919 DAILY DESIGN NEWS AM 31.01.2012
Feist – The Bad In Each Other
“The Bad In Each Other” by Feist. As soon as I saw that this video was directed by Martin de Thurah I knew it was going to be a stunner.Watch the video below!
Sainte Barbe
Little bald Léon loves his grandfather. He loves the old man’s bushy black beard, which seems endowed with magic powers. But Léon’s grandmother wants to cut off the unkempt beard and regain the distinguished-looking m...
Cut&Paste Design Tournament Berlin
»Kann man schon was sehen?« – ein Spruch der Designern gern mal die Zornesröte ins Gesicht treibt. Wer allerdings gerne vor Publikum zeigt wie er arbeitet und zu welchem Ergebnis das führt oder einfach anderen dabei g...
EROK Y BRAHMA LIMBO
With a pulsating and enticing blend of hip hop, dubstep, Latin and alternative rock, Erok y Brahma is poised to conquer the music world with their debut release, Limbo.The album follows three protagonists who have bee...
The New Public – a graphic kick-off
©Metahaven ©Lupo&BurtscherMuseion Passage presents the project by the designer Martino Gamper, set to change the look and role of the ground floor of the Museion and open it up to the public and external events.The op...
Whats On: David Hockney
In a typically take-no-prisoners review, respected art critic Brian Sewell slammed the new David Hockney show at London’s Royal Academy of Arts with the withering opening line: “My predominant response…is ‘why’?” Else...
Mireille Fauchon: The Prisoner of Zenda
Continuing with their excellent series of redesigned and newly illustrated classics, the latest Four Corners Books Familiars is the high-adventure The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope. The project came to be after il...
Mandy Barker: Soup
As you read this, there is currently a gigantic mass of garbage floating around the northwest Pacific Ocean. It’s called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and by “gigantic” it is speculated to be twice the size of Fran...
Tamar Frank: A thin line between space and matter
These delicate phosphorescent threads have been pulled taut into sweeping parabolic curves, creating filigree “walls” that enclose the gallery space. The construction is transformed in the dark – the phosphorescent st...
50% off Everything - One day only
Masters of the eternal sale DFS tell us that ‘there has never been a better time to buy a sofa.’ I can tell you now that although that may be correct, the real truth is that there has never been a better time to buy I...
50% off Everything - One day only
Masters of the eternal sale DFS tell us that ‘there has never been a better time to buy a sofa.’ I can tell you now that although that may be correct, the real truth is that there has never been a better time to buy I...
Hochschultage Bremen
Wer gestaltet die Welt von morgen?Was gibt es Neues in Kunst, Design, Medien und Musik?Welche kulturellen Tendenzen entwickeln sich?Welche Trends und Innovationen stehen an?Eine Reise nach Bremen in den Speicher XI bi...
Russell Hill
What’s that I smell? Is it Island Breeze? Is it Lavender Meadow? No, it’s a Russell Hill multi-sensory installation! When I first encountered Russell’s work in a gallery I’ll admit I was a bit taken aback by the “refr...
Pow Wow Hawaii 2012
My flight is officially booked! In a couple weeks I’ll be back on Oahu for Pow Wow Hawaii (aka the best event ever). This year’s event is gonna be different in a lot of ways, and by different I mean HUGE. For starters...
Angoulême Winners: Teddy Beat
The Prix de l’Audace or the Audacity Award is less about shocking the reader than creating an “innovative approach, whether formal or narrative, to comics.” And the winner Teddy Beat does just that. In this tale of tw...
Blitzverlosung: 5 Tickets für die Cut & Paste Berlin
In allerletzter Sekunde sozusagen verlosen wir je 5 Tickets für die am Donnerstag in Berlin stattfindende Cut & Paste. Bitte nehmt daher nur teil, wenn ihr realistischerweise am Donnerstag in berlin seid.Um an der Ver...
Hochschule für Kunst, Design & Populäre Musik Freiburg startet Studienbetrieb
In Freiburg geht aus einer Fusion heraus eine neue Hochschule an den Start: Hochschule für Kunst, Design & Populäre Musik Freiburg. Es werden dort drei miteinander vernetzte Bachelor-Studiengänge angeboten ( 
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Hochschultage 2012 – HfK Bremen
Die Hochschule für Künste Bremen präsentiert am 11. & 12. Februar wieder die junge Kreativität der Hansestadt an den Hochschultagen 2012. Wer gestaltet die Welt von morgen? Was gibt es Neues in Kunst, ...
Licht an!
Anlässlich der Eröffnung des Neubaus der Konstanzer Studiengänge Kommunikationsdesign wird eine Woche lang vom 23. Februar bis zum 29. Februar gefeiert inklusive Ausstellung und Symposium.»Kommunikationsdesign: Denkme...
50% off Everything - One day only
Masters of the eternal sale DFS tell us that ‘there has never been a better time to buy a sofa.’ I can tell you now that although that may be correct, the real truth is that there has never been a better time to buy I...
50% off Everything - One day only
Masters of the eternal sale DFS tell us that ‘there has never been a better time to buy a sofa.’ I can tell you now that although that may be correct, the real truth is that there has never been a better time to buy I...
TYPEFACES
Experimental work on typography and light.This typeface represents a contrast between the rigor of the lines blur and the camera.
Zak Klauck
Zak Klauck has some serious design pedigree. Formerly of New York office 2×4, and a “Yale School of Art”: graduate, Klauck has worked with clients including Vitra, Nike and Prada on a whole load of books, posters, ide...
Lid sid
A small item that fulfills a very specific need for people cooking, keep the top of your pan closed, but not totally. You can buy it on Monkey Business.
Eric Cahan Sky Series
I absolutely love this series of photographs by Eric Cahan. He manages to capture amazing colors and super simple gradients. What really amazes me about the photos is how simple some of the images are. Lovely.Via But ...
Pictoplasma / Giveaway
A few months ago Pictoplasma released “NOT A TOY”, an exquisite book that I look at all the time for inspiration. It documents the influence of character design in contemporary art and fashion. I asked them if I could...
919 DAILY DESIGN NEWS AM 30.01.2012
Oceanic: Surface
The Surface series reflect my interest in the physicality of water - studying shapes, formations and exploring how water moves and sculpts what we see on the skin of the ocean. Surface depicts the ocean in various tim...
Novo Typo
Novo Typo is the typefoundry of Atelier van Wageningen (typo)graphic designers, based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The Family Gagarin was first published at 2rebels and Fontshop Benelux. The typefaces Cerny, Laika a...
Calligraphy Performance By Timothy Donaldson At Opening “Signs for Sounds” Exhibition
Letter worker, graphic designer, type designer and action calligrapher Timothy Donaldson created a new piece of calligraphy at Bilston Craft Gallery. The piece was commissioned by The Harley Gallery as part of Signs f...
Beautiful Web Type
Die Google Web Font Bibliothek ist so eine zweischneidige Sache. Ein ehrenwertes und nützliches Projekt, das aber mit Vorsicht zu geniessen ist. Ehrenwert, da jede Initiative die abwechslungsarme Typografie im Web zu ...
Paperworld Frankfurt
Trends 2012/2013Auf dem Frankfurter Messegelände findet aktuell die Messe Paperworld statt (noch bis 31.01.2012), auf der ich mich für Euch umgesehen habe. »Die Paperworld nimmt als internationale Leitmesse für mden ...
Whats On: Doug Wheeler
Doug Wheeler is kind of a big deal in a field known as “light-and-space art.” Famous since the 1960s for his immersive installations, Wheeler’s exacting attention to detail has produced works that have transformed gal...
Werkschau / Ohm-Hochschule Nürnberg
Der Februar ist der Monat der Werkschauen. Eine weitere Möglichkeit interessante Abschlussarbeiten von jungen Designerinnen und Designern zu bestaunen bietet die Ausstellung an der Georg-Simon-Ohm-Hochschule Nürnberg ...
Sarah Ball
Sarah Ball is the woman I would want to illustrate my children’s books – then again, maybe she’d give them ideas. Her paintings are the stuff of childhood fantasy – a world without adults, where wild animals tower lar...
Sam Kerr
Really nice portrait work from Sam Kerr over on début art. His drawings take on multiple media to the same pleasing ends as he is often driven by a tool to match the idea. Interestingly though, some of Sam’s methods a...
Cut & Paste
Design wird zur Live-Show beim globalen Designturnier Cut & Paste, das dieses Jahr auch wieder in Berlin stattfindet. Neben zwölf anderen internationalen Städten zeigen in Berlin junge Designer live auf der Bühne, was...
Owen Gatley
Owen Gatley was a fresh-faced graduate we quizzed only a year and a half ago, and since then he’s blossomed into a fully-fledged commercial illustrator. With an eye for consumer-grabbing compositions and commissions f...
Jane Stockdale: Cairo
The problem with the tweet-and-you’ll-miss-it 24/7 news cycle is that stories of huge significance have a finite lifespan, and are dropped at the first whiff of mass indifference. In this atmosphere it is crucial that...
Angloulême Winners: Chroniques de Jérusalem
The Best Comic Award (the Fauve d’Or) went to Guy Delisle and his journalistic comic Chroniques de Jérusalem. This prize can be awarded to a comic from any genre, style or geographical region and, in the case of Jérus...
Angoulême Winners
All this week we’re filling our regular midday slot with comics as we take a closer look at the winners of Angoulême – the largest comics festival in Europe and annual pilgrimage for all bande dessinée devotees since ...
Verlosung: 2x Tickets für die Toca Me 2012
Am 11. Februar 2012 findet in der Münchner Reithalle zum fünften Mal die Toca Me Design Conference mit renommierten Gastrednern aus aller Welt statt. Ziel der Veranstaltung unter dem Motto “Inspired by Design” ist ein...
Steven Mark Fisher: GF Smith x Strathmore
I think it’s time to share a deep, dark secret about myself – I have an insatiable appetite for process porn. Videos like this gorgeous new promo from GF Smith push all my creative buttons, with lingering close-ups of...
Misery Guts
“Misery Guts”, a short film by Abbie Stephens about a girl who finds herself sinking into the ground.Watch the film below!
Enlightened Souls : Country Mice
Enlightened Souls - Country Mice, is following the first opus in Christchurch.With a lighter theme, stencils of kids from the mountains went to visit their cousins from the capital.
Fragen an Illustratoren: Dieter Braun
Wie war dein Einstieg in die Branche und was war dein erster Job?Ende der Achtziger Jahre habe ich angefangen in Essen Kommunikationsdesign zu studieren. Am schwarzen Brett in der Uni hatte eine kleine lokale Werbeage...
Eurobus
Taylor Holland has a new book out on Matmos Press called Eurobus, photos of tour buses in Paris. Thanks for the email.
Corporate Design der Bundesregierung
Die Bundesregierung wird durch ihr Corporate Design mit einer eigenständigen Identität sichtbar: Es bestimmt ihr charakteristisches visuelles Profil und schafft damit eine einheitliche Basis für eine erfolgreiche Komm...
Brighten the Corners
We posted Brighten The Corners a couple of years ago but they just keep pulling it out the bag. Sometimes graphic designers seem to forget (or ignore) the very basic component of their craft which is clarity of commun...
Danny Sangra: Forget
No fancy trickery, just excellent shot selection and a beautifully aware colour palette make for a great video for Lianne La Havas’ latest single Forget. Directed by creative powerhouse Danny Sangra, the simplicity in...
NOMO Design: Airport Runway Screen Prints
There’s always something faintly ridiculous about seeing the orchestrated chaos of London Heathrow or New York’s JFK reduced to those staid little architectural “guides” you get in the back of in-flight magazines, but...
The pothole gardener
Urban gardening at its best. A guerilla gardener’s gardening efforts around potholes of East London.
919 DAILY DESIGN NEWS AM 29.01.2012
Typo Day Hamburg, Font-Technik-Tagesseminar für Verlage und Agenturen
Typo Day ist ein Intensiv-Seminar zu aktuellen Entwicklungen im Print-, Web- und App-Design. Wir sprechen über die konsistente typografische Ausstattung aller Kommunikationskanäle eines Unternehmens, welche neuen Entw...
Popular Front
A successful interactive agency, Popular Front was growing its offering to become a holistically-focused branding agency. The new identity is a bold departure, with a logotype and graphic language that is intelligent ...
20 Things 2011
So here it is, for the second year: our 20things from 2011!Weve taken 20 seminal (or just mental) events from the year on the internet and carefully weaved them together into a single illustration - this year crafted ...
Werkschau Pforzheim
Werkschau 10./11. Februar 2012Fakultät für Gestaltung | Hochschule Pforzheim.Wieder ist es soweit. Die Werkschau der Fakultät für Gestaltung der Hochschule Pforzheim gibt am 10. und 11. Februar wieder Einblicke in Wel...
3D Neon / Lights Off
Neon headline visuals made for an Eristoff vodka campaign.These are personal executions.
Bookshelf: Dean Chalkley
Dean Chalkley is a photographer and film maker with his lens trained on the iconic, under-ground and over-looked members of a counter-culture. A player as well as witness, Dean’s own experiences and passions are captu...
Diamante fonts
Diamante fonts si ispira al mondo dei tattoo, in special modo i traditional tattoo, a cui noi siamo molto legati.Diamante è stato creato da Katiuscia Mari per monocromo.Diamante fonts inspired by the world of tattoos,...
Featured artist: Pat Perry
Pat Perry creates very detailed surrealist art and illustrations. Make sure to check his portfolio.
EMMAÜS LESCAR PAU
We are two partners who work in a french graphic design studio whose name is Studio Tricolore. Damien Auriault and myself, Yann Le Dluz.This signpainting project was ordered by Emmaus Community in Lescar Pau (Atlantic...
Mangolds - Branding & Corporate Identity
The new Corporate Identity of Mangolds a well-known vegetarian restaurant in Graz/Austria shows perfectly its colorful wide offering. No eco-hippie and boring tofu! Cool atmosphere, wide selection, freshness, quality,...
919 DAILY DESIGN NEWS AM 28.01.2012
Things
Things, glooorious things! Hot sausage and mustard! Cold jelly and custard? Oh, if only.This week’s round-up has an air of optimism about it – old collaborations are revived, haunted underworlds are commemorated and d...
Poly free web font
The initial design plan aimed to define an alternative system of diacritical marks to be used in parallel with standard punctuation marks. The glyphs were drawn with a nearly vertical stress and with ink traps in all ...
Gorbachev
Homage container to Mikhail Gorbachev role in cold war period.Graphics outside play with numbers and references from both russian and american missiles pointed to each other.Inside there is a video installation with s...
How I Work - Google - Colab - Hero and more ;)
lot of new work.... some really new some form a little time ago .... form super hero to eyewear to pattern to google to my work!!!
iBondi
This is one of the coolest gadgets I’ve seen recently. This little item will serve as iPhone stand, door holder, book mount or book mark, and much more. You can see more uses on the iBondi website.
Leeside Skateboard Mayhem
When people ask me what Vancouver is like, this is the video I’ll show them. Watch the video in all its glory below.
919 DAILY DESIGN NEWS AM 27.01.2012
The Weekender
Listen up Weekendudes and Weekendettes, have I got a fact for you. So it turns out the South Kensington area of London where all the museums are is known as Albertropolis. How fricking sweet is that, and what a boost ...
Androp: Worlds Words Lights
Some of the best cutting edge creatives in Japan came together to work on this excellent video for androp – Yuri Suzuki, Tomoaki Yanagisaw and KIMURA under the direction of PARTY. Oh, and they put together some musica...
Famous Paintings Improved by Cats
Improved is a strong word, but this is so, so good. As you look at the images on this site, all your prior knowledge about art history and the Renaissance slowly drains out of your ear (that’s what ear wax is) to be r...
Reggie Watts/Noah Kalina: Transport
If someone held a gun to my head and asked me to pick the coolest person on earth ( a fairly unlikely scenario I grant you – what could they possibly be trying to achieve?!) I would probably plump for comedian/musicia...
DAS NEU GUTENBERG
Verticalidad y legibilidad, son las principales características que se usaron para desarrollar Das Neu Gutenberg de carácter gótico. Verticality and legibility are the principal characteristics that were used to devel...
Matt Leines
I know we’ve posted him before but if Matt is prepared to make such great work at such an alarming rate then what are we to do? Every picture he creates (and god knows how he creates them) seems at once mythological b...
Neo Pop Surrealism
I am continuing my explorations of diverse cultures both in place and time while being more aware of certain popular cultural references whether in silhouette or as object.
Simon Høsberg
Photographer Simon Høsberg is a man of many lives. Mountain climber. Dancer. Impromptu advice giver. Groupie. He even made it from Copenhagen to the Mediterranean on 14 euros. A browse through ihs website is like read...
Album #3
The White Album – Call for EntriesAlbum, das Magazin für Fotografie ruft zum dritten Mal auf, eigene fotografische Arbeiten, zur aktuellen Ausgabe “The White Album” einzureichen. Das von Studenten der HFG Offenbach in...
