After presenting my initial ideas and spreads to a group the following issues where presented to me
- My spreads needed to contain more contextual references, it was suggested that I look at major events that happened globally within the years of Colors and see if they had affected any of the design choices or issues of the magazine.
- That some of the spreads had no purpose to be screen printed and they would not go into the binding of the book.
- I should consider creating a separate supplement or info graphic to screen print and include in my package.
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1990 | Manuel Noriega, ruler of Panama, surrenders to U.S. troops and is arrested on drug-trafficking charges. Washington D.C. Mayor Marion Barry arrested on crack cocaine charge. A Van Gogh painting sells for a world-record $82.5 million at auction. Composer Leonard Bernstein dies at age 72. Iraq invades Kuwait. Former USSR ruler Mikail Gorbachev wins Nobel Peace Prize. Nelson Mandela freed from South African prison. |
1991 | International forces led by the United States attack and retake Kuwait from Saddam Hussein's Iraqi Army in Desert Storm. Channel Tunnel – The ‘Chunnel' completed linking England and France by road and rail under the English Channel. Federal Minimum Wage raised to $4.25 an hour. Duke beats Kansas for NCAA Men's Basketball Championship |
1992 | Arkansas Democratic Governor Bill Clinton elected President of the United States. Los Angeles riots claim 58 dead in aftermath of Rodney King beating and verdict. U.S. Supreme Court ends invocations at public school functions. Americans with Disabilities Act signed into law. Federal budget deficit passes $4 trillion. Duke wins second straight NCAA championship, beating Michigan. World Trade Center in New York City bombed by Middle Eastern terrorists. The "World Wide Web" started up for home use. Carol Mosely Braun becomes the first black women elected to the United States Senate. |
1993 | The standoff between federal agents and Branch Davidians at Waco, Texas, ends in fire and the death of leader David Koresh and his followers. Blizzard of '93 pounds the Eastern United States with rain, wind, and snow from Florida to Canada. Coup against Russian leader Boris Yeltsin fails in Moscow. North Carolina beats Michigan to win NCAA championship for third straight ACC victory in final. A large flooding of the Mississippi causes the loss of many homes and also lives. |
1994 | Jackie Kennedy Onassis dies of lymphoma cancer. U.S. troops seize the country of Haiti. A violent earthquake rocks the city of Los Angeles. Republican Party wins control of U.S. Congress Major league baseball players go on strike Byron De La Beckwith was convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evans Long-time CIA officer Aldrich Ames and his wife were charged with espionage |
1995 | O.J Simpson tried and found innocent of two counts of murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman. Oklahoma City Federal Building bombed in terrorist attack on day of Waco disaster, killing hundreds. Palestinians granted limited self-rule in accord with Israel at White House. |
1996 | President Clinton re-elected as first two-term Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt. Terrorist bomb explodes in city park during Atlanta Summer Olympics. Ted Kazynski, the so-called Unabomber, is captured after his manifesto is identified by his brother. TWA Flight 800, bound from New York to Paris, exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after take off, killing all 230 aboard |
1997 | Western North Carolina resident Eric Rudolph identified as prime suspect in several southern US abortion clinic bombings. Labour Party takes control of Great Britain for first time in twenty years. Hong Kong ceded from England to communist China. Princess Diana killed in automobile accident in Paris. Designer Gianni Versace murdered by serial killer Andrew Cunanan, who takes own life in Miami. NASA's ‘Pathfinder' module lands on Mars. Timothy McVeigh sentenced to death for Oklahoma City bombing. Six-year old model Jon Benet Ramsey found murdered in Boulder, Colorado. O.J Simpson found guilty for 1994 murders in civil court. Mother Theresa dies. First announced cloning accomplished with Dolly the sheep. Comet Hale-Bopp crosses United States; Heaven's Gate Cult found in mass suicide. |
1998 | Michael Jordan retires from the NBA. U.S. Embassies bombed by terrorists in Kenya and Tanzania with hundreds killed. Gerhard Schroder led the Social Democratic Party to victory in the German parliamentary election, bringing an end to 16 years in power by Chancellor Helmut Kohl and his Christian Democratic Party Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals sets an all-time major-league season home-run record with his 70th home run John Glenn, first US astronaut to orbit the earth, returns to space aboard the shuttle Discovery. His 1962 solo flight lasted five hours, the 1998 trip lasted nine days. Dr. Barnett Slepian, an obstetrician who performed abortions, was shot to death in his home in the Buffalo, NY suburb of Amherst Massimo D'Alema, a former Communist, became Italy's prime minister Two school boys found guilty of murder and capital battery in the fatal shootings of four students and a teacher in Jonesboro, Ark. British Petroleum announced a merger with Amoco Corp, the largest takeover of a US company by a foreign company |
1999 | Peace agreement reached in Northern Ireland, ending over eighty years of terrorism and civil war. President Clinton fights off impeachment by Senate vote of confidence. Seattle Police battle demonstrators in the worst civil unrest of the decade during World Trade Organization talks. John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife and her sister die in a plane crash off the coast of Massachusetts. An EgyptAir flight crashes off the coast of the United States, killing all aboard. Two students open fire in a Columbine, Colorado high school killing 13 before committing suicide |
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Sep 1999
Also in 1999, McDonald's 25,000th unit opened, Greenberg took on the additional post of chairman, and Jim Cantalupo was named company president. Cantalupo, who had joined the company as controller in 1974 and later became head of McDonald's International, had been vice-chairman, a position he retained.
