937 DAILY DESIGN NEWS AM 29.02.2012
BINARY STATEMENT
Binary Statement is a serie of four 28x28 cm hand printed etchings numbered and signed in 5 copies for each drawing. Every print consists of a Soft-Ground etching for the outline drawing and an aquatint etching for th...
Grandmother Tips
Was wäre, wenn euch eure Oma ein paar kluge Ratschläge mit auf den Weg gegeben hätte, um sich im ach so harten digitalen Zeitalter zurecht zu finden? All die Unsicherheiten, die Fehleinschätzungen, die unüberlegten Li...
Whats On: John Wood and Paul Harrison
Since 1993, when John Wood and Paul Harrison first filmed themselves clambering over an MDF board, the Bristol-based double act have burnt down a pier, climbed Everest and been to the moon. Not actually, of course, bu...
Die Leica-Geschichte
Eine 45 Minütige Dokumentation über die Leica. Dieser Film lief auf dem Hessischen Rundfunk und gerade wer sich für die Leica-Modelle interessiert sollte sich diesen Film mal anschauen. Der HR schrieb über diesen Film...
Jasper Goodall: Five Deities
We’ve long been fans of Jasper Goodall’s work (here, here, here and here) but intriguing news reached us this morning via the excellent chaps at Big Active – it appears that Jasper is heading in a new direction with t...
The RCA Journal: The Alan Rickman Issues
You might know him as the snarling Professor Snape in the Harry Potter series, the wandering-eyed husband in Love Actually or even the spoon-wielding maniacal Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, but...
The British GQ Comedy Special Trailer
If the secret of comedy really is timing then the future looks to be in good hands, certainly if this trailer is anything to go by. Released to promote the forthcoming comedy special of GQ it features a phalanx of fun...
Whats On: Jeremy Deller - Joy in People
Joy in People is a body of ambitious work created over the last two decades by Turner Prize-winner Jeremy Deller, who has been describing himself as a “self-taught conceptual artist.” Ambitious not because they’re som...
Metz + Racine: Case Da Abitare
Metz + Racine = top notch photography and styling. They excel in the realm of product portraiture, turning lovely items into even lovelier images. Their latest, a shoot for Case Da Abitare‘s textile range, boldly thro...
Teddy Fitzhugh: Have Fun Always
We all know that morning after feeling of scrolling through your pictures of the night before – a couple of random hotties, some imperfectly-assembled group shots and a lot of blurry excitement. Not so for 24-year-old...
JF & Son
Working closely with their hand-weavers in India, New York-based JF & Son’s make very nice clothes in fair textiles – the sorts of custom fabrics with a dreamy (yes) combination of pattern, beading and colour (in the ...
ADC Young Masters – Design
Der ADC lädt zum Seminar Young Masters – Design am 27./28. April 2012 in Hamburg.Aus dem ProgrammDas Young Masters Seminar gibt Antworten auf die brennendsten Fragen: Wie entwickelt man eine starke CI? Welche Rolle sp...
Canary Warf Screen: Karen Mirza & Brad Butler
Karen Mirza and Brad Butler are what I like to call a “power couple”: the two artist have, for over a decade, created work that engages with the public and upends the traditional boundaries between artist and audience...
Edward Bottoms – Independent Site: Experiments in Publishing At The Architectural Association
Independent Site:Experiments in Publishing At The Architectural Associationa lecture by Edward Bottomsin the framework of the exhibition Zak Kyes Working With…One of the leading architectural schools in the world, the...
Crowd funding support
Along with Design is Kinky I also publish a couple magazines, one of which is Take, a photography magazine. Take is self-funded and in order to produce some original content I have set up a Crowd Funding project on Po...
Kolla! Affisch-Festival
Kolla! Affisch-FestivalArranged by Kolla! and Iaspis, The Kolla Poster Festival idea is to inspire, deepen the knowledge within graphic design and illustration. Dedicated to the poster, it will look at its phenomena f...
Touch me!
Das Geheimnis der Oberfläche The true mysteryof the world is the visible, not the invisible. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian GrayMit diesem Zitat beginnt das Buch Touch me!, in ...
Nichols Felton: The 2010/2011 Feltron Biennial Report
Hear ye, hear ye, the nec plus ultra of infographics has been published and as ever Nicholas Felton’s Biennial Report is a beautiful, compelling breakdown of his life. Aiming to “visualise how his personality varies b...
Bill Cunningham New York
“It’s as true today as it ever was. He who seeks beauty, will find it,” the wise words of the two-wheeled-wonder that is Bill Cunningham. After watching the much-anticipated upcoming film Bill Cunningham New York I ca...
Mud
We were intrigued to come across Mud’s site recently, drawn in by the thematic sweeps of illustration – lips, handbags, portraits and strange blotted fashion designs which show a heady combination of technical verve, ...
Ellie Davies: The Dwellings
Here’s a series for anyone who has ever dreamed of running away to the woods, living off the land and mingling with the forrest creatures. Ellie Davies intentionally taps into these primal urges with a breadth of work...
Musterhaft
Die Magie der Muster Das Werk »Musterhaft« ist eine Zusammenarbeit zwischen der Diplom-Designerin Isabel Jägle und Kurt Kreipl dem Besitzer des Meeresmuseums in Öhringen. Aus dieser einzigartigen Zusammenstellung ...
Ben l’Oncle Soul Recreates Vintage Motown Look
I am a bit on the fence about nostalgic looking music videos – and any form of vintage design by extension. On the one hand our fascination with “authenticity” and referencing specific periods in design history may at...
Prismatica
“Prismatica” is a new piece by Kit Webster. He attached pyramid-shaped crystals to an LCD screen and made a programmed geometric animation precisely mapped to the vertices of the crystals, illuminating them individual...
YWFT Attic
This is about a journey, from humble EPS handset to magical OpenType glory that might even be a bit spooky if it wasnt so darn majestic. This stately YWFT Attic is full of surprises, with gorgeous stylistic alternates...
Euthanasia Coaster
This is probably the sickest project I’ve ever posted on today and tomorrow: the “Euthanasia Coaster” by Julijonas Urbonas.“Euthanasia Coaster” is a hypothetic euthanasia machine in the form of a roller coaster, engin...
937 DAILY DESIGN NEWS AM 28.02.2012
Sofia by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects
Sofia is a building designed by architect Cesar Pelli for One Development Group. Located in San Pedro, Mexico, this building not only was designed by an internationally renowned architect, it also has the most generou...
Criterion Collection
Your local video store not stocking anything but movies with Reece Witherspoon & Robert Pattison, check Criterion Collection for some amazing films. Artist profile films, La Haine, different versions of Being John Mal...
The Scout
All wrapped around New York, with a lot of Brooklyn, the website The Scout is a nicely designed stop before and while your next in town. Loving the Wes Anderson Royal Tenenbaums tour.
Wilder Quarterly
We just subscribed, and if your into a great read with a little of the outdoors, this super nicely designed mag should be next on your list.Wilder Quarterly. Latest issue has a feature on Mike Mills, who latest film B...
Crowd funding support
Along with Design is Kinky I also publish a couple magazines, one of which is Take, a photography magazine. Take is self-funded and in order to produce some original content I have set up a Crowd Funding project on Po...
Its Nice That No.8 – Ray OMeara
To mark the upcoming launch of It’s Nice That No.8 – which you can pre-order NOW – we ventured into the Bloomsbury studio of designer Ray O’Meara, the man responsible for the new look of It’s Nice That magazine. In th...
Remi Chapeaublanc: Gods and Beasts
Remi Chapeaublanc is quite the rugged individualist – the French photographer recently set out solo to traverse Mongolia astride a motorcycle, carting camera equipment along with the usual adventuring fare (food, tent...
Studio Whitehorn
I’m loving the work that Dowling Duncan did for Studio Whitehorn. Clean, beautiful, no BS.
One custom letter a day
Inspired by LetterCults Alphabattle, I started to create one custom letter a day to explore letterforms and push my creative limits.
Giambattista Bodoni, Manual of Typography
Manuale tipografico 1818Giambattista Bodoni, Manual of Typography erschien im TASCHEN Verlag und ist ein einzigartiges, 1.208 Seiten dickes Buch über das 1818 erschienene Manuale tipografico des berühmten Buchdruckers...
Gary Card/Metz + Racine: Juste une zeste
When set designer, illustrator and all-round creative tour de force Gary Card updates his website, it makes sense to sit up and take notice. This project for Hermes, created with London still-life photographers Racine...
Susanã Londono
Some lovely, confident graphic design to be found in Susanã Londono’s portfolio – lots of colour, texture and subtle framing of content. In particular we like her Outreach Summer ’11 Anthology (pictured), a catalogue ...
Jeremy Tai Abbett – Videointerview von Freunde von Freunden
Producer: Freunde von FreundenVideo: Kaspar LerchEdit: Hendrik ThulMusic: Chilling Sunday – Jonny Blender und Söhnke Lehnard
A Ride of Death
There’s been a focus recently on the dangers facing cyclists on our streets, but this is not a new peril as evidenced by this amazing 1940s cycling manual. The combination of beautiful illustrations and fire-and-brims...
Birdhead
You’re never sure where you stand with Shanghai-based photography duo Bridhead (aka Ji Weiyu and Song Tao). Their visual stream of consciousness style means we are presented with pictures ranging from subtly powerful ...
Crystal Maze III – The Crystal Mask
Dan ‘The Automator’ Nakamura as his alterego Nathaniel Merriweather,photo : James Dawson (2001).Crystal Maze III – The Crystal MaskDispositif de monstration et de discussion dédié aux livres, à l’édition et à ce qui s...
Beakus: Numtums
We’re used to coming across a fascinatingly diverse array of animation but little is as eagerly devoured as those aimed at children. From yesterday, the Cbeebies channel is broadcasting Numtums, an engaging, education...
Lars Beller Fjetland: Re-Turned
Every one of Lars Beller Fjetland’s birds started life as a supportive table-leg or an armrest but now live as part of the Norweigen designer’s flock of Re-Turned ornaments. “The “Re-turned”-concepts elevates leftover...
Offset 2012
Vom 9. März bis 12. März 2012 findet im Grand Canal Theatre in Dublin die Offset 2012 statt. Bereits seit 2009 lädt die Offset Kreative aus der ganzen Welt ein, um Designer und Interessierte gleichermaßen ...
Julian Wolkenstein: The Postiche Collection
We all know men can get a bit particular about their facial hair. But what you might not be aware of is a fascinating and little known historical subculture known as “postiche”, which involves the adorning of one’s ma...
THE STRANGE EFFECT OF LIGHT
The work here represents my love of Contemporary rural Art and my passion for the animals that often go unseen.
Canary Wharf Screen: Suki Chan
The soporific effects of time-lapse photography are employed to their fullest extent in this excerpt from Suki Chan’s film Sleep Walk Sleep Talk. London slips by in indigo hues, light rushes past on the backs of rain ...
Monoqi – Neue Shopping Community aus Berlin
Mit Design und Beteiligung von: Unitedstatesofdesign.com, Freundevonfreunden.com, Sugarhigh.de, Stylespion.de, Juergenalker.com und mehr.
Art After Dark
The other night a few of us painted at an event called “Art After Dark” at the Honolulu Academy of Art. The best part was when this little girl fearlessly walked up on the stage and joined in on the action.Photo by Lu...
Monoqi
Neue Shopping Community aus Berlin. Mit Design und Beteiligung von: Unitedstatesofdesign.com, Freundevonfreunden.com, Sugarhigh.de, Stylespion.de, Juergenalker.com und mehr.
Relaunch bei Diffferent
Die Strategieagentur Diffferent, mit Büros in Hannover und Berlin, hat ihrer Webpräsenz neuen Glanz verliehen und sowohl das Design als auch den Auftritt als solchen an aktuelle Standards angepasst und die Website mit...
In The Belly Of A Whale
»Berlin ist eine kreative Stadt und wird von Kreativen kreativ gemacht« – Oliver ThobenIn letzter Zeit habe ich offenbar jede Menge (Design-)Filmtipps für euch und hier kommt noch einer: »In The Belly Of A Whale« ist ...
Typo Talk – Gespräche über Schrift
Am 21. und 28. März 2012 lädt das Gutenberg-Museum jeweils um 19 Uhr zur Vortragsreihe »Typo Talk – Gespräche über Schrift« im Rahmen der Sonderausstellung »On—Type: Texte zur Typografie« ein.In den »Typo Talk« stelle...
De Best Verzorgde Boeken 2011
De Best Verzorgde Boeken 2011Dating back to 1926, the yearly judging of the Dutch Best Verzorgde Boeken is the oldest of it’s kind in Europe.The somewhat old-fashioned expression best verzorgd (best cared for) has nev...
Selena Kimball
A stunning collage made from six months’ worth of front page photographs from the New York Times, by Selena Kimball.
Its Nice That No.8 – Ray OMeara
To mark the upcoming launch of It’s Nice That No.8 – which you can pre-order NOW – we ventured into the Bloomsbury studio of designer Ray O’Meara, the man responsible for the new look of It’s Nice That magazine. In th...
Metalheads – Fotografien von Jörg Brüggemann
Die Ausstellung Metalheads präsentiert Fotografien von Heavy-Metal-Fans der letzten drei Jahre aus Argentinien, Brasilien, Indonesien, Malaysia, Ägypten, Deutschland, Österreich, der Schweiz und den USA. Es scheint so...
Berndnaut Smilde
How is it that the Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde could create a cloud in a room? I can’t tell you, the artist defies categorisation let alone an explanation. Often drawing on a nebulous concept of the “physical presen...
Nina Fischer: Language Through Time
Old literature meets contemporary design in Nina Fischer’s homage to the German dictionary, which sees the home of all words celebrated in a way that’s bright, beautiful and immediate. Its ten chapters feature differe...
Kyle Pellet
It is incredibly difficult to summarise your favourite illustrator in a mere 200 words or so – how do you possibly convey the raw, bizarre drawings of Kyle Pellet concisely when you are overflowing with things to say?...
The Skater Project
Nikki Toole has a show of skater portraits at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. Ends in a few days so get there if you can.
