Bringing Modern Design to Development | 6 November 2010

A sample of design used in a project document from Mongolia in 2005. In this project, we took a complex mix of data and tried to build a snapshot of the country situation that was also visually appealing. Note the people icons: specially custom-designed for the Mongolian milieu.

Mongolian MDGs Media Project Infographic 2005

In the development of Creative Sparks, we are drawing on this past experience to create visually clear and instructive images and design for the magazine. One example follows:

Dynamo Smart Charger

 

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Creative Sparks Magazine Coming | 5 November 2010

Creating a new magazine never fails to engage. The new magazine Creative Sparks is no exception. This new magazine for UNDP’s Special Unit for South-South Cooperation is currently in development for a launch in the coming weeks. I shall detail the creative process fully when it is published, but here is a sneak peek at what could be inside:

Woman with Mobile Phone.

Design Team

Locations: London, UK and Reykjavik, Iceland.

Editor and Writer: David South

Graphic Designer and Illustrator: Sólveig Rolfsdóttir

Graphic Designer and Illustrator: Eva Hrönn Guðnadóttir

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New Magazine! | 13 October 2010

Just back from a trip to Canada and am headlong into the production of a new magazine. The magazine is being made in collaboration with Icelandic graphic designer and illustrator Solveig Rolfsdottir. As the magazine progresses, I shall post more on the blog about its creative journey and details about its launch.

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New Website on the Way | 16 September 2010

With summer break now behind us, and the autumn gradually unfolding (the pace seems slower with the economic uncertainties all around), my new public website is being assembled. Icelandic graphic designer Solveig Rolfsdottir is working on the project and I hope this is the beginning of many more collaborations.

David South Consulting Prototype Website Design 2010

David South Consulting branding and Squarespace website by Graphic Designer and Illustrator Solveig Rolfsdottir. 

 

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In their own words: Selected writings by journalists on Mongolia, 1997-1999 | 6 January 2010

Launched in 1999 towards the end of my two-year assignment in Mongolia, this book is a unique resource for a developing country: a one-stop compilation of journalism chronicling the ups and downs of life in a country where the political and economic system has been turned on its head. You can download an edited selection of the book from Google Books here: In their own words: Selected writings by journalists on Mongolia, 1997-1999. 

Now also available at the University of Toronto: https://search.library.utoronto.ca/details?3403065

The UNDP Mongolia Communications Office aided many journalists to cover Mongolia from 1997-1999. Two examples are below:

"Herding instinct" by Jill Lawless, The Guardian, 9 June 1999.

"A Mongolian Shopping Spree Fizzles" by Thomas Crampton, The New York Times, June 25, 1998.

ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5311-1052.

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