Athens special le tour is a personal city guide featuring Vassilis Kallidis’ favorite spots on an abstract map. Street photography and index-like typography aim to capture the nostalgic, slightly kitsch and decadent feeling of the city. Inspired by his tour, Vasilis presents his new recipes in a book within the...
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Isabel Seiffert is Graphic Designer who finished her Master of Arts in Design at the Zurich University of Arts in the summer of 2013. For her final project she has taken a rather social & political conscious approach which resolved in a 600 page volume Twitter Compendium that attempts to...
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Stockholm based designer Cornelia Norgren works are minimal and elegant while often using quite raw materials like steel and concrete. Simple geometrical shapes quite often offer multifunctional possibilities, something Cornelia makes use of.
To celebrate the start of this joly season, and to test out our updated shop, we’re giving 20% discount! Just enter (in caps) MERRY X-MAS in the coupon field et voila Santa will be informed and head out in his DHL van shortly. Have a look at the shop right...
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The Widow & the Orphan is a zine created based on typographic widows and orphans by Darius Ou from Singapore.In typography, ‘widows’ and ‘orphans’ are often the overlooked component of the perfect typesetting. They are said to ‘break’ the geometry of the page. This is very common in first drafts of passages,...
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Some very nice photography by Alexis Vasilikos. Check out his wonderful portfolio and the abundance of work. A little word about his magazine Phases will follow in a next post. Enjoy…
To coincide with the exhibition ‘Terrain of Threshold Voices’ held at District Kunst- und Kulturforderung Berlin in collaboration with English Theatre Berlin, we edited, designed, published and produced 250 readers. Serving not as catalogue to the exhibition but rather as fragmented archive of the artists research. For the launch of the publication we...
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WRAP magazine collaborated with Nick Liefhebber on a custom wrapping paper for their summer edition ‘New Horizons’. All the contributors visualized a story connected to travelling. These illustrations were created based on Nick’s fascination for maps as a kid. All the little lines, patterns and colors spark his imagination.
The Word Magazine is bi-annual print publication with international aspirations and a thick Belgian accent. Their latest ‘The third rate edition’ includes short editorials, personal stories, extended features and striking artist portfolios on, with and by the likes of: Eminent Belgian painter LUC TUYMANS on turning points. THE BEST PARTY...
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For some unexplained reason we have a big love for trestles. Over the years we’ve featured quite a variety of them, and today we have yet another great pair to add to the collection. The ‘Diamonds’, designed by Michal Malášek and produced by Czech based Master & Master are stackable table...
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One day to late but still open to visit. Please use the other door is an exhibition at museumstraat 25 in Atwerp. 7 artists infiltrate the space and rebuild the 20 meter long display case. The title of this exhibition refers to the new entrance visitors have to use to enter the space. On display from november...
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AFFORDANCES #1 (You Only Reincarnate Infinitely) by Jonathan Zawada are an open edition of side-tables based on essential forms and simplified construction. Each is a combination of three pieces of marble or granite (and the occasional piece of synthetic stone), are flat pack and require no fixtures to assemble. The table is comprised of three different types...
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The new Library Paper is out! Library Paper is an up-to-date representation of varied design/art practices from all around the world giving readers an insight into the artists thoughts. The 3rd issue is available from the website, right here. Contributors: Benjamin Critton Art Dept., Daniel Calderwood, Dante Carlos, Department Int., Eye Bodega, HelloMe, Hort, Jamie Coull, Justin Blyth, Kasper Florio, Ludvig Franzen,Bureau...
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The past week you might have noticed it was a bit quiet here on Crap is Good. The reason for that is a project called ‘New Old Black Forrest’. During the course of one week around 20 designers, photographers, musicians and other creatives (including myself) gathered in a local cabin...
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Integrated is a biennial art & design conference organized by St Lucas University College of Art & Design Antwerp in collaboration with deSingel International Arts Campus Antwerp. Integrated2013 will take place on Thursday 24 & Friday 25 October 2013 in deSingel, from 09:30 to 19:30. As an interdisciplinary conference, Integrated...
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Created by Darius Ou from Singapore, Adobo HelpDeluxe 13.0 is a satirical take on Graphic Design programs’ troubleshooting. This parody guidebook/zine is inspired by 90s aesthetics , a time period of the parodied company’s starting years. Adobo is a fictional company created to explore the possibilities of the parodied company in a...
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´In Paris`is a series of 25 drawings. Lapo tells several little stories of typical characteristics of Paris and its inhabitants observed and experienced by a new visitor in town, perhaps not so glaringly obvious for those who live there. Lapo is a contemporary storyteller. Focusing on characters and characterization, the multi-disciplinary artist uses drawing,...
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Erik Bernhardsson spent two and half years working, travelling and meeting people in China: through his essays and interviews, he offers a unique look into the realities of clothes-making in China today. The volume includes interviews with Zhang Da, designer of Shang Xia, a Chinese heritage label established under the...
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