Oscars 2012 - Short Animation Nominations
All this week we’ve been pushing the trailers of BAFTA-nominated short animations your way and now, as the contentious list of contenders for the Academy Awards has been announced, here’s a rundown of those competing ...
Its Nice That Selfridges Talks Series – Words as Words
We’re gearing up for another jam-packed evening of ideas. Don’t be misled by the simplicity of the title, we will be broadening our horizons and expanding our minds for the third talk of the series, Words as Words. We...
Video Premiere / The Luyas “Moodslayer”
I’m excited to premiere The Luyas’ new video for Moodslayer - which sounds oddly similar to the “moodswinger” an instrument played by vocalist Jessie Stein. I only found out recently what a moodswinger was (and no, it...
Seminar Typographie im Grafik- und Kommunikationsdesign
Wolfgang BeinertWolfgang Beinert, der unter anderem das lesensweerte Typolexikon betreibt, hält an verschiedenen Terminen und verschiedenen Orten das Seminar »Typographie im Grafik- und Kommunikationsdesign«.
Papierwelten – die Creative Paper Conference 2012
Nach drei Durchführungen der Creative Paper Conference kann das Fazit nur lauten: Papier in all seiner Vielfältigkeit begeistert, ist wesentlicher Bestandteil kreativen Schaffens und bedarf einer Plattform, die einmal...
Fortbildung »Mediengestaltung« an der Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle
Im März 2012 startet an der Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle eine Fortbildung zum Thema »Mediengestaltung«, in der vermittelt wird, mit welchen Mitteln die Gestaltung von Drucksachen wie Flyer, Plakate und Br...
Werkschau an der Fakultät für Gestaltung Hochschule Pforzheim
Wieder ist es soweit. Die Werkschau der Fakultät für Gestaltung der Hochschule Pforzheim gibt am 10. und 11. Februar wieder Einblicke in Welt der Gestaltung von DESIGN PF. Auch im 100. Geburtstagsjahr des Gebäudes ...
We Are Handsome: The Romantic
Sure, a new swimwear collection does feel like an odd thing to cover as we chain ourselves into our heavyweight waterproofs and step out into London’s weather-beaten January, but what better remedy for the blues than ...
Werkschau der Fakultät für Gestaltung an der Hochschule Augsburg
»Kennst du das Land zwischen Wachen und Schlafen, den Ort, an dem deine Träume noch bei dir sind?« fragt Tinker Bell. Die blaue Stunde ist Nimmerland. Die Zeit zwischen Wirklichkeit und Möglichkeit, in einer Welt voll...
Death: Southbank Centres Festival for the Living
The one thing that every single one of us have in common is not the fact we all think chocolate brownies are delicious or that traffic jams are rubbish, it’s that we’re all going to die. But wait! Rather than get all ...
Tabitha Soren
An ambiguous cover of the latest McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern led me to track down/Google the photographer Tabitha Soren. Quite sometime later I emerged from her large format portfolio site, fascinated by the disquie...
OBLIQUE
OBLIQUE is an editorial object between a magazine and a book.It is about art, architecture and design.
Le double et son modèle
Double mixte 2Le double et son modèleDouble mixte est un cycle d’expositions proposé par Thierry Chancogne dont le principe consiste à inviter un graphiste à travailler avec un tiers pour construire une exposition. Il...
Design Assembly 3
To celebrate its third birthday, Design Assembly has retired the site and produced three lovely books archiving the past 3 years of published articles, comments, as well as showcasing new and exclusive words and image...
TDC Non-Latin Intensive 2012
Type Directors Club has posted an announcement of TDC Non-Latin Weekends, a series of professional seminars and workshops on non-Latin type design.The first seminar in the series of four will address the problems rela...
919 DAILY DESIGN NEWS AM 26.01.2012
I Want You To Want Me
An interactive installation about online dating, commissioned by and installed at New Yorks MoMA on Valentines Day 2008.
Posters for The Walking Dead
These are not official merchandising of the tv series The Walking Dead. I created so i could have these posters hanging on my wall. If you like it, please send me an email to mrgabrielmarques@gmail.com and found out h...
Design Legends & Luminaries Slated to Speak at TYPO San Francisco
Design Legends & Luminaries Slated to Speakat TYPO San FranciscoContact: Meghan Arnold, sanfrancisco@typotalks.com, +1.415.813.5992Jessica Hische, Neville Brody, Tina Roth Eisenberg, Michael Bierut and Erik Spiekerman...
365 Awesome Designers
365 Awesome Designers ist ein Projekt von Matthias Mentasti und stellt das Jahr über jeden Tag einen anderen, interessanten Designer mit jeweils sechs Arbeitsproben vor. Sicherlich, 2012 ist ein Schaltjahr und eigentl...
Melt Portrait of an Iceberg
In this portfolio are a selection of images from my book Melt Portrait of an Iceberg. Melt is my first monograph and was Published in 2009.
Jim Woodring
The ever great Angoulême comics festival started today and with that in mind, here is one of my favourite ever cartoonists who is both touchstone and benchmark for a whole heap of comic artists working today. Jim Wood...
Matthias Hoch
You don’t have to be an architect to understand that buildings have their own life force. Something about them has always seduced us humans – we’ve named them, worshiped them, even granted them supernatural powers. Ma...
Neasden Control Centre: London Cafes
A really nice, creative homage to London’s humble cafes from London-based studio Neasden Control Centre, run by Stephen Smith. These models play on all the charm and character of a local tearoom, using collage, paint ...
Everythin’s gonna be alright
Designreport GreeceDie Designreportage Griechenland ist ein Designforschungsprojekt des labor visuell der Fachhochschule Düsseldorf. Anastasios Koupantsis und Alexandros Michalakopoulos untersuchten während eines ...
Urheberrechtsverletzungen über offene Netzwerke
Designrecht-Serie von Jens O. Brelle (Art Lawyer)Die Abmahn-Industrie läuft auf Hochtouren. Täglich werden zahlreiche Briefe von Kanzleien verschickt, in denen Anschlussinhaber für die Verletzung von Urheberrechten zu...
Sergey Chilikov – Selected Works 1978–2011
In Pavlov’s Dog, Raum für Fotografie in Berlin, findet aktuell eine sehr sehenswerte Ausstellung mit ausgewählten Arbeiten von Sergey Chilikov statt.»Jedem Foto muss eine tiefe Empfindung zugrundeliegen«, sagt Sergey ...
Ryan Gillett
“I am a cheerful chap who loves to draw,” Ryan Gillett tells us on his website, and he couldn’t have put it better, because “cheerful” was the first thing we felt when his latest booklet dropped through our mailbox. W...
Create your social shirt
Create your social shirt! – Die Fernsehlotterie sucht in Kooperation mit dem Fanladen St. Pauli und Upsolut Merchandising kreative Köpfe für einen sozialten T-Shirt-Designwettbewerb. Der Sieger-Entwurf wird in limitie...
Anish Kapoor: Orbit
The east London skyline is in the process of changing thanks to Anish Kapoor’s 115-metre Orbit sculpture in the Olympic Park, and while reaction has been mixed in some quarters, it is nevertheless utterly fascinating ...
BAFTA Short Animation: Bobby Yeah
Robert Morgan’s bio says he was raised in “the cursed town of Yately” and now resides in a haunted house which explains things somewhat. To say that Robert’s characters very often look like they might be the undead is...
Fotografen Facebook Fan Pages Aus Leipzig Teil II
3 Monate sind vergangen und es wird wieder Zeit für einen 2. Teil der Fotografen Facebook-Fan-Pages aus Leipzig und Umgebung. (Teil I) Es gibt einige interessante Entwicklungen zu sehen. Es scheint einen enormen Fanzu...
Kreativität als Beruf
Wenn die Kür zur Pflicht und der Ausnahmezustand zur Regel wirdKreativität als Beruf blickt auf den schwer greifbaren Begriff »Kreativität« aus der Perspektive jener Menschen, die in diesem Bereich arbeiten und sich s...
Getting Up
This documentary looks incredible. “Getting Up” is a film about legendary L.A. graffiti artist Tony “Tempt” Quan who was diagnosed with ALS and became almost completely paralyzed. Through the use of some amazing techn...
HGB Leipzig Rundgang
Vom 09. bis zum 12. Februar findet der Rundgang an der Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig statt. Studierende, Diplomanden und Meisterschüler der vier Studiengänge Malerei/Grafik, Fotografie, Buchkunst/Grafik-...
Matt Leines
A couple years ago I ran into Matt Leines in Japan and I snapped this photo of him snapping a photo of some happy kids! The other day he sent me this photo out of the blue:You can see his flash going off in my photo s...
The Plant Journal, Issue 2
Wind, rain, a whole lot of grey… that’s the London winter. Thankfully, news of The Plant Journal’s second issue recently offered a glimpse of welcome sunshine, and everything now seems that little bit brighter. Featur...
Sam Falconer
I often think that celebrities must tire of having their images reproduced, retouched and re-imagined ad infinitum. But I’d also like to think that, when done right, they smile and remember why it’s nice to have an ic...
Alison Brady
If you prove to me that you have seen this image and not clicked on it, then you win a prize. It is one of Alison Brady’s portraits, in a series of hallucinogenic photographs of forest-dwellers (forest in the mind) an...
adidas Consortium Rod Laver
Designed for adidas Consortium, in collaboration with Limited Edt. Vault, a sneaker boutique. A classic Rod Laver, 500 pairs worldwide.This collab is for FW10 collection, which coincides with the global release of the...
Still Life
Still Life by Scott Garner is an interactive gallery piece that takes traditional still life painting into the fourth dimension with a motion-sensitive frame on a rotating mount.found at CreativeApplications.net
919 DAILY DESIGN NEWS AM 25.01.2012
Synesthesia: Tom Edwards
Our Synesthesia project with Yours Truly is under way! I’ll be posting letters written by musicians to visual artists who’ve inspired them, and YT will be posting letters from visual artists to musicians (confused?). ...
entre|momentos
Artist, born in Santa Maria / RS in 1977. Bachelor of Visual ArtsFederal University of Santa Maria / RS. Lives and works in Porto Alegre.
Whats On: Hajj - Journey to the Heart of Islam
Opening tomorrow at the British Museum is Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam. It is an almost overwhelmingly rich exhibition of artefacts and artworks to someone (like myself) who has very little insight into the his...
Submarine Channel: The Art of Pho
If you haven’t heard of the Submarine Channel before, then listen up. This Amsterdam-based online platform posits itself as “the future of storytelling”, and if their latest project The Art of Pho is anything to judge...
The New Yorker: The Political Scene
No doubt many people like us, find the US presidential elections pretty overwhelming It’s the length of campaigns, the technicalities, the nuanced language (prebuttal anyone?) and the sheer scale of activity involved....
Yosemite HD
Der Yosemite Nationalpark in Kalifornien gehört zweifelsfrei zu den beeindruckendsten Naturräumen der Welt. Sheldon Neill und Colin Delehanty vom Project Yosemite haben mit dem Zeitraffer-Video «Yosemite HD» den überw...
Armut macht krank – Made by BBDO Proximity Düsseldorf
Agentur: BBDO Proximity DüsseldorfKreation: Antje Schnottale, Anne Katrin Hüsken, Sebastian HardieckBeratung: Verena SchödelTV-Department: Steffen Gentis, Andreas Bintz
Kommando Otl Aicher
Alexander Negrelli, der schon den ein oder anderen sehr lesenswerten Artikel zu Slanted Magazinen beigesteuert hat, arbeitet gerade im Rahmen eines Stipendiums and der Jan van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht an einem Buch...
Newfoundland Tack: Surprise Stefani
Newfoundland Tack, headed by director Andrew de Freitas, is a very exciting creative outfit hailing from Québec with their own-brand of moving image production. This video for Dan Deacon’s Surprise Stefani (co-directe...
Fragen an Illustratoren: Judith Drews
Wie war dein Einstieg in die Branche und was war dein erster Job?Im Studium habe ich ab dem 2. Semester in einer Werbeagentur gearbeitet und hier die ersten Illustrationen gemacht. Die Illustrationen, die dann weitere...
Design Walk Athen / Greece 2022 – 11 creative studios 11 aspects of our lives, 10 years later
Es ist wieder soweit: Der 5. Design Walk in Athen steht vor der Tuer! Am 3., 4. und 5. Februar oeffnen die Athener Designbüros wieder ihre Pforten und zeigen dem Publikum eigens für dieses Event gestaltete thematische...
Semesterausstellung an der HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd
Zum Abschluss des Wintersemesters 2011/12 lädt die Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd (HfG) am 10. und 11. Februar 2012 zur Semesterausstellung ein. Studierende aller Studiengänge zeigen an diesen beiden Tagen...
OKOLO: OKOLO Mollino
We’re big fans of hero worship here at It’s Nice That and all of us have our personal creative crushes. The fine team at Czech publisher OKOLO have taken that a step further in a bid to celebrate the life and work of ...
BAFTA Short Animation: Abuelas
“In a small apartment in Buenos Aires, an old woman eagerly awaits the birth of her grandchild…” an innocuous beginning to an animated testimonial of a woman who is forced to wait for over 30 years to be a grandmother...
Drei sehenswerte Ausstellungen in Paris
Von Jean-Paul Goude bis Pierre di SciulloIn Paris sind z.Zt drei sehenswerte Ausstellungen: die Retrospektive des Fotografen Jean-Paul Goude im Musée des Arts Decoratifs (beim Louvre) und zwei kleine Ausstellungen, ei...
Fragen an Illustratoren: Martina Wember
Wie war dein Einstieg in die Branche und was war dein erster Job?Ausgangspunkt waren meine Zeichenbücher »Beziehungsweise Linien« und »Beziehungsreicher Alltag«. Mit Zeichnungen aus beiden Büchern wurde ich vorgestell...
In Graphics
Kürzlich flatterte mir die dritte Ausgabe des In Graphics Magazins auf den Schreibtisch, ein Magazin über Infografiken gemacht von Leuten, die sich mit der Materie wirklich gut auskennen: den Infografikern von Golden ...
Wolfgang Tillmans: 3 Vols.
Those familiar with Wolfgang Tillman’s photographs will be aware of his status as metaphorical anvil on which other, newer artist-photographers choose to sharpen themselves up against. Published by TASCHEN, Tillman’s ...
Avengers Initiative
...heres a comic book illustrations I did for Marvel way back 2008 for the Avengers Initiative Secret Invasion.
Felix Scheinberger über die Angst vor der Skizze und das Arbeiten als Illustrator
Felix Scheinberger lebt und arbeitet als Illustrator in Berlin, er ist stellvertretender Vorsitzender der Illustratoren Organisation und unterrichtet Zeichnen und Illustration an der FH Münster. Zudem ist er Autor der...
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2011
Nur noch elf Monate bis Weihnachten und noch immer nicht das letzte Jahr reflektiert? Nun, typografisch schon, aber auch ein privater Jahresrückblick muss sein. So denn.Es war äußerst aufregend: Nach 5 Minuten Vater e...
Maryanne Casasanta
Through photography, performative gestures and temporary installations, I rearrange objects, alter their function, attempt to forge new connections between them, or simply take their portrait. My practice is engaged w...
Gunter Dueck über das Aussterben von Berufen und Veränderungen in der Arbeitswelt
Prof. Dr. Gunter Dueck – bekannt als »The Wild Duck« – ist Querdenker, ehemaliger Chief Technology Officer von IBM Deutschland, begeisteter Blogger, Sprecher und Autor. Vor seiner Karriere bei IBM war er Professor für...
Pringle of Scotland Animation by David Shrigley
Pringle of Scotland has commissioned artist David Shrigley to create a humorous short animated film about life behind-the-scenes at Pringle to celebrate the brands return to Milan Fashion Week.The animation, showcased...
Scarygirl
Art Director Brought onboard specifically for the Art/Creative Direction of Scarygirl. Working collaboratively with lead artists, designers, developers and producers to drive and support the artistic vision through al...
Whats On: Leandro Erlich
Leandro Erlich has gone done it again_- entered us into the set-like imaginings of his new perspectives. The artist is a master of illusionary artifices, fake windows, corridors, lift shafts and one uncanny swimming p...
Nancy Fouts
The work of Nancy Fouts smells like popcorn in a pool hall, sounds like the beating of butterfly wings and looks like something you might find in a wizard’s medicine cupboard. This brilliant photographer can flip your...
The new Vimeo
Vimeo is working on a totally redesigned, all-new, super-improved version of Vimeo — and they want you to help them try it out.
Joel Evey
Urban Outfitters have been making some very high quality catalogues for a while now, and it turns out that’s mainly down to Joel Evey being their print art director. A man with his finger in an unreal amount of intern...
Premios Nacionales de Diseño 1987-2006
Catalogue for an exhibition marking the 25th anniversary of the National Design Prizes (PND). The exhibition was intended to showcase the culture of design and contrast it with the design culture propagated by the med...