Jul 2007
WELCOME TO VĂ–RLAND
Top News Stories from 2007 | Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/year/2007.html#ixzz2Qq0AgoI5
China has more Internet users in 2010 than the entire Internet did in 2000. The country has actually grown with more Internet users than the entire Internet had in 2000.
Only 1 percent of the China’s 560 million city dwellers breath air considered safe by European Union standards according to a World Bank study.
According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.
On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun.
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
After I went to print I was told I would need to either add two pages (1 dps) or delete them as to print it as a book it has to have pages adding up to a multiple of 4 and I currently had 30 pages.
And so I went back through my book and decided to add a page of more examples of socially conscious design. I remembered the nike campaign, however when trying to find it online I couldn't, but from other research I remembered that Nike had a Lace Up, Save Lives campaign. (2010)
I then knew of another campaign of a similar nature- celebrity endorsed, Fashion Targets Breast Cancer. (began 1994)
And so I wanted to make a then and now page. Below are some of the images and copy I sourced.
Fashion Targets Breast Cancer
International fashion designer Ralph Lauren set up Fashion Targets Breast Cancer in 1994 after losing a close friend to the disease. Lauren was inspired to use fashion to help breast cancer charities across the globe.
Breakthrough Breast Cancer launched Fashion Targets Breast Cancer in the UK in 1996, bringing together the best of fashion to fight the disease. Since then we’ve had the amazing honour of working with the world’s biggest names in fashion and media.
Naomi Campbell, Claudia Schiffer, Kate Moss, Elle Macpherson, Georgia May Jagger and Kylie Minogue have all joined forces with renowned photographers such as Mario Testino, Simon Emmett and Ellen Von Unwerth to show their support.
WELCOME TO VĂ–RLAND
ISSUE #71
Influenced by Global Warming
Now, when global warming is such a hot issue, Colors imagines what could happen if the temperature continues to rise. Colors 71 takes us to Vörland, an island of the future off the coast of Scandinavia, where the climate and the things happening there are extraordinary.
A three-year study by the influential Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concludes that global warming is very likely caused by human activity—specifically the emission and buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Report also says that the rise in temperatures and rising seas can be curtailed with quick action (Feb. 2).
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UN panel, composed of several of the world's top scientists on climate change, finds that Earth's climate and ecosystems are already being affected by the accumulation of greenhouse gases and warns that without immediate action to slow the buildup of such emissions, droughts, flooding, and the extinction of species are imminent. Panel also says that poor regions are most vulnerable (April 6).
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From looking at through all the issues of COLORS it is apparent to me that the earlier issues where more directed to a general look at people around the world, as the magazine was still new/ fresh it wanted to spread/ show its message of diversity, however in later issues this groundwork had already been implemented and more articles/ full issues where influenced by some of the events going on around them.
I will try add these examples to my magazine, to add some more contextualisation to the publication.
Facts for poster supplement/ infographic
Sourced from COLORs themselves
The complete series of COLORS issues was included in the 25/25 exhibition at the Design Museum, London (29 March - 22 June 2007), which featured the 25 most influential design objects of the past 25 years. Good Magazine, an American bi-monthly cultural and lifestyle publication, which included the first thirteen issues under Tibor Kalman’s editorship in the ranking of the 51 best magazines of all time. La Vanguardia, a Spanish daily, described it as one of the trendiest cultural magazines on the world scene. COLORS was featured in Inside the Great Magazines, a Canadian documentary trilogy exploring the evolution of magazines from their European origins to their current popularity and the powerful influence they have on our social, political and cultural identities. Issue 76 of COLORS won first prize in the Arts and Entertainment Stories category of the 2010 World Press Photo Competition with the reportage Rainbowland by Kitra Cahana and also gained a Merit at the 89th Art Directors Club Awards. Issue 79 was awarded the Silver Prize in the Editorial Design category at the 90th Art Directors Club Awards.
sell 250,000 copies in 60 countries and seven different languages. Benetton diverts 4% of his annual turnover of £1.3bn to Colors and associated arts projects.
