Well groomed fox design studio is versed in the everyday object interpreted through line, plane and volume with experimental use of materiality, manufacturing techniques and colour, to create rich tactile everyday objects. Emma Fox Derwin and Nigel Groom founded Well-Groomed-Fox in 2008, with a focus on creating furniture, lighting, product and...
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Mathis Pfäffli is a swiss graphic designer who has done some wonderful poster and book designs. Transparency and lots of layers at read more.
New York based artist John Clang has created a series of images titled Be Here Now, capturing projected families and their international members in countries around the world. The tradition of taking family portraits is fading due to the difficulties of gathering the modern ‘spread’ family. With a simple Skype call...
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An Issue About Architecture and Nature Adventice is a publication of observations, analysis and visual essays. It is independently published and distributed twice a year. Adventice concentrates on the confrontation of different topics, highlighting the tension between conflicting subjects. Despite it being an art publication, it strives to create a dialogue between various fields. Authors...
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O FLUXO ISSUE#01 – Circulating Forms of Reality it’s the first publication of O Fluxo, an open and collaborative effort set up to explore the boundaries of new media technology and how they are being inserted into reality. A speculation of the online art culture opposed to its volatile forms...
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Broken Dimanche Press have teamed up with artist Lorenzo Sandoval to reconfigure their Büro BDP with the Spaniard’s super cool ‘Narrative Machine’, an artwork that acts as raumgestaltung, bookshelves, storage and modular table and chairs. It’s a series he has already used in General Pubic in the exhibition The Rescue...
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From August 15th to September 15th Artist/ architect Valentina Karga will perform a one-month experiment. She will be living in her garden in Berlin ,surviving from what she has produced, while not leaving waste behind. Her personal waste will become compost for next year’s experiment. Valentina will cook her garden’s...
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The visual identity of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam is undergoing a radical reconsideration by Mevis & Van Deursen. Internationally renowned as one of the most inventive and acclaimed design agencies in the Netherlands, the duo had previously created the graphic identity of the museumís Temporary Stedelijk program from 2010 to 2012. The museumís visual...
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Submitted by: Pascal Melcer For the poster festival WELTFORMAT a Pascal Melcer developed a signage concept of using an internal competition of HSLU, in collaboration with Erich Brechbühl. The concept is using woodchip boards, as they are known by construction fences. The signs, which are used as stand or a lean-on use...
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Some random work from Minneapolis based graphic designer Christopher Santoso. The above poster tells us a bit about who he is. Great self promo!
Submitted by: Emanuel Wallimann This publication is the final thesis of Graphic Design student Emanuel Wallimann and combines collected and edited contributions about Lake Lucerne from 1300 till May 2012. Between the 193 stories, reports and image contributions consist indexical references that enable new approaches and perspectives of the lake – far...
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The results of a residency held at HMK { HotelMariaKapel }. Alex Farrar (one of the artists) explains me their project in an email. As you know, the residency ‘Eyes on the Prize‘ at {HotelMariaKapel} was competition themed. Harry (Meadley) had challenged me to a duel some months and early attempts...
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Wikipedia redefined is a project by creative studio New!. They have taken one of the most influential sites on the web, and have worked on a completely new wiki-experience. A very inspiring and ambitious project questioning the existing interface.
On 1 September 2012 a new arts festival will be launched in Žinkovy, Czech Republic, an hour’s drive from Prague. The event will be held annually in the idyllic setting of Žinkovy’s historic castle. The festival highlights the diversity of contemporary European visual arts, showcasing work in a wide range of disciplines. Here,...
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mono.kultur #32 MARTINO GAMPER: ALL CHANNELS PERSONAL “True ugliness can be a treat.” Martino Gamper is the kind of product designer we all have been waiting for: Brimming with ideas, energy and humour, his designs are disarmingly irreverent and irresistibly fun, and unlike anything one will see in the...
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This time ‘Graphic‘ comes only in Korean, but non the less it looks and sounds great. Issue #23, entitled ‘Objects of inspiration’ invites 45 Korean graphic designers, design educators and design critics to answer the question: “What is your object of inspiration?”. Some more spreads and the cover at read...
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Fake Publications by German design studio Deutsche & Japaner. Their fictive publishing house releases fictive book. Even tough some of them could be great in ‘real’ none of them exist in a tactile form. Lots more after the bump!