SUMERU
Sumeru is a body of work that metaphorically illustrates the mental journey that is undertaken in Zen Buddhist training and practice. In Zen literature, the word land is commonly used as a symbol for the mind, and thr...
Luau at Utpoium Estate
Here’s a few photos from our big Luau to close out Pow Wow. Big thanks to the Hadar family who hosted us at their beautiful Utopium Estate.Photos by Brandon Shigetaphoto: mephoto: luckyolelophoto: ka_itophoto: n_c_bph...
Small House
The “Small House” designed by Unemori Architects, is … small. It’s footprint is only 4 by 4 meters and it is 9 meters high. Apparently a family of three lives is this house in Tokyo.found at iGNANT...
937 DAILY DESIGN NEWS AM 27.02.2012
The Tree Ring / Hike-In Show
San Diego-based orchestral outfit The Tree Ring hosted a hike-in show in the woods off Big Laguna Trail, in a place only reachable by foot. The video was shot by filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton whose film “I Am Not A ...
The Great Discontent
Tina und Ryan Essmaker sind neugierig, furchtbar neugierig. Die beiden US-Amerikaner wollen einfach wissen, warum Kreative das machen, was sie machen. Was sie inspiriert, beeinflusst und antreibt. Aus diesem Wissendur...
CAFE RACER Typography
Cafe Racer is my first font, inspired by my love for custom motorcycles and particularly Cafe Racer bikes, clothing, design and way of life.
Ninian Doff: Whatll It Take
Ninian Doff’s only gone and done it again. After being featured in our 2011 review of the year for this bike-tastic effort, he’s pulled another stellar video out of his bag of tricks. This time it’s for Graham Coxon a...
Thomas Mailaender
French multimedia artist, Thomas Mailaender creates work that is fun and funny. He orchestrates strangeness and documents it in what he describes as “insignificant, incidentally grotesque moments that possess an abrup...
Heike Bollig – Errors in Production
Errors in Production is an ongoing collection of a variety of products with individual manufacturing errors. – Heike Bollig
Keith Loutit/Jarbas Agnelli: The City of Samba
Certain phrases strike ennui into the hearts of even the most upbeat It’s NIce That contributor, and tilt shift is right up there with time lapse in the “battering us with mediocrity” category. But every now and then ...
Rory Sutherland: The Wiki Man Kindle Version
In November we were thrilled to publish The Wiki Man – a collection of interviews, articles and blog posts from advertising man, myth and legend all rolled into one – Rory Sutherland. The response from those in- and o...
Claudia Imbert: La Famille Incertaine
Last week the Gens d’Image Association chose the latest winner of the Prix Arcimboldo, an award recognizing new creativity in digital photography and digital manipulation. Claudia Imbert snapped it up for her compelli...
Gesprächsstofftaschen
Auf der SucheEin Semesterprojekt von Anja Neidhardt und Adrian Anton. Dieses witzige und einfallsreiche Projekt ist im Kurs »Ideenpraxis« bei Maryam Miremadi an der Academy of Visual Arts (Frankfurter Akademie) ...
Corbis Bildtitel-Wettbewerb
“Say What?” ist ein Wettbewerb von Corbis, eine Internet Platform, die kommerzielle und redaktionelle Fotografien und Illustrationen anbietet. Der Einsender mit den meisten Stimmen gewinnt einen Jawbone Jambox Lautspr...
Romain Segaud: Off the Wall
The French electro musician Yuksek has had to cancel his London gig on Friday due to illness. But for those left disappointed, his latest music video should cheer you up. It’s put a smile on my face with the handmade/...
Everyones Talking About: The New Routemaster Bus
We don’t often write about buses on the site (for fairly obvious reasons) but today is a red letter day as far as London is concerned with the much-anticipated Routemaster redesigned by Thomas Heatherwick back on our ...
TYPO TALK – Gespräche über Schrift
Im Rahmen der Sonderausstellung »ON—TYPE: Texte zur Typografie« in Mainz, lädt das Gutenberg-Museum jeweils um 19 Uhr, am 21. und 28. März, zur Vortragsreihe »TYPO TALK – Gespräche über Schrift« ein. Die Vortragsabend...
Mint Julep: To The Sea
When a music video makes you seasick but you still refuse to pause it, you know it’s a goodie. Vivien and Fabien from A Nice Idea Every Day have released their second, very trippy video for the band Mint Julep. It’s g...
Romain Lenancker
We laid some love on Romain’s sweeping paper sculptures back in 2010, and since then his portfolio has expanded by leaps and bounds we felt hard pressed to ignore. With commercial work that blends seamlessly with pers...
Casper | Regular
Casper | Free for use----Casper is accidental grotesque. Well suited for headlines and small blocks of text. Includes 588 glyphs with support for Cyrillic and Latin alphabets. 18 Ordinals. 47 ligature----Design by mch...
Canary Wharf Screen: Marcus Coates
Watching a Marcus Coates film is very rewarding. With real wit, the artist makes use of small moments when the urban world (unconsciously) mimics nature through sound. In this clip of Follow the Voice the beep of a pe...
Canary Wharf Screen
Financial types have had it pretty rough these past few months (you know, except all the massive bonuses and that) but with the first signs of spring weather here in London comes possible hints at a cultural rapproche...
Paint Horse aus Pleasure Line? – 140 elementare Fragen des Lebens
Laura Breiling ist Illustratorin und lebt und arbeitet in Mainz. Vor Kurzem hat sie »Paint Horse aus Pleasure Line? – 140 elementare Fragen des Lebens« – ihre Abschlussarbeit an der Fachhochschule Mainz – vollendet. I...
LONDONS
Londons is a instilational piece made for the Samsung UK flagship store in Westfields Shopping Centre. We were commissioned to design and create a vast 5.5m by 2.5m mural which would be the base for 3 of their brand n...
Notebook Nr. 1
Druckkunst von Imprimerie du MaraisDie Imprimerie du Marais ist eine talentierte uns kreative Druckerei, die den Herausforderungen der Kommunikationsagenturen, Luxusmarken und Kultureinrichtungen auf jeden Fall gewach...
Michiel Schuurman
This is what Monday looks like – seriously pleasing poster graphics with colour and pattern combinations that do something interesting to your blinking mechanism. Michiel Schuurman (who we featured aeons ago) continue...
Neil Krug: The Blame
Neil Krug has the uncanny ability of making everything look utterly beautiful. From his stunning photographs to his engrossing moving image, Neil’s output is that of a man with a highly skilled eye. Imagine looking ou...
Jake Chessum
How could anyone take a refreshingly new photo of a group of people who have already been immortalised from every possible angle, at 24-frames-per-second, displaying every conceivable “emotion,” in any location you ca...
Success and Uncertainty
Success and Uncertainty displays twenty-one posters that were made by Sandra Kassenaar and Bart de Baets during their residency in Cairo, which happened to coincide with the outburst of the revolution in Egypt and the...
Gutes Design ist harte Arbeit
Wenn die prägendste Designagentur des Jahrzehnts (Zitat Thomas Rempen) eine Werkschau veröffentlicht, darf man einiges erwarten. Ich erwartete jedenfalls viel, nachdem »Good Design Is a Tough Job« nun schon seit einig...
This week on Pinterest
Pinterest has become a great source of inspiration for me. Each week I share my favorite pins of the week. If you don’t want to miss any pin, make sure to follow me on Pinterest.Awesome jazz poster, via FFFFOUND.An in...
Three-dimensional collages by Sarah Bridgland
Sarah Bridgland creates some great collages that pop right into your face. She often adds some cool lettering in it, which makes it a bit more awesome.
937 DAILY DESIGN NEWS AM 26.02.2012
Kailua
My friend Maurice Li just rolled into town and he’s been snapping photos around Hawaii. This is Kailua – life is pretty rough.
INTRO free font
What distinguishes the new Intro free font from FontFabric is the strongly expressed geometric makeup and structure.The basic letters of the Alphabet like A, O and H are built or based on principles of simple geometri...
DC Comics / Misc. Cover Art
Gallery of cover art done for DC Comics / Archaia / IDW / Dopepope© / After Hours Press
Bookshelf: Christiane Bördner
Christiane Bördner’s wonderful I Love You Magazine was born of her blog of the same name and, with its stylish design, reverent emphasis on beautiful imagery and discussion about contemporary female identity, it could...
Garçon Grotesque
Honesty in form is one of the major tenets of modernism. In other words, a design should accomplish a narrowly defined function in the simplest manner possible. This belief is extolled in many design disciplines, incl...
Inner Steppe
A stop-motion animation based on the work of Hermann Hesse and Carl Gustav Jung. The motion picture soundtrack was composed and performed in addition to the film.
937 DAILY DESIGN NEWS AM 25.02.2012
Things
A back-breakingly heavy box of Things was carted across the studio yesterday morning, plunked down table side and attacked with fervor – such was the wealth that spilledeth over the sides of our beloved plastic Things...
Rhizom #13
Magazinprojekt von Studierenden der FH MünsterIm Fachbereich Design der Fachhochschule Münster ist mit Rhizom ein gelungeness Magazin entstanden, das „dem aktuellen Mainstream entronnen ist“, so Professor Rüdiger Quas...
Letterpress Print Giveaway to First 75 Purchasers of Dynatype on MyFonts
Dynatype, just released on MyFonts is on sale for a limited time at a 20% discount. Concurrent with this Introductory Sale, Alphabet Soup is also pleased to offer Dynatypes first 75 purchasers a special limited editio...
Aschan Deli
Aschan Deli is an urban quick stop for breakfast, lunch, snack or coffee. The aim was to create a concept that looks fresh and modern while communicating convenience.The symbols, used in the signage, communications an...
Palatina Collection
Mark / Giusti launches its Palatina collection for A/W 2011 2012. This is Mark Farhats second collection for the Mark / Giusti brand, following the successful launch at Shoreditch house last June 2010.Inspiration for ...
937 DAILY DESIGN NEWS AM 24.02.2012
The Weekender
There’s something that’s been bugging me for a while, and I feel now is the time dear readers to finally share it with you. In the intro to The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Will Smith tells us that he is sent to Californi...
The Cosby Sweater Project
Some projects we feature need a great deal of introduction and explanation, but we can leave aside conceptual grappling for The Cosby Sweater Project. This Tumblr takes an episode of the iconic 1980s American comedy, ...
John Hinde: Postcards
One of the loveliest websites your could ever browse through has got to be John Hinde’s postcard archive. A prolific maker of fantasy-filled images throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Hinde made no attempt to hide his con...
Book design for One Hundred Years of Solitude
The design of this book has been inspired by personal interpretation and Marquess extraordinary view of realism. The paper and transparent sheets used in this piece of work act as a supplement to one another . The bon...
Readers Playlist: Blur
So this week, to mark Blur’s Outstanding Contribution to Music Award at The Brits we asked you to name your favourites from the band’s many and varied and videos. And naturally you rose to the challenge on our “Facebo...
Fred Butler AW12
This week’s trip to London Fashion Week made for some excellent people watching. The glitteratti, stylish and outlandish were out in force, but my attention was captured by Fred Butler’s AW12 show; an exciting fusion ...
Millenium Magazines: Bidoun Magazine
Bidoun Magazine is an intelligent and cultural quarterly that just so happens to be about the Middle East. Produced by the same driving force behind Bidoun Library and Projects, the magazine formalises the discourse f...
Making of: Himmel auf…
Silbermond ist ja nun eigentlich nicht so meine Musik, aber dieses Making-Of zu dem Video ist für mich einfach genial. Es bringt das richtige Gefühl rüber und es ist genauso wie wir Menschen sind, komplett unterschied...
coffee – a community music video
Semesterprojekt von Felix Kasiske und Robert Goesch Das Projekt “coffee – a community music video” ist ein gemeinschaftliches Musikvideoprojekt, welches von über 50 Menschen aus aller Welt gefilmt und gestaltet wurde....
LGRU Co-position
LGRU Co-positionPresentations and round-table discussionThe Libre Graphics Research Unit is a traveling lab where new ideas for creative tools are developed. Its diverse activities range from the practical to the theo...
The Weekender #4
Seit Januar 2012 gibt es die nunmehr vierte Ausgabe des Independent-Magazins THE WEEKENDER – es ist die Geburtstagsausgabe, denn seit nun mehr 1 Jahr ist das Magazin erhältlich. Deshalb gibt es jetzt mehr Seiten für g...
Die Stiftung Buchkunst auf der Leipziger Buchmesse
Aus 31 Ländern zeigt die Stiftung Buchkunst, Bücher die bereits im nationalen Wettbewerb ausgezeichnet wurden und nun am internationalen Wettbewerb »Schönste Bücher aus aller Welt 2012« teilnehmen,auf der Leipziger Bu...
Beirut: The Vagabond
Fantastic video here from Sunset Televison who have really gone to town on their homework and have channeled the work of Czech film maker Miloš Forman for the band Beirut. best thing about this nostalgic video is prob...
Nike Innovation Summit 2012
You’d be forgiven for thinking every possible method of improving the humble trainer has already been explored, but as my recent visit to New York to attend the Nike Innovation Summit revealed, there’s always ways to ...
Johan Rosenmunthe: Enlargements
It’s said (cliche alert!) that a picture is worth a thousand words, but this well-worn notion feels revived in Enlargements, a series from Johan Rosenmunthe that examines a photo’s capacity to hold innumerable stories...
Frieze Projects East: Gary Webb
This summer, as part of Frieze Projects East – a new series of public art commissioned by Frieze Foundation for the London 2012 Festival – one-time east London resident Gary Webb will install a multi-coloured sculptur...
Jamalas song «Sing it out»
video backdrop for Jamalas song «Sing it out»art direction & animation - Pylinsky Eugeneillustration - Vika Lopuhinamade in Front Pictures
examples of great business card design
Your business card is one of the first promotion material that you will give away when meeting people. It’s certainly the ultimate networking tool and it can make a tremendous difference if you can attract people’s at...
BLAQ font
Inspired by Henry W. Troy, BLAQ is a new version of Trojan Text not available as font. Is an ornamental blackletter alphabet. Works great in headlines and other masculine like design settings. The Victorian Gothic or ...