Will Adler
It is sometimes enough to like something simply because it looks good. Context and concept are important – who could argue? – but now and then work that provokes a purely visceral reaction is all that’s needed. Will A...
FM Clog Font Family
FM Clog Font Family, the Fontmaker type foundry.Designed in 2010 by Jordan jelev and Vassil Kateliev KarandashReleased in 2011, Copyright The Fontmaker 2011.
The New Design Museum
I have put on record (if by record you mean Twitter) how much I adore the Design Museum and had some reservations about its move to Kensington High Street planned for 2014. But any doubts were blown away this morning ...
20+1. Ein Vergleich von ausgewählten serifenlosen Schriften der letzten zwanzig Jahre
Im Rahmen des »Jahreskurses Typografie« (tgm München), geleitet von Rudolf Paulus Gorbach, entstand eine Studie über den Vergleich von ausgewählten serifenlosen Schriften der letzten zwanzig Jahre. Für jedes Jahr eine...
Adam Smith/Marcus Lyall: Dont Think
So many elements come together to create an unforgettable dance music event that trying to capture the experience on film has always felt fairly futile…until now. Director Adam Smith used 20 cameras to capture the Che...
100 beste Plakate 11
Einreichungs-Deadline am 30.1.2012Bedingt durch die neuartige, zweistufige Auswahl endet der Registrierungszeitraum zum aktuellen Wettbewerb der 100 besten Plakate bereits in wenigen Tagen am 30.1.2012.Bereits vorgeno...
Werkschau – FH Bielefeld
Dieses Wochenende zeigen über 40 Absolventen der Fachhochschule Bielefeld, Fachbereich Gestaltung, ihr Abschlussarbeiten aus den Bereichen zeitgenössische Fotografie, Grafikdesign und Mode.Pressetext: Die Ausstellungs...
Fragen an Illustratoren: Finna Leibenguth
Wie war dein Einstieg in die Branche und was war dein erster Job?Mein Einstieg war eher zufällig – wobei ich ja nicht an Zufälle glaube. Ich hatte Visuelle Kommunikation an der Akademie für Bildende Künste Maastricht ...
Josh Goot
Eye-popping stuff here from Josh Goot. Apparently he first got into fashion when his mum let him try on dresses in shops as a kid. Well, good thing she did because his creations are some of the most exciting ready-to-...
Josh Goot
Eye-popping stuff here from Josh Goot. Apparently he first got into fashion when his mum let him try on dresses in shops as a kid. Well, good thing she did because his creations are some of the most exciting ready-to-...
Web of Stories: Quentin Blake
There are some people in this world – reality TV stars, ex-partners, racists – who you literally never want to hear from but there are others who you never want to stop talking. For many of us, the iconic illustration...
BLUE1 Premium
Blue1 wanted to increase their sales by building a new brand platform Blue1 Premium to help business travelers enjoy their trip, with the advantages of Business Class but without high cost. A custon typeface Spectre W...
Featured illustrator: Yuko Shimizu
Japanese artist Yuko Shimizu’s world is totally amazing. Discover more of her illustrative work on her website, make sure you also don’t miss her blog.
Get your installation of WordPress for free
We are glad to share our latest website: Setup WP. The service gives you a free WordPress setup if you get your hosting from one of the site’s partners.The free service includes the installation of WordPress core, a p...
Disney Joy Division t-shirt?
Weird news of the day: Disney is actually selling a Mickey Mouse t-shirt inspired by Joy Division’s “Unknown Pleasures” album, via their Disney Store. Are they pandering to hipster parents at the cost of their brand i...
Air Vases
The Japanese studio Torafu Architects designed 2 new versions of their air vases: Gradation and Cube. Those 2 patterns are printed on both sides of paper disks, which are cut so the user can simply pull them into the ...
Typographic Revolt
The folks at HypeForType approached graphic designer Ryan Atkinson to produce their first magazine, Typographic Revolt. The mag acts as a showcase for their typeface collection and is A2 sized with a twist. Instead of...
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Swissted
Was hat roher und wilder Punk Rock mit sachlicher und kühler Schweizer Typografie gemein? Richtig, nichts! Verbindet man aber sehr unterschiedliche Kontextgebiete, so kann mitunter etwas sehr Spannendes entstehen. So ...
Hannah Starkey, 29 pictures
Images should tell a story, they are a lingering snippet of time, that leaves the viewer questioning, what has just happened? What is about to happen? Why are these people there? What are they doing? Is the compositio...
Toerisme Vlaanderen: Stop Motion
When Toerisme Vlaanderen asked us to make a short animation we where excited and we had the wildest ideas. However our happiness was short when they said we only had one week to get the job done... The result you can ...
Whats On: Scotts Last Expedition
Even if you think you know about Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s last expedition to Antarctica, it’s quite different to see the artefacts – the letters and journal entries, the boots, aluminium slitted sun goggles and s...
Manvsmachine: More 4 identity
The race to win the right to rebrand More 4 was a competitive one, but Manvsmachine’s vibrant new design unveiled today looks to be a great choice. Based on a logo featuring multi-coloured triangles which flip like pa...
Romain Laurent: LHorizon
It’s easy to forget now, but in the 1960s surfing had a much more symbolic role than it does today, as a repudiation of the stuffy, conformist world of the post war generation –the idea of throwing off social norms an...
Letman and Gijs Frieling for Dries Van Noten: Fall 2012 Menswear
Aiming for “psychedelic elegance”, the Van Noten team drew on the countercultural legacy of Frank Zappa and the enduring elegance of Oscar Wilde. We think they’ve pulled it off with a catwalk collaboration involving o...
Jean Jacques Peters 1941–2012
After battling a very aggressive cancer for over a year, yesterday evening my father chose to not let his illness have the last word. I feel very fortunate that we live in a civilized, humane country, where a person a...
Bleisatz Video Tutorial
Entstanden 2011 im Zuge der Einrichtung einer Bleisatzwerkstatt und dem Seminar “Bleisatz – Hand und Werk” des Lehrbeauftragten Dipl. Des. Tobias Jochinke M.A. an der FH Düsseldorf. Videoproduktion: Lukas Loss & Roman...
Concrete Misplot Houses
Featured in swiss architectural magazine Hochparterres Raumtraum section, these visualizations of future architectures search for the accidental in computer driven manufacturing processes.Based on iconic housing shape...
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Premiered to a rapturous reception at the Sundance Film Festival last night, Alison Klayman’s remarkable portrait of the man dubbed “the Beijing Andy Warhol” is an up close and personal of this extraordinary artist/ac...
Hommage
Unter dem Titel »Hommage« findet an der Hochschule Darmstadt, Fachbereich Gestaltung, von Studierenden des Faches »Entwurf I« eine 2-tägige Ausstellung statt. Eine Hommage an die Werke “Throwing Three Balls in the Ai...
20things 2011 That Happened On The Internet
Syzygy startet heute ein Kunstprojekt mit dem Namen »20things«, das als eine Art künstlerische Aufarbeitung des Jahres 2011 betrachtet werden kann. Dabei wurden 20 Webereignisse und -phänomene herausgepickt, die uns i...
Verantwortung gestalten: Respekt und Übermut
Vom 2. bis 9. Februar findet in München die Munich Creative Business Week statt, die einige sehr interessante Veranstaltungen beinhaltet. Eine ist die Konferenz »Verantwortung gestalten: Respekt und Übermut«, die a...
Noemie Goudal
The pull of Noemie Goudal’s installation-photographs is, for me, the same as CS Lewis’ Narnia myth – the idea that an unexpected place might conceal a passage to another, infinitely more lovely world – a waterfall in ...
BAFTA Short Animation: A Morning Stroll
A Morning Stroll is in the process of taking one big sweep of awards from worldwide film festivals and now it’s been nominated for a BAFTA. Directed by Grant Orchard of Studio AKA, the film shows a New Yorker taking h...
The 2012 BAFTA Short Animations
The awards season is in full swing after last week’s Golden Globes, and with the BAFTAs and the Oscars set to hand out their gongs (and entertainment journalists everywhere to be invited on the real news for a few nig...
Robert Hardgrave
More drawings by Robert Hardgrave. I didn’t realise he had a flickr full of these things!
Daughter / The Wild Youth
The vocal fragility of Daughter (Elena Tonra) is not to be confused with meekness. It takes guts to sing earnestly, and for this 21 year old songwriter, it can be gut-wrenching. Sparse arrangements make her voice soun...
Gibson by Canada Type
The Gibson font family hits the right spot for many people and on many levels. It is a humanist sans serif typeface designed by eminent Canadian type designer Rod McDonald, and produced by Patrick Griffin and Kevin Ki...
the Institute of Savage Archives
©åbäkeThe Institute of Savage ArchivesThis exhibition will feature over thirty contemporary works of art, all offering an original and singular archiving system, in form as well as content. The idea is to go beyond th...
Self-promotional poster by PupilPeople
594mm x 841mm90gsm Recypal1-colour offset print + glow-in-the-dark screen printShips in poster tubesAvailable over at PupilPeople.
Fragen an Illustratoren: Anne Lück
Wie war dein Einstieg in die Branche und was war dein erster Job?Meinen Einstieg habe ich zum einen Menschen, die mich gut beraten haben, zu verdanken, und Illustratoren, die mich inspirierten. Erstere sind Dozenten m...
Aus Erfahrung gut ... Vortrag mit ABC (Alexandra B. Cooper)
Am 28. Januar 2012 findet im Buchstabenmuseum ein Vortrag von ABC, Alexandra B. Cooper, statt. Sie ist seit 2009 Assistentin im Buchstabenmuseum und Studentin der Kunstgeschichte an der Humboldt-Universität, Berlin. ...
BRINK #2 Call for entries
Für die zweite Ausgabe von BRINK – Magazin zwischen Kunst und Wissenschaft kann man ab jetzt bis zum 19.02.2012 zum Thema »Sprung« Artworks (Fotografie, Malerei, Skulptur, Architektur, Installation, Illustration, Coll...
Dan Brereton & David Maclean: Default
Default is a collaboration between top-notch music video director Dan Brereton and drummer of Django Django, David Maclean for the band’s latest single. 4,000 plus frames of individually printed out and hand-painted f...
The Lost Lectures
Over the past couple of years something odd has happened in London. The city’s inhabitants have defied their caricature as surly, cynical and self-interested and shown instead a remarkable thirst for knowledge. The la...
Designkrefeld Werkschau 2012/01
In der Vergangenheit haben wir viel gelernt, erlebt, verdaut, gezaubert und geschaffen – durchkämpft, verflucht und verwirklicht. Jetzt stellen wir eine Vorstellung von Design aus, die uns geformt hat, während wir ihr...
Typographic Revolt - HypeForType Typefaces
Greetings, Comrades. Good design and proper use of Type are under attack. In this Direct Mailer for Type foundry HypeForType.com, we instigated a typographic revolt, a rallying cry to all Type and their users to take ...
DC Comics logo re-design
The recent re-design of the DC Comics’ logo was received with a lot of hate. I don’t really understand the reasons for hating it, as I find it quite successful. I like the simple version of the logo, but it the brandi...
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Okumura Akio exhibition by UMA/design
Exhibition design: Experience, Communication[Okumura Akio and works]@ddd gallery, Osaka JapanJanuary 18 – March 8, 2012UMA/design farm designed an exhibition of graphic designer Mr.Akio Okumura. Contents is his 40 yea...
Ein Fahrrad – ein Jahr.
Was passiert wenn man ein Fahrrad, ein Jahr lang abstellt und davon jeden Tag ein Foto macht? Eine schöne kurzweilige Geschichte über das Leben eines Fahrrads. (via Kraftfuttermischwerk) Ähnliche Beiträge:Statistiken ...
Bookshelf: Mark Mulroney
Mark Mulroney is an artist who collages, paints, sculpts and draws a brilliant and weird cartoon-like world. He is also an avid collector and sketchbook compiler –referencing throughout his work the strange and sexual...
Designs of the Year 2012: Travel
Sometimes we like to try and surprise our readers, but sometimes you can read us like a book (a good book, something like Bravo Two Zero by Andy McNab). The transport category at the 2012 Designs of the Year is filled...
The Usual Suspects
Free project to experiment a bit with characters and certain techniques of painting and drawing ...
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Vorwerk – Stadt der Milben
Diesen Werbespot hätte ich einer deutschen Firma nun nicht zugetraut. Vorwerk begeistert in einem aktuellen Werbespot mit einer Mikroskop-Stadt. Eine Stadt die am wachsen ist und dann durch eine Naturkatastrophe (ein ...
Crusoe
Commissioned work by Black Swan Life for Crusoe (Jagannath Textile Company Limited). Extreme Sports Designer Innerwear.
Things
You can never have too much of a good thing. But can you ever have too much of a good Things ? Naww. This week we brings you – drum roll – a photography special! Well, aside from one incredible collection of a Polish ...
Neu: Previiew
Portal zeigt die Top-Kreativen der Fotobranche auf einem BlickSeit vergangenem Donnerstag gibt es mit Previiew eine neue Internetplattform, die renommierten Kreativen aus der internationalen Fotobranche eine eigene Bü...
Designs of the Year 2012: Product Design
The Designs of the Year product design category brings together an incredible range of projects under one shortlist-y roof, with everything from the Olympic Torch to wireless headphones represented. But in terms of sh...
MUSE Magazine
Its a project in collaboration with Creative Director Doug Lloyd from Lloyd&co. Im responsible of all creative graphic sector of the magazine, from the project, to the development of layouts, and promotional material ...
SHOP magazine covers
Cover illustrations for SHOP magazine. Commissioned by Studio 8 Design and Global Blue. The brief was to try to convey a sense of place with fashion and luxury goods.Limited-edition prints of this work are available a...
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Native Union - POP phone - VoIP handset - 2009
Project: Design of a line of handsets to be used with a mobile phone or as a VoIP phone.
Tabletto
Das typografische Spiel Wer zur Eröffnung des Grafikdesignmuseums in Breda (NL) vor Ort war, der hat Tabletto vielleicht schon einmal gesehen – dort war es nämlich das offizielle, exklusive Eröffnungsgeschenk.Tabletto...
New Release: Abril Display Black
One of TypeTogethers latest releases, the Abril type family, keeps growing. We added two new fonts to the display part of this successful typeface. Abril Display Black and Abril Display Black Italic grant yet a bolder...
The Weekender
All right stop, collaborate and listen. The Weekender’s back with my brand new invention. Something grabs a hold of me tightly, flows like a harpoon daily and nightly.Will it ever stop? Yo, I don’t know, turn off the ...
Whats On: Nike Make It Count 2012
For a major sports brand like Nike, 2012 represents a massive opportunity to capitalise on the sporting drama ready to be played out at the Olympics and the European football championships. But although the summer wil...
Sam Griffin: The Olduvai Cliff
We get some unusual invites here at It’s Nice That but a sound installation aimed at tackling the January blues, based on apocalyptic visions and neolithic communal experiences? You’ve charmed me. We spoke to artist S...
Felix Scheinberger über die Angst vor der Skizze und das Arbeiten als Illustrator
Felix Scheinberger lebt und arbeitet als Illustrator in Berlin, er ist stellvertretender Vorsitzender der Illustratoren Organisation und unterrichtet Zeichnen und Illustration an der FH Münster. Zudem ist er Autor der...
Selected C
WorkshopsVom 23.03. bis 24.03. findet die bereits dritte Selected Designkonferenz in Bilbao statt, die vom spanischen Verlag Index Book organisiert wird. Neben der 2-tägigen Konferenz wird es auch wieder acht spannend...
Ill-Studio: Lemonade
We’ve previously lauded Ill-Studio for their considered concept design and unquenchable thirst for genre-blending, and we’ve caught them at it again! This time it’s a music video for Lemonade, the latest collaboration...
Ankündigung: Call for Entries für das POLADARIUM 2013
Ab 1. Februar 2012Das Poladarium-Team lädt alle Fotografen und Freunde des Sofortbilds herzlich ein, ihre Fotos für das POLADARIUM 2013 einzureichen. Der Call for Entries startet am 1. Februar 2012 auf
Whats On: Renee So at Kate MacGarry Gallery
There’s something surprisingly human about Renee So’s work. Currently perched in front of a series of the artist’s knitted portraits at the Kate MacGarry Gallery, So’s sculptures aren’t just works on plinths but frien...
Funky Experimental Typographic Poetry In Flickermood
The weekend is upon us, and I am feeling in a strangely funky mood today – not that I have any reason to. I thought I’d throw an animated typography classic at you. Type designer and MA Typeface Design alumnus from th...
Promotion Trailer Criminal Minds
Es gibt Videos, die nun nicht wirklich mit viel Inhalt begeistern können. Die dafür aber sehr genial gemacht sind. Dieser Promotion Trailer der Serie Criminal Minds ist sicher einer davon. Ein wenig UV Licht, weiße Sc...
