Dutch photographer Bob van der Vlist asked Graphic designer Hans Gremmen to make the catalogue for the Stadswijk- Rotterdam project. The result is an unusual DIY catalogue in the form of a website. By clicking certain keywords on the site a custom PDF file gets generated, the visitor can download...
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Myeongbeom Kim studied in South Korea and the U.S.A . His installations show a conflict between two worlds, two objects transcend their original context and create a new one by getting connected, always leaving the separate objects recognizable.
Pa/per view book fair invites 32 art editors from 1 – 3 april at Wiels. If anyone would like to go, send me some pictures afterwards if you like.
Michael Alfred is a student at the Hochschule fuer Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig, Germany. His work consists of clean typography mixed with a more rough imagery. Nice mix of styles in good balance. More of him at read more, and on his portfolio
Eastside project is is a gallery in Birmingham, UK. As we can read on their site: Eastside Projects is a new model for a gallery, one where space and programme are intertwined: a complex evolving programme of works and events starting from radical historical positions. We aim to commission and...
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The Leipzig book fair is one of the biggest in Germany. Each year the event grows with visitors from all over Germany and Europe. The event mainly takes place in the ‘messe’ but also appears in the center with over 280 manifestations in and around the city. Off-course on an...
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Work from New York based, Japanese artist Naoko Ito. From the series ‘Urban Nature’.
Tomás Alonso is a Spanish furniture designer who started his career designing car wheels in the US before finding his place in London. His works are colorful and elegant with a modernist feel. Some more lamps, chairs, tables and a coat-hanger at read more.
Velina Stoykova is a Sofia based graphic designer, with a special interest in printed matter. Next to her porfolio you can also find her work on the post studio website. (and also here at read more) I have absolutely no fatigue, mood decay and irritability. I get enough sleep, but...
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Johannes Breyer is a promising graphic designer who focuses mainly on printed matter, book and typedesign. He started an interview magazine called ‘Better Mjstakes‘ together with Hugo Hoppmann, studies Graphic Design at the University of Arts, Zurich and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. Reason enough to ask him some questions. The entire...
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Ok, this one I took straight from the spector books website. During last year’s Leipzig Book Fair, Spector Books organized a first meeting of independent publishers at the Centraltheater. The event combined trade fair and workshop: visitors could receive information about the programs of the 16 invited publishing projects or...
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Danielle Spinat is an American graphic designer. For publication ‘Ein Hud’ she did a great job indexing and designing. The book holds a collection of stories about the social and political history of three villages in Israel/Palestine. Designed with guidance from Daniel van der Velden.
The 2 day design conference ‘What Design can do!‘ is on its way. 26 and 27th of May the Stadsschouwburg in Amsterdam will serve as a platform to discuss the problem solving capabilities of design to change or improve the world and even the social issues of our time. Names...
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Oslo based design studio Your Friends curated and designed the ‘Utformasjon’ exhibition in collaboration with product designers StokkeAustad and ODL at Galleri ROM (Rom for Kunst og arkitektur). The exhibition showcases a mixture of work from young designers as well as the veterans in the Norwegian design scene. All work exhibited was for sale, making...
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A couple of weeks ago I wrote something about Emilio Macchia (who did the summer-school of 2009), and coincidentally today I saw on manystuff.org an announcement about the Werkplaats typografie’s new edition of the summer school in collaboration with Isa Urbino, and a picture I’ve posted almost 2 years ago on...
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Swedish design duo Olof Nordenson and Ulf N Jevin work together under the name FULO. ‘Constellation’ is a table with many legs. The placing of the legs is determined by a section of the sky, making each star a possible attachment point for a leg. The user decides where the legs should...
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