#graphical system

The Great Expectations Redesign of 2012 - Lucienne Roberts:

When seventy graphic designers from across the World were asked by Lucienne Roberts to redesign the front page of Charles Dickens 'Great Expectations', it was a surprise that anyone agreed to do it! In the end however, the results were truly fantastic, as her books shows.

The brief for each designer was to completely reimagine the world-famous opening to Dickens' classic title in their own unique way. The results were a combination of tabloid newspapers, abstract typography, beautifully considered openings, and QR codes.

My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.

- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

The TAKKT Annual Sustainability Report 2012:

TAKKT are a Stuttgart-based business equipment specialist that know how to design their reports. The words 'Annual Sustainability Report' aren't often used alongside the word 'exciting', however, it seems that TAKKT have well and truly broken this trend.

Informative, sophisticated and typographically considered documents are published annually by TAKKT, but their Sustainability Report of 2012 is by far, in my opinion, their most striking to date. A mixture of cardboard and recycled paper really doesn't let you forget the purpose of this document, sustainability, and the airmail signs and symbols throughout are a great graphic reminder. Some of the striking orange paper throughout is cut with different dimensions to the rest of the book relaying the belief that those off-cuts were taken off of a printer, which again shouts sustainability. Of course they probably weren't, as the document was most likely produced at a printers, however it is a simple mechanism that TAKKT have used that really helps the viewer understand the purpose of the document.