Designs of the Year 2012: Graphics
Of all the Designs of the Year categories, it is graphics that has a special place closest to our collective heart. Quietly, sophisticatedly standing out are the AA Files by John Morgan Studio – a continued series of ...
Sido vs Raubkopierer
Eine Spezialversion des Filmes „Blutbrüdaz”, welche zum Filmstart in typischer Filmlänge nur über Download-Portale erhältlich war.Made by Scholz & Friends.
RFLKT – Hybrid
»RFLKT ist die Chance, den Reflex des Abschaltens zu umgehen« – so steht es auf der Webseite des Magazins für Kunst RFLKT. Vor Kurzem ist die zweite Ausgabe mit dem Titel Hybrid erschienen, die die Fotoarbeiten von Kl...
Sandwich Artist
“Sandwich Artist”, sandwiches by Brittany Powell as part of her Low-Commitment Projects with Tae Kitakata. This Mondrian sandwich is particularly amazing.
Stan - a contrasted slabserif
De Pinte, Belgium - January 12, 2012Ten years ago, one would have hardly believed that slab serifs would regain the popularity they enjoy today, or that they would again occupy such a commanding position in the design...
ARCHIZINES in Milan
ARCHIZINES exhibitionFrom photo-copied and print-on-demand newsletters such as Another Pamphlet, Scapegoat and Preston is My Paris, to magazines such as Mark, Spam and PIN-UP – ARCHIZINES celebrates and promotes the r...
FERNAND BAUDIN PRIZE – AWARDS 2011
The Fernand Baudin Prize – Awards 2011The Fernand Baudin Prize has been initiated by several graphic artists-teachers who work in the book world.The Prize wishes to privilege above all the singular points of view of s...
Interview with La Blogotheque’s Derrick Belcham
Working in music the last few years, I’ve had the chance to collaborate with some rad people behind the scenes: filmmakers, engineers, graphic designers, writers – those individuals whose art it is to facilitate art. ...
Mari Kanstad Johnsen
I barely know where to begin – Mari’s illustration is like a party where the dress code is eyeballs. Her style is so discernible it’s as if we can see inside her head, and her head is being used as a basket to carry m...
Ben Woodeson
I don’t quite know what this says about me, but the art I really like is the kind of thing my dad would think is utterly banal. However, seeing as I haven’t transformed into my dad (yet), Ben Woodeson’s work fills my ...
TYPOGRAPHIC REVOLT (EDITION #1)
In an effort to bring our Exclusive Faces range to a larger audience, we approached graphic designer Ryan Atkinson to produce our first magazine release. The brief was to produce a 16 page A2 mailer with a twist. Inst...
OPTILABS 2012 // The Cubes Pack
New series of Opti//Labs works done during this year. Ive developed different series based on different geometric concepts, as waves, circles, and cubes. This is about CUBES.
Aizone FW11 Campaign
Art Direction & design for the Spring / Summer advertising campaign for Aizone, a luxury department store in the Middle East. Models were body painted in typographic sentences Forget Regret The Time is Now and Talk Le...
GRID-IT! Organizer
GRID-IT! technology developed by Orange22 Design Lab is currently licensed in over 200 products from housewares, to home office, outdoor adventure, automotive, consumer electronics, boating, cosmetics and many others....
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Hans G. Conrad: HfG Ulm
AisleOne reader, René, was kind enough to write in to share his collection of photos taken by Hans G. Conrad, the first student at the Ulm School of Design / Hochschule für Gestaltung HfG Ulm. Conrad passed away sever...
FontFont Focus: FF Good, FF More, FF Best!
One of the things the FontFont library is known for are its extensive type families that cross type classifications. The jury is still out whether we should call them super families or type systems, but one thing is s...
Volkswagen – The Bark Side
Anfang Februar finden überraschenderweise erneut die Werbefilmfestspiele mit sportlichen Rahmenprogramm – landläufig auch als Super Bowl bekannt – statt. Und wie jedes Jahr werden hierfür “schwere Geschütze” aufgefahr...
Resonate – Belgrade New Media Festival, 16-17 March 2012
I rarely announce events here on today and tomorrow but “Resonate – Belgrade New Media Festival” might be something you’re interested to attend. It’s a 2 day festival in Belgrade, Serbia, taking place 16-16 March 2012...
LE.View Mit Tom Thiele
LE.View ist eine Interviewreihe aus der Stadt Leipzig. Ich möchte euch in unregelmäßigen Abständen Menschen aus meiner Heimatstadt Leipzig vorstellen, die für mich kreativ und interessant erscheinen. Tom beobachte ich...
Nike + Fuelband: Counts
To mark the release of the Nike Fuelband – an interactive wristband which promises to motivate even the most confirmed couch potato – this just-released video splices together a heap of much-loved sporting and pop-cul...
Whats On: Zarina Bhimji
Purveyors of the best in often under-shown contemporary art for over a century, I trust the Whitechapel Gallery to turn me on to things the way I trust my own mother to love me (most days). So with notebook in hand an...
tgm @ Munich Creative Business Week
Dieses Jahr beteiligt sich die tgm mit einem breiten, eigenen Angebot auf der MCBW, der Munich Creative Business Week. Internationale Sprecher, die das Jahresthema »Respekt und Übermut« verdichten, sprechen am zusätzl...
Monotype Imaging and Google Collaborate to Make Web Fonts Better
Monotype Imaging’s Fonts.com Web Fonts team and Google have been brainstorming ways to make Web fonts better.Looking to reduce Web font file sizes, the Google Web Fonts team began working closely with Monotype to disc...
Sabadì
Sabadì is a brand that mainly focuses, since its birth, to eatables that have a magic inside.The first product that came out of this brand is a cioccolato di Modica, a typical sicilian way of making chocolate,in this ...
Picador Anniversary Editions
Like a seasonal change of clothes, our favourite books are subject for a nice new look every once in a while. Marking the occasion of Picador reissuing 12 modern classics for their 40th birthday , their senior designe...
Licht an!
Vom Social Web auf die gotische Fassade: Seit diesem Donnerstag können Facebook-Nutzer auf der Seite »Licht an! Für Deinen Traum« der Konstanzer Studiengänge Kommunikationsdesign ihren Traum für die Zukunft posten. Do...
Keith Schofield: The Bark Side
Sometimes we spend a while researching our posts, sweating over exactly the right wording to present creative work in all its glory. Sometimes though, we simply need to say what we see. The ever-brilliant Keith Schofi...
Steve Bishop: As If You Could Only Kill Time Without Injuring Eternity
Only 29 and already an established man-on-the-scene, Canadian born Steve Bishop made a name for himself by exhibiting some pretty alarming taxidermy sculptures. He’s since graduated to something altogether more palata...
Meek FM
Video Typographic SynthesizerAnlässlich der Ausstellung Type and Sound 2 bei Letter Are My Friends (Berlin) kann man nun die Dokumentation des Meek FM Typographic Synthesizer bestaunen. Er wurde entwickelt von Rob Mee...
Winco Family
Neu bei ReTypeNeu erschienen bei ReType ist die Winco Schriftfamilie, gestaltet von Ramiro Espinoza. Winco kann man als humanistische Sans-Serif bezeichnen. Ihre Wurzeln kommen aus den in Stein gemeißelten Formen, die...
Lernert & Sander: The New Shades of Kenzo
We are no strangers to Lernert & Sander who are the purveyors of a very idiosyncratic brand of creative curiosity. They have just completed a very short short for fashion brand Kenzo who are set to release their first...
Designs of the Year 2012: Furniture
This year’s Designs of the Year furniture selections are an impressive bunch, but the most mind-blowing comes from Yuya Ushida, whose XXXX sofa looks a bit like your living room’s worst nightmare – black, spiky, and f...
Matthew Dear + Jonny Pierce
“In The Middle (I Met You There)” by Matthew Dear, featuring Jonny Pierce from The Drums. Can anyone tell me how they achieved this fantastic painterly effect?Watch the music video below!
Its Nice That Selfridges Talks Series – Words as Images
After the sell-out success of the first talk, we’re chuffed to announce details about the second talk in the series, featuring Fraser Muggeridge, Sara Fanelli and Why Not Associates. They’ll be examining the relations...
Salazar for Lifetime
Salazar for Lifetime Collective. Score by Edo Van Breemen. Iceland.Watch the video below!
Dead Astronauts (Branding)
A 4 artist collaboration to promote my band; Dead Astronauts. Featuring Glenn Arthur, Pavel Paratov, Filip Komorowski & Jared K. Nickerson.
Tock Tock / Giveaway
Sara Spence makes these nice little custom Tock Tock clocks and she’s letting me give one away! So who wants it?
Amy Baker
Love this photo Amy Baker took in Korea! I saw it floating around on tumblr, tracked it back to my friend Katie’s blog thank you, ok, and had to post it!
Hixsept SS12 Variations
With typical panache, French clothing brand Hixsept have just released their Spring/Summer collection – a well-crafted selection of contemporary menswear inspired, the brand says, by the common desire to “get away fro...
Art & Graft: Spectrum
This charming short animation follows the story of Spectrum an organisation which works with autistic people and their families in the UK. Art and Graft’s Mike Moloney admits he and his team were “swept away by their ...
Hocus Pocus : Twilight in My Mind
©officeabcHocus Pocus : Twilight in My Mindd’Alexandra Midal Le film Hocus Pocus rend hommage au réjouissant livre De l’assassinat considéré comme l’un des beaux-arts (1827) de Thomas de Quincey. Il y inventa la « Soc...
New Portraits from the Road
New portraits of interesting characters that I met on a road trip across the Western US in the Summer of 2011. I used the power of the internet to meet most of these subjects and some of them were strangers that I app...
919 DAILY DESIGN NEWS AM 18.01.2012
Stupid American Government
Ok, it’s all over the internet so you hardly need to hear it from us, but as the Design is Kinky sites are hosted on US based servers we’d like to urge all American viewers to protest against the SOPA bill. Even littl...
LE.View Mit Tom Thiele
LE.View ist eine Interviewreihe aus der Stadt Leipzig. Ich möchte euch in unregelmäßigen Abständen Menschen aus meiner Heimatstadt Leipzig vorstellen, die für mich kreativ und interessant erscheinen. Tom beobachte ich...
SUPERSTUDIO/backstage
SUPERSTUDIO/backstageThe exhibition documents Superstudio activity from 1966 to 1978 with a series of photographic images from the Toraldo di Francia archive, which documents research activity that stretched the bound...
Jessica Hische
It was no coincidence that when we posted about Wes Anderson’s new film we chose an image which included the lovely titles created by Jessica Hirsche. It was only a little later we realised that for some ridiculous re...
The Feeling of things
The collective exhibition The Feeling of Things takes as its point of departure the work and spirit of the inventor, artist, designer, writer, illustrator, graphic designer and teacher, Bruno Munari, “a Peter Pan with...
I Believe I Can Fly
Es gibt Videos, da bekommt man den Mund nicht mehr zu. Bei diesen Trailer zu dem Film I Believe I can Fly ( flight of the frenchies) kochen bei mir enorme Schwindelgefühle hoch. Atemberaubend und genial in Szene geset...
Quentin Jones
It’s no secret how terrific Quentin Jones is, and we celebrated her talents last year with this video for Chanel. But a recent romp through the illustration/mixed media part of her portfolio compelled us to post the C...
Der Greif #5
Das Magazin für Fotografie und LiteraturNeu erschienen ist die fünfte (Jubiläums-) Ausgabe von DER GREIF. Das Magazin über Fotografie und Literatur ist großformatig, auf mattem Papier gedruckt, und bietet auf 100 Seit...
Sat1.de Relaunch
Fast ein Jahr lang hat ein Team von rund 50 Beteiligten das neue Gesicht der Seite, ein neues Konzept und eine neue Technik erarbeitet.
Robert Beatty
The work of contemporary illustrator and musician (Hair Police, Burning Star Core, Three Legged Race) Robert Beatty takes visual cues from a legacy of progressive 12 inch art, neon meta-scapes, oblique life-forms and ...
Articulada.cc
The result of Articulada is modular source consisting of three different parts and a marriage offering excellent readability and connected with the special support of the AACD and the aesthetics of their children.
Automata
Automata are mechanical objects endowed with life by ingenious means.This rewindable object is made from wood.The cubes rotate around their axes as they are powered by 100 gears.
Paula Scher: Sundance Film Festival Identity
Graphic design clients come in all shapes and sizes, but we’d wager that working for Robert Redford egenrates a special kind of buzz (“Hi Robert, loved you in Indecent Proposal. Now about that typeface…”). Pentagram’s...
Typo 2 – Ausstellung Visuelle Kommunikation
Studierende des Studiengangs Visuelle Kommunikation haben sich in den vergangenen Monaten mit dem Thema Schrift und Typografie beschäftigt und zeigen dazu eine Ausstellung von Samstag, 21. Januar, bis Dienstag, 24. Ja...
opusBOU: El Empleo
In uncertain economic times, our struggle to find meaningful, full-time work can often make us feel like we’re scrambling over one another for that all-important opportunity. This melancholic Argentine film, directed ...
Designs of the Year 2012: Fashion
Don’t label this the frivolous category – 2012’s world of fashion is bursting at the seams (har har) with creative innovation. We were excited the Late-Night Chameleon Cafe picked up a nomination for their architectur...
PROTEST / SOPA and PIPA
Unless you’ve been living under a rock you have heard that the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that will destroy the free and open Internet we have today. The SOPA (Stop Internet Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect...
London Art Fair 2012
We were invited for a sneak peak at the 24th London Art Fair yesterday, where more than 100 galleries were gearing up for five fast and furious days jostling for the attention of the thousands of visitors expected to ...
Valuco
Font DesignAesthetic Apparatus ist eine kleine Drei-Mann-Agentur in Minneapolis mit Spezialisierung auf Grafik-Design und Siebdruck. 2008 produzierten sie eine limitierte Siebdruck-Edition von Fensterschildern für ein...
Bela Borsodi: The Expandables
Despite its name, it’s striking how often still life-work can seem devoid of any sense of energy or essence, so step forward Bela Borsodi The New York-based photographer brings a vivacious sense of fun to her work whi...
Vaheraslak
We found Vaheraslak (aka Emma Sheridan) through her artist profile over at Panther Club where she’s quoted describing her work as “tripped out uneasy feelings.” We can go with that – her pointillist style is a heavy l...
SP Book Sale
Just a little heads-up that we have a bit of an online garage sale for the 2011 Semi-Permanent books at the moment. Just $20/book + postage. Pretty good for a 200pg book full of awesome artwork. Click here to have a l...
CIOCCOLATO
Analysis Cioccolato is a pastry boutique specialized in custom deserts for special events. In the last couple of years, auteur pastries has grown considerably, which is why brand and product differentiation have becom...
A new website for Milton Glaser
Saul Bass title sequences
Saul Bass fans rejoice, a website has compiled every title sequences created by the iconic designer. Check it out there.
919 DAILY DESIGN NEWS AM 17.01.2012
Gemini typeface
Geometric typeface with a great amount of ligatures and combining possibilities.Gemini, which means twin in latin, is a reference to the letters that each has an extra line incorporated.
Cowbird
A simple tool for telling stories and a public library of human experience, showing the human moments behind the worlds overarching sagas.
EDITION LIDU announces CALL FOR ENTRIES: ART BOOKS WANTED
EDITION LIDU search for author’s books, graphic books, art comic strips, illustrated short stories, photo books, hand-printed books and other original book forms which haven’t been published yet or has been self-publi...
Stefan Kürten
Whether it be our caves, castles or bungalows, we humans tend to decorate our habitats with curious objects that, eventually, become commonplace. What Kürten’s work manages to do is recreate our places of leisure in g...
EXCLUSIVE FACES V5 REVEAL: EURICO SÁ FERNANDES
Fresh out of the starting blocks, Eurico is barely out of his teenage years. He is a great talent, albeit one you probably haven’t heard of yet. His youthful, invigorous style is threaded with fiery Portuguese notes a...
Matthew Rangel
I love cartography and the quality of maps, particularly old ones, for being both beautiful, precise images, but also holding a plethora of data. Studying architecture, I learnt to appreciate the art of mapping in all...
URW++ Fontforum auf facebook
»Du sollst ein Haus bauen, einen Sohn zeugen, einen Baum pflanzen« (alttestamentarisch) – oder einen Roman schreiben, ein Boot bauen, eine Schrift schaffen? Schriftgestalter fallen nicht vom Himmel, und die Motivatio...
Danke, Airbag – Von Jung von Matt/Alster
“Du warst immer da, wenn wir Dich gebraucht haben” – der Airbag bleibt auch weiterhin der sichere Begleiter in jeden Mercedes-Benz Fahrzeug, auch wenn wir ihn nicht mehr so häufig brauchen werden”
James Reeve: Lightscapes
For his latest project, acclaimed photographer James Reeve turns the lights down to present us with a series of arresting images of the metropolis by night. These glowing cityscapes, absolved of their connective tissu...