937 DAILY DESIGN NEWS AM 23.02.2012
FATSLIDE
An ident made for mecanique-g.com for the promotion of the film departement Im partner with.
Deutsche Blogs sind nicht so schön
Letzten Samstag hat das medienkritische Polit-Magazin Amy&Pink gefühlt zum ersten Mal das Thema Web Design aufgegriffen. «Deutsche Blogs sind hässlich» lautet die reißerische Headline. “Bedeckt” wird die schonungslose...
Double G Studios
Double G Studios (founded by Grant Gilbert) are the team behind a host of genuinely engaging motion graphics for likes of the BBC One, More 4 and Studio Canal. Next to some slick digital and animation, the studio crea...
Fragen an Illustratoren: Susanne Paschke
Wie war dein Einstieg in die Branche und was war dein erster Job?Zeichnen und malen war für mich schon immer ein guter Kanal um zu kommunizieren. Daher erscheint mir der Einstieg in die Branche als vollkommen natürlic...
Fragen an Illustratoren: Sabrina Müller
Wie war dein Einstieg in die Branche und was war dein erster Job? An der Uni wurde mir von jemandem gesagt: »Illustration? – Das schaffen nur die Allerwenigsten.« Das hat mich eher angespornt als entmutigt und seither...
Heydays: M. Wolland
Quick update from the guys at Oslo-based studio Heydays – purveyors of clean, well-crafted design solutions from across a broad commercial spectrum. Their latest work for M. Wolland (an Italian winemaker) is a unified...
Words as Words review
We’re still talking about and digesting the bounty of information offered up for our delectation last week at Words as Words. Perhaps it was the heady mix of experts – we invited a clinical scientist and speech therap...
Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset: Powerless Structures, Fig. 101
“What is it with these grumpy old men up there on horseback?” So begins Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset’s artists’ statement for Powerless Structures, Fig. 101 unveiled on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square toda...
The New Web Design Guidelines
Welche grundsätzlichen Aspekte sind zu bedenken für modernes Web Design im Jahr 2012? «The New Web Design Guidelines» ist ein Projekt von Derek Harms, das versucht diese Frage knapp und präzise zu beantworten. Die dab...
Whats On: Alicja Kwade - In Circles
Now open at Berlin’s Johann Köenig gallery is a sculptural installation of cosmic proportions. In Circles is Alicja Kwade’s latest collection of everyday objects to which some universal force has acted on, so that eac...
DMMA OnlineStar 2012
Der Wettbewerb für den DMMA OnlineStar 2012 steht kurz bevor: Im April startet die Einreichungsfrist und wer gewinnt, kann am 18. Oktober in Berlin feiern!Der DMMA OnlineStar wird dieses Jahr bereits zum siebzehnten M...
Schriftgestalten – The Face of Type
Das Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin gewährte vom 23. März bis zum 6. Juni 2011 in der Ausstellung »erik spiekermann. schriftgestalten« Einblicke in das vielfältige Werk des Schriftentwerfers, Designers und FontShop-Gründers....
Fragen an Illustratoren: Olaf Hajek
Wie war dein Einstieg in die Branche und was war dein erster Job?Ich habe Visuelle Kommunikation an der FH Düsseldorf studiert und mir war schnell klar, dass ich auf keinen fall Art Direktor in einer Agentur werden wo...
Jonnie Begood
Jonnie Begood is a consummate kind of contemporary photographer. His photos sum up our collective lust for unstudied portraits of modern life – images without careful composition or colour grading but none-the-less lo...
Basic Promo
Der fünfte Titel der Basic-Serie“Basic Promo” zeigt auf 309 Seiten wundervolle und einfallsreiche Arbeiten. “Promo” ist das fünfte Buch einer Serie bestehend aus dem Büchern: Logos, Pack, Identity und Brochures. Sie ....
Millennium Magazines: White Zinfandel
It might traditionally be used to toast a fish dinner, but this aptly named publication is instead a toast to the role food plays in the artistic world _ a self-styled “visual manifestation of food and culture produce...
vjsuave: La Cena
Brazilian duo Ceci Soloaga and Ygor Marotta (aka vjsuave) are doing some seriously cool stuff down Sao Paulo way. Looking to breath new life into the local VJ scene, they started off hosting crazy light and animation ...
Fragen an Illustratoren: Sabrina Müller
Wie war dein Einstieg in die Branche und was war dein erster Job? An der Uni wurde mir von jemandem gesagt: »Illustration? – Das schaffen nur die Allerwenigsten.« Das hat mich eher angespornt als entmutigt und seither...
Fragen an Illustratoren: Olaf Hajek
Wie war dein Einstieg in die Branche und was war dein erster Job?Ich habe Visuelle Kommunikation an der FH Düsseldorf studiert und mir war schnell klar, dass ich auf keinen fall Art Direktor in einer Agentur werden wo...
Le Style
Le Styleby Scheltens & Abbenespublished by Off PrintStill life photographers Maurice Scheltens & Liesbeth Abbenes reformulate the classical opposition between art and craftsmanship, autonomous and commissioned work, a...
Whats On: Void Mastery / Blank Control
Disengaged darling of internet art circles, Petra Cortright is resident in The Composing Rooms with an exhibition of her digital paintings and select webcam video art in Void Mastery / Blank Control. Petra’s creations...
Schriftgestalten – The Type of Face
Ein Dokumentarfilm über »Schriftgestalten«Beim letzten Berliner Typostammtisch gab es die Uraufführung. Der Dokumentarfilm begleitete die Ausstellung »Schriftgestalten« vom März letzten Jahres im Bauhaus-Archiv, die s...
Gods and Beasts
A solitary voyage through Europe and Asia, led Rémi Chapeaublanc to Mongolia. The discovery of this country, where Man has not yet desecrated Nature, fed his thinking to create the photographic series Gods & Beasts.In...
{BTST 02.12}: Gelungene Weltpremiere
Grafik gesetzt in der Libero (Christoph Koeberlin) und FF Marten (Martin Wenzel)Den Rückblick auf den Typostammtisch mit Jan Henrik Arnold und dem Film der Ghost Army (Ankündigung) mache ich mir diesmal einfach. Ohne ...
Concept packaging: Deluxe Pringles by Niklas Hessman
I personally doubt that there is a market for Deluxe Pringles, but I would really like to see those packages in supermarkets. A project by Niklas Hessman.
Network Time
Network Time by Spiros Hadjidjanos.The installation Network Time consists of several Wi-Fi routers arranged in the gallery space providing free Internet access to visitors. The LED that reflects the data-traffic of ea...
FERNAND BAUDIN STUDENTS PUBLICATIONS
FERNAND BAUDIN STUDENTS PUBLICATIONSTalks and exhibitionFernand Baudin Students Publications is an event dedicated to editorial productions by students in Belgium – and connected to the international scene. This first...
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SAMIZDAT publication
SAMIZDAT publication is now being distributed online: samizdat-pub.tumblr.comBorn from the discussion and contributions of the participants of the workshop, the publication “Samizdat” arises as a possible manifestatio...
The Fabergé Big Egg Hunt
There’s an unwritten rule that says that anyone writing anything even vaguely Easter-themed must sprinkle their prose with excruciating egg puns, but here at It’s Nice That we’re better than that. So all we’ll say is ...
Re_Type Expo: reinterpretation of the letter C
“Don’t miss out on this fantastic exhibition!” Im Rahmen der Selected C Designkonferenz, die wir bereits angekündigt haben, findet eine kollektive Grafikdesign Ausstellung vom 23. bis zum 30. März statt. ......
Zeroh: The Hastings Moths Project
Did you know there’s a place on England’s south coast bristling with creativity, producing increasingly interesting and eclectic work? Jog on Brighton, I’m talking about Hastings and at YCN’s east London shop there is...
William Selden
It would be easy to feel over-saturated by the abundance of fashion photography around – online, in print, covering buses and billboards – but when you come across the likes of William Selden’s images you know you’ve ...
Books, Folder, a Magazine
Bauhaus Dessau + Spector Books – Books, Folder, a MagazineA conversation with Philipp Oswalt and Anne König For a year Bauhaus Dessau has been collaborating with the Leipzig-based publisher Spector Books. An instituti...
From Visual to Textual: Typography in/as Conceptual Art
Lawrence Weiner, APPLES & EGGS SALT & PEPPERFrom Visual to Textual: Typography in/as Conceptual ArtThis talk explores the shift from ‘looking’ to ‘reading’ in the text-based art practices of the 1960s and 70s as demon...
StudioMakgill: Naturalis Works #1 for GF Smith
It’s amazing how often PR and marketing types tie themselves in knots dreaming up ways to push their clients’ products – the best way to get noticed is simply to make amazing work. GF Smith clearly feel the same and t...
Graphic Design & Feminism
Wir möchten euch kurzfristig auf eine interessante Designkonforenz namens “Graphic Design and Feminism” hinweisen, die am Samstag dem 25. Februar 2012 statt findet. Dieses freie und öffentliche Seminar umfasst drei Vo...
Damien Cuypers: London Fashion Week
Increasingly, it seems, an event is not an event unless rapid draftsman Damien Cuypers is there to document it. The man responsible for the Two Minute Portraits during Frieze Art Fair last year is back in London and h...
Millennium Magazines: The Exhibitionist
The Exhibitionist may sound like a racy journal your uncle might keep in a secret drawer of his bureau but it actually does exactly what its says on the tin (cover) – it’s all about exhibitions. With its “made by cura...
Don’t be a Maybe!
Artikel von Gabi Lück zur aktuellen Marlboro Kampagne Gabi Lück ist eine von zwei Geschäftsführerinnen der thinknewgroup – female marketing and communication und beschäftigt sich intensiv mit Gender-Expertise und der ...
Image Direkt – Die neue Bildagentur für kleines Budget
Image Direkt ist seit Januar 2012 mit eigener Website als Microstock Bildagentur zurück. Anders als bei den etablierten Agenturen können auch Bilder ab 1,61 Euro ohne Credits gekauft werden.
Luke Gilford
Last year, photographer-cum-filmmaker Luke Gilford received three boxes of Maison Martin Margiela clothing and was asked to come up with an idea. “They gave me a deadline of less than two weeks,” Gilford explains, “so...
The Best Blur Music Videos
At last night’s Brit Awards, Blur were honoured with the Outstanding Contribution to Music award to celebrate 23 years of making music history. Closing the show with a medley (and who doesn’t ruddy love a medley??) of...
ag ideas 2012
Jetzt Tickets sichern!Ab sofort können Tickets für die agideas Konferenz und Design Week in Australien gekauft werden. TicketsInternational Design Forum 23 May 2012 to 25 May 2012Futures 23 May 2012 4.00pm to ...
Luke Gilford
Last year, photographer-cum-filmmaker Luke Gilford received three boxes of Maison Martin Margiela clothing and was asked to come up with an idea. “They gave me a deadline of less than two weeks,” Gilford explains, “so...
News of the Times
Here is something new and nice from illustrative trio Gwendal Le Bec, Jean Jullien and Yann le Bec: News of the Times. Each day one illustrator will take a news story and create an independent editorial spot for it wh...
Tim White - Kuwaii // Near the Light
One of the great things about fashion week is the amount of wonderful A/W 2012 videos that are hurling towards us every minute. As seductive as the high-end fashion videos are, there is something very subtle yet brill...
Image Direkt – Die neue Bildagentur für kleines Budget
Image Direkt ist seit Januar 2012 mit eigener Website als Microstock Bildagentur zurück. Anders als bei den etablierten Agenturen können auch Bilder ab 1,61 Euro ohne Credits gekauft werden.
one | dart design gruppe
At the seventh EuroShop exhibition in 2011 called one, Dart Design utilises not only a unique presentation area, but also a range of other possibilities
Kotak font
Kotak is a paper-cut sculpture made of a small piece of paper and a huge amount of creativity?the fonts are for this project.
Featured design: Darren MacPherson
Darren MacPherson is a talented graphic designer who experiments a lot with type. His typographic work was often awarded by prestigious publishers and institutions.
Luli Sánchez
For 18 years, Cuban-born Luli Sánchez designed prints for the fashion industry, before founding her own studio in 2004. Luli uses her unique touch with watercolor to create patterns inspired by everything from florals...
Pow Wow / Live Paint
I have a ton of photos from the Pow Wow opening on the way, here’s a quick shot from the live paint that went on all night. I got to jam with Derek Weisberg, Will Barras, Kamea Hadar, and Aaron De La Cruz on this piec...
Mint Julep / To The Sea
“To The Sea”, by Mint Julep. Directed by A Nice Idea Everyday.Watch the music video below!
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Antwon / Helicopter
San Jose rapper, Antwon just released a new video for “Helicopter”, by Bay Area director Brandon Tauszik. He’s one of those undiscovered gems that’s on the rise in the hip hop scene, so consider this as premature brag...
Image Direkt – Die neue Bildagentur für kleines Budget
Image Direkt ist seit Januar 2012 mit eigener Website als Microstock Bildagentur zurück. Anders als bei den etablierten Agenturen können auch Bilder ab 1,61 Euro ohne Credits gekauft werden.
Hattie Stewart
I emerged from Hattie Stewart’s fabulous new zine feeling a tad disoriented. Inside her drawings it’s often hard to know which way is up, or which way leads out. This mega-tallented illustrator has been on the upswing...
Mastermind – BOLT editions
BOLT editions curated, organized and printed a group exhibition of 22 artists. The exhibition is currently showing as part of the BRIXTON VILLAGE ART TRAIL in 10 different shops and cafes throughout Brixton Village – ...
2 Years. 100 Exhibitions. 1 Auction.
Seit fast 2 Jahren präsentiert die Berliner Neonchocolate Gallery in schnellem Rhythmus aufregende, junge Kunst von nationalen und internationalen Künstlern.Die Galerie auktioniert nun nach über 100 Ausstellungen erst...
Vrag Mag Issue #7 (Halloween)
Experimental type for Vrag Mag Issue #7:http://vragmag.com/2011/11/our-lady-of-almudena-cemetery/http://vragmag.
