability & legibility at small sizes.
Type Clinic, Trenta, Slovenia. (Workshop)
— Type design is a designer's masterpiece. — It's something I'd like to develop over the year, but not isolate myself to.
Joe Leadbeater
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Joe Leadbeater
Madison
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01 / 06
— Create a consistent weight across all characters. — The edition of further characters to allow usage of a wider audience. — Develop a bold font to compliment the regular counterpart, that can be used for display point sizes. — Both the regular and bold should be promoted in the form of a type specimen.
Joe Leadbeater
Traveling Collab w.
Jordan Harrison Reader
OUGD602
01 / 06
— Jordan spent 6 weeks of summer traveling around Thailand and Cambodia, collecting a body of images and objects. — Create a large format publication based on his experiences. — A typeface composed of ‘book’ and ‘display’ options should be developed to reflect research. (can be a revised version of an existing typeface)
Joe Leadbeater
Airline: Style at 30,000 feet
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01 / 06
— Brand an airline that brings back the class and sophistication exuded by airline companies of the 1960’s. The airline should encourage people to treat air travel as a form of luxury, and something to be dressed up for. — Mostly mocked up brand collateral.
Joe Leadbeater
OUGD602
01 / 06
Manifesto Joe Leadbeater is a graphic designer interesting in typography and layout. He wants to explore type design further, and incorporate it more within his work.