Soundmachines. An instrument for performing electronic music
An instrument for performing electronic musichttp://www.the-product.org/soundmachinesThree units, which are resembling standard record players, translate concentric visual patterns into control signals for further pro...
Student of the Month: Call for Submissions
Roll up, roll up – it’s that time of the month where we cast our minds to celebrating the best creative students working anywhere in the world. So if you’re the best young graphic designer in Greece, the best student ...
Ian Sailer
lan Sailer’s Flickr is a danger to your productivity. His photos depict the exact moment when a detonation mini-rig/pellet rifle he’s firing makes an everyday object explode and the high-speed flash he built in his ga...
frog design Gründer Hartmut Esslinger im HfG-Mittwochseminar
Unter dem Titel “Apple Snow White – Design mit Steve Jobs”, gibt es in Kürze einen Mittwochseminar an der HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd. Interessierte sind herzlich eingeladen.Aus dem Pressetext: »Sozial ausgeglichen, ökologis...
106 | Barrì Gotic
An apartment in Barcelona7 days of painting from the tapas bars of the Barrì GoticLives of people distracted, told in a tweet.
Milton Glaser: miltonglaser.com
Sometimes here at It’s Nice That HQ we squabble – over which sandwich shop is best or whether loud hip-hop creates an appropriate professional setting. But something we are united in is our reverence for Milton Glaser...
Designs of the Year 2012: Digital
We were thrilled to see Letter to Jane nominated in the Designs of the Year digital category. Editor Tim Moore creates his stand out iPad-only publication with a zine mentality and price-tag to match yet the editorial...
Wear Your Heart – Handbemalte Shirts von Ivylice
Ivylice ist eine kleine, aber feine Firma, aus Ravensburg, die sich zur Aufgabe gemacht hat, mehr Abwechslung in den Bekleidungsmarkt zu bringen. Das reicht von handbemalten Kleidungsstücken bis zu gedruckten Kollekti...
Ab jetzt Webseiten und Apps für den Grimme Online Award vorschlagen
Der Wettbewerb zum Grimme Online Award 2012 ist gestartet. Vom 15. Januar bis 15. März können Internetnutzer und Anbieter ihre Vorschläge einreichen. Erstmals können auch Apps eingereicht werden.
Ab jetzt Webseiten und Apps für den Grimme Online Award vorschlagen
Der Wettbewerb zum Grimme Online Award 2012 ist gestartet. Vom 15. Januar bis 15. März können Internetnutzer und Anbieter ihre Vorschläge einreichen. Erstmals können auch Apps eingereicht werden.
Linotype: The Film
Official Trailer Nach monatelangem Schnitt, ist “Linotype: The Film” nun endlich fertig. Einen offiziellen Trailer gibt es nun auch, der meine Vorfreude nur noch größer werden lässt.
Berlin Riesenbilderbuch von Judith Drews
Judith Drews ist eine international erfolgreiche Illustratorin. Gerade wurde sie ausgewählt 2012 auf der Kinderbuchmesse in Bologna auszustellen. Sie hat das Kind in sich bewahrt und den Spaß an ihrer Arbeit sieht man...
Letter “T” Made of 130 Plants
Garden designer Judy Kameon created this beautiful “T” for New York Times’ T Magazine using 130 plants.
Dezcom Typefaces is proud to announce the release of Dez Yinznat Stencil, a tough typeface with an industrial quality.
January 17, 2012.Dezcom Typefaces is proud to announce the release of Dez Yinznat Stencil, a tough typeface with an industrial quality.Dez Yinznat is a condensed stencil Opentype-savvy sans serif inspired by the indus...
Willis Earl Beal: Same Old Tears
You know those ridiculous, good-for-nothing hairs on the back of your neck? Well get ready for them to stand up in this unbelievably great video form Willis Earl Beal. The Chicago artist/singer/songwriter has a colour...
Little Joe
Little Joe calls itself a magazine about “queers and cinema, mostly”. It’s a little bit quirky, a little bit racey, and more than a little bit engrossing. The book-sized journal digests queer cinema with flair and ins...
Shane Morrissy: Vicious Dumbshow
Vicious Dumbshow is a website created by Irish artist Shane Morrissy. But what does it mean, Shane? What does it mean?! That Nancy Reagan and Vladimir Lenin have a mutual penchant for baked beans? That advancements in...
New authors
Today we’re adding 4 new contributors to the TSA roster. Chicago based Greg Anderson, Toronto based Laurie Kang, Venezuelan born/Brooklyn based Yker Moreno and Swedish born/Brooklyn based Peter Sunna. Welcome friends....
One Piece at a Time
“One Piece at a Time” is a project by Jonathan Brand. It’s a paper 3D version of a 1969 Ford Mustang which he used to have but had to sell to buy a diamond engagement ring. It’s almost as complete as the original, the...
Claudio Kirac
The ever inspired and inspiring Claudio Kirac is working on an upcoming exhibition, Dreamland – memory of a Journey. Opens Feb 23 through till Mar 6. Will be amazing.
919 DAILY DESIGN NEWS AM 16.01.2012
Journalisten Magazine
Redesign of exisiting magazine. Made as a school project at the School of Visual Communication.
Wunderkit Beta Walkthrough
Introducing Wunderkit – A place to organize all of life’s projects. Whether it’s a family vacation or something for the office, organize and accomplish anything imaginable with the help of your friends, family and col...
Paul Cocksedge Studio
In a world where creative projects are all too often viewed on computer screens, Paul Cocksedge Studio understands that scale matters. Paul and fellow Royal College of Art graduate Joana Pinho (the pair studied under ...
Benjamin Edmiston
Benjamin Edmiston’s compositions are fueled by the creation a familiar but askew world. Using a flat and decorative style, his fantastical settings are inhabited by ominous characters. Planes of floating heads, half-s...
Eye-Contact
They say that the mark of a good film is that if no matter when you pause it, the still image will always make a great photograph. Naturally, someone has picked up on this and made an impressively huge Tumblr of every...
Web Design Picks 12-2011
Erfahrungsgemäß tut sich im Dezember in punkto (Re)Launches weit weniger als in allen anderen Monaten. Und dennoch, auch im Dezember 2011 gab es die eine oder andere bemerkenswerte Neuerscheinung. Hier eine kurze Zusa...
Arabesque 2
Graphic Design from the Arab World and PersiaNeu erschienen bei gestalten ist Arabesque 2, der silber-glänzende Nachfolger von Arabesque.Arabesque 2 zeigt die neuesten Arbeiten von Grafik-Designern aus der arabischen ...
EXCLUSIVE FACES V5 REVEAL: ALEXANDER WRIGHT
Alexander possesses that rare thing in a young designer, a unique vision, combined with a creative take on things which he pours in abundance into his type, identity and printed work. Although he now lives in Venezuel...
Whats On: Metropolis II
With a landscape evocative of Fritz Lang’s film of the same name, Metropolis II by Chris Burden opened this weekend at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to a futuristically frenetic effect. The scale model city has...
Novel Sans Condensed
eine platzsparende Serifenlose und die neueste Veröffentlichung der Novel Schriftenfamilie Die umfangreiche Schriftenfamilie umfasst die Antiqua Novel, die serifenlose Novel Sans, die diktengleiche Novel Mono und nun ...
Brussels Sprout: Dubai Graphic Encyclopedia
Brussels Sprout is a free curatorial magazine, and boy oh boy, do they love Dubai. Publishing from the capital of the Persian Gulf coast itself, their first three issues are an homage to the city they call “the first ...
Venables Bell & Partners: Explore your World with Google Maps
Google has a good track record for realising their services in the real world with a certain panache – who can forget this superb Google Analytics in Real Life video – and the latest effort by continues that venerable...
Rotation Reflexion, Repetition, Repetition.
Mota Italic startet mit »Rotation Reflexion, Repetition, Repetition.« ins neue Jahr. In der Ausstellung werden 44 individuelle typografisch experimentelle Muster gezeigt, die von Studenten der Visuellen Kommunikation ...
MOODPROBE
»Klein aber fein« ist die passende Beschreibung für die diesjährige Ausstellung des Abschlussjahrganges der Lazi Akademie. Sechs Diplomandinnen und Diplomanden aus den Fachbereichen Film- und Mediendesign, Fotodesign...
4,748 Self-Portraits and Counting by Jeff Harris
Jeff Harris has taken a self-portrait everyday for the past 12 years. Now I have to admit when I first saw heard about this project I dismissed it as there are a lot of these projects going on, but when I finally got ...
Designs of the Year 2012: Architecture
John McAslan + Partners’ nomination this year shows that the restoration of an architectural and cultural landmark can be as important as the construction of a new one. They were responsible for maintaining the integr...
Designs of the Year 2012
Amid the usual fanfare, the Design Museum’s Designs of the Year 2012 shortlists was released late last week and it was great to see nods for some of the most established designers around, as well as a host of creative...
One Week In Japan
“One Week In Japan”, a 3-minute montage of nearly 4,000 photos shot by Mike Matas and his girlfriend as they travelled around Japan.Watch the video below!
We Are Fellows
Seit Sommer 2011 gibt es in Hamburg ein neues Kreativ-Studio. Schon damals wollte ich über We Are Fellows berichten, jedoch war es nach Absprache mit den beiden Gründern Malte Müller und Andreas Lexa sinnvoller erst b...
Jon Gray
If you’re not sure how or why you have walked out of a bookshop holding a book in a bag, then this is what has probably happened. You were in the shop, wondering if it would be quicker to do this on Amazon, then you s...
VODOU
The Vodou religion forbids the exposure of images and artifacts. Therefore we designed the letters V-O-D-O-U for the posters, brochures, website, tickets etc. Concept/Art-Direction/Design: Andre Toet - Photography: Ge...
Tom Scharpling: Easy
For Real Estate’s latest promo they’ve enlisted the help of sought-after American comedian Tom Scharpling – best known for his hilarious (nigh legendary) radio show The Best Show on WFMU. In his latest we follow the t...
50by70 II: American Sampler – The Art of Corita Kent
We had a lovely surprise last week when our printers PUSH brought by a volume of American Sampler – The Art of Corita Kent a collection of six large-format serigraphs in one beautiful box. This edition is the second c...
In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955
In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955In Numbers is a survey exhibition of the often-overlooked genre of serial publications produced by artists around the world from 1955 to the present day.From the ri...
MAGA atelier
MAGA atelier is a design studio in Lisbon, a collaboration of José Mendes, Luís Alvoeiro and Carlos Guerreiro.
BentWorld: CANS Artist Series
A new series of my BentWorld characters from Kidrobot. The BentWorld: CANS Artist Series features 9 awesome designs by some of the best toy and graf artists out there. Each comes blind boxed in Racked (new) and Spent ...
Fast food: ads vs reality
A cool side project by a photographer to expose the false promises of fast food advertisements. The project says a lot about advertisement, and maybe even more about fast food. Now I’ll wait for someone to go pick up ...
Job Post: Broadcast Designer [Sydney]
Fox International Channel, the operator of the National Geographic Channel and the new to launch FX entertainment channel is looking for an experienced Broadcast Designer to join their busy and energetic team. This ro...
919 DAILY DESIGN NEWS AM 15.01.2012
Hallenkunst in Chemnitz
Weve been invited to participate at the Hallenkunst Exhibition in Chemnitz alongside the likes of Kakao77, Sat One, Herakut, Mad C, Jukebox Cowboys, Warz, ECB, Doppeldenk, Caparso and many more! One month earlier we a...
The Future of Food
Cover illustration for Icon magazine 104, about the Future of Food. Inspired by 3D food printer technology.
Adelaida Font
Adelaida is a brand new handwritten font, designed in a light weight, uppercase, condensed style. OpenType Mac/Win Download. You can buy a desktop and the webfont version!
Black Transparency One (The Letters)
Black Transparency One (The Letters)A reading by Metahaven accompanied by images of their recent design work at Tensta konsthall.Transparency used to be a high modernist ideal, perfectly suited to design objects and i...
FC BARCELONA VINTAGE FOOTBALL CARDS
In 1871 the American company of Allen and Ginter began inserting pieces of card to protect the cigarettes from being damaged. It was not long before tobacco companies had the idea of printing advertisements on these c...
Bookshelf: Jim Stoten
Some things are not easy. Like looking up for a long time without blinking or making the leap of imagination to understand what place Jim Stoten’s characters could possibly arrive from – doubly hard then that the latt...
Disney Cruise Line - Magical Adventure Sweepstakes
This time we would like to share with you something different. Visual that weve created with Nomadic agency for Disney as an Interactive Board Game.You can see the game live at: http://disneycruiseadventure.com/
Stem spray
In industrial design, simple ideas are often the best. This little gadget makes getting lemon juice, or any other, much easier. The product isn’t commercialized yet, but you can help it on Quirky.
The Origins
The Origins is a collaborative project between six creatives, where they mix their knowledge and skills to manufacture a unique entertainment experience evolving to a real life product.
New release from astroluxtype: Spacepod
astroluxtypes Spacepod is a headline display font set. The font contains uppercase and lowercase letterforms with a minimum glyph set. Sold through Myfonts.com. The style suggests weird sci fi from the 1970s or ...
919 DAILY DESIGN NEWS AM 14.01.2012
GoldenRoach Invasion / 2011
I smuggled some gilt bronze cockroaches into Tate Modern, Tate Britain and British Museum, MUMOK (Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien).
Crazy fruits
Let me introduce you crazy fruit. At first glance, it is quite common fruits. Their distinctive feature is that they do not want to be eaten. They will plead you watch you with sad eyes, but do not believe them.
Things
So yesterday was Friday the 13th and perhaps we felt the weekend might be a bit, er… inauspicious? But fear not! Thingsis here and it’s your lucky day (just to get the obvious reference out of the way). But seriously ...
ScreenFonts: December 2011
My busy half year is about to kick in high gear. The first of my six presentations – one a month – is at the BNO Romeo Delta evening CUT! on Monday, January 23, at De Unie in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The evening is...
919 DAILY DESIGN NEWS AM 13.01.2012
Fish Face
A university project where I created the characters of the alphabet as illustrations of fish.
The Weekender
People often write in to ask questions of The Weekender. Who, what, when, why? Why??? This week we were thrilled to hear from Clive, aged 12, from Scotland who wrote in saying: “Hi Weekender, how do I get to write an ...
The Banana Question
New York, New York, Sonntag morgen – »I bet I cant find 100.000 people who know John Cale!« (fanpage,
Don Hertzfeld: Rejected
I saw a clip from Don Hertzfeld’s Rejected film yesterday and within hours I was quoting it to strangers. Though totally unaware of its cult status, all I knew was that I would have to say “I am a banana” every time I...
Image Direkt
Top Bilder für kleines BudgetImage Direkt ist eine Bildagentur, die als eigenständige Marke 2007 vom Markt verschwunden war und nun einen Neustart erlebt. Über 1,5 Millionen hochwertig produzierte Bilder (Fotos und ...
The Banana Question
velvetsNew York, New York, Sonntag morgen – »I bet I cant find 100.000 people who know John Cale!« (fanpage,
Mags we love – 2. Kölner Blattsalon
Zum zweiten Mal findet in Köln-Ehrenfeld die Ausstellung “Mags we love – 2. Kölner Blattsalon” im Rahmen der Passagen 2012 statt, präsentiert von ehrenfelder. Zu sehen gibt es die neue Ausgabe von ehrenfelder (#2), ei...
Dalian Museum Competition Design Concept / 10 Design
The planning museum is envisioned to be a new civic sculpture for the city located at the heart of the main the governmental district
Between Ten and Five
This week in Detroit I was lucky enough to meet a group of great arts and culture bloggers and going through the many business cards and Iinks collected it’s exhilarating to see how many amazing sites are out there. B...
Mike Meiré: Kommune, Kloster, Disziplin
2 oder 3 DingeArte Creative war im Rahmen des Projekts 2 oder 3 Dinge bei Mike Meiré und stellte sich folgende Fragen: Wie sehen die Räume und Bedingungen aus, unter denen Kreativität entsteht und ihren Ausdruck finde...
Guy Laramee
Lately Guy Laramee has found himself in the midst of a media storm thanks to the attention lavished on his book-sculptures, works of jaw-dropping craftsmanship that have subsequently ping-ponged around the Temple of F...
First Look 2012: International Animation Festivals
We tried to narrow it down to just one but, considering the world appears to be in the throws of a heated affair with all things animated, our task felt mighty . And then we thought hey, why consolidate when we can ce...
An interview with Kunihiko Okano
By Taro YumibaHow and when did you become interested in typography & type design?At university I majored in graphic design. I used to leaf through typeface catalogs in search of letters to use in my poster design assi...
Marian
Neue Schrift von Commercial TypeCommercial Type hat soeben Marian, die neue Schrift von Paul Barnes, veröffentlicht. Die Schrift verfolgt ein Konzept, welches die Schriftklassiker des typografischen Kanons, wie Austin...