Digital Activism Against SOPA and ACTA in Motion Graphics
Activism has come a long way. Thanks to easier and cheaper production methods, pamphlets now have the potential to become well-scripted and professional-looking motion typography pieces. The only limits are the creati...
Spitalfields Life: A View of Christ Church Spitalfields
The new Hawksmoor show at The Royal Academy celebrates the superstar architect and his work but buildings – and in particular churches – do not exist in isolation. They form part of communities which react to, combine...
Image Direkt – Die neue Bildagentur für kleines Budget
Image Direkt ist seit Januar 2012 mit eigener Website als Microstock Bildagentur zurück. Anders als bei den etablierten Agenturen können auch Bilder ab 1,61 Euro ohne Credits gekauft werden.
Côme de Bouchony
It’s been quite some time since we welcomed Côme de Bouchony to our late guest post slot and, safe to say, he’s filled his time wisely. The French art director’s knack for very cool, all-things-considered, communicati...
Paul Davies
Like pages from a space-age Architectural Digest_, Paul Davies’ painted houses hover in a surreal semi-state of suspense and beauty. His modernist houses sit amid an ever-changing backdrop of acid-toned skies and inve...
Fragen an Illustratoren: Simon Prades
Wie war dein Einstieg in die Branche und was war dein erster Job?Mein erster offizieller Job als Illustrator war die Gestaltung eines Brettspiels für eine französische Organisation, die Kindern in Schulen ein Bewussts...
Anton Repponen
Anton Repponen ist ein vielseitig talentierter Designer mit einer interessanten Biografie. Ursprünglich kommt Anton Repponen aus St. Petersburg, aufgewachsen ist er in Talinn, Estland, wo er auch Architektur studiert ...
Kim Gehrig: Beat 2012
Mark Ronson is not one to shy away from interesting music projects, and this looks like his biggest to date. After spending months with Olympic sports men and women from across the board and sound-recording their ever...
Millennium Magazines: Old News
You might feel as though you’ve stepped back in time when flicking through a copy of Old News. Even their website has an air of obsolescence, its plain layout a far cry from the over-designed, flash-heavy web spreads ...
Munitionsfabrik #21 – Scheitern
»Wer fähig ist, sein Leben zu ändern, kann nicht scheitern.« So lautet eines der drei Zitate auf der Rückseite der neuen Ausgabe der Munitionsfabrik #21 – Scheitern. Die 21. Ausgabe beschäftigt sich nämlich genau mit ...
Its Nice That No.8: Pre-Order Now!
If you can believe it, It’s Nice That’s spring issue – a contemplation on the impossibly huge theme of ‘space’ – is even bigger and better than our last. It’s available to pre-order now, and the benefits of doing so a...
Berlin & Guimãres: Design & Art
Im Rahmen des Berlin-Guimarães-Tourcoing-Jahres findet am 22. Februar die Vernissage zur Ausstellung »Berlin & Guimãres: Design & Art« statt. Das Hospice d´Havré lädt dazu zwei junge Künstler der Partnerstädte Berlin ...
Fragen an Illustratoren: Simon Prades
Wie war dein Einstieg in die Branche und was war dein erster Job?Mein erster offizieller Job als Illustrator war die Gestaltung eines Brettspiels für eine französische Organisation, die Kindern in Schulen ein Bewussts...
Inventory: David Shrigley - Brain Activity
Having already seen (and enjoyed greatly) the new David Shrigley exhibition Brain Activity at the Hayward Gallery, we were delighted to get our hands on a copy of the catalogue. A really well-gauged book from the guys...
Nokia Lumia 800: The Little Amazing Show
There’s been an interesting debate recently about brands being too cutesy and so creating something genuinely charming in a commercial context has become all the more difficult. Nokia then deserve a lot of credit for ...
Nathalie du Pasquier
As part of the Memphis collective (led by Ettore Sottsass), Nathalie du Pasquier designed surfaces – textiles and carpets – plus furniture and objects that have the synonymous visual patois of the early 1980s and that...
ciné-tracts
Ciné-TractsJoin UC Berkeley PhD candidate Erica Levin for a screening and discussion of the revolutionary potential of image and text in short silent ciné-tracts produced in the wake of May 1968 by filmmakers such as ...
Nordic Light Interpretations in Architecture
Nordic Light is a 240-pages book with a wide array of lighting projects in nordic architecture as well as essays about light in late 19th century art form. The book contains architects and comtemporary artists such as...
3D Typography
This project explores the integration of typography withthe third-dimension. It examines the potential creative assetsand hazards the third-dimension can bring to the typographicform.
Make your kitchen cooler with these 10 gadgets
As a designer, whether you do graphic, web or industrial design, your friends will expect to see cool gadgets and designy things when they come visit you. In this article, I picked a few kitchen items that will make y...
Greenpeace “become David” ad campaign
I’m not sure about the efficiency of these ads for Greenpeace, but I can tell you for sure that the illustrations are wonderful. Via Designboom.
Applause & Rolling Stone
“Applause” & “Rolling Stone” are 2 kinetic installations by Joshua Sassmannshausen. I’m not sure if I would like to have one of them in my home, but maybe in my office.found at trendbeheer...
937 DAILY DESIGN NEWS AM 20.02.2012
P22 Announces New Release— Ruffcut by Ted Staunton
P22 Ruffcut is the newest addition to the Sherwood Collection of historical and period-based fonts by Ted Staunton. It is an antique wood type style that evokes the look and feel of type used in the design of poster-s...
Experience Freedom
Letzte Woche hat das Team von Infinity List ein weiteres Video veröffentlicht, das sich mit sehr sehr luftigen Extremsportarten beschäftigt. In «Experience Freedom» kann man mit einigen der weltbesten Wingsuit Flyer, ...
gothicecream typeface
for supremebeing design-a-typeface contest i created the gothicecream typeface which is a mash up between esthetics of blackletter typefaces and bubble style typefaces.
FAHRENHEIT 39
FAHRENHEIT 39 – second editionItalian art book fair, curated by Emilio Macchia.Exhibitions, talks, performances, concerts, presentations.February 24-26, 2012NINAPì art gallery, Ravenna
Jackson Cavanaugh´s neue Harriet Serie
“A friend wanted to know what font a fashion magazine – something like Vogue Paris – was set in. The font was Baskerville, which is gorgeous, but when I’ve tried to use it, it didn’t work. Either the italic was too fl...
The 33rd Worlds Best News Design Awards
With the newspaper industry struggling with the mammoth task of redefining its role in the modern media landscape, many are still tolling the bell to announce its demise. But amid all the chatter of business models, d...
Sova Magazine #3 & Call for Entries
Martin Petersen, mit freundlicher Unterstützung des cabinet amsterdam gold van dvlies, veröffentlicht nun die dritte Ausgabe des Sova Magazines, the golden issue. Sova, das ist eines dieser schönen selfpublished ...
Jaime Zuverza
Jaime Zuverza is doing things right. Seemingly drawing inspiration from pizza-fuelled punk posters of the late 1970s/80s, he’s giving a walking-away-middle-finger to anyone that may suggest he’s anything other than br...
Leah Durant
Leah Durant is a recent grad living in Yorkshire, England. She is a multidisciplinary artist working with found images and photography to printmaking and drawing. Thanks for the email.
Henry & Aaron: Its A Snap
It’s rare that an advert manages to combine an interesting creative premise with a genuine connection to the product it is promoting, but my goodness this spot for Australian University the Central Institute of Techno...
TooLongToReadPress
TLTRPreß is a rather unpredictable small and shady publishing house run by Martin Kohout.“In case of Linear Manual, I rather speak about hosting the publication as it’s organized upon a structure of a conference meeti...
ZOO or the letter Z, just after Zionism
“Two white donkeys dyed with black stripes delighted Palestinian kids at a small Gaza zoo who had never seen a zebra in the flesh …”(Reuters, 8 October 2009)ZOO or the letter Z, just after Zionism Ist eine von drei .....
Whats On: Rineke Dijkstra
This weekend, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art opened a retrospective of Rineke Dijkstras’s photographs. Hers are rare and intimate portraits; subjects appear intensely vulnerable as they are captured during the...
Caroline Jane Harris
Caroline Jane Harris creates complex, beautiful pieces which echo the intricate, organic patterns found in nature – the branches of a tree, the veins in a body, some even look like electromagnetic pulses. Her fascinat...
Millenium Magazines: Cabinet Magazine
New York-based Cabinet Magazine is an arts periodical by way of the history, philosophy, tastebuds, know-how and know-what, aesthetics, opinions and poetics of its contributors. It looks like a design magazine and rea...
Millennium Magazines
We are chuffed to the nines (is that even a phrase?) that Issue 7 of It’s Nice That has been selected for a new show at MoMA. Millennium Magazines will explore how, “artists and designers utilise the magazine format a...
The Selfridges Word-a-Coaster: The Video
So you will probably know by now that we have helped Selfridges celebrate their Word Words Words season by constructing a 14 foot high fortune-telling Word-a-Coaster in their showpiece window. But we wouldn’t blame yo...
The Milan Review of the Universe
The sophomore release is a traditionally tricky affair. There are decisions to be made. Do you retain qualities that made the inaugural outing a success? Or do you experiment, try something new, throw caution to the w...
Penelope Umbrico
Recipient of the photography Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011, Penelope Umbrico takes ubiquitous photographic instances and lays them up against each other, like sunsets on Flickr or broken TV sets on eBay (pictured) or ...
Zack Spiger: Gone Tomorrow
There’s something fascinating about the passions of others. Whether it’s collecting weird trinkets from across the world, loving an unfathomably dangerous extreme sport, or simply an obsession with cars; there’s nowt’...
The Works Progress Administration
Chicago-based Pete and Gena have started an online housewares shop called, The Works Progress Administration. They sell limited edition art pieces to spruce up your home/ workspace or to get you a much-needed date. I ...
Butter in Rio
Image 1 of 5 Good friend and TSA contributor, Brian Thomas (aka Butter), has made a brave leap from Brooklyn to Rio de Janeiro to pursue his design career. We thought we’d give him a quick shout-out and wish him all t...
TYPEFACE SHOW FLORIDA 2011
This Typeface show proved to be a great opportunity to do few new pieces based on song lyrics of my choosing and combining illustration knowledge with typography to awaken pleasant moments, and to question what you kn...
This week on Pinterest
I posted earlier this week about Pinterest, and I didn’t change my mind yet: I still find it to be a wonderful source of inspiration. Every week, I’ll be sharing my favorite pins of the week. If you don’t want to miss...
A new logo for Windows 8
You probably have already seen the new Windows 8 logo by now. I did see it about a week ago, but didn’t publish an article because I thought it was a fake.Now, it seems it’s not a fake, but part of Microsoft’s effort ...
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DEMONS of SEDUCTION by Jeffrey Wang ??
Journey to the West. Demons of SeductionSculpture of temptation, craft of sensation.body of a woman - Crazy Horse Paris whispers - is allure.Intriguing lines, ethereal figures.Feline souls in literary classics BLANQ i...
Bookshelf: Rob Ryan
Rob Ryan has long been the paper-cutting stalwart on these meta-pages and those of our magazine. A real master of his craft, his illustrative touch (and scalpel edge) has been applied to literally anything you can thi...
Little Bees ABC
Welcome to Little Bees ABC world where learning the alphabet is so much fun!You will find a happy universe filled with animated characters that will bring a smile to every childrens face.Little Bees ABC easily connect...
Mythical Goddesses
Mural & Digital illustration series exhibited at sloo show in Gerlesborgsskolan, Bohuslan, Sweden
Noe Tanigawa
I was finishing my mural this morning and I heard a voice say “Hey, come around the corner I’ll cook you an omelette”. The voice belonged to Noe Tanigawa. She heard about Pow Wow and decided to come out and cook up de...
1910. 1920, 1930 - A study
Typographic experiments about artistic movements of the first decades of the 10th century.
So you want to be a modern poster designer?
Travis Pitts wrote a short rant he illustrated with fake movie posters using stereotype that are too commonly used for this type of posters. If you want to see something a bit different, check out his redesigns of pop...
937 DAILY DESIGN NEWS AM 18.02.2012
Introducing Dynatype: Typography Enters the World of Tomorrow
Alphabet Soup Type Founders and Michael Doret are proud to announce the release of “Dynatype” on MyFonts.Suddenly...it’s the World of Tomorrow! With the push of a button Dynatype automates your typesetting experience....
The Type Project
The type Project is a Graphic Collection that brings together some of my last typographical works realized in the final part of 2011; principally posters and illustrations for magazines
Things
Goody goody gum drops! More Things? You betcha! This week we’re dishing out some carnivalesque set design, old school rebel publishing, an homage to Gary Hume, vintage Belgian photographs and a batch of illustrations ...
PopArt typeface puzzle
Rompecapezas alfabético presentado en treinta y seis piezas, con veintiséis letras y números del 0 al 9. La typografía PopArt Typeface® fue diseñada para maximizar el área de visibilidad dentro de su forma.© 2011 Manu...
Movie poster of the day
If you are going to subscribe to just one site this week, make it’s this one. The Movie Poster of the Day tumblelog, like its title suggests, shares one poster every day. It’s an awesome source of inspiration if you a...
937 DAILY DESIGN NEWS AM 17.02.2012
Brain Cruncher Game for Quaker Life Packaging
Rod Hunt recently worked with Hornall Anderson Design in Seattle to illustrate the Brain Cruncher game to appear on the back of Quaker Life & Cruchtime Cereal packaging. Five different versions of the illustration wer...
ScreenFonts: January 2012
An announcement before we get started. My presentation at the BNO Romeo Delta evening CUT! at De Unie in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, originally scheduled on January 23, was cancelled due to my father’s passing. Romeo ...
University of Hawaii
Yesterday a few of us spoke at the University of Hawaii. From left to right, Frank Liew, Ken Harman, Suitman, me, Eugene Kan. There may be video of this at some point!Photo from Dayna Kalakau.
Dicibio
Dicibio is the simplest armchair that can be made in various types of materials for indoor or outdoor use. The shape and elasticity of used materials gives it structural support as well as ability to adopt to differen...
