The Swiss type foundry Nouvelle Noire is celebrating its first anniversary and will donate 50% of the proceeds of all typefaces which are purchased from the abcde-shop in the week of 11–17 March, 2013, to a foundation for illiterate people. Nouvelle Noire is doing this action because they want to...
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Wham bam thank you ma’am is a great Diy blog initiated by Ines Cox. If you feel like being creative on a nice sunday afternoon, this would be a good place to start. We know Ines as graphic designer from a previous article on her studio Cox & Grusenmeyer and now...
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ATLAS is a Zurich based graphic design studio founded by Martin Andereggen, Claudio Gasser and Jonas Wandeler. The studio has a playful and fresh style and next to client buyambienmed.com work initiates a bunch of nice projects. Be sure to have a look at their website and browse trough their projects....
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Garagisme is a one of a kind magazine about car culture. It questions our relationship with individual motorized transport by bringing together different points of view and practices, contemporary artists, photographers, architects, urban planners … The program includes photo series, profiles of innovative start-ups, portraits and interviews of artists, essays and...
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Catalogue design for the Ravensbourne University BA(hone) Fashion Design 2012 graduation show, designed at Ditto Press by Jamie Reid.
We’re very happy to see this new release of our friends from Sleeperhold Publications. Even tough it get harder and harder to keep track of their issues (what I like), issue 5.3 is here! Chicago’s Disappears are Brian Case (also of the Ponys and 90 Day Men), Jonathan van Herik, Damon Carruesco...
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This numbered, handmade edition is on sale as a new way for BDP to raise capital to make the book to coincide with the two part exhibition Office Party by Lorenzo Sandoval. This really ambitious project takes place across two cities, Valencia and Berlin, in Galleries rosa.santos and Kinderhook &...
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A very nice little zine by New York based illustrator and graphic designer, Tim Lahan a.k.a. Trademark. ‘Olympic Fencing’ is a 16-page booklet of chain link fence drawings, in which each fence is paired with a detailed documentation of “origin”.
The Staycation Museum is seeking proposals for 2013 gallery exhibitions. The cozy 30 m² space offers a large shop window on vibrant Weserstraße in the Neukölln neighborhood of Berlin. Applications are pretty much open to everybody. No need for an Art-degree, even architects are welcome. If you would like to...
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No Layout is a webshop/ archive/ database which exposes and sells independent publications directly from the creators, with no commission on sales or added costs from our side. Its digital library, allows readers to flip through full content on any screen without downloads or apps. Art books and independent publications increasingly tend...
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Namsa Leuba was born to a Guinean mother and an Helvetian father and grew up on the shores of Neuchatel’s lake in Switzerland. In this work, Namsa shows an interest in the construction and deconstruction of the body as well as the depiction of the invisible. She studied ritual artifacts common...
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Tilt is a playful furniture/ object by German designer Tina Schmid. She plays with our perceptions through the implementation of an intensive spatial confusion. An object which can unfold as a cube on the wall and serves for temporary use of clothes. Starting with a classic graphic, this property consists of...
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Curated by Leeds based designers Jay Cover (of Nous Vous) and Tom Pratt & Ollie Shaw (of Catalogue), the events aim to provide a platform to discuss and learn more about illustration, design, art direction & self-publishing. We’ve invited a couple of highly regarded contemporary creative practitioners to Leeds to...
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«Publishing as (part-time) Practice» highlight graphic designers who are also publishers, and pursue a discussion of the designer’s changing professional role as both author and publisher. It started as a one-day seminar in Stockholm, May 2012, initiated and organized by designers / small-scale publishers Matilda Plöjel (Sailor Press) and Mattias Jakobsson and...
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First a little bit about the project, then the program. Vdrome is an initiative conceived and promoted by Mousse, it is an online platform that offers regular, high quality screenings of films and videos directed by visual artists and filmmakers, whose production lies in-between contemporary art and cinema. Each screening is presented during...
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Our home country, the city we grow up in, our adoptive home, everything around us defines who we are, who we become and what we create. FLAG showcases the works of young contemporary photographers and designers and sits down with them to figure out in which ways the country and...
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PA/PER VIEW art book fair brings together 30 leading artist book publishers. Leave your laptop behind and come and browse amongst the finest titles of these consistent players of the printed word and image. Check out their website for all the details.
Roma Publications is an independent art publisher, founded in 1998 by artist Mark Manders and graphic designer Roger Willems. It is used as a platform to produce autonomous publications in close collaboration with a growing number of artists, institutions, writers and designers. Related to the content, every issue has its own rule of...
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