Great feathered Artwork by Londen based Artist Kate MccGwire. The Artist’s statemet: “I gather, collate, re-use, layer, peel, burn, reveal, locate question, duplicate, play and photograph” Kate MccGwire’s practice probes the beauty inherent in duality, exploring the play of opposites – at an aesthetic, intellectual and visceral level – that...
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This issue brings together 16 workshops on graphic design. It revisits these workshops which have been held around the world for the last two years, and provides the details and energies of such graphic design education that takes place outside the regular curriculum. More info on the website.
Aurélien Arbet and Jérémie Egry, 2 French artists with some nice projects. There website is difficult to find, and it seems like they have multiple. For some really nice and fresh work be sure to check it out.
The past week (-weekend) DMY-Berlin took place in the Tempelhof airport. Next to Milan designweek the biggest design festival of Europe. We saw a lot of know faces and some new ones. For an entrance of 12 euro (8 euro for students) definitely worth it’s money. Our favorites and some...
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A very interesting booklet with custom typeface by Scott Langer. Telegraphy, as the first true global network, permitted applications such as message routing, social networks (between Morse operators — with gossip and even marriages among operators via telegraph being observed), instant messaging, cryptography and text coding, abbreviated language slang, network...
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Qualité Graphique Garantie is a well designed blog, created by Benoît Bodhuin. The main topic: Quality graphic design. The blog works extremely well, simple and clear and best of all it loads fast! Be sure to check it!
Gestalten presents a solo show by Berlin-based conceptual product design practice Beta Tank. Beta Tank creates design objects based upon cross-disciplinary research that insightfully explores new technologies and social phenomena—inspiring debate beyond aesthetics or function. This solo show features objects from Beta Tank’s “Taxing Art” and “Sensory Substitution” series. The Galila...
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The Milano thing is a small independent publication consisting of a selection of the Milan design week’s best projects. It’s a 48 pages magazine translated both in italian and english which talks about the best design schools and the new trends, reflects on the revival of craftsmanship and the process of...
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Buildings is a street-art project by Evol. Even tough the project date’s from 2004 its the first time I’ve seen it. By using multiple stencils, Evol spreads buildings across the urban environment . Showing a miniature version of the spectators habitat. More pictures at read more.
The Swedish-American designer and architect Greta Magnusson Grossman (1906-1999) was one of the big innovators during the 40’s. I just came across “The Grasshopper floor lamp” which she first produced in 1947 for the Ralph O Smith lighting company. A bended steel pipe forms the base while a curved sheet...
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A book distribution agency based in Athens. Looks like they sell and distribute a lot of nice stuff! OMMU is a distribution service based in Athens, Greece. We are dedicated to circulating and promoting books, zines and periodicals oriented towards art, design, architecture and fashion from all over the world,...
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3 x 1, a series of photo’s by Danish photographer Nicolai Howalt. It’s not one of his most recent projects but for sure not one to be forgotten. Some of my favorites of the series (3 x 1) at read more.
Even tough there are thousands of these clamp based lamps in garage’s and car shops all over the globe, not many of them are as simple and straight forward as this one. Thingking, a young Cape town based office has left room for personal customization of the lamp. On a...
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Display is a curated collection of important modern, mid 20th century graphic design books, periodicals, advertisements and ephemera. Documenting, preserving and providing public access to these original materials will raise the profile of Graphic Design as a source of educational, historical and scholarly analysis for teachers, students, designers and independent...
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A couple of months back I’ve discovered Delectable, a website managed by two French graphic designers, Nathaniel Hubert and Malik Diouri, who call themselves Ecogex. They store and archive beautiful and alternative websites. After searching around a bit for more information about this great initiative, and finding nothing, I asked them for...
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Typo Berlin has started yesterday. This four day conference is considered the biggest design lecture series in europe. It takes place from May 19-21, 2011 at the House of World Cultures, Berlin.
Void() is a really nice tumblr with just images and links managed by UK based graphic design office Qubik.
Some time ago we announced the Amsterdam Art book fair. Today manystuff posted some images of the event, right here.