The Weekender
When I was just a little weekly culture round-up, I asked my mother, what will I be? Will I be pretty? Will I be rich? Here’s what she said to me: I’m not your real mum. It was so awkward. Anyway I’ve moved on, you sh...
David Meshki
When I think about gymnastics at school I think of sweaty blue mats, borrowed socks and a deep, guilty feeling of wanting to beat my friends at inane tasks involving small beanbags and plastic cones. Timeless and poet...
TYPO Berlin 2012: Sprecherliste nimmt weiter Formen an
Soeben erreichte mich folgendes Update zur TYPO Berlin 2012 mit Sprecher-Zusagen von Ruedi Baur, Matthew Butterick, Kirsten Dietz, Lupi Asensio und Martin Lorenz. Die zweite Frühbucher-Phase endet übrigens am 29. Febr...
Fragen an Illustratoren: Laura Serra
Wie war dein Einstieg in die Branche und was war dein erster Job?Schwierig zu sagen, wenn man mit 2 Jahren angefangen hat zu zeichnen… aber offiziell, habe ich meine Ausbildung zur staatlich geprüften Mediengestalteri...
Expialidocious: Scavengers
Sydney creative collective Expialidocious make excellent work, even if the sound of them is something quite atrocious (little in-joke for you Mary Poppins fans there). This new video for the Bell Towers single Scaveng...
Jim Kazanjian
Upon first look you’d think Jim Kazanjian was a photographer, albeit you’d probably also be scratching your head trying to figure out how the heck these photos have been made. I thought the same, but I was wrong – app...
International Fashion Showcase: a.KNACKFUSS
For our final look at the British Fashion Council’s International Fashion Showcase takes us to Belgium, land of chocolate, mayonnaise on chips and lazy stereotypes. It’s also home to a.KNACKFUSS, an innovative fashion...
Skolar
Vier neue SchriftschnitteDie preisgekrönte Skolar-Familie von Typetogether hat Zuwachs bekommen. Von David BÅ™ezina entworfen und aktualisiert, gibt es nun vier neue Schriftschnitte: Light, ...
Everything’s Gonna Be Alright
»Griechenland« und »Krise« sind Begriffe ohne die keine Nachrichtensendung in den letzten Monaten auskommt. Leider. Was diese Krise für die Designszene im Land bedeutet, hat eine Forschungsgruppe der FH Düsseldorf unt...
Das ABC eines Typografen und die Drei Weieren
Zeitgleich erreichten uns zwei Publikationen aus der Schweiz – Das ABC eines Typografen von Jost Hochuli sowie das Typotron Heft 29 – Drei Weieren von seinem ehemaligen Schüler Roland Stieger. Grund genug, die beiden ...
Nick Knight: Ten Years of Topshop at London Fashion Week
So hold onto your (fabulous) hats everyone – London Fashion Week is here and the opening salvos in the battle for media attention are being fired. Setting a good early standard is this Nick Knight video to celebrate a...
Student of the Month: Call for Submissions
To mark the call for submissions for February’s Student of the Month, we are all doing a little dance in the studio. You can’t see it, unless you log onto your imagination, yeah? So come on, you know the drill by now....
FIGURE Magazine
FIGURE is a cultural journal featuring art, design, music, architecture, nature, photography, medias, gastronomy, style, sport and art de vivre investigations. Biannual and bilingual, each issue features 10 portraits ...
Sarah Illenberger: Architectural Digest
We make no bones about our continued love for Sarah Illenberger – the Berlin-based set designer is simply one of the best in the business. There’s a consistent syntax to her visual language but she is also constantly,...
Brian Ulrich: Dark Stores
We’ve posted Brian Ulrich before – his eye-popping mall photographs depicting masses of produce are a sight to behold. His other project Dark Stores seems to have been going on ever since, and involves Brian re-visiti...
Marijn Hos: Parade
Come take a stroll through Marijn Hos’ parade – a tutti-frutti tangle of characters, each one more hilarous than the next. Who are these rainbow riff-raff and where are they going? The narrative of this Dutch illustra...
I cant apologize enough.
A series of small mixed media works by San Francisco based artist David Fullarton featuring drawn portraits combined with the text of imagined apologies.
Skolar expanded!
Here is a nice treat for all the Skolar fans. The popular award-winning family designed by David Březina has been updated and now includes four new styles: Light and Extrabold with accompanying italics. Loved by read...
Featured designer: Demian Conrad
Demian Conrad is a graphic designer based in Lausanne, Switzerland. He works mostly for clients in the leisure industry or cultural field, always paying particular attention to typography.
Spectrum Horizon & Spectrum Cube
Emilio Gomariz, THE man behind Triangulation Blog, released 2 new video pieces based on the OS X genie effect: Spectrum Horizon & Spectrum Cube. Great work Emilio!
Jeremy Scott Fall 2012 Collection
Here’re a few looks from Jeremy Scott‘s Fall 2012 collection. It screams Tumblr doesn’t it? Just look at the last picture …
937 DAILY DESIGN NEWS AM 16.02.2012
Andy Warhol $ Deeply Superficial
ANDY WARHOL 1960/1980 DEEPLY SUPERFICIALART EXHIBITIONBologna, Italy, 2012 Art FairEvent organized by Orea Malià and Rosini Gutman Gallery.In 1952 Andy Warhol had his first exhibition in Hugo Gallery, New York, how ma...
Gedanken-Wolke mit Paupi
Paupi ist ein guter Mensch. Ich durfte ihn schon persönlich kennen lernen und wir haben auch schon einmal zusammen Fotos gemacht. Wir stehen fast täglich im Kontakt. Ich hab euch auch schon mal sein Portfolio hier auf...
Whats On: Song Dong
Even at its most fundamental level, Song Dong’s Waste Not is extraordinary, a collection of more than 10,000 items collected by his late mother from toothpaste tubes to toys, bowls to blankets. But delve a little deep...
onlab Summer School 2012
Bis 30. März anmeldenIm Oktober wird die onlab Summer School zum zweiten Mal stattfinden. 20 junge, internationale Designer werden bei dem 10-tägigen Workshop zusammen arbeiteten. Das diesjährige Thema dreht sich um S...
Chris OShea: Makego
Fun just got dialled up to 11 thanks to Chris O’Shea’s ingenious new app Makego. It allows kids (and big kids) to combine their real-world creations with an interactive race car, boat or ice-cream truck complete with ...
Jordy van den Nieuwendijk
Lovely balance in the opposing styles of colourful painted voids and simple chromatic line work in Jordy van den Nieuwendijk’s illustrative portfolio; like, one image might sit nicely under the other (or vice versa) b...
Words as Images review
We were buzzing last Thursday after another evening of talks for our Words, Words Words programme at Selfridges’ Ultralounge. Examining the relationship between words and images in various contexts were designer and f...
Close Encounters – Making Books in Collaborations
Close Encounters – Making Books in Collaborations,an exhibition on collaborations in editorial and book design, curated by the students of visual communication of SUPSI Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzer...
The Electric Information Age Book
The Electric Information Age BookMcLuhan/Agel/Fiore and the Experimental Paperbackby Schnapp Jeffrey & Michaels AdamThe Electric Information Age Book explores the nine-year window of mass-market publishing in the sixt...
Jérémie Rozan: Lazy Jeanne
This is just gorgeous. Director Jérémie Rozan’s video to promote the new collection from Surface to Air does not just feature some very beautiful people (and on that note you may need to be careful at work due to a co...
Fragen an Illustratoren: Silke Werzinger
Wie war dein Einstieg in die Branche und was war dein erster Job?Ich habe während meines Designstudiums Ende 2005 ein Praktikum in einer Illustratorengemeinschaft in Berlin gemacht und in dieser Zeit eine Website und ...
Demian Conrad
Demian Conrad has been a typographer, a student of lateral thinking, a curator and now a designer. Two of his projects stand-out as great examples of the nonlinear practicality of his education so far: Photo-Lithogram...
International Fashion Showcase: Caterina Gatta
The cruel irony of the fashion industry’s practice of seasonally preemptive collections (i.e. spring/summer lines drop in January/February) really comes to a head with these sun-kissed creations from Italian designer ...
Poor Céline
Poor Céline is a meditation on gravity, crystallisation & disintegrationProduced by Nin Bose & Nathan CollinsDirected & sound by David VighCreative direction: Nin Bose & Nathan CollinsDirector of photography: Zoltán T...
Parco della Balossa
For my master degree final work I have realized the identity system and the signage for a suburban big park.
Charlie Brooker: Sun Poem
Charlie Brooker is less a man made of flesh and gristle, and more of a seething, splenetic modern media phenomenon, savaging society’s silly foibles and crass obsessions with aplomb. His latest vehicle Ten O’Clock Liv...
Mehr Sein als Schein: Das ADC Young Masters Seminar »Design«
Wie entwickelt man eine starke CI? Welche Rolle spielt Design bei der Produktentwicklung? Wieviel Kunst verträgt Design? Wie kommt die Marke in den Raum? Wie definiert Typographie ein starkes Branding?Design ist mehr ...
Signierstunde mit Anton Corbijn
Bücherbogen am Savignyplatz Der große Fotograf, Designer und Filmemacher Anton Corbijn ist am Samstag, den 18.02. um 11:30 Uhr in der Buchhandlung Bücherbogen in Berlin und gibt eine Signierstunde. Wer nicht vor ...
Karolin Schnoor
It always feels a bit creepy to develop a friend crush on someone you don’t even know, but after receiving a hand-written note and illustrated booklet from Ms. Schnoor (which prompted a nosey browse through her websit...
Whats On: Last Days of the Arctic
It’s all too easy for landscape photographs to fall into clumsily-recognisable tropes – which in the case of the Arctic often manifests as “serene, imposing, beauty.” But having spent 30 years photographing the Arctic...
Karrie Fransman: The House That Groaned
When we got our hands on Karrie Fransman’s widely-praised debut graphic novel we were eager to see what all the fuss was about – and boy oh boy it didn’t disappoint. It’s a dark tale of a woman moving into a shared ho...
D&AD Awards 2012
This video shows 50 years of D&AD work in under two minutes. How many can you spot?
Rechtliche Schutzmöglichkeiten von Schriften
In den vergangenen Tagen ging es im Netz mal wieder um die Frage, welche rechtlichen Schutzmöglichkeiten für Schriften bzw. Fonts bestehen. Auch ich beschäftige mich – nicht nur berufsbedingt – mit dieser Frage und mö...
Font Development - 1
Creating a new font is real hard work ... especially when you are trying to do it in calligraphic style ... but at the end ... its pur awesomeness ... ;D
iOS’ 86
Am I the only one to find these retro icons by Anton Repponen better than the actual iPhone icons?
937 DAILY DESIGN NEWS AM 15.02.2012
Mercedes-Benz Tweet Fleet. By Jung von Matt/Neckar.
Cars tweet empty parking spacesThe Active Parking Assist from Mercedes-Benz recognizes empty parking spaces by simply passing them. That brought us to the idea: If the car knows where the empty parking spaces are – th...
Black Herds Of The Rain
A nice little film following Conor Harrington as he paints Ireland.Watch the film below!
WWF Relaunch
Die deutsche Sektion der weltgrößten Umweltschutzorganisation WWF hat seit gestern eine neue Website. Der Relaunch hatte das nachvollziehbare Ziel, die Besuchszahlen und Seitenaufrufe zu steigern und eine höhere Verwe...
Synoptic Office
Caspar Lam and YuJune Park make up Synoptic Office. Both Yale graduates and both prolific makers and educators within the design field, their collective output is that of two people with a keen awareness of graphics’ ...
»Schön Scheitern«
Stegreifgeschichten vom ScheiternSchön Scheitern – wie absurd hört sich das für uns an?! Wie kann man denn schön scheitern? Und überhaupt? Und genau aus dieser Absurdität heraus, erscheint seit Anfang des Jahres das k...
Almir Mavignier
Almir Mavignier is a Brazilian born painter and graphic designer that studied at the Ulm School of Design (hfg Ulm). During his career he has amassed a massive portfolio of excellent poster designs. His use of colors ...
Antonio Marguet
If Antonio Marguet ran on a certain kind of fuel, it would probably be “high-octane absurdity”. He calls himself a born collector, and he’s been mismatching the best of his finds to create some seriously bizarre struc...
Pinterest: Bild vs Text.
Nicht dass man was daran ändern könnte. Aber was haltet ihr eigentlich davon, dass Plattformen wie Pinterest eure Illustrationen, Grafiken und Fotos kommerziell verwenden, ohne euch zu crediten.Martin Weigert von Netz...
Fragen an Illustratoren: André Gottschalk
Wie war dein Einstieg in die Branche und was war dein erster Job?Eigentlich bin ich gar kein Illustrator, jedenfalls kein gelernter, sondern habe Grafikdesign in Dessau studiert. Als Grafiker habe ich in verschiedenen...
The Popular Workshop: Jet Lag by Luis Urculo
We posted about Luis Urculo’s “new show”http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/luis-urculo-jet-lag at San Francisco gallery The Popular Workshop a couple of weeks ago and now they’ve produced this neat little behind-the-...
IL #38 Coverstory Illustrations
34 illustrations, 10 portraits, 11 gothic dropcaps, 2 special pages and 1 map + 12 icons. This what we drawed for Il - Intelligence in Lifestyle issue number 38 (IlSole 24 Ore).
Jonathan May
The world captured through Jonathan May’s lens looks pretty bonkers. The eccentric subjects he documents seem like caricatures and parodies of their context. He embraces a sense of absurdity – way too muscly men, lama...
Type Treatments
Below a selection of logos and type treatments that Ive done in the last two years.Some one commissioned, some one not
designator
Seit Kurzem gibt es das neue Blog designator, welches von Georg Engels initiiert wurde. Es beschäftigt sich mit den Kernthemen »Designer und Autor«, »Designer als Autor« und »Autoren über Design«.Da das Blog erst seit...
Oscar Bolton Green
Oscar Bolton Green has long been a regular sender-inner of illustrated books and zines and his aesthetic of drawn, simple, clean graphics always catches our collective eye. Now, with more than enough autonomous and co...
International Fashion Showcase: Minju Kim
Fashion shows can be terrifying, all the spikey shoes and flashing lights and terrifying models. Minju Kim take this and then adds a certain je ne sais quoi with her ‘historical costume’ inspired pieces. Check them ou...
