Dutch/ Brazilian photographer Isabella Rozendaal documents niche activities, what for some people might be the most normal thing, others can find utterly strange. Hunting crocodiles in the Mississippi might be considered uncommon for parents of 8 -year old ball-room dancers. Isabella documents the uncommon everyday life in a most objective...
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The Brno Biennial was established in 1963, and is thus the oldest exhibition of graphic design in the world. The intention of the 25th International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno is to present the most interesting works of contemporary graphic design created in 2009-2011. In the upcoming Biennial, all categories of entry...
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Andrey Ilyaskin is graphic designer from Moscow. Graduated from the British Higher School of Art and Design course “Visual Communication”. Her focus lays on printed matter such as logo, book and poster. A selection of her work at read more.
For the third time the MISS READ Art book fair took place at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. With over 80 international publishers and distributors, the festival grows every year and offers a platform for the contemporary scene of independent-publishers. In times of crisis the big publishing houses...
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PWR is a publication put together by Rasmus Svensson and Hanna Terese Nilsson. Currently they’ve just released their 6th issue which is available on the PWR website. Coinciding with this publication, a related exhibition will be held at the Future Gallery in Berlin. Opening on the 2th of December and on display until the 17th of...
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Studio Kahn, located in a Forrest in Jerusalem develops very personal, fragile and tactile objects and jewelry. I just came across their project ‘Fragile shaker’. A salt and pepper shaker which is designed as one piece, and only the user gives it its final shape by braking it and completes...
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For the third time MISS READ has invited international publishers and artists to show their books at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. As a genre of its own, the artist book reflects contemporary ways of artistic production and publishing to a great extent and also addresses issues of...
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Work by Paris based office FiZZZ BZZZZ. Mainly active in the cultural sector FiZZZ BZZZZ projects vary from book design to poster and typo. Very fresh and creative, more work at read more and off course on their website.
Zhanar Serikpayeva is a young graphic designer based in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Mainly active in poster design and typography.
The purpose of the “Tour de France in 4 acts for 1 publication” project is to map a territory: the scope of the practices and thinking that constitute graphic design in France today. It aims not to define graphic design and/or designers, but to outline the specific features of the...
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The éditions FC & CF, a non profit organization based in Paris, France have released the new issue of ‘Tell mum everything is ok”, a photo-zine with various contributors. This fifth issue is based on the theme ‘stigma’. (the full list and images at read more)
‘James’ is a small wooden step stool or night table. Industrial Designer Gerhardt Kellermann adapts the Bekväm stool by Ikea and simplifies the assembly. I like those little grey socks it has.
Last thursday the opening of ‘The animated Gif exhibition’ took place in Antwerp. It was a nice evening with lots of people, short conversations, a band, finger food and drinks, some speeches and a lot of gifs. Crap = Good presented the ‘Animated gif player’, a device, like its name...
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Killian Loddo is a Paris based graphic designer. With his new series ‘Fantastic Goodbye‘ he presents us a set of 4 printed silk scarves. Based on the notion of the spots you see when you have been staring at the sun. Next to his work as textile designer, he has done...
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Catch-Up is a series of six exhibitions featuring illustration, graphic design and photography set up and curated by Jay Cover (Nous Vous), Tom Pratt and Oliver Shaw(Catalogue) and Sophie Thornberry. Opening on the third Thursday of each month. Each month an artist is invited to exhibit, along with an artist of their choosing,...
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A very nice graduation project of Victor Brangoleau. Manipulations with signatures from presidents that made the news during the year 2010-2011(N.Sarkozy, S.Berlusconi, H.Chavez, B.Obama, A.Merkel and M.Gadhaffi). He explains us the concept: I turned their signatures into objects by changing the size, giving a materiality and adding colors, of power became...
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The tripartite exhibition at Gallery D.O.R. has its starting point in the novel The Readymades written by John Holten (Broken Dimanche Press, 2011) which tells the story – through a unique use of montage of found historical and contemporary documents – of The LGB Group. In order to execute the fiction of...
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‘TV anchors’, a great series by Slovakian photographer Martin Kollar. The series shows us TV hosts or reporters on location, on the one side we feel a clash of worlds but on the other a great deal of familiarity fills his work. The rest of the series at read more.