Moonrise Kingdom
We finally get to see the trailer for Wes Anderson’s latest film “Moonrise Kingdom” and it does not disappoint! Jump over here to see it .
Cneai de Paris: 12 cartes blanches
12 sérigraphies cartes blanchesau Cneai de Paris Pour accompagner les travaux de la maison Levanneur sur l’île des Impressionnistes à Chatou, le Cneai de Paris a proposé en 2011, sur un mode ouvert et réactif de “cart...
Wes Anderson: Moonrise Kingdom
Wes Anderson would have to push it pretty far to do something we didn’t love with every fibre of our souls, and we’re delighted to report the trailer for Moonrise Kingdom shows that he’ll do no such thing. The story o...
Grimes / Yours Truly
Check out the latest video from our friends at Yours Truly featuring Grimes performing Genesis. It almost makes me want to pull off the shaved sideburns / crazy bangs thing.
Bedwyr Williams
Anyone who does stand up comedy and describes themselves as both “simultaneously satirical and deadly serious” is either a complete lunatic, or quite possibly a brilliant artist. Luckily Bedwyr is the latter and altho...
Alasdair McLellan
Doncaster-born Alasdair McLellan is one of the fashion industry’s foremost photographers – he counts Vogue shoots by the dozen – but his work remains infused with the gritty ghost of his northern roots. Berlin-based m...
Fjarill drawer by Jakob Jorgensen
The Fjarill drawer expands rhythmically and during this movement changes itself from a simple box into a functional sculpture. Designed by Jakob Jorgensen.
Chinese Paintings Photography
Don Hong-Oai was a chinese photographer who died in 2004. He used to create wonderful photos that emulated the style of traditional chinese paintings.
Summerparty in the fjords
This is a poster for the festival Sommarfesten in Sunnfjord and here we tried to blend new with old. By having an experimental typography mixed with old and beautiful pictures, this is an exciting mix. The type is bas...
SPLASH CALENDAR 2012 - A NEW BEGINNING
Its the end of the year. And as were all aware, next year is supposedly the end of the world too. Now while everyone has their own theories on how the world will end, talented photographer Tejal Patni turns things aro...
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Wes Anderson
Always been a big fan of Wes Anderson. His upcoming move ‘Moonrise Kingdom‘ looks good.
Dino’s Pizza
I recently just finished a simple site for my families pizzeria, Dino’s Pizza. It’s a one-pager that has a responsive layout, accommodating screen widths from 1280px all the down to an iPhone. Fluid site design is the...
100 beste Plakate 11 – Bis 30. Januar registrieren und Plakat hochladen
Der Wettbewerb »100 Beste Plakate Deutschland Österreich Schweiz« wird vom 100 Beste Plakate e. v. jährlich ausgeschrieben und verfolgt das Ziel, besondere Leistungen des Plakat-Designs aus den drei Ländern in Form ei...
Jonathan Brand: One Piece at at Time
Another intriguing part our trip to Detroit came via a presentation from Brooklyn based artist/incurable romantic Jonathan Brand. To pay for an engagement ring, he was forced to sell a 1969 Ford Mustang he had spent y...
Mantika Sans
Neue Textschrift von Jürgen WeltinDie Mantika Sans ist eine bei Linotype neu erschienene Textschrift entworfen von Jürgen Weltin. Auch in kleinen Größen sind ihre klaren Formen gut lesbar durch gut unterscheidbare For...
Helen Flanagan
After a good decade of being on the internet every day we’re pretty used to pop-ups telling us where the nearest single/semi-naked person is and exactly how to meet them. Helen Flanagan took this one step further than...
Wimpy: Braille Burgers
Burger-lovers can be a picky lot what with the myriad options now available, but wherever you stand on the great sesame-seed bun debate, you’ll love this wonderful project from South African ad agency Metropolitan Rep...
TGM NEWS #13
TGM MEETS SLANTEDEike König vom Berliner Design-Studio HORT erzählt Geschichten von seinem Spielplatz für Gestalter, in einem Seminar werden Buchstaben gestreichelt, in einem anderen Alternativen zur Einbindung von We...
:output Jobportal
Für Praktika und Junior-Positionen im Bereich Architektur und Design Seit 02. Januar 2012 bietet das Online-Portal open:output, eine der größten internationalen Plattformen für Projekt- oder Abschlussarbeiten von Desi...
Friends of Type
Witness four brave men on a quest to breathe life back into typography – they are unafraid of the hand-drawn, ready to document the tiniest of creative outbursts and genuinely unashamed of using animated flaming text....
Das ideale Büro
Erik Spiekermann auf Arte CreativeAlain Bieber hat uns auf ein Video auf Arte Creative aufmerksam gemacht: Erik Spiekermann über das Büro der Begegnung. Viel Spaß!
Its Nice That Selfridges Talks Series – Words as Communication
Straight off the back of the success of our In Progress conference we’ve planned another series of talks offering food for thought. Coinciding with our Selfridges window commission, we’re bringing together an exciting...
Introducing Marian typeface by Commercial Type
Commercial Type is pleased to announce the release of Marian, a new typeface family in 19 styles designed by Paul Barnes. Marian is a series of faithful revivals of some of the classics from the typographic canon: Aus...
CRCR: Les Chiens Isolés
French film collective CRCR remain frustratingly elusive. All we know is they’re based in Paris and study at Gobelins Ecole deL’ Image. But if one of their most recent films Les Chiens Isolés (or Lonely Dogs) is anyth...
First Look 2012: Cheltenham Design Festival
The picturesque town of Cheltenham is best known for its annual horse racing jamboree, but this year it adds a sterling looking design festival to its roster of events. With ad-land supremo Sir John Hegarty, iconic de...
Emil Kozak
“Big Black Nothing”, photos by Emil Kozak. “Its basically walking until I get scared, or cant go any further…take the photo and go back…”
Scout Magazine Interview
Yesterday Scout Magazine ran a little interview with me and I wanted to share it with you. It was fun to answer a lot of questions I never get asked! You can read it here.PS – Yes, this photo is from the Ghibli Museum...
Hello, my name is Bob, Kontrapunkt Bob.
Free Font von KontrapunktSagt Hallo zu Bob, Kontrapunkt’s neustem Free Font, den man in zwei Schnitten kostenlos herunterladen kann. Zum Launch hat die Designagentur einen lustigen Type-Tester programmiert, mit dem Si...
Peter Ross wants to know which five people you would invite for dinner
A 20 page tabloid style promotion by designed Jennifer Lee at VSA Partners for Peter Ross portrait photography, in which the subjects are asked to name the five people that they would most like to invite to dinner.
1000 Tage
1000 Bilder1000 Eindrücke aus den vergangenen 1000 Tagen. Illustration, Typografie, Animation, Film, Leben, Style, Gedanken, Nonesense und alles andere. Verpackt in ein paar Minuten von Children of the Revolution ...
Timing – Zur zeitlichen Dimension des Ausstellens
Vom 19. bis 21. Januar findet in der Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig die Tagung »Timing – Zur zeitlichen Dimension des Ausstellens« statt. Die Tagung wird veranstaltet im Rahmen des Studiengangs »Kulturen ...
Jullien Brothers
Having signed with Partizan and launched their very own website, Jean and Nicolas Jullien are officially the Jullien Brothers! A creative duo so far responsible for a number of sharp animations and (typically strange)...
Ten Things I Learned About Car Design in Detroit
This week we were whisked off to Detroit for a frenetic and fascinating few days around the North American International Auto Show. Not only did I drink more coffee than a human man should realistically attempt, I als...
Tout le monde connaît Roger Excoffon
Who doesn’t know typographer/art director from the 50s and 60s Roger Excoffon? Published for an exhibition at Musée de l’imprimerie in Lyon, this book gather more than 100 documents previously unpublished.éditions Deu...
Coca-Cola Design+ Award
Coca-Cola Deutschland sucht gemeinsam mit Nachwuchs-Designern im Coca-Cola Design+ Award nach neuen Konzepten für die Getränkekiste der Zukunft.Leitfragen sind: Welchen veränderten Anforderungen müssen sie genügen? We...
A look at dieting and weightloss ads
In western societies, losing weight has become an obsession for some, a necessity for others, and a juicy market for an entire industry. It is interesting to take a look at how companies chose to communicate for these...
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Album Covers Recreated In Clip-Art And Comic Sans
Joni Mitchell sang in Big Yellow Taxi “Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone?” This concept is illustrated with wit and humour on the Tumblr log Clipart Covers. Under the banne...
Ink & Paper
Filmmaker Ben Proudfood made a really lovely, short documentary about two neighboring shops – one of them a paper shop (McManus & Morgan Paper), the other a letterpress printer (Aardvark Letterpress) – both struggling...
Shynola: The Beast
When the new Laura Marling album, A Creature I Don’t Know, was released, we were struck by the hasty and allusively poetic art work. When we learnt that Shynola were responsible we were intrigued – as familiar as we a...
Robert G. Bartholot
I love the big, bold statement art direction and photography by german multi-disciplinary creative Bartholot. The strength of his work lies in the simple backdrops and surreal, stylised compositions bursting at the se...
20 + 1
Vergleich von ausgewählten serifenlosen Schriften der letzten zwanzig JahreManuel Kreuzer entschliesst sich für seine Studienarbeit des Jahreskurses Typografie 8 bei Rudolf Paulus Gorbach Schriften miteinander zu ...
Highspeed Fotografie Tutorial
Durch meine Streifzüge durch das Web bin ich vor ein paar Tagen auf eine wunderbare Seite gestoßen. Nils Liebherr war mir bisher nicht bekannt und ich hab mich ein wenig durch seinen Blog geklickt. Dabei ist mir ein T...
1000 Bilder / Kurzgeschichtenwettbewerb und Ausstellung
Tausend Bilder, das ist nicht nur das Thema eines Illustrationsprojektes an der Hochschule München, sondern auch das Thema eines dazu passenden Kurzgeschichtenwettbewerbs der Süddeutschen Zeitung. In der Hochschule we...
Die besten Schriften 2011
Verlieren wir auch diesmal keine Zeit mit langen Vorreden: wie zum Ende bzw. Anfang eines jeden Jahres präsentiere ich die besten typografischen Neuerscheinungen des vergangenen zwölf Monate … aus meiner ganz persönli...
Laura Smith
It is not uncommon for illustrators to use elements in their work of what inspired them – but surely Laura Smith takes the biscuit for spending no less than 13 years honing her skills on how to create the retro artwor...
Sunbrella and Situ Studio: reOrder
In a moment where commercial innovation met high art, Sunbrella (leaders in the field of performance fabrics) teamed up with New York-based Situ Studio to create reOrder, an “architecture environment” within the great...
EXCLUSIVE FACES V5 REVEAL: STEVEN BONNER
Forget Hoxton or the Meat Packing District, Steven does a very nice job of whipping out creative, incredibly unique work from his studio in Stirling, Scotland. Steven has worked with a lot of big corporate clients and...
Lee Hardcastle: Thingu
A medal please for Lee Hardcastle. The claymation master has reconstructed Pingu – the nations favourite/only penguin childhood friend – as the protagonist of the bloodiest scenes from John Carpernter’s The Thing. Joy...
Dana Tanamachi
Time-lapse videos of designer Dana Tanamachi putting a little elbow grease into some hand-lettering with chalk.Watch the videos below!
International Drawing Project
Café Royal Books is launching their first International Drawing Project in February and it sounds really amazing!
Wooden letterpres calendar
Wooden letterpress calendar without expiry. It has typesetting fields of year, month and days. User just changes once in a month name of month and assembles days field, including end ofprevious month, current and the ...
First Look 2012: Resonate Festival
Serbia might not be where you’d expect to attend an all encompassing platform for innovative practitioners and studios who are creating some of the most spectacularly creative bridges between art, technology and cultu...
BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer)
BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer) ist eine Reihe von „One-Night-Ausstellungen“, die von verschiedenen Künstlern auf der ganzen Welt kuratiert und organisiert wird. Die Idee ist verblüffend einfach: Finde einen Ort, lade ...
Verlängerter Einsendeschluss beim ADC
Der Einsendeschluss für den ADC Wettbewerb wird um eine Woche verlängert. Kreativarbeiten aus 2011 können noch bis 24. Januar 2012 eingereicht werden. Achtung: Es zählt der Posteingang im ADC Büro!Jetzt noch mitmachen...
FontBook 2.0
Zum neuen Jahr veröffentlicht FontShop International die neue Version der erfolgreichen iPad app FontBook, mit der Typo-Liebhaber über 620.000 Schriften und deren Zusammenspiel mit einem Fingerstreich vergleichen kön...
The Order of Things
The Order of ThingsMikko KuorinkiThe desire to classify the world has always been a need for mankind: We collect, reflect and sort the things. Michel Foucault extensively wrote about this phenomena in his book The Ord...
Journal du Salon Light #8 – Supplément
© Pierre Vanni Journal du Salon Light #8 – SupplémentProlongement et documentation du Salon Light #8, le Journal est un gratuit complété à postériori par un Supplément.Contenu du Supplément:- Trace/archive des tables ...
Research and Development
Once in a while we come across a body of work that just makes us stop, and enjoy. Such was the effect of art-direction duo Daniel Olsson and Jonas Topooco, whose website for their design platform Research and Developm...
Darren Coffield
I think Darren Coffield is one of those people who orders something they’ve never tried before every time they go to a restaurant – a state of mind he seems to mirror whenever he goes into his studio. Amongst a huge c...
Ingrid Siliakus: Paper Architecture
Ever hear of paper architecture? Well if you haven’t, it’s time to take a look at the work of Ingrid Siliakus, whose pop-up models of famous buildings achieve a level of intricacy most CGI programs would struggle to b...
Swissted: combining punk rock and swiss modernism
What does graphic designer Mike Joyce do with his two passions that seem very different? He creates punk rock band posters with the Swiss International style. The results are probably not very appropriate for punk roc...
HTC Rhyme Accessories
Designed at One&Co.HTC Rhyme offers a range of in-box and optional accessories that add an elegant simplicity to your whole experience. Listen to your favorite music with the stylish wired headset. When you need to ch...
Tape Recorders
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is a Mexican electronic artist, who develops interactive installations that are at the intersection of architecture and performance art. “Tape Recorders” is one of his recent installation which wa...
Inkling by Wacom: now available on Amazon
The amazing digital pen by Wacom, that we mentionned here before, is now available for sale on Amazon.
Buon Compleanno Massimo
Massimo Vignelli turned 81 years old today. His work and ideas on design have had a huge influence on me. I thank him so much for that. Thank you, Massimo.
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Peggy Wolf
Peggy Wolf grew up in Germany and studied fashion design there, before graduating to work for an art gallery, a trend-consulting company, a freelance illustrator for magazines… and currently in interior design. She fo...
Fotoshop by Adobé – By @JesseRosten – Via @Jeriko
This commercial isn’t real, neither are society’s standards of beauty.
Acad Bold Beta
Academy Bold beta is stil in the making and it needs some serious kerning. But for now it works fine as a display typeface.
BRINK #1
Zwischen Kunst und WissenschaftIn diesem neuen Magazin BRINK #1, welches in einem im Siebdruck bedruckten Beutel inklusive Button, Aufkleber und Poster uns zugekommen ist, geht es um das andere. Was ist das andere? Ka...
Jacob Kassay
Jacob Kassay is a painter in that part of what he does involves oil paint but the reality of his creations are something considerably left of your painterly preconceptions. Using skills and interests picked up in his ...
Sunday Paper: Light
David Parker – one half of the creative story-telling Sunday Paper with Cole Schreiber – has directed this short absorbing night tale of LA’s light waste. The lava-like flow of energy from the cities bulbs is captured...
The World of Social Media // Facebook
2011 liegt nun hinter uns und man merkt wie Facebook wächst. Diese Infografik fasst man alle sämtlichen Fakten der Social Networks zusammen. Dieses Video ist schick und ansehnlich. Übrigens ist Facebook mittlerweile d...
Verantwortung gestalten
Die Typographische Gesellschaft München veranstaltet im Rahmen der Munich Creative Business Week die Konferenz »Verantwortung gestalten« mit nationalen und internationalen Referenten aus allen Design- und Wirtschaftsd...
Anneka Beatty: Dimlite
This album cover is the reason (not the only reason) why many people can’t leave a record shop without buying something. How could you resist? Grimm Reality is the latest release from Dimlite and I can guarantee that ...
Die Schönsten deutschen Bücher 2012
Der Wettbewerb »Die schönsten deutschen Bücher 2012« wird dieses Jahr von der Stiftung Buchkunst mit neuer Struktur ausgerichtet. Zukünftig wird der »Förderpreis für junge Buchgestaltung – Das Buch von Morgen« als .....
Gunter Dueck über das Aussterben von Berufen und Veränderungen in der Arbeitswelt
Prof. Dr. Gunter Dueck – bekannt als »The Wild Duck« – ist Querdenker, ehemaliger Chief Technology Officer von IBM Deutschland, begeisteter Blogger, Sprecher und Autor. Vor seiner Karriere bei IBM war er Professor für...