Laura Marling: All My Rage
It’s not that hard to watch and listen to Laura Marling, and since Fred & Nick started directing her videos they’re making the job even easier. By creating simple and honest music videos – usually featuring Marling si...
2012 Vimeo Awards
Just a heads up to all you animators and filmmakers, there’s one week left to submit to the 2012 Vimeo Awards! Grand prize is a cool $25,000 and there’s $5,000 grants for the winners of each category!
Pocoyo
Character design and personalities created by Guillermo García Carsí for Zinkia Entertainment. As well as stories and Directing of most of the 104 episodes.
BERG at St Bride
Following the highly successful Critical Tensions conference last November, St Bride Foundation is pleased to welcome Timo Arnall and friends to enlighten us about their work with design studio BERG.A growing and sign...
SPIN / CHRISTIE’S MAGAZINE (BELLA IN USE)
London design studio Spin have put Bella to fine use in the design and art direction of Christie’s magazine. Bella (designed by Rick Banks) is currently our #1 best seller, and being Exclusive to HFT it’s even better ...
Confetti System
You can say you’re not into shiny things like gold, or dangly things like tassles – but I’d like to see you deny the super-positive effect of shiny gold tassles. Creative pair Nicholas Andersen and Julie Ho have caugh...
RBG6: H&M In-store films
“It only takes a minute girl” as Take That famously sang, but now Swedish directors RBG6 have teamed up with production company Aspekt to prove you can do something wonderful in half that time. Their series of in-stor...
Skyn Condoms
Yesterday saw the worldwide launch of new condom Skyn – an aspirational prophylactic who’s bold brand strategy includes focussing on female consumers and using real-life testimonials at the core of the communications ...
Ghost Recon Online - Team
Hero Visual and Animation for the launch of Ghost Recon Online by Ubisoft. Done at Ars Thanea
937 DAILY DESIGN NEWS AM 14.02.2012
10 useful htaccess tricks to improve your website
For some reason, the .htaccess file is often overlooked by web designers. If you have no idea what the .htaccess file is, I’ll just give you the Wikipedia definition: “A .htaccess (hypertext access) file is a director...
Heidi Mortenson / Et Stykke Mindre
This video from Danish electronic artist Heidi Mortenson is all kinds of awesome. Featuring Randy Halverson’s time lapsed footage in Dakota, the music’s sparse arrangements and heavy bass make this video feel like the...
Mixel Web Site 2.0
A sneak preview of the revised Web site for the popular social collage app Mixel. Designed by Khoi Vinh and Roy Stanfield.
WWF-Relaunch
Am heutigen Dienstag wurde die deutsche Website des WWF einem Relaunch unterzogen. Hierbei ist das vornehmliche Ziel des Projekts die Steigerung der Besuchszahlen und Seitenaufrufe und einer höhere Verweilsdauer der N...
Whats On: Yayoi Kasuma
I was curious to see whether the recently opened Yayoi Kasuma exhibition at the Tate Modern would live up to the hype and reputation that’s been building up. It absolutely did. Encountering Kasuma’s art a few years ag...
If We Dont, Remember Me
Right then you web-savvy culture vultures – ready to lose some of your afternoon? Course you are. If We Don’t, Remember Me is that most perfect of Tumblrs – stupidly simple, stupidly addictive. Take stills from famous...
Phil Cuttance: Faceture
When Mr. Cuttance got in touch to share his project of “handmade faceted vessels”, I must admit I didn’t really know what that meant. But one look through his portfolio cast my confusion aside – I may not know much ab...
Captive II
A romanticized notion, an idea; the thought or feeling rather than the reality - the romantic perception. We find ourselves as captive as they are.
Toby Dye: Another Night Out
From the Rocky franchise to Cinderella Man and Million Dollar Baby to Raging Bull, film-makers have long appreciated the poetic power of boxing. But few have created something so heart-stoppingly beautiful as Toby Dye...
Design Voices
Was geht in den Köpfen der weltweit führenden Designer vor? Was ist ihnen gerade am wichtigsten? Und wie interpretieren sie die Veränderungen und Konstanten der heutigen Kultur?Design Voices ist eine Sammlung von Inte...
FIGURE – give your support
FIGURE is a Paris-based cultural journal featuring art, design, music,architecture, nature, photography, medias, gastronomy, style, sport andart de vivre investigations.Biannual and bilingual, each issue features 10 p...
International Fashion Showcase: Marit Ilison
Fashion is never just about the clothes for this Estonian designer _ it’s about ideas! He’s renowned for immense fashion performance/installation projects like 70 Cotton Smocks , a comment on lost identity, and Lúmine...
LoveFilm: Happy Valentines Day
We’re not usually ones for bandwagon-jumping but to celebrate the most romantic day/cynical marketing ploy of the year (delete as appropriate) this effort from LoveFilm ticks all our boxes. Say it with flowers, but if...
Call for Entries – bright! Typography between Illustration & Art
Typografie stellt für viele Künstler ein schöpferisches Spannungsfeld dar. Wieviel Aussagekraft steckt in einem Buchstaben, in einem Wort, in einem Satz, wenn diese an sich höchst kommunikativen Einheiten bild- oder o...
Whats On: Picasso & Modern British Art
Picasso, the quintessential maverick, is an artists revered by many, and this latest Tate Britain effort will only further cement his reputation. But this show isn’t mere hero-worship, the emphasis here is on interpre...
Esoteric Form / A1 Screen-prints
Esoteric Form Editions One & Two A1 Prints £38Limited run of 25 silk-screen prints. 240gsm Colourplan, A1, 594×841mmExhibited at Art Mosh London, Munich and Oslo.
David Zilber
These days, creative polymaths are commonplace. But have you ever come across a professional butcher-cum-photographer, as happy working in fine dining establishments across Canada as he is wielding a camera? Enter Dav...
Steve Hoover: Blood Brother
It takes some skill to make a documentary about a Westerner working with Indian orphans infected with AIDS that doesn’t seem clumsy or cliche-ridden. It takes even more talent to tell this humbling story in as beautif...
Millennium Magazines
Millennium Magazines, a survey of artists’ magazines published since 2000, explores the various ways in which contemporary artists utilize the magazine format as an experimental space for the presentation of works and...
Street art by Nikita Nomerz
Nomerz creates very cool street art by painting faces on walls, using some of the architectural elements to create part of the wall. Check out more of his work.
Join me on Pinterest
A couple of weeks ago I decided to give a try to Pinterest, the rising social network that’s let’s you create collections of images and things. I’m glad I did. Pinterest is the first site that got me so enthusiast in ...
Disco Deco
Countless of people have tried to create a alphabet that is built up from the most basic geometrical shapes. But Ive found them to be not really elegant and legible enough or not simple and pure enough. So I had to gi...
Starry Night – Interactive Animation
Petros Vrellis made a very fascinating version of “Starry Night” by Vincent van Gogh. He wanted to visualize the flow of the famous painting and let user can interact with it by touch. The result is stunning! Even the...
937 DAILY DESIGN NEWS AM 13.02.2012
Coca Cola 125th Year Exhibition
For Coca-Colas 125th Anniversary Exhibitions Future Room concept, Antilop transformed santralistanbuls Galeri 1 into an immersive environment by creating 90 square meter of 270-degree projection system.Client:Coca Col...
Glazer
A nice bit of self-promotion here from Glazer for Valentine’s Day. They’ve also done a nice video, too.
Ballantine’s Valentine’s
Looking to rise above the clichéd messages and send something fun, Ballantine’s have created two light-hearted alternative Valentine’s Day e-cards.The world’s No 2 Scotch whisky brand is celebrating Valentine’s Day th...
Album Packages for Arcade Fire and Bruce Springsteen Win Grammy Awards
Yesterday, Sunday February 12, The Recording Academy presented the 54th Grammy Awards, honouring “artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album s...
Frances Melhop
Frances Melhop (*1966) ist eine sehr bemerkenswerte und zurecht mehrfach ausgezeichnete Fotografin. Ihre Biografie alleine wirkt schon schillernd, ihre Aufnahmen stehen dem aber in nichts nach. Ursprünglich stammt Fra...
HTML & CSS
Most books on code are visually boring, but HTML & CSS designed by Jon Duckett makes the reading experience much more interesting and fun. I haven’t read the book, but I’d guess that the good design will help with the...
Maru
Maru is a showroom and online boutique selling high-end Japanese design objects ranging from delicate porcelain to handmade stationery. Founded and curated by Japanese architect Motoko Yoshida, the Oslo based boutique...
Stilson
FontbureauStilson wurde nach dem Gründer der Washington Post, Stilson Hutchins, benannt. Eigentlich handelt es sich dabei um eine Ergänzung der Washington Post Headline-Schrift Postoni von Matthew Carter, die 2009 zum...
Lauren Francescone
There’s a lot of trendy graphic design knocking about at the moment – I say at the moment, there’s probably been trendy graphic design since ancient Rome – but can all of them compete with the sweet nature of Lauren F...
Mit 2€ viel bewegen. Interaktives Plakat von Kolle Rebbe
Was eine 2 Euro Spende alles bewirken kann, zeigt ein interaktive Plakat von Misereor am Hamburger Flughafen. Hier geht’s zur Aktion und zu den Bildern der Spender: http://on.fb.me/ytaM3O
SHOWStudio: Visions Couture
Innovative is a word thrown around a little sloppily sometimes, but there is no doubting that SHOWStudio are at the forefront of twisting and toying with the limits of fashion film. Nick Knight’s new work for Paris de...
Polarama – Rund um das Sofortbild
In Schwäbisch Gmünd können sich Freunde der Polaroid Fotografie ab dem ersten März auf der Polarama treffen. In der foto-grafik-art gallery findet eine Ausstellung zum Thema Polaroid statt. Neben Arbeiten von Hella Kr...
Wir sind Niemand. Wir sind No.One – Call for Entries
No.One ist ein unabhängiges und unkommerzielles Magazin von Berliner Designstudenten. Eine Bühne für Mut und Freiheit, Fiktion und Realität sowie Unerwartetes und Experimentelles.Jede Ausgabe widmet sich einem Thema. ...
Marcelo Gomes
One of my colleagues described Marcelo Gomes’ work as “off the chain” and even though I nodded and smiled, I had literally no idea what he was talking about. Then I went to the photographer’s website to see for myself...
Tour d’Europe
Post aus FinnlandAn einem kalten Wintermorgen war es plötzlich da. Ein großes Paket aus einer kleinen finnischen Stadt namens Porvoo. Da wir nicht häufig große Pakete aus kleinen finnischen Städten bekommen, war es sc...
World Press Photo of the Year 2012
Samuel Aranda für CorbisDer Corbis Fotograf Samuel Aranda ist Gewinner des World Press Photo of the Year Award 2012. Der Spanier arbeitete in den letzten Wochen anonym im Yemen, als einziger westlicher Fotograf. Er hä...
Vimeo Festival + Awards: Eliot Rausch
The annual Vimeo awards are back and open for business and if the aim to be bigger and better than last year is achieved, then we’re all in for something special. With a stunning line-up of judges just announced (incl...
Nord Korea – Photoshop Tutorial
Ich hab selten so ein geniales, lustiges Tutorial gesehen. Photoshop made by North Korea. Aber schaut selbst und tragt es in die Welt. Ähnliche Beiträge:Inkling von Wacom (Papier Zeichnung in Vektoren) Ich selbst kann...
International Fashion Showcase: Kathleen Kye
If there’s one thing that definitely flies in today’s fashion world it a touch of the ridiculous (Thom Brown’s maniacal headgear hardly looking out of place on the catwalk in Paris). So we’re pretty sure that Kathleen...
The International Fashion Showcase
With only four days to go until the start of London Fashion Week we can’t get clothes off the brain. 2012, as we know, is quite a special year for our fair city, and the British Fashion Council have taken this on boar...
Eda Akaltun: BAFTA 2012 Illustrations
In the post BAFTA glow – with the great and good of showbusiness either polishing the famous statuettes along with their egos or telling any entertainment hack that it’s the Oscars that really count – three cheers for...
Oliver Ruuger: S/S 2012
We aren’t the only ones with a window at Selfridges – the company’s current Bright Young Things effort is a storefront showcase of new British design talent. I was particularly taken with the work of the ingenious Oli...
Isaiah Seret: You Know What I Mean
Who doesn’t like a stunt to give them a good wake up on a Monday morning? Well luckily for you the new Cults record comes with this ace little video from Isaiah Seret with a few beauties – extreme falls, first degree ...
Jeanie Finlay: Sound it Out
“It’s all about emotions with records. Emotions and memories.” So says Tom, the owner of the last record shop in the Teeside area of north-east England about this final bastion of all things vinyl, and the same senten...
Cabriole
Cabriole is a typeface for books about heroes that save the world while reciting some poetry
Pow Wow Hawaii
Pow Wow Hawaii begins! 30 of us will be staying in this beautiful house on the North Shore this week. Stay tuned!Photo by Brandon Shigeta.
Jennifer Behr Brand Book
Luxury hair accessory designer, Jennifer Behr, approached RoAndCo to design her 2011 brand book. The brand places a strong emphasis on handmade, high quality designs. We created a large canvas box that encases four bo...
Mouse hole outlet cover
Probably the cutest way to cover an outlet I’ve ever seen. Found at Bored Panda, could’t find the original source.
937 DAILY DESIGN NEWS AM 12.02.2012
Top 5 Farbwolke Flickr Pool #32
Über 5 Monate keine Top 5 des Farbwolke Flickr Pools. Das kann ja nun auch nicht ganz sein. Ich gelobe Besserung. Hier findet ihr eine kleine Auswahl die mir sehr zusagt. Flickr-Farbwolke Pool Stats: Mitglieder: 851 /...
Nimbus Sans Novus by URW
Originally designed by Max Miedinger (Stempel Studio), Nimbus Sans Novus is a version of Linotypes Stempel Studio source, based on Neue Helvetica, but without the extended fonts. The fonts ending with (D) names contai...
