Deutsche Japaner
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!
Author Archives for Pieterjan Grandry
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Lassnet Edition
Submitted by: Shruti Chamaria The Book as a stable and recognizable object of knowledge derives its authority from the stabilization of disciplines. And if the discipline happens to be law, this authority manifests itself in predictable hues of black and grey imbibing the object with a dusty gravitas. The “Siting...
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TwoPoints
Just came across a very fine graphic design agency. TwoPoints is based in Barcelona and Berlin and focusses on visual identities & editorial projects. Be sure to have a look at their website and some samples at read more.
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Unibz Design Festival 2012
In the year that marks its 10th anniversary, the Faculty of Design and Art of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano launches the first edition of Unibz Design Festival, that will be held on September 20/22, 2012. Unibz Design Festival will develop into a three-day event, including workshops and a final conference, free and open to design students...
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Further Four
Submitted by: Freddy Taylor Further Four: A New Angle Further Four is a channel created in response to a D&AD competition brief. The brief asked us to come up with a name, logo and television campaign for a new channel for channel 4. It would be specifically for the over 60’s...
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Explorations in Indexing
Submitted by: Amy Yalland Index, the Auckland based design studio run by Jonty Valentine and Amy Yalland, (est. July 2011) have just published their first book, ‘Explorations in Indexing’. This limited edition publication is the outcome of an open-ended exploration into the idea of indexing. Meant to function partly as a self-promotional...
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Cyberhaze
Submitted by: Andrew Brawl CYBERHAZE – The journal for philosophical perspectives, society and outer space exploration. This first monothematic issue is entirely dedicated to the topic of ‘reality and perception‘. The alchemical symbols for air, aquavit and gold are the forces behind the three categories of philosophy, society and outer...
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Nouvelle Noire
Submitted by: Anton Studer Nouvelle Noire is a type design and development studio based in Zurich, Switzerland. It is a platform for presentation and distribution of typefaces, with a design emphasis on modern techniques and technical options. With that in mind, typefaces are developed with the consciousness of type history in...
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Collectif Etc
The “Détour de France” is a project developed by Collectif Etc since October 2011. Inspired by the bicycle race “Tour de France”, twelve of the permanent members of the collective are cycling around the country for a full year. Departure and arrival are in Strasbourg, the city where the collective was founded...
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Flora Sway
Submitted by: Jake Evans Flora Sway is a collection of videos, gifs, drawings and photography inspired by the quote ‘Some stories are true that never happened’ an investigation was conduced with regards to our perceptions of domesticated nature. Looking at how we might appreciate their existence as objects of natural causes but yet...
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Muller Van Severen
Fien Muller (photographer) and Hannes Van Severen (artist) launch a furniture collection. Clear-cut storage boxes, tables, racks and lamps that refer to – in their pure form – the work of Donald Judd and Bauhaus, but embrace the lush adornment in their completion and combination. While both artists are inspired by the tension...
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Sleeperhold nr5
Our friend Ward Heirwegh from Sleeperhold Publications did it again, the newest installment on the platform: a series of 10 vinyl records. Every record has sound on the A-side and an etching on the B-side. Today he presents us the first recording of 10: After releasing the wonderful “Mazes”, psych prodigies MOON DUO recorded a killer, 21...
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Commemorate
Submitted by: Leanne Bentley A typographic hoarding device used to protect a closed down building. The hoarding acts as a forum for the local community to share their memories of the building at it’s former glory.
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Léo Caillard
A series of photographer Léo Caillard capturing ‘lifeguard posts’ along side the Miami shoreline. All of them almost an exact copy in composition but so very personalization.
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Darragh Casey
“Shelving the Body” aims to disrupt our habitual relationships with furniture and reassess the idea of the ‘user’. This subversion, initiated through a series of experimentation and trials, approaches the typology of the shelf with a physical consideration for the figure. At times, the outcomes often reduce the role of...
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Ola Mirecka
A fun space with a playful take on childhood dreams designed by Ola Mirecka. Lava is developed as design language based on her illustrations and drawings. She invite you to the refreshing LAVA cafe to drink homemade lemonade from handmade cups, sit on unique chairs, pop lemonade balloons, talk and...
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Sam Weller
Holdfast began with the exploration of clamps and their infinite possibilities as both a tool as well as joining device. The clamp elements that hold this range of furniture together are very simple in form and were based on the holdfast clamping system typically used for holding material to the surface of...
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