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Portfolio 2010
Graphic Design Portfolio - Raimondo Taibi
My name is Raimondo Taibi, also known as Rah, a Sicilian (Agrigento, Italy) born Graphic Designer and Illustrator. I grown up eating cartoons, comics, graffiti and lots of music, I moved from Agrigento to Bologna to study Graphic Design at the Academy of Fine Arts. Hungry for change and new experiences, after graduating I moved to London where I currently reside. My art is a weird mix of graffiti style and minimalism, often inspired by graphic design legends.
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I’ve executed many logotypes for different kind of customers. I’ve been working with some Music Bands and Labels, Fashion Brands, Building Enterprises and Small Business Companies. The artworks presented has been created between Italy and United Kingdom, as a Freelance . PHILOSOPHY Logotype must be like a piece of art. It should have the qualities necessary to keep it alive as time and trends go by. It must be able to change its scale without loosing its beauty. It must be totally original and unique.
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Logos - 2008 - 2010
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Corporate identity plays a significant role in the way an organization presents itself to both internal and external stakeholders and allows consumers to denote their sense of affiliation with a human aggregation, a group, a “family”. It helps organizations to answer questions like “who are we?” and “where are we going?” It must express the values and ambition of an organization. Here are two project I’ve developed Cawa™ and EdilTAV.
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Cawa™ Identity - Colour Palette
Cawa™ Colour Palette Pantone Process Black U 100% Pantone Process Black U 38.92%
Cawa™ is new fashion brand founded in 2010 by Carlotta Marchetta also know as Cawa, Italian Fashion Designer.
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Cawa™ Identity - Visual
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EdilTAV s.r.l Colour Palette EdilRED #E30613 EdilGREY #999999 EdilGRADIENT #C60C0E / #E30613
EdilTAV is a small Italian construction company based in Sicily, founded in 2010.
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EdilTAV Identity - Colour Palette
Primary Typeface OldSans Black
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I’ve made some label for italian wine cantinas and lots of packaging for musicians. Here are two works I’ve made for Azienda Agricola Cà Soave (Emila Romagna/Italy) and my last Cd Packaging for Bm Records. PHILOSOPHY Packaging is the science, art and technology of enclosing or protecting products for distribution, storage and sale. Packaging is the “face” of business, direct connection between producer and consumers. Therefore, packaging must be pleasant and fascinate, it doesn’t matter if the style is serious and geometric or fancy and curly.
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CUSTOMER WEBSITE DESIGN YEAR
Cà soave http://www.casoave.it/ Raimondo Taibi 2007
Cà Soave asked me to create a label for a special edition of Calissaya Wine. I have been inspired by wine gradients. Wine has been exposed at MamBO (Museum of Modern) Art of Bologna.
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Calissaya - Label
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CUSTOMER WEBSITE DESIGN YEAR
Bm Records http://bmrecords.eu/ Raimondo Taibi 2010
Aleaka asked me to work on the artwork for his last LP called : “Are synthesizers funnier than you?”. He suggested me just the primary colour, the Blue.
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Aleaka - Are synthesizers funnier than you ADV pack
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Truly passionate about fashion (I can admit that I am a fashion victim) I use to follow lots of websites and blog who talk about new trends. In August I found a competition (Dojo Clthng NEEDS Talents) on Facebook. I submitted two artworks to join in the competition. Two artworks on two were in the Final selection. I won it. Actually I’m working in collaboration with Dojo Clothing. New artworks and tee are coming.
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Dojo Clothing™ - DojoClthng™ Needs Talents artworks
CUSTOMER WEBSITE DESIGN YEAR
Dojo Clthng™ http://www.dojoclthng.co.uk/ Raimondo Taibi 2010
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When I was a student I used to collaborate with my teacher in some free press. I love any printable surface and typography. I think is a true devotion, I truly love to “play� with letter spacing and kerning, modify shape at existing fonts or create new. PHILOSOPHY Page layout is the part of graphic design that deals in the arrangement and style of elements on a page. We must start from grids, but, we must not forget that we can break rules. Break rules means leave free space at our fantasy. At last, the fantasy has here only one limit, the text must be understandable.
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Cassero Mag - Nitrate Bodies pages layout
CUSTOMER WEBSITE DESIGN YEAR
Cassero Mag http://www.myspace.com/casseromagazine Raimondo Taibi 2007
Cassero Mag is the Cassero official magazine. Cassero is a non-profit organization, founded in 1982 and created to improving the quality of life for gays and lesbians.
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Bypass - Book
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Raimondo Taibi 2009
BYPASS - Dalla strada al desktop - is my graduation thesis project. Pubblication talk about the connections between Graffiti world and Graphic Design, from tag to logotype, from masterpiece to Adv, from walls to desktop.
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I’ve created some Website and lots of Myspace pages. Sometimes, I made just the layout, another time I worked with Html, Css and Photoshop or Illustrator. PHILOSOPHY I prefer to work with Html and Css for a “social cause”, to privilege best web accesibility. Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can use the Web. More specifically, Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the Web, and that they can contribute to the Web.
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CUSTOMER WEBSITE DESIGN YEAR LANGUAGE
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Akrasound Family records http://www.akrasoundfamily.com/ Raimondo Taibi 2009 HTML + CSS
MyspacePage - Don Done Man
CUSTOMER WEBSITE DESIGN YEAR LANGUAGE
Don Done Man (Italian reggae singer) http://www.myspace.com/killadoneman Raimondo Taibi 2008 HTML + CSS
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I wrote lots of time that I love print and paper. I‘ve been working with posters since twelve years ago, before I’ve bought my first computer, with authentic copy and paste, glue, pencils and pens. Works I’ve presented are simulation made with Photoshop, because I haven’t a photo camera here (unluckilly I forgot it in Italy). The first one is a proposal poster that I made for a launch campaign for Movie Head Production film called Birdemic on 2010. The second one has been made in 2007 for Centri ufficiali di lingua e cultura in Bologna (Alliance Francaise and Italo-Britain Association).
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43 Artwork created with True Type Font - Woodberry Bubble Throw up.
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True Type Font - Rock in tha face
Basic use of - Rock in tha face True Type Font
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