The people that Ulf Lundin portrays in his piece “From Darkness” have been sitting by themselves for half an hour in total darkness. Meanwhile Ulf Lundin, who was in a adjoining room, pulled the trigger without seeing them. So the persons didn’t know when the flash would lighten up their...
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A small selection of work from Helsinki based graphic designer Pol Solsona. More to see at read more.
James Langdon and Céline Condorelli from Eastside Projects will give an introductory talk about the Narrative Show exhibition and publication. In collaboration with Bedford Press, Eastside Projects Birmingham relocates a fragment of their current exhibition Narrative Show to the Architectural Association in London. A section of Adolf Krischanitz’s Mobile Wall...
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A selection of images by Belgian photographer Xavier Delory. He’s work reminds us of a previous post about Filip Dujardin. Very common architectural structures, buildings or houses which we can all relate to become abstracted. We focus on the sculptural value rather then the function. On the other side Delory’s work makes...
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For one week designers will work together in a self made graphic laboratory to explore and showcase the boundaries of old graphic techniques. The exhibition features both the results of there experiments as well as the designers working in their laboratory.The drug Ambien Online was really a miracle. Through this...
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BYOB is a series of one-night-exhibitions curated by different people around the world. The idea is simple: Find a place, invite many artists, ask them to bring their projectors. BYOB is a way of making a huge show with zero budget. It is also an exploration of the medium of projection....
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Calling your font Pipo might cause some people to think there’s a certain lack of seriousness on your part. After all, the name does call to mind a clown. Nothing could be further from the truth, though, and Benoît Bodhuin’s first design for Gestalten Fonts might be playful, but the...
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Furniture from French designer Marie Dessuant. She was awarded the Cinna-Ligne Roset design award “révélateur de talents” for the étagère de coin, which is now produced by Cinna – Ligne Roset. Currently she is a resident as product designer in Fabrica in Italy and tries to develop new ways of...
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Presented during the last Salone del Mobile, Next Cabane will be showing in Brussels as part of Design September from 8th to 30th September. Next Cabane is a story in the form of a foldable wooden cabin. Small, temporary spaces where we can set our boundaries, seek shelter or simply...
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Berlin based graphic designer Katja Gretzinger’s design for the Zurich Jazz Orchestra. The previous posters dating back till 2005 at read more, and all of her work on her website. (the image above is the 2009 edition)
Doeller & Satter is an independent graphic design studio based in Frankfurt, Germany. It was founded in 2010 by Sandra Doeller and Michael Satter. The studio mainly works in the field of printed matter but also develops logotypes, corporate design, branding, and websites. Rather then posting a whole lot of images, I’ll redirect you straight...
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Schrank8 is a 1930’s showcase cabinet originally from Germany. It’s now part of the living room & studio of Hansje van Halem in Amsterdam. Every two months an artist is invited to fill the cabinet. In the picture above the cabinet was showcasing work from Job Wouters (www.letman.com). The cabinet itself is...
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(Imitating the Mountains, 2005) Eva Kotátková lives and works in Prague, Czech Republic. At the age of 25 – she became the youngest artist ever to be awarded the Jindrich Chalupecky Award for young artists in the Czech Republic. The basic techniques that Kotátková uses in her work are: drawing...
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Inspired by the American contemporary artist Joseph Kosuth’s work “One and Three Chair” Eric Hu redefined the concept of a chair by using alphabet. One is able to construct a chair by assembling the redesigned alphabets. (Joseph Kosuth’s “One and Three Chair at read more)
For Tamiya, a producer of plastic and resin kits for modelers, Ogilvy & Mather Vietnam developed a print campain. Taking conspiracies about Elvis Presley, Roswell, the Moon Landing, JFK’s assassination, and Marilyn Monroe’s death as a base. The one above features Roswell, the other 4 at read more.
A collaboration between Marius Lundgard and Barbara Iwanicka which was commissioned by the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (AHK) through the Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. It mainly discusses the notion that ‘everyone can have something valueable to say about art’ while demonstrating this statement by discussing the selected artworks by three contemporary Netherlands-based artists:...
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