Author Archives for Pieterjan Grandry

  • Neal Fletcher

    Some typefaces by self-taught type designer Neal Fletcher. And as an extra..  you can download them for free on his website! After the bump some examples.

  • Type Designer Archive

    Campaign for Klingspor Museum, Offenbach ‘Type Designer Archive’ by Amsterdam based Studio Laucke Siebein. The rest of the campaign at read on.

  • De Stihl Camp

    Conceived and staged by Olivier Lellouche, Olivier Lebrun & Maori Murota ‘De Stihl Camp’ is an installation / performance revolving around steam and was presented at London Design Festival. A devise emitting steam by heating water is being used to cook, bend wood (e.g. to make furniture), boil water for tea ore...
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  • Filippo Minelli

    Italian photographer Filippo Minelli carefully documents his interventions. He often works with typography, or creates contradictions in a certain environment by adding color, shapes or lines. His ongoing series ‘Shapes’ explores change and the photographical property to freeze time. An almost anthropomorphic cloud hangs threatening in a space, or appears in a...
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  • Rendez-vous sauvage

    After 2 years of absence, Rendez-vous sauvage is back with a new exhibition serie called  ‘On The Road Again And Again’ and a new website. Check out their programme and updated archives on :www.rendez-vous-sauvage.fr. Pictures of the actual van at read more..

  • Archive Books

    Archive is a platform for artistic and cultural research, debate and self-education. Archive has no formal structure: its members (designers, interns, editors, artists, translators) practice no division of labor beyond the division of competences, no division of space beyond what is required by its use. Archive thus generates shifting and...
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  • The farmhouse chair

    The farmhouse chair is as sturdy as an antiquated piece of farm machinery, and as easy to relax in after 10 hours on the clock as a pair of worn out dungarees. Despite its pure geometry there is a rustic quality in this chair; the backrest is inspired by the architecture of...
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  • Split/ Fountain

    Located on Karangahape Road in Auckland, New Zealand, split/fountain (S/F) shares a street-frontage with a Laundromat, a promotional outpost of a downtown gallery, a café, and sex shops. As the title’s reference to blended ink technology suggests, S/F merges at least 3 forms of production and dissemination – art, design,...
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  • Fluor and the Biennale EXD’11

    Flúor was invited to participate in the 6th Edition of the Biennale EXD’11, wich happens in Lisbon since 1999. This year the events main concept is  “unuseful”. In this edition, that will happen between September 28 and 27 November 2011, the idea of useful or useless will be studied and...
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  • Max Ackerman

    Work from graphic designer Max Ackerman. He has a BGD from The Rhode Island School of Design and is currently healthsavy.com living in Indonesia. More of his colorful work at read more.

  • Jackson Eaton

    ‘The third wheel’ a series by Australian photographer Jackson Eaton (the rest at read more)

  • Fantastical Investments

      Qompendium is an evolving and ever-changing platform for philosophy, art, culture and science, represented by a series of print publications: magazines, books and monographs. Furthermore, it is enriched by a gallery concept, a work shop and a fast-moving online portal. Yesterday the Fantastical Investments exhibition at Droog Amsterdam opened. The...
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  • Public Resonance

    Public Resonance is a short movie that documents a product designed by Sam Weller in collaboration with Yamaha and The Royal College of Art. The project allows a performer to directly connect and literally ‘resonate’ with an audience. By utilising the natural resonance of everyday objects, for example street furniture, existing architecture or...
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  • Etienne Gros – Les Mousses

    Les Mousses is a sculpture series by French artist Etienne Gros. Using sponge-material as medium he creates sculptures representing his main topic, the human body. The rest of this series at read more.

  • Gardening on Tempelhof

    A couple of weeks back I passed by Tempelhof  (the former airport in Berlin) and came across this wonderful project. Allmende Kontor is a Urban garden, which supplies the locals with a place to grow plants. With found and reused material the farmers ranging from 16 to 86 of age build amazing structures,...
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  • Daniel Schofield

    A selection of work by U.K. based furniture and product designer Daniel Schofield.

  • Kokoro & Moi – Print magazine cover

    Print is an American bimonthly magazine about visual culture and design. Founded in 1940 by William Edwin Rudge, Print is dedicated to showcasing the extraordinary in design on and off the page, covering commercial, social, and environmental design from every angle. Kokoro & Moi guest art directed the June 2011 issue,...
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  • Depot Basel

    Depot Basel demonstrates the relationship design has with each of us. They offer a glimpse of transnational design creativity, developing new forms of presentation and mediation, thus bringing contemporary design in all its facets to bear. Housed within a nearly 100 year old former grain elevator in Basel, Switzerland. The first...
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