Chloe Dewe Mathews: Chinas Wild West
China’s Wild West is an acerbic and provocative series of photographs by Chloe Dewe Mathews focussing on the contested lives of a sparse populace in China’s Xinjiang region. There is a state of suspension in some of t...
Paper-Cut-Project
Atlanta-based duo Amy Flurry and Nikki Salk want to re-invent our relationship with paper. An “appreciation of the grace and nuance of this humble material” drives the aesthetic of their cranial sculptures, and the re...
First Look 2012: Whats On New York
This year we will be continuing with our bi-weekly What’s On focus on great shows happening in New York. With that in mind, here’s a quick intro to what we’re looking forward to most from the big city on this side of ...
The Joy of Books
“The Joy of Books”, a stop-motion by Sean Ohlenkamp and Lisa Ohlenkamp.Watch the animation below!
Type Navigator, The Independent Foundries Handbook
The rapidly expanding online market for digital typefaces is exciting and diverse. With new fonts and type foundries launching on an almost daily basis, it has been difficult to keep track of notable developments—unti...
EXCLUSIVE FACES V5 REVEAL: TOMATO
Born alongside Britpop, this creative design collective are still icy cool and continue to be incredibly influential. Their graphics are widely sought after and you’ll spot their script spelling out the titles of the ...
Andrew Young / Scott Sueme / Ensoe
Here’s a little video of Andrew Young, Scott Sueme, and Ensoe painting together in Primary Flight during Art Basel. I see Aaron De La Cruz and Kofie were there too!Watch it below!
James Kape, Speed Republic
Nice identity work by James Kape.Speed Republic is a small start-up company specializing in trade and the resale of hi-end motor vehicles in South Africa. The brief was simple, to create a clean and contemporary symbo...
Theo Jansen
“Animaris Gubernare”, a beautiful self-propelled kinetic sculpture by artist Theo Jansen.
Diane Cluck / Song a Week Project
The story of a song-project is not new. Best reflected in Sufjan Stevens now defunct Fifty States Project or Paleo’s more militant Song Diary which resulted in 365 songs in 365 days, and oddly applauded by Dick Cheney...
Art & Recherche
Forum et colloque international art et rechercheL’ambition de ce colloque qui, sous des formes multiples, sollicitera les arts visuels et les autres arts, est donc de faire le point, au sens optique et intellectuel du...
JK Keller
JK Keller’s Realigning My Thoughts on Jasper Johns – a Simpson’s title sequence digitally corrupted till its eyes popped – is just one piece in a portfolio heavy on software misuse and persistently good idea-based pro...
Museum Studio
The sign of any good design studio is variety. Sure, designers can argue the case for the importance of signature style, but isn’t repetition a sign of laziness? Or worse, a lack of compromise? Variety in a design stu...
THE PLANT JOURNAL
The Plant journalBesides providing botanical contents in a simple, personal and cozy way, The Plant Journal offers to plant lovers a new look on greenery by featuring the works of creative people who also love plants....
Publishing Class lecture: Noise & Capitalism
Publishing Class is a two year programme designed for the Dutch Art Institute MFA ArtEZ by Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, delving into the act of publishing in critical art practice, both as a way to make ...
From the page to the city: the mobile library
From the page to the city: the mobile libraryWorkshop with Manuel RaederJanuary 25–29, 2012, Mexico CityReading a book from beginning to end and browsing through many books in a bookshop are two different reading expe...
Salsa Invertebraxa - Part IV (Final Series)
Final series of images from the new graphic novel, Salsa Invertebraxa, an odyssey of two invertebrate companions as they journey through an imaginary world of insects and plants. This is a magical window into a beauti...
Gunter Dueck über das Aussterben von Berufen und Veränderungen in der Arbeitswelt
Prof. Dr. Gunter Dueck – bekannt als »The Wild Duck« – ist Querdenker, ehemaliger Chief Technology Officer von IBM Deutschland, begeisteter Blogger, Sprecher und Autor. Vor seiner Karriere bei IBM war er Professor für...
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Earth
Earth Quarterly is a nicely put together new free publication, produced independently by Vincent Pacheco.
SOTA Catalyst Award: Call for Entries
The Society of Typographic Aficionados is pleased to announce the third annual SOTA Catalyst Award for young people who have created original work in type design, type history, or other areas related to typography. Th...
Tom Hines
Spannend und schön zugleich, wenn Modefotografie sich mit Fine Art Fotografie mischt. Bei den Aufnahmen von Tom Hines wird das sehr gut deutlich. Der wechselwirkende Einfluss kommt bei ihm auch nicht von ungefähr. Der...
Sam Winston: Romeo and Juliet
For five years artist Sam Winston has been working on a painstaking project – categorising every line of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, chopping the entire play into tiny unrecognisable strips and reappropriating the...
Janine Trott
Where many photographers and stylists can spend hours trying to make a shot look completely nonchalant and natural, Janine Trott is more like: “what else can we cram in here?” and, therefore, she is a brilliant set de...
The Right To Education
Poster for tomorrow – New CatalogPoster for tomorrow ist ein internationales Projekt, welches mit Hilfe von Design und der Design-Lehre eine Debatte um die Menschenrechte anregen will. Ende letzten Jahres veranstaltet...
Mark Long: Animal Alphabet
We first came across Mark Long’s illustrations when he sent in a copy of his wonderful football zine way back when. More recently we were reminded of his very nice looking portfolio with a regular spot he draws for Th...
NOMO Design, Airport Runways Screenprint Project
Self-initiated screenprint project by NOMO Design featuring runway patterns from airports around the world.18″ x 24″White inkSteel Gray 100# Dur-O-Tone Cover by French Paper Co.$26 over at NOMO Design store
Mattias Sahlén, Booksters
First audiobooks and then portable reading devices. What ever happened to the original greatness of a written text – the art of finely adjusted characters, placed on natural pieces of paper? As a retrogressive reactio...
Christian Patterson: Redheaded Peckerwood
In 1957, teenagers Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate murdered 11 people in a bloody, rebellious road trip. Years later, photographer Christian Patterson has interpreted these gruesome acts into a photo-book th...
Seb Leon: The Golden Horns
We were wowed by this sculpture from New York-based French artist Seb Leon – and then we found out what it actually was and the wow factor cranked up to 11. It’s part of what will be the world’s tallest sound sculptur...
SADDO and AITCH
“Jonah”, a beautiful collaborative painting by Raul Oprea (SADDO) and his girlfriend, AITCH. I was lucky to see this piece in person, it’s right beside the Holon Design Museum, in Israel.
Bachelor Ausstellung Kommunikationsdesign FH-Mainz
Vom 13. bis 16. Januar 2012 stellen 28 frisch gebackene Kommunikationsdesigner der Fachhochschule Mainz ihre Abschlussarbeiten aus. Zu sehen sind Arbeiten aus den Bereichen Buch-und Schriftgestaltung, Editorial und Co...
EXCLUSIVE FACES V5 REVEAL: ANTHONY BURRILL
Visually arresting and quintessentially minimalist, a typographic insider could spot his designs a mile off. With suits and bohemians equally keen to sign him up for projects, Anthony is a busy boy. But luckily, he lo...
First Look 2012: Angoulême Festival
This week we’re looking nationwide and overseas for our first look of exciting happenings in 2012. Starting on the 26 of this month, Belgium’s festival international de la bande dessinée d’Angoulême will be enjoying i...
Unplugged. Bureau Mirko Borsche. Design Works!
Am Donnerstag, den 12.01.2012 um 19:00 findet die Vernissage der Ausstellung “Unplugged. Mirko Borsche. Design Works!” in der Rotunde der Pinakothek der Moderne statt.Zu diesem Anlass sprechen Christoph Amend (Chefred...
Unplugged. Bureau Mirko Borsche. Design Works!
Unplugged. Bureau Mirko Borsche. Design Works!For the exhibition “unplugged“ Mirko Borsche reduces the visual language of his original works to hand-painted posters in the size 70 x 100 cm. The abstraction of the orig...
Its Nice That: Words Words Words @ Selfridges
For seven weeks, It’s Nice That has one of the biggest honours in the creative industry – our work on show in the prestigious Selfridges windows. To coincide with the iconic store’s Words Words Words season – a unique...
Georges Méliès: Sonic Armada (A Trip to the Moon)
What do you get if you take the worlds first ever science fiction film, lovingly remastered in beautiful colour to it’s full 16 minutes and then ask one of France’s most successful musical acts to re-write a brand new...
Nina Chanel Abney
In her charged paintings, Nina Chanel Abney uses vivid contemporary references – celebrity, politics and current affairs – merging them into characters and bizarre scenes, heavy on symbolism blocked out in bright, car...
SADDO and AITCH
“Jonah”, a beautiful collaborative painting by Raul Oprea (SADDO) and his girlfriend, AITCH. I was lucky to see this piece in person, it’s right beside the Holon Design Museum, in Israel.
Welt des Digitalen Wissens
Why are we born? Why do we die? Why do we spend so much time in between wearing digital watches?– Douglas Adams, 1979An der Frage nach Leben und Tod haben sich unzählige Philosophen und Theologen abgearbeitet; um die ...
Informations- und Orientierungssystem der staatlichen Schlösser, Burgen und Gärten des Landes Sachsen
Interview mit Michael Blomeier, Christian Lessing und Fritjof Wild.http://blomeier-lessing-wild.deEin neues Informations- und Orientierungssystem für die staatlichen Schlösser, Burgen und Gärten des Landes Sachsen, da...
Otsuki-Sama
Otsuki-Sama is a sophisticated mix between a serif and sans serif font design. Its elegant balance between heavy contours and subtle lines gives it a modern yet very rich look. Applicable for any type of graphic desig...
Typographie denken
»Ich muss das nicht gelesen haben, um es gut zu gestalten.«— Unbekannter GrafikerIn der Rhetorik heißt es: »Wenn man ein Problemlösungsgepräch führen will, braucht man ein Problem.« Das ist längst nicht so trivial, wi...
Welt des Digitalen Wissens
Why are we born? Why do we die? Why do we spend so much time in between wearing digital watches?– Douglas Adams, 1979An der Frage nach Leben und Tod haben sich unzählige Philosophen und Theologen abgearbeitet; um die ...
Typographie denken
»Ich muss das nicht gelesen haben, um es gut zu gestalten.«— Unbekannter GrafikerIn der Rhetorik heißt es: »Wenn man ein Problemlösungsgepräch führen will, braucht man ein Problem.« Das ist längst nicht so trivial, wi...
Welt des Digitalen Wissens
Why are we born? Why do we die? Why do we spend so much time in between wearing digital watches?– Douglas Adams, 1979An der Frage nach Leben und Tod haben sich unzählige Philosophen und Theologen abgearbeitet; um die ...
For the Royal Monceau Hotel
Short film about the conception and fabrication of an armchair created for the Royal Monceau Hotel. Design by Philippe Starck and Eugeni Quitllet. Fabrication by Domeau & Pérès.
30 crisp and green nature logo designs
Having a nature themed logo is a no-brainer for many ecological and environmental companies, but even for other companies, having a logo that integrates elements from nature can be a great logo design. The colors of n...
States of Architecture
Initial design proposal for a Shanghai World Expo 2010 photography book. The book was published in 2011 by Thames & Hudson. Project developed for Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers.
Mimesis
Here’re a few photos from the series”Mimesis” by Barbara & Michael Leisgen. Simple & nice.found at Potz!Blitz!Szpilman!
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Gimme Bar
Vor mehr als zweieinhalb Jahren gab es hier im Design Journal einen Artikel zum Thema Visual Bookmarking Plattformen. Lang, lang ist’s her, Zeiten ändern dich, Nichts ist beständiger als der Wandel. Gemeinplatz Ende. ...
The Great Destroyer
I based this core character on my reoccurring female character; Persephone. This current iteration of her I based on an Egyptian Anubis.
Gecko Stickers
I want some of these. The team at Gecko Stickers have just created 10 new designs of wall stickers, using a special material that glows in the dark.
Eight:48 Issue 7
The seventh issue of Eight:48 is out. Titled, ‘You are Here’ and focuses on designers and their relationship with the cities they live in. The issue features viewpoints from Tim Bjørn, SB Studio, Somewhere Else, Mains...
Slash - Font by Superfried
Slash - Font by Superfried. Available from our site for just £1. This is a no -nonsense all-caps display font, containing intricate curves and incisions. www.superfried.com/fonts
Bookshelf: Rose Blake
We know Rose Blake in her illustrator incarnation, as a member of the This Is It collective and the founder of the simply brilliant “Studio Music.”:www.studiomusic.fm Normally the one asking fellow creatives and estim...
Dark Water, the collection of illustrations for carpets
Dark WaterIn Chtulhu We TrustI created a collection of illustrations called Dark Water for Danish company EGE in production of carpets. And creating of the artwork was inspired by the stories H.P. Lovecraft and Cthulh...
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Typeforce 2 Exhibition Catalogue
Typeforce 2 is both a catalogue of typographic artistry, and a recount of the gallery reception experience. Broken up into three distinct sections, we set out to mesh a sense of tradition and energy through colorful v...
Naraganda
A poster and headline font created at New Design UniversitySpecial thanks to Giovanni DeFaccio
Fed Ex Enchanted Forest
Spot for Fed Ex. CG characters integrated with live action backgrounds filmed in a forest in Oregon.
Things
New year, new things. And we have been spoiled with riches, glorious, fragrant creative riches from the four corners of this blessed planet we know and love. ’Nuf said. (Read more)
From Sketch: Erik Spiekermann über das Büro der Zukunft
Wie ticken Kreative? Und wie sieht ihr Leben auf einem DIN A3 Blatt aus? Für die Webserie From Sketch begleitet die Berliner Zentrale Intelligenz Agentur spannende Protagonisten aus der Kreativszene bei ihrer Arbeit u...
Neo Gotik
This is a display, custom and unperfect typeface that you can download and edit to make fresh & bold logos.Enjoy!
Antalis Calenclock 2012
This is a calendar design project for Antalis. By thinking the relationship of date and time, 12 months and 12 hours on the clock, I have designed a new format - calenclock.
Dark Side of the Moon posters
Atlanta based graphic designer Stewart Scott-Curran had the good idea to visually take on Pink Floyd’s legendary album: “The Dark Side of the Moon”. He created a poster for each track of the album using intricated lin...
Lilli plastic mini-bag
This little plastic bag you can hang on your cup is extremely cute, lovely to add a little cookie to your tea. Via Design3000.
The Birth of Medusa
Visual artist Nathaniel Whitcomb is every musician’s best friend. Through use of nostalgic collages of images in motion he makes a musical experience feel otherworldly. Defying space, time and geography – his projects...
You Make It So Good
“You Make It So Good” by Eric & Magill. Directed by Liam Mitchell.Watch the video below!
Communication Arts Typography Annual 2
For the second consecutive year Communication Arts – “the premier source of inspiration for graphic designers, art directors, design firms, corporate design departments, advertising agencies, interactive designers, il...
Do It Yourself
I aim to create most of the content, if not all, from scratch. Having widely available resources at your fingertips is no substitute for high quality, custom work. This illustration is available for licensing.
919 DAILY DESIGN NEWS AM 06.01.2012
Pierre Mendell
Pierre Mendell (1929 — 2008) was a graphic designer that studied design under Armin Hofmann at the Schule für Gestaltung in Basel and later went on to form the Mendell & Oberer studioin 1961 in Munich. Mendell is best...
PINK & MINT (MOLESKINE II)
A small collection of drawings from my sketchbook, created during the April/May timeframe.
The Weekender
When’s it too late to say Happy New Year? People are still saying it but it seems a bit weird. What if I don’t see someone for months, then I bump into them in my local opticians (or similar) in, like, July? Should I ...
Whats On: Joel Sternfeld
First Pictures is just that, the start of Joel Sternfeld’s defining chromatic ouvre which is opening today in New York’s Luhring Ausutine gallery. In the four decades since he began, these early images are the unfette...
Eight:48 Issue 07: You are Here
Eight:48’s seventh issue, ‘You are Here’, focuses on designers and their relationship with the cities they live in. The issue features viewpoints from Tim Bjørn, SB Studio, Somewhere Else, Mainstudio and Bond among ot...
Valentin Loellmann: m.&mme
Like spindle-legged tripods emerging from some sci-fi netherworld, Valentin Loellmann’s latest collection teeters between aesthetic and unnerving. Each piece stands as a unique character on its own (while all managing...
David Dope
Happy 2012! Start the year off right gazing into David Dope’s amazing and trippy animated GIFs to have your mind melt and imagination explode.
Modulus Font
Modulus is a clean, minimal, modern sans typeface. It looks smooth in any layout with its sleek rounded lines, use it for magazines, brochures editorial layouts etc.Modulus makes awesome headings, it looks great on it...
