“The future of” is the first participatory book project initiated by crap is good (thats us!) and tries to provide an insight into the future role of architecture. Every architectural attempt starts by making a representation of an imaginative situation or design, which will happen or could happen in the future. In...
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Submitted by: Nick Liefhebber “Een Kilo Goed Fatsoen” or as the English call it “A Pound of Decency” is a small collection of Poems by Dutch poet Oscar Rambonnet about (amongst others) the Mona Lisa, wine and squatters. Clean type and pictures straight from life.
Submitted by: Márcia Novais Márcia Novais was asked to do the poster and the publication for the Printmaking meeting. I collaborated with Carlos Azeredo Mesquita and Diogo Tudela for the etching both in the posters and dust cover. About the process of the etching “The construction of the image began in the deepest ends of digital media,...
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Eyes On The Prize deals with the differences and similarities between the fields of sports and the arts and applies the rules of the game to the unwritten laws of the visual arts. Guestcurator: Bas Hendrikx (NL) Kasper Jacobs (NL), Yarre Stooker (NL), Bas Schevers (NL), Harry Meadley (UK), Alex Farrar (UK) The project consists of a residency-period for the artists,...
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Lu Liang, is a graphic designer born in 1983 in Shandong, China. She received her BA degree in Graphic Design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam in 2008 and her MA degree at the Werkplaats Typografie, Arnhem in 2011. She is now working as an independent graphic designer in Amsterdam....
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Submitted by: Jonas Ersland The InMono by Jonas Ersland is a small contact-microphone-amplifier intended to be permanently placed on metal objects in public space. The very simple electronic circuit (only six components are used in total) generates soundwaves from vibrations naturally occurring in public objects like steel-constructions, fences and bridges. Passer-bys can plug...
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Some random work from the portfolio of Rotterdam based designer Hanneke Minten. Together with Saskia Pouwels she runs graphic design studio Hats & Tales.
I stumbled upon some very nice work of Timo Lenzen. He is currently studying at HfG Offenbach. Some very nice book designs at read more.
The Moe Chair Series by The Bureau is based on a chair originally used in Singapore classrooms throughout Singapore before plastic moulded chairs became a cheaper alternative. Each frame is hand finished in galvanised one-inch steel pipes and powdercoated. The chairs are available in the colours grey, white and black....
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Submitted by: Lorenz Klingebiel The poster series “The Zukunft Series” deals with the future. an asymmetric line-up of alltogether 11 students, young Graphic Designers, artists and international reclaimed Designers from Offenbach, Frankfurt, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, Rom, Luzern, Novi Sad, London and Leeds were invited to design the future. The connecting...
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Submitted by: Felix Heyes & Ben West If the internet goes off you may need this reference book Ben West & Felix Heyes made. It contains the first Google Image for all 21,000 words in the dictionary.
A very nice little multi-functional chair by multi talented graphic designer Nick Blakeman, using ratchet straps to provide an adjustable seat, facilitating the preferred sit height or use as a table. Wooden construction of American White Ash and Wenge.
Submitted by: Troy Kreiner On April 16th 2012, I surveyed students at Sarah Lawerence college about the financial struggle going on at The Cooper Union. I chose to survey this community on Prospective Student Day in an effort to capture the active speculation that is in agreement with the decision-making...
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Catalogue Library is pleased to announce it will be publishing it’s first bi-annual magazine this year – Library Paper. Library Paper is an up-to-date representation of varied design/art practices from all around the world giving the reader an insight into the artists thoughts. The magazine is curated and designed by...
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Brussels based Shelter Press is the first invited publisher to be part of Panorama 10, a 6 weeks long event held by Theophile’s Papers at Abilene Gallery in Brussels. For this occasion, Shelter Press will presents 2 new prints by two paris based photographer. One by Estelle Hanania and one other by...
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Under the guidance of prof. Holger Jacobs a group of 24 design students at the University of applied sciences Düsseldorf occupied a room within the college and established it as a permanent creative space. This is a room like no other. All too often students work from home and only come into college...
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From the 18th of May to the 24th of June, the Abilene gallery lends its venue to Theophile’s Papers, a project dedicated for books, zines, magazines, news papers and a lot of indie printeds matter, based in Brussels. Theophile collaborated with Valerian Goalec on the scenography and set design of the whole event. For this...
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Zak Group presents the Sternberg Press Solution series, edited by Ingo Niermann and designed by Zak Group beginning in 2008. The Solution series invites authors to develop an abundance of compact and original ideas for countries and regions, contradicting the widely held assumption that after the end of socialism, human advancement is only possible...
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