For the Khatt Foundation in Amsterdam, Atelier Carvalho Bernau developed the editorial concept and the graphic design of the report of the “Typographic Matchmaking in the City” project which brought five teams of type designers and architects/urban planner together between 2008 and 2010. These teams created proposals for typographic installations in...
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Berlin Block Tetris by Sergej Hein is a parody on the former Socialist building style. They used to build whole cities with these kind of ‘Blocks’. You could easily wake up at a friends place in another city and still feel like you are in your flat. Even the furniture...
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‘Cold Cut ‘cutlery by furniture designer and product developer Mathias Hahn is specially designed for cold served meals, supper eaten in the cultural area of Austria and Germany. The shape of the knife and fork refer to meals consisting of bread, cold cuts, pickles and vegetables. A very crappy, simple...
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If we take a quick look at Kasia Korczak’s work we perceive the certain style this blog talks about, and how well she masters it. On her website we can read her interest in design lays in producing and distributing content with a focus on publishing, something what she definitely...
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The Prix Fernand Baudin is a prize for book design. The book with the most perfect collaboration between design, print, concept, and realization gets chosen. At the moment there is still no winner, but all the participants are listed (here). To my surprise I found the name of a previous...
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Some very nice publications, and installations by Frederic Teschner. He is a freelance graphic designer based in Montreuil, France, studied at the Paris school of decorative Arts and then went on to the ‘Atelier de création graphique’. Next to his activities as designer he exhibits and collaborates with museums like the...
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Labt, as we can read on their website, is a studio for furniture design. They are a studio open for collaboration and is in a way comparable with a greenhouse. The above picture is a table designed by Janenrandoald, a belgian based graphic design duo. In collaboration with Labt they...
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Emioio Macchia is a young Italian graphic designer who graduated at ISIA Urbino as Master in Graphic design, and is currently doing a research project at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. I met Emilio last year in Rotterdam and once in a while I check up on his on website and blog....
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For some reason I see this catalogue popping up everywhere. It is yet another publication of an exhibition long past, an exhibition curated by Zak Kyes & Mark Owens at the Architectural Association, London, 2007. I am developing a sort of ‘thing’ for these kind of publications, the fact that the content is...
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Recently I am stumbling more and more on art publications and catalogues of exhibitions that are long past. “For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn’t there.” is a catalogue designed by Will Holder as a companion to the show of the same name...
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Sundries is a French graphic design studio, set up just last year in 2010 by Julien Hourcade. Their main focus lays on editorial design. For the french publishing house Galaade, the office did the entire visual identity, from 2006 onwards. With a very clean style and attention for typography and paper...
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Design Reactor Berlin is a research project of the Udk (Berlin University of Arts). Their aim is to encourage collaborations between small companies and designers, in order to investigate strategies and prospects for post-industrial locations, based on Berlin as an example. The catalogue was done by Onlab and won the...
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AA or ‘Architectural association’ is a popular school for architecture. Next to their activities as school, they are also publishing books titles that explore developments in architecture, engineering, landscape and urbanism, as well as the fields that touch on them, philosophy, history, art and photography. Founded as a means of...
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I have found Yi-Con Lu trough a blogpost of Jonas Bloneel on Parfois.be. Yi-Con Lu graduated at Design academy in Eindhoven with ‘Wohnwerkzeuge’ (Home Tools). A series of multifunctional domestic furniture. Some great ideas with a beautiful, honest design. A sandbag serves as a weight to counterbalance the lamp. Adjustable lighting...
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Daniel Lorch is a Berlin based furniture designer. He researched mid 20th century design and continues the idea. Except from the color we see these similarities in the attention to the industrial manufacturing process and the interest for bended steel. As I am a huge van of modernism myself, I...
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Crap is good doen’t mean that crappy projects are good. We feature projects that are ‘simple’ in design or material. Projects which generally make us think ‘This I can do to’. We will include single projects (It is very possible for a designer to have made only one design fitting...
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