Miriello Grafico

BARRIO LOGAN DESCUBIERTO is a visual celebration of the working waterfront Hispanic neighborhood in San Diego, called Barrio Logan. The 88 page book is a graphic expose of the visual richness and unique creative energy of the community, featuring details of murals, typography,  sign painters, activists art and general community visual richness.
The book is designed by the team here at MG, led by Lauren English, many who have been active in the promotion and celebration of the community and it’s passionate and active creative members. The book contains a listing our neighborhood discoveries of cool, including artists, restaurants, activists, cafes, place we as designers have discovered and wanted to turn others onto.

While many work so feverishly to be wealthy, then build a fence around the property and never come in contact with the real world, the Barrio stands for the opposite. It’s a place where people share their feelings, their color, and eccentricities. The pathway to riches very much depends on how you define the riches. - RM

Preview the complete book at  http://www.miriellografico.com/mg/barriobook/. The book is available from that link for about $68.  That’s the publishers price, but they do a decent job. (We’ll even customize it with tipped-in found objects from the streets if you want to bring it in.)

Viva mejor.

When most people plan a trip to Italy, they buy luggage and cool shoes. Instead, designer Cameron Moll of Authentic Boredom decided to get to work on some very cool interpretations of Roman architecture using typography as his building blocks. And all this BEFORE he went on his trip to Rome. Doesn’t sound like he’ll be wasting his time on the luggage thing.
Click the photos for his short video. Follow Cameron on his Twitter site.

I had never thought of the desert southwest as a place to be on the lookout for interesting typography. Seattle, San Francisco, Winston/Salem maybe, but US Highway 5, west out of Phoenix, not so much.  Driving back from Phoenix brought me off the main roads and onto some lost and aged typography, just aching to be seen and brought back to life again.- Ron

A book that attempts to explain “just what were those design judges thinking anyway.”

Rockport Publishers www.rockpub.com. and Cresent Hill Books asked Margo Chase, Alex White, Rian Hughes and Ron Miriello to co-author a new design book concept. Editor Nancy Heinonen had the idea to publish the behind-the-selection-process dialog between design judges to help readers better understand what makes a logo design work and not work. It was a smart ideas and we all agreed to pour over thousands of logo entries and cull them down to the best 500 AND document our critiques and reasoning in writing. The book, Really Good Logos Explained, is a great learning tool and logo reference. It has just been released by Rockport Publishing and is available at: http://www.amazon.com/Really-Good-Logos-Explained-Professionals/dp/1592534279

Learn more about the authors by visiting Marco Chase at http://www.margochase.com/ Alex White at http://www.tdc.org/about/white.html and Rian Hughes at http://www.devicefonts.co.uk