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Next time you go to an art museum, time yourself. You'll spend 7 seconds reading each label and only 3 seconds examining the artwork itself, according to museum experts.
With almost 9 guns for every 10 citizens, the USA tops the world for gun ownership.
The global black market is estimated to be worth US $1.8 trillion.
Over 70 percent of the world’s sex toys are made in China.
Between 1996 and 2010, the South African black rhino population rose from 1,200 to 1,915.
One-third of our Earth is nothing more than sand, rocks and a heat so harsh that it shapes the ground itself
80% of the world's bluefin tuna end up in Japan, where Kiyoshi Kimura paid US$736,000 for a single fish in 2012.
Pakistan spends a fifth of its national budget on defines.
Only seven percent of Afghans have bank accounts.
Computers made in the 1960s were expected to last 25 years. One made today will be replaced in less than five.
400,000 copies of the magazine are printed and it’s sold at the Benetton stores and newsstands throughout the world
Sourced from google search engine
Peter Pan Generation-Millennials are sometimes referred to as the Boomerang Generation or Peter Pan Generation, because of the members' perceived penchant for delaying some rites of passage into adulthood, longer periods than most generations before them. These labels were also a reference to a trend toward members living with their parents for longer periods than previous generations.
There are more than five times as many Internet users now as there were in 2000.China has more Internet users in 2010 than the entire Internet did in 2000. The country has actually grown with more Internet users than the entire Internet had in 2000.
Only 1 percent of the China’s 560 million city dwellers breath air considered safe by European Union standards according to a World Bank study.
According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.
On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun.
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
After I went to print I was told I would need to either add two pages (1 dps) or delete them as to print it as a book it has to have pages adding up to a multiple of 4 and I currently had 30 pages.
And so I went back through my book and decided to add a page of more examples of socially conscious design. I remembered the nike campaign, however when trying to find it online I couldn't, but from other research I remembered that Nike had a Lace Up, Save Lives campaign. (2010)
I then knew of another campaign of a similar nature- celebrity endorsed, Fashion Targets Breast Cancer. (began 1994)
And so I wanted to make a then and now page. Below are some of the images and copy I sourced.
Fashion Targets Breast Cancer
International fashion designer Ralph Lauren set up Fashion Targets Breast Cancer in 1994 after losing a close friend to the disease. Lauren was inspired to use fashion to help breast cancer charities across the globe.
Breakthrough Breast Cancer launched Fashion Targets Breast Cancer in the UK in 1996, bringing together the best of fashion to fight the disease. Since then we’ve had the amazing honour of working with the world’s biggest names in fashion and media.
Naomi Campbell, Claudia Schiffer, Kate Moss, Elle Macpherson, Georgia May Jagger and Kylie Minogue have all joined forces with renowned photographers such as Mario Testino, Simon Emmett and Ellen Von Unwerth to show their support.
Lace Up, Save Lives
The cause-related strand of Nike’s World Cup work kicked off with its pre-competition ‘Lace Up, Save Lives’ campaign.
The scheme, fronted by Didier Drogba and developed in partnership with charity RED, urged fans to don red laces on their boots or trainers with all proceeds from sales going towards Aids awareness in Africa.
The partnership delivers a two-pronged approach to fight HIV / AIDS in Africa by delivering funds to support programmes that offer education and medication on the ground and will harness the power of sport to engage youth around the world in the fight against AIDS in Africa.
The cause-related strand of Nike’s World Cup work kicked off with its pre-competition ‘Lace Up, Save Lives’ campaign.
The scheme, fronted by Didier Drogba and developed in partnership with charity RED, urged fans to don red laces on their boots or trainers with all proceeds from sales going towards Aids awareness in Africa.
The partnership delivers a two-pronged approach to fight HIV / AIDS in Africa by delivering funds to support programmes that offer education and medication on the ground and will harness the power of sport to engage youth around the world in the fight against AIDS in Africa.