Reiner Riedler: Fake Holidays
Feeling a bit gloomy today, and who can blame us? We live in London where it’s cold in the morning, dark by 4pm and unnecessarily rainy in between. But there’s comfort in solidarity, and apparently we’re not the only ...
Lauren Hillebrandt: Flat Landscapes
Forcing absurdity onto objects and routines, photographer Lauren Hillebrandt turns them into sculpture (fun sculpture). She says she knows that “perfection goes hand in hand with photography” but has chosen to “ignore...
First Look 2012: Cultural Olympiad Films
I don’t know if you’ve heard but the Olympics is happening in London this summer (I know –they’ve kept it under wraps!) and alongside the big celebration of sporty types there’s a cultural Olympiad that is assembling ...
Richard Pearse
Richard Pearse remains pretty elusive, only confirming on his site that he is a Kiwi “living in a shed in Patea, South Taranaki.” I wonder what that shed looks like because if his work is anything to go by I’m sure it...
Andrea Galvani
Andrea Galvani is definitely taking his art seriously. His latest project blurs the boundary between art, science and extreme adventuring, with the award-winning artist and crew of 18 embarking on an Arctic voyage arm...
Origin of the Beginning
press release:Ron Mandos Amsterdam is excited to announce the latest solo exhibition of Levi van Veluw.We warmly welcome you to join us at the opening reception of this eagerly anticipated show on Saturday the 21st of...
Informations- und Orientierungssystem der staatlichen Schlösser, Burgen und Gärten des Landes Sachsen
Interview mit Michael Blomeier, Christian Lessing und Fritjof Wild.http://blomeier-lessing-wild.deEin neues Informations- und Orientierungssystem für die staatlichen Schlösser, Burgen und Gärten des Landes Sachsen, da...
Christmas Cards
Last christmas, my course received a student project from greetings card company Hallmark. The objective was to create festive cards for the 2012/13 holiday season. I made this typeface based on Helvetica Bold and use...
5 cool free photo-editing software
Writing compelling content is the first step to having a great blog, but having something that really makes everything POP is what solidifies it. But how do you make the content pop? One surefire way is by adding pict...
Job Post: Deuce Design [Sydney]
Deuce Design in Surry Hills is looking for a full time mid-weight designer (min 3 yrs exp – no juniors please). The position will suit a multi-disciplined designer and/or lover of environmental design, print and web. ...
919 DAILY DESIGN NEWS AM 05.01.2012
On A Daily Basis: The All New FontBook 2.0
Five months ago FontShop International surprised the type world by announcing that its legendary FontBook – commonly dubbed the FontShop Bible – would from now on be an iPad app. The development team has since been bu...
FOTO/GRÁFICA
FOTO/GRÁFICAune nouvelle histoire des livres de photographie latino-américains“(…) nous avons pu constater le manque crucial d’une cartographie des livres publiés au 20ème siècle sur le continent. Une investigation ri...
Buskers Beer Labels
This is a collection of five Art-Labels I did for italian artisan beer factory Buskers Beer
Whats On: Hello World
People telling YouTube their troubles are a mystifying lot. Orwell would surely have a lot to say about the collective eagerness to propound our own privacy to billions – and what a cacophony of voices when they all s...
The printed book: a visual history
The printed book: a visual historyThis exhibition/book brings together books to illustrate a canon of more than five hundred years of Western book design. It showcases book design in all its forms: reference works and...
Tess Hurrell: Chaology
Photographs of explosions have a strange visual power – the frozen moment possessing a terrible beauty that can conflict a viewer, especially if the plumes are in fact the wake of some disaster. Tess Hurrell’s fascina...
delighted magazine – Fotografie aus einer anderen Sicht
Jana möchte bald eine neues Fotografie Magazin starten. Ich möchte den beiden Gründerinnen mit einen kleinen Gastartikel die Chance geben hier ihr Projekt vorzustellen. Sie haben einiges zu sagen… Wir, Susan und Jana,...
José Parlá
Early on, the notion of wall painting was intuitive to Jose Parlá. The graffiti vernacular of repetition and tags has been transmuted into the vast canvases that bring his ideas and memories of the outside, inside. Hi...
Tom Hines
It’s too great for words when a photographer’s work inspires you so much that your mind is filled with imagery of films, nature, pop-culture and history, like a terrifying subconscious mood-board. When I browse throug...
Bryan Ku: Wim.Ble.Don
I love tennis – the drama, the intensity, the sight of two athletes slugging it out so close they can see the whites of the others eyes. But like most sports it can be reduced to beautiful simplicity, and Bryan Ku of ...
First Look 2012: Whats On London
Traditionally, although the focus is very much trained on the sporting men and women, it was artists as much as athletes that performed for the public in a Cultural Olympiad. With that in mind, London is not short of ...
ROSETTA
Rosetta typeface was designed by Alexandra Mendes for an upcoming branding project, inspired in all things lovely and luscious. Should feel as a flirt, the subtle wink of the eye, a roseate glow. Tall, slenderizing li...
Clock Opera: Once and For All
I like to think I’m a tough, cynical metropolitan type but show me something as perfectly-pitched as Ben Strebel’s new viideo for Clock Opera’s second single Once and For All and those hopes are out the window. It’s a...
Reid Peppard
The jaw of a fox cast in gold, the wing of a pigeon on a hair pin – Reid Peppard has managed to convince me that roadkill can make rather beautiful jewellery and controversial costume pieces. Taxidermy and fashion see...
Ingo Giezendanner
Water. Paper. Two inherently incongruent mediums, no? Not necessarily, says Ingo Giezendanner, whose latest book “Iskandariyah Skan”:http://www.grrrr.net/iskan/index.html was inspired by a ferry journey to Alexandria....
Pingu remake of “The Thing”
A Pingu claymation remake of John Carpenter’s “The Thing”, by Lee Hardcastle. Yes, this is as awesome as it sounds.Watch the animation below!
YUZU
In Mexico, when young people are bored, they tend to say Cree cree, emulating the cricket sound.Thats the insight on which we built the campaign character.The Yuzu cricket is to boredom, what the Grim Reaper is to dea...
Ballpoint Pen Paintings
Ball Point Pen Paintings by Shane McAdams. He actually opens the ballpoint pens cartridges to blow, pour or let the ink flow on panels. Afterwards the panels get a special UV treatment at a tanning salon.found at It’s...
919 DAILY DESIGN NEWS AM 04.01.2012
Getxophoto 2011
Poster for Getxophoto the International Photography Festival on the 2011 edition. All made in cross stitching
Ogami Notebooks
Italian agency, Office Milano, has created these gorgeous notebooks for Ogami featuring designs in the International Typographic Style. Want.
Marion Lefebvre: Nous Autres
French photographer Marion Lefebvre recently got in touch to give us a heads-up about her new project and while checking out her website I came across this extraordinary series called Nous Autres. She describes the po...
Shane McAdams: Ball Point Pen Paintings
Shane McAdams can claim to be the coolest kid with a ballpoint pen (and it wouldn’t be the first time he’s been called that.) His technique involves some sort of elaborate method in which the chosen pen has its cartri...
Patrick Ludolph aus Hamburg
Paddy von neunzehn72.de dürften ja nun viele von euch kennen. Klar er ist ein “Blogger”, aber eben auch ein guter Fotograf. Er fotografiert hauptsächlich Menschen und ist oft als Hochzeitsfotograf in Hamburg unterwegs...
Michel de Broin
Michel de Broin creates sculptural analogies that playfully and articulately realise certain perceptive ideas the artist has about the objects and environments that we share. Be it the largest mirror ball ever made su...
Michel Gondry: Taxi Driver Sweded
Among Michel Gondry’s many contributions to pop culture, the term “sweded” may be one of the most enduring. It comes from his 2008 movie Be Kind Rewind and refers to the practice of remaking classic films at breakneck...
Mass Observation
To survive nowadays, it is not enough to be only one thing – young designers must be hybrid creatives, as happy wielding a camera as they are a pen. No need to tell that to polymaths Theo Simpson and Ben Mclaughlin, w...
Anne Ten Donkelaar
“Flower Constructions”, collages with cutouts from flowers pictures and pressed flowers, by Anne Ten Donkelaar.
First Look 2012: Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists
Wallace and Gromit were a large part of many of our childhoods. Cheese, creepy penguins, more cheese. What if, just what if, amidst all the cheese there’d been a few, I dunno, pirates hanging about? Now that would hav...
Being Elmo
“Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey”, a film by Constance Marks. A must-see documentary if there ever was one!Watch the trailer below!
Yayoi Kusama
“The Obliteration Room”, a brilliant installation by Yayoi Kusama. The Queensland Gallery of Modern Art was made to look like the interior of an Australian home, only everything was painted completely white. Over the ...
Be Visible
Be visible embodies the idea of a serious of bracelets which reflect the light,fulfilling most womens desireto be seen.Glowing jellyfish served as inspiration for the form.I have strived to reflect the jellyfishs senc...
Victory Journal
Brooklyn-based creative agency Doubleday & Cartwright is like that really smart kid at school that you one day find out is also really good at kung-fu. By which I mean alongsidde their growing portfolio of quality wor...
Carol Montpart
Edited by Cristina Merino and designed by Carol Montpart, the inaugural issue of The Plant Journal – an exceptionally assembled exploration of the intersect between fauna and contemporary art – was a surprising highli...
ALUCompany Book
ALU® Modular Merchandising Systems is an international company with more than 25 years of experience in the retail world.With a portfolio of standard, customized and fully custom products, this brand offer end-to-end ...
Personal ad for Heinz Garlic Sauce
Brilliant use of personal ads’ space by Heinz to get their message across. Via Ads of the World.
Behance launches Student Show
NXNE Film Festival Poster by Nicholas Weltyk.Excellent initiative by Behance. If you are a graphic design student looking to show your work and gain exposure, try sharing your work on Student Show, Behance’s new showc...
GIF Psychedelica
It’s been a while since I’ve posted some animated GIF’s, but these ones by Yoshi Sodeoka are … psychedelic. I was actually surprised that I didn’t post anything else from his portfolio before. It’s packed with visual ...
919 DAILY DESIGN NEWS AM 03.01.2012
Dexter Bang Sinister
Dexter Bang SinisterThis spring, the Research Programme at Charlottenborg will operate under the auspices of New York-based designers-editors-publishers, Dexter Sinister (Stuart Bailey and David Reinfurt). Together wi...
Gratuitous Type #2 first look
Here’s a preview of the very soon to be released Gratuitous Type issue #2. Lock the bedroom door, dim the lights and feast your aesthetically tuned eyes to many buxom beauties of design and type. Then hide it back un...
Fiat Multipla Vorto (Redesign)
The new 600 Multipla Vorto concept takes its inspiration from the remarkable success of the original 600 Multipla of the late 50s,thanks to its innovative flexibility that adapts itself magically to very different nee...
Research & Development
I hope ever had a safe and happy new year.To kick-off the new year, here’s some excellent print work by Research & Development, a studio made up of Daniel Olsson and Jonas Topooco.
Carrie M.Becker
Hands up if you secretly/openly love the TV programs that display creaking tables covered in the diets of the morbidly obese, or piles of newspapers collected by heartbroken hoarders. Carrie M. Becker, a sculptor and ...
Wie man helfen kann…
Mein Mitbewohner engagiert sich in Uganda hilft dort diverse Projekte voran zu schieben und er hat letztlich eine erste kleine Spendengala veranstaltet. Nun stell ich mir oft die Frage, wie kann ich helfen? Was kann i...
Foam Amsterdam: Whats Next?
Innovative Dutch photography museum Foam is 10, but is not using its birthday as an excuse to get all depressed and nostalgic, wailing drunkenly about where all the time went and trying to snog a younger museum to mak...
Atipo’s Cassannet Recreates Classic Cassandre Advertisement In The Flesh
First of all, let me join the universal chorus of well-wishers and wish you and your loved ones a great new year. May it be filled with love, happiness, good health, and a swift but gruesome demise for the rating agen...
Emboss fonts releases new design Embossanova
Embossanova was inspired by Bodoni and Lubalin Graph, an unlikely pairing says Stephen Boss, the type designer designer and owner of the digital type foundry Emboss Fonts.Initially the design started off as a rather e...
Charlotte Simmonds: An introduction
The It’s Nice That changing of the intern is much like the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace. There’s costumes, tourists and unintelligible orders barked from a sergeant major. Actually there’s none of those ...
The 54th Grammys - We Are Music
Once again we teamed up with TBWAChiatDay Los Angeles, this time for the campaign of 54th Grammy Award. Enjoy!
Magrathea
The first days of the new year can sometimes feel a bit sluggish, but then BANG! something comes along to blow your tiny mind and remind you of the infinite genius of mankind. This video by Timothy Sherman and Paul Mi...
Yoshi Sodeoka
“Psychedelic” would be the operative word in describing the eyeball-melting quality of Yoshi Sodeoka’s off-kilter video pieces, glitch graphics and abstract installations. Initially introduced to us by HORT, the work ...
First Look 2012: Oil Tanks Tate Modern
Plenty to look forward to in 2012 now that we know our mortal reckoning was a small misunderstanding by anthropologists. This week we’ll be looking at a number of London-based happenings starting with the much anticip...
Editors Letter: January
Hey everybody, 2012 is here! With the London Olympics (definite) and the destruction of all humanity (possible, according to the Mayans). So as we survey it from this peak of possibility, dazed and dizzied by the into...
Memoryhouse / The Zombies Cover
Helsinki World Design Capital 2012
The New Year celebrations rang out around the globe at the weekend but they partied bigger and better than most in Helsinki to celebrate the city’s 2012 role as World Design Capital. The Finnish capital follows Turin ...
David Gelb: Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Tucked away in a Tokyo subway station, arguably the world’s best sushi chef dazzles and delights his customers with his delicate fishy delights. But Jiro Ono – hailed as a national treasure in his native Japan – is co...
Memoryhouse / The Zombies Cover
Elena
Designed specifically for text and extended reading, Elena is a contemporary text face well suited for magazines, books and editorial design. Pairing the inspiration of the broad-nibbed pen with a desire for a modern ...
Milk carton that changes its color to indicate the freshness of its content
If you like responsive website design, you may like this milk packaging concept. As the milk is aging, the package’s colors change to let you know that you should be careful. Via Design You Trust.
Raff/Benetton Project
RAFF is a norwegian design event focusing on design, textile and fashion made by people from the city of Bergen. We where lucky enough to be a part of this as Hans is from the west coast and we both have Bergen in our...
919 DAILY DESIGN NEWS AM 02.01.2012
Illustrative Logos And Type Treatment
A logo usually has some philosophy and meaningful concept behind it and an illustration could help to describe those two elements well to the audience. Illustration in logo design helps designers to deliver the messag...
Vimeo® Festival + Awards 2012
Die führende Video-Sharing-Website Vimeo® nimmt ab sofort Einsendungen für die Vimeo® Festival + Awards 2012 entgegen. Das Festival und die Preisverleihung würdigen kreative und originelle Online-Videos und deren Mach...
Make this your Desk
For the office in Stuttgart, Germany, Cultured Code is seeking an additional Full-time Support Analyst
Polaboy
Geile Idee von der LIGHTBOYS GmbH aus Hamburg. Man nimmt eine Polaroid Optik, bezieht damit ein eigenes Bild und in der Nacht fängt es auch noch an zu leuchten. Sehr schöne Idee – die man sich mal unter polaboy.de ans...
Typographie denken
»Ich muss das nicht gelesen haben, um es gut zu gestalten.«— Unbekannter GrafikerIn der Rhetorik heißt es: »Wenn man ein Problemlösungsgepräch führen will, braucht man ein Problem.« Das ist längst nicht so trivial, wi...
Pencil on Paper
Poster design for the CRAFT exhibition at the Dutch Design Week 2011Autobahn was invited by the Graphic Design Museum to participate in an exhibition about craft. Craft for us means combining material, medium and idea...
Bidoun Library at Tensta Konsthall
The Bidoun Library, founded in 2009 by Bidoun Projects, is a mobile library consisting of books, magazines and other printed matter. Bidoun Projects is a non-commercial project producing exhibitions, publications and ...
919 DAILY DESIGN NEWS AM 01.01.2012
motocyklowy.pl
Motocyklowy.pl is the first such project in motorcycles industry in Europe. The idea was to develop an retail platform taking the shape of passage. It is the place where various companies could sell their goods in the...
Air
Air is a clean, contemporary, geometric sans typeface that has been designed for use in minimalist layouts where type is hero, such as those for high fashion magazines, and luxury brands. The rounded face is smooth, s...
Countdown Sequence
Description: Promotional creative work for Qube Konstrukt Stuido .Involvement: Art Directiton / Design / 3D / Animation Music by black scale
75 photos by 75 photographers
As 2011 comes to a close I want to thank you all once again for continuing to support Booooooom! I am amazed that even after four years the site continues to grow at a rapid pace. 45,000 good looking people now follow...
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