Bookshelf: Grant Orchard
Grant Orchard is an award winning director at the design and animation-based Studio AKA, whose short film A Morning Stroll is nominated for a Bafta tonight. Best of luck to him! In our own little way we’ll celebrate t...
Cesium-137
Cesium -137 is the A/W 2012 collection of Berlin based fashion brand Treches. Treches do high-quality streetwear to make the choice of buying organic and fair clothing a little easier. They work with bold color-combin...
Great White Hots
This was a project for a client trying to get into the Myrtle Beach scene. I directed this project and was responsible for creation of a logo and branding of the entire company. I came up with the idea to keep it fun ...
Birds
the project Birs has the sole purpose of sharing the beauty of birds, a personal passion of all life, even after death. all the birds present in the work were not killed, but were found already dead. The work will be ...
Street art by Hanksy
Fan of both Tom Hanks and Banksy? Meet Hanksy, a street artist that replicates Banksy’s artworks and incorporates Tom Hanks’ head in it. The result is pretty hilarious and worth checking out. Just like Banksy, he rema...
937 DAILY DESIGN NEWS AM 11.02.2012
Ivy Noir Mens Jewellery
The Noir collection is a dark interpretation of traditional Ivy League elements. Created under the slogan Socii Extra Muros, Ivy Noir pays homage to an imaginary Off-Campus League - the ones who challenge the purist f...
Things
When some things become to much, we turn to other things for relief. And that’s why Things is here – to alleviate any leftover hummidy drummidy of your long workin’ week. Yup, it’s Saturday morning and time for your r...
Allegheny Financial
2012 Annual Planner for Allegheny Financial. The combination of yellow pages tied together with red thread in a sewn binding with an open spine stitch was matched on the cover by using red and holographic foil, one ov...
Small house frames out of wood by Ted Lott
Ted Lott is both an woodworker and an artist. He recently built some cool wooden sculptures that are a mix of traditional craft and modern architectural structures. Via Design Milk.
Sweater Letter - Family Set
Private commission for a family set of Sweater Letters. There are 4 in the set, each hand embroidered with DMC/Anchor cotton floss thread on cotton fabric.
937 DAILY DESIGN NEWS AM 10.02.2012
FAN-PLAST!C
Studenten der Fachrichtung Grafikdesign der HGB Leipzig, betreut von Katharina Immekus, zeigen Singles und Zines. Die Ausstellung wurde zwar gestern schon eröffnet, ist aber noch bis 10.02.2012 bei mzin zu sehen.
The Weekender
Next week is Valentine’s Day and so to get you in a frisky mood, The Weekender has generously agreed to share some of its romance tips. 1. A sexy surprise is rarely appropriate on the bus. 2. NOTHING says commitment l...
v-mag #1 – Schöne Aussichten
Magazin über den kreativen Nachwuchsv-mag ist eine Initiative der Druckerei Vogl in München. Zum Thema »Schöne Aussichten«, erschien soeben die erste Ausgabe, die eine Bestandsaufnahme der deutschen Kreativität an ...
Costco Typography
Welcome to another ‘week’ in type. So much is happening, I can barely keep up. If you haven’t already read it, then head on over to Typographica for their brilliant list of 50 favorite typeface releases of 2011. A gre...
Vander Yacht: Thank God Its Mondays Graphics Interchange Format
“I was born and raised in Oregon, living in the suburbs and developing nicely as a loud nerd who drew dragons.” So begins Vander Yacht’s online biography and to be fair, his website gets even better from there. You mi...
Typeforms
Selected work from various identity projects done over the years. Features typography (most are separated from the forms).
Every Wes Anderson Slow-motion shot, set to Ja Rule
In every Wes Anderson there is a slow motion scene – FACT – and the best part about the internet is that these facts can be taken on board and ran with. So, if you’re not into montages or funny internet videos look aw...
Ryan Hopkinson
Last week we excitingly published Le Creative Sweatshop’s Jelly and Light, an intriguing series of still lifes featuring lamps cast in jelly. The images were stylish and well-composed but, most surprisingly, they appe...
The Day Before
«The Day Before» ist ein Kurzfilm von David Weigert und beschäftigt sich mit dem Thema Prokrastination. Das Aufschieben notwendiger und wichtiger Aufgaben wird geschickt als größter Feind von Produktivität und letztli...
Lottie Davies: Memories and Nightmares
Come get lost in Lottie’s dreams…or are they nightmares? The surreal splendor of her half-asleep, half-awake imagery leaves the viewer full of questions. Every one of her pictures is an unfinished sentence – she keeps...
ROMA PUBLICATIONS: PROVISIONAL SPACE
Roma Publications: Provisional SpaceAn exhibition by the artists, designers, writers, who constitute the society of the Amsterdam-based Roma Publications.With Nickel van Duijvenboden, Kees Goudzwaard, Arnoud Holleman,...
Stockholm Design Week 2012: Never Mind the Object
Running in conjunction with the Stockholm Design Week is a beautiful fete called the Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair, and we were lucky enough to hear from four students at Beckmans College of Design who were keen ...
Orinoco Ochre / Camera Giveaway
My friends at Lomography have hooked me up with another camera to giveaway! This time it’s the “Orinoco Ochre” edition of the La Sardina (comes with a flash). Who wants it?
Jody Barton and Luke Pommersheim
Street posters by Jody Barton and Luke Pommersheim. Jody explains, Jens is a common Danish name and KL.14 means 2.00pm.
Störspannung
Analog erzeugte Typografie Patrick Müßiggang hat im Rahmen des Projekts “Error” (geleitet von Prof. Sven Voelker) an der Burg Giebichenstein in Halle mit Kathodenstahlröhren experimentiert und Typografie ...
WHITE BOX
A/V performance for a tryptic of HD video screens and quadraphonic audioWhite Box is a work based on a new way of generating A/V compositions in real time and is a new piece in a cycle that began in 2003 with Black Bo...
Die schönsten deutschen Bücher 2010 im Reading Room – Eröffnung
Heute Abend findet die Ausstellungseröffnung zur Veranstaltungsreihe 2012 im Reading Room von do you read me?! statt, die sich den im Rahmen des Wettbewerbs der Stiftung Buchkunst als schönste deutsche Bücher 2010 aus...
Helmut Smits
Helmut Smits describes himself as a multi-disciplinary visual artist and embraces the full vagueness of this term – not limiting himself to one medium means he’s constantly changing things up, working on a myriad of v...
Bjørn Rune Lie
For some of you, Bjorn will need no introduction. You may recognise him from NoBrow’s Gods and Monsters , and I am led to believe he is quite a prominent figure in Bristol’s thriving illustration community. Whether he...
Nuclear Slide Rules
From the smug vantage point of the early 20th Century, it’s easy to forget that not that long ago the threat of nuclear destruction was a part of everyday life. These radiation monitoring chats were mostly developed i...
Apeirophobia
Apeirophobia – Karin Kihlberg & Reuben HenryPresented by the Reading RoomApeirophobia is a new publication by artists Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry, designed and co-edited by James Langdon, exploring the processes of ...
SOYA
The SOYA awards entries are now open. Along with potentially winning a trip to the Cannes Lions Festival, the winner gets a seat at Vince Frost’s studio.
Perlen aus Papier
Die kleinste Form der Grafik. Das Miniaturplakat. Kulturgut jedes Landes. Zeugen der Zeit. Alltagsästhetik.All das sind Inhalte mit denen sich die Ausstellung »Perlen aus Papier« der beiden Master Studentinnen, Kira S...
An annual report powered by the sun
This is a quite creative use of modern printing techniques by Mathias Nösel and Matthäus Frost. This annual report appears blank when you are indoors, but reveals the content when you get some sunlight.I just wish the...
OI
These OI (Open Internet) protest signs by Aram Bartholl are !!!You can still them at his solo exhibition ‘Reply All’ at [DAM]Berlin till March 10th.Actually I already have an Internet LED shield myself. Could you make...
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Mark Garry
“Being here”, by Mark Garry. Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh a few years ago. Thread, pins, beads, and carved basswood.
Berlin Dynamic
Berlin kennen wir ja alle, aber so habt ihr Berlin sicher auch noch nicht gesehen. Ich hab bei einem alten Bekannten mal wieder auf seinen Blog geschaut und dabei diese Perle entdeckt. Berlin versinkt in Hektik, Berli...
Bülb Grafix
Bülb Grafix (from the excellent team behind Bülb Comix) is made up of French creative duo Mathieu Christe and Nicolas Robel, and they’ve just updated their site. It’s filled with projects that go beneath the high-qual...
A History of its Own? Graphic Design and Feminism
A History of its Own? Graphic Design and FeminismThis free and public seminar includes three talks and a panel discussion about the status of feminism in graphic design today. Unlike the history of art and literature,...
Ausstellung des Wettbewerbs Gute Gestaltung 12
Der Deutsche Designer Club e.V. (DDC) präsentiert vom 27. bis 29. April 2012 die ausgezeichneten Arbeiten des Wettbewerbs Gute Gestaltung 12 in einer Ausstellung in den Kolonnaden des Wiesbadener Kurhauses. Der Wettbe...
Perlen aus Papier
Die kleinste Form der Grafik. Das Miniaturplakat. Kulturgut jedes Landes. Zeugen der Zeit. Alltagsästhetik. All das sind Inhalte mit denen sich die Ausstellung »Perlen aus Papier« der beiden Master Studentinnen, Kira ...
Jonathan Burton
Flicking through the portfolio of Jonathan Burton has the same visceral pleasure as biting into a perfectly ripe peach. Throughout his decade-long evolution as an illustrator he’s aged his craft until achieving perfec...
SAMIZDAT – I PUBLISH MYSELF, I DO THE PUBLISHING MYSELF
The Samizdat workshop (January/April 2010), lead by Marco Balesteros and Sofia Goncalves, proposed the creation of a space for critique and practice in the context of self-publishing.Its central guidelines were the bl...
Lisa Nilsson: Tissue Series
You know that mess of blood and guts and tubes and nodules and organs and other science stuff that makes up our innards? Well American artist has a lovely way of describing it – as “the densely squished and lovely int...
Words as Communication: write-up
Last Thursday James Bridle, We all Need Words, and Paul Lewis set the bar very high with an engaging evening of talks tackling varying forms of communication. Cheered by beers, we sat back within the comfy confines of...
Artworklove
Not to be confused with the Julia Roberts rom-com Eat Pray Love, this small design studio is churning out some brilliant work for high-end brands such as Cacharel, Alexander McQueen and Chloe. Their work is focused ar...
Fragen an Illustratoren: Julia Pfaller
Wie war dein Einstieg in die Branche und was war dein erster Job?Mit ein paar einfachen Zeichnungen im Fotoalbum bin ich zur Neon Redaktion gelaufen: Glück gehabt, dran geblieben. Meine Kollegin Tina Berning hat mir s...
Audi A4 – Taktgeber des Fortschritts
Agentur: KempertrautmannRegie: Carl Erik RinschProduktion: MarkenfilmMusik: Sizzer AmsterdamWebseite: http://www.audi.de/a4
Stockholm Design week 2012: Form us With Love
There’s two things we love about this Swedish design studio currently exhibiting their new line at Stockholm Design Week. Firstly, the clever wordplay in their name, a lovely linguistic trick that has the aded benefit...
INGRAPHICS Vol. 3
»Ruht Euch nicht auf Euren Lorbeeren aus ...« – so steht es im Editorial der dritten Ausgabe von INGRAPHICS, die mit vielen interessanten Artikeln daher kommt. Aus dem Pressetext: 100 Jahre nach dem Untergang der Tit...
Das Corporate Design des neuen Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg
Ein Interview mit Realgestalt über Entstehung und Umsetzung des Corporate Designs für den neuen Berlin-Brandenburg Flughafen.Was ist die größte Herausforderung bei der Entwicklung eines Corporate Designs für einen Wel...
Pieces from the whole
Seine Affinität zum Thema Grafik und Mode ist im Werk sichtbar: Johannes König, Jahrgang 1979, als Art Director bei Melville Brand Design tätig, mixt in seinen freien Arbeiten analoge und digitale Techniken: Skizzen,...
Kindness: Gee Up
Oh my giddy aunt this is terrific. The video for the new Kindness single Gee Up begins as an enjoyably lo-fi if fairly straightforward music video, and then, two minutes in, everything changes. We cut to mockumentary ...
Le musée par l’artiste lui-même
Marcel BroodthaersLe musée par l’artiste lui-mêmepar Catherine Mayeur, historienne de l’artdans le cadre de Clés pour le XXIème siècleLa réflexion sur le cadre muséal amènent de nombreux artistes, d’horizons très dive...
Fumetto Festival 2012
Ende März findet das 21. Internationale Comix-Festival Fumetto in Luzern statt, welches die Grenzen des Mediums Comic auslotet und es in Bezug zu anderen künstlerischen Formen stellt. Neben zahlreichen Ausstellungen i...
Jan von Holleben: Lily & Jonathan
There can be few more stressful things for a child – or their family – than a stay in hospital but photographer Jan von Hollebon is doing her bit to help with her biggest ever project, having just installed massive ne...
Whats On: Lucian Freud Portraits
“Everything is autobiographical” Lucian Freud said, “everything is a portrait, even if it’s only a chair.” Freud himself was instrumental in the bringing together the pieces in the show at London’s National Portrait G...
Diego Gimenez: Highway Portraits
Full-time jobs take up a lot of time, so how do you make room for creativity between all your various obligations and errands? Diego Gimenez solved the problem by mixing his photography habit with his morning commute ...
MALUKU // in typography
Maluku in typography by Daniël Matakupan,The Maluku Island (also known as the Moluccan Island, the Spice Island) are an archipelago that is part of Indonedia, and part of the larger Maritime Southeast Asia region.Tect...
The Darkest Lord – 25 Spine-Chilling Darth Vader Fan Art
As Star Wars has gone on to become a popular culture phenomenon, much of the credit goes to its characters. Darth Vader, for one, has helped the films achieve massive success. His rise as a Jedi Knight to his fall to ...
Event & Music Website
User interface design for an event listing page for an undisclosed client. The website functions and the design is minimalistic and focused on displaying simple event information ordered by date and time for one city....
Russell Hill
I quite like Russell Hill‘s ready made installations made of detergent bottles.found at iGNANT
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„Parcours“ – Die Absolventen des Fachbereichs Design präsentieren ihre Diplom- und Bachelorarbeiten
Die Studierenden des Fachbereichs Design an der Fachhochschule Münster haben ihren Parcours mit den vielfältigen Herausforderungen gut gemeistert. Davon können sich Interessierte nun ein Bild machen, denn die letzte H...
Diplomausstellung an der Hochschule Darmstadt
Vom 10. bis 12. Februar findet am Fachbereich Gestaltung der Hochschule Darmstadt die Diplomausstellung statt. Die Vernissage mit anschließender Beglückwünschung der Diplomanden findet diesen Freitag, den 10.02.2012 u...
Global Service Jam Berlin 2012
48 Stunden für eine Serviceinnovation – Berliner Service Jam als Teil eines globalen InnovationseventsAm Wochenende vom 24. bis 26 Februar 2012 findet an über 85 Orten weltweit zum zweiten Mal das interdisziplinäre In...
kreative Produktvorstellung
Wie kann man ein neues Produkt vorstellen? Man kann eine Webseite veröffentlichen, man kann ein weißes Tuch darüber legen und dann später das Geheimnis lüften. Oder man macht es wie die Firma “Redley” mit einem feinen...
Sami Kallio
There is something of a craft-like play in Sami Kallio’s furniture. The careful folding, cutting and twisting inflicted on wood and metal recalls the way you might treat paper when fashioned into a lantern or simple d...
Lundgren+Lindqvist
The Sweden based design and development bureau Lundgren+Lundqvist has updated with some fresh new work. Looking very good!
Paul Ward
We see A LOT of photography portfolios here at It’s Nice That and while most display a good deal of technical skill, there’s often a lack of personality on show. Step forward then 22-year-old Cape Town creative Paul W...
Diploma Winter 2011/2012
Rechtzeitig zum Ende des Wintersemesters 2011/12 lädt der Fachbereich Gestaltung der FH Aachen, wieder zur “Diploma” Ausstellung am Boxgraben 100 ein. Vom 10. – 11. Februar 2012, jeweils von 11 – 18 Uhr, präsentieren ...
Oceanic: Swell
Oceanic: Swell attempts to address our subconscious and conscious fears of the wild by evoking the sublime in nature. The viewer is positioned at the base of the oceans swell, at the mercy of the water, with waves thr...
Whats On: David Shrigley
Informing the Hayward Gallery of his expectations for his new show, David Shrigley said: “The responses I would like are laughter, intrigued confusion and disquiet” – in no particular order. Mordant, absurd, utterly m...
Selected C Conference Bilbao Verlosung
23.–24.03.2012Wie bereits angekündigt, findet vom 23.03. bis 24.03.2012 in Bilbao die Selected C Konferenz statt. Die Konferenz besteht aus insgesamt 10 Vorträgen, die je 50 Minuten dauern. Sie findet statt ...
GIGAFONT // Free Font
Gigafont is a custom typeface available for free for a limited time, noncommercial use only
Chen Man: i-D Covers
Ms Man has been a top photographer in her native China since her early twenties when she started shooting covers for Vision magazine. We in the west have been a bit slow on the uptake, but it’s great to see this gal’s...
red dot award: communication design 2012 / Inspire the World
»Gutes Kommunikationsdesign berührt, überrascht und lässt einen nicht so schnell wieder los.« So in der Pressemitteilung des red dot awards communication design, der am 26. März in die Startlöcher geht. Unter dem Mot...
Its Nice That Selfridges Talks Series – Words as Performance
Our final talk will round off the Words, Words, Words series delving into varying forms of creative expression and storytelling. We’ve invited along poet, musician and sportswriter Musa Okwonga, Holly Gramazio games d...
Geometric App von Kapitza
Neu im iTunes StoreKapitza hat soeben die nagelneue App “Geometric” im App Store veröffentlicht, mit der man eigene Muster generieren kann. Im Winter letzten Jahres haben wir das neue Pattern Buch “Organic” besprochen...
Designs of the Year 2012: The Stats
The fifth annual Designs of the Year exhibition opens today with nearly 90 nominees crammed into the top floor of London’s Design Museum. There’s the usual array of headline-stealing objects and more unusual fare to b...
Stockholm Design Week 2012: DeisgNu
As with any design festival, there’s a lot of interest in who caries off the various prizes up-for-grabs, and over in Stockholm it’s the bi-annual DesigNU award that captured our imagination. There’s a winner selected...
Mary Mattingly
“First Light / Last Light”, an on-going photo series by Mary Mattingly. These photographs are taken during the first and the last light of the day, on the Winter Solstice.
Denkwerk BrainDay – No risk, no fun.
Du bist bereit für eine neue berufliche Herausforderung, tappst aber noch im Dunkeln? Kein Grund den Kopf in den Sand zu stecken – im Gegenteil: Bring Deine Birne zum Glühen, Deine Synapsen zum Knacken und zeig uns, w...
Sweaty Feet – Veröffentlichung des ersten GPS Fonts
Im Oktober letzten Jahres haben wir euch auf Figure Running hingewiesen – Typo via GPS Gerät. Initiiert wurde das Projekt von Ingo Italic und nun ist es soweit: Die erste GPS generierte Schrift der Welt wird am Sonnta...
VIDÉO VINTAGE 1963-1983
VIDÉO VINTAGE 1963-1983Cinquante années ont vu défiler les recherches et les développements de la vidéo comme outil critique, et son intégration dans les milieux artistiques. Née en 1963, la vidéo a traversé tous les ...
Last call for entries :output Award 15
Internationaler Wettbewerb für Design- und ArchitekturstudentenNoch bis zum 15. Februar 2012 können Studierende aus allen Bereichen des Designs und der Architektur ihre Projekt- oder Abschlussarbeiten beim :output Awa...
Rollerscript
Script von G-Type und neue Webseite G-Type ist eine digitale Font Foundry und Art Design-Studio von Nick Cooke (Houschka Familie, Skript Olicana). gegründet 1999. Gerade hat er die neue Seite
Sinews Sans
A humanistic square sansJakob Runge, der dem ein oder anderen schon von 26+ Zeichen ein Begriff sein dürfte, hat kürzlich bei den Gestalten einen neuen Font veröffentlicht: Sinews Sans.Aus dem Pressetext: Sinews Sans ...
Studio SM
It seems that Sara Kaaman and Martin Falk, who make up Stockholm-based design practice Studio SM, learnt the traditional rules of graphic design just so they could throw them out the window. By working frequently with...
Tycho Creative Studio: Rosa
Burnori Sas sure knows how to rock a moustache and belt out a tune – his latest track is a lovelorn howl to one “Rosa” that tells a tale of desire and failed weddings. It could all tend towards the melodramatic if it ...
My Type of Music: Gary Numan, The Roots, The Black Keys, Jónsi, Tim McGraw, Gotye
I am on the TGV to Paris as I write this, on my way to act as “Président du Jury”, Typography category, of the annual design competition organised by the Club des Directeurs Artistiques de Paris. I don’t know when I’l...
The Debate
Graduation projectFascinated by the position a designer can take and wondering what that would mean for me personally I explored the discussion between internationally known designers Jan van Toorn and Wim Crouwel fro...
The best movie posters of 2011
I haven’t watched much movies in 2011, so this compilation of best movie posters of 2011 by Mubi.com is very welcome. Personal favorites in the list? Probably Tyrannosaur or Burning Man.
Haroshi x HUF x DLX
Hypebeast produced a great video featuring some more fantastic sculptures made of skateboards by Haroshi, in collaboration with Keith Hufnagel and DLX.Watch the video below!
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St. Vincent / Cheerleader
St. Vincent’s stunning new video for Cheerleader portrays her (naturally) in character – as some kind of eerie porcelain doll. More specifically as a larger-than-life Ron Mueck sculpture, crumbling before a crowd. Awe...
Pow Wow / University of Hawaii
Next Thursday I’ll be speaking at University of Hawaii alongside some really talented friends! If you live out there please come say hello! I’d like to organize something like this for Vancouver at some point!...
Miscellaneous Uncatalogued Material
Miscellaneous Uncatalogued Material,a series of public programs organized as part of the Museum of Modern Art’s Print Studio, which explores the evolution of print-based artwork in recent decades, from the revival of ...
DOOMED
Fake documentary about the life and habits of non-terrestrial creatures that coexist 24hrs with a Narrator in an indeterminate habitat. Unlike terrestrial animals, whose instincts are focused on survival, the nature o...
LE.View mit Miss Kiddekat
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. Miss Kiddekat ist...
Its Nice That Selfridges Talks Series – Words as Performance
Our final talk will round off the Words, Words, Words series delving into varying forms of creative expression and storytelling. We’ve invited along poet, musician and sportswriter Musa Okwonga, Holly Gramazio games d...
FESPA Digital 2012
Eine der größten Messen für die Digitaldruck Branche findet dieses Jahr in Barcelona statt. Bei der FESPA Digital nehmen über 400 Aussteller aus aller Welt teil und zeigen ihre Neuheiten. Zum Beispiel in den Bereichen...
Dave Hakkens: Break Soap
Slippery, sticky bar of soap. In a dish or on a rope, You clean my hands but make a mess, I guess that’s why the pump works best, But then along came this man Dave, the classic bar he wants so save,It’s easy, natural,...
Coca-Cola Design+ Award
Wie sehen die Mehrweg-Getränkekisten der Zukunft aus? Welchen veränderten Anforderungen müssen sie genügen? Welche Rolle spielen der demografische Wandel, veränderte Haushaltsgrößen und neue Anforderungen an Wohnraum ...
Werkschau an der FH Aachen
Studierende der Studiengänge Kommunikationsdesign und Produktdesign präsentieren ihre Abschlussarbeiten des Wintersemesters 2011/12.Wann:10.-11. Februar11:00 bis 18:00 UhrWo:FH Aachen Fachbereich GestaltungBoxgraben ...
Nicer Graphics
At first glance I assumed Nicer Graphics was a collective, it is in fact just one man, Sven Neitzel, who is responsible for this portfolio of fun, colour-infused graphic design. Using his website as more a method of s...
Vision Magazine China
Fashion collaboration project with photographer Yin Chao and Editor Ujin Zhao for Chinese fashion magazine Vision. These collages are inspired by the work of the late Lee Alexander McQueen for a special edition issue ...
Anna Huix: Foc
This intriguing, unnerving series by Spanish photographer Anna Huix features revolves around the annual Falles celebrations in honour of St Joseph which take place in and around Valencia. Anna is fascinated by the way...
Its Nice That Selfridges Talks Series – Words as Performance
Our final talk will round off the Words, Words, Words series delving into varying forms of creative expression and storytelling. We’ve invited along poet, musician and sportswriter Musa Okwonga, Holly Gramazio games d...
Glithero: Process Films
Glithero (a.k.a. Sarah van Gameren and Tim Simpson) are currently making my hands tingle. You know that feeling – maybe you’re watching someone knead a pile of dough, or drag a paintbrush across a canvas, or pat a sof...
Stockholm Design Week 2012: Katrin Greiling
Mutli-talented Katrina Greiling will present at four different venues during the Stockholm Design Week, but it’s her exhibition Evolution of the Object that we’re most keen on. A collection of new work, objects and ph...
Work in Progress Show – MA Communication Design
Vom 8. bis 10. März kann man sich im Central Saint Martins College London aktuelle Projekte aus dem Studiengang Kommunikationsdesign ansehen.Pressetext: “The Work in Progress show is hosted by the course MA Communicat...
Enrique Martínez Celaya
Paintings by Enrique Martínez Celaya, one for each season! These kinda remind me of Margot Tenenbaum.
Preiserhöhung des Slanted Magazins?
Geht / Geht gar nicht – Eure Meinung ist gefragt!2005 wurde unser Magazin ins Leben gerufen, unregelmäßig realisiert in kleinen Auflagen im Digitaldruck. Seit der Ausgabe #6 drucken wir im Offsetverfahren, veredeln, ....
Tim Weiffenbach über die Illustratoren Organisation
Tim Weiffenbach ist Gründungsmitglied und Vorsitzender der Illustratoren-Organisation, die deutschlandweit die Rechte von Illustratoren vertritt und außerdem beratend für seine Mitglieder tätig ist. In unserem Intervi...
Pictoplasma Berlin
Vom 11. bis zum 15. April findet in Berlin das weltweit größte Pictoplasma Festival statt. Eine Woche lang wird für Character-Liebhaber das volle Programm geboten – Künstler stellen sich vor, Konferenzen und ein Anima...
Scenaria - corporate identity & design
Two design levels present the character of Scenaria, Inc., a leader in analytics-based strategic planing. Reduced black and white illustrates analytic thinking and professionalism. Full-color visuals bring playful ele...
Gracia Lam
Gracia Lam’s work is quiet and unassuming, and that’s why it will catch you off guard. You’ll be leafing through her portfolio, taking in the beautiful colours, admiring her mastery of composition and likeable charact...
Alma Harel - Bombay Beach
Rarely does a documentary come more beautiful and gloriously silver-lined as Alma Har’el’s sensational film Bombay Beach that came exploding into our cinemas last week. Everyone’s going on about the soundtrack (Bob Dy...
Ben Wilson
I came across the mini-spectacularity of Ben Wilson’s jewell-like paintings on chewing gum mere days ago, though I’m a little slow on the uptake (he’s been doing them for nine years). This weekend saw Ben open a new s...
Light & Jelly
“Light & Jelly” is series of lamps cast in jelly by Le Creative Sweatshop and then photographed by Fabrice Fouillet. The results are very colorful and look stunning.found at It’s Nice That
How to convince your clients of the importance of white space
This is a recurring issue for designers around the globe. No matter if you are a graphic or web designer, you will sooner or later run into a client that finds the layout of your design too “empty”. This is a quite na...
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The Wonder Year
Studio Beige and Joey Vermijs have collaborated on a diary/notebook which contains quotes, tasks and general food for thought to help envision the ‘future of humankind’. There’s also a nice little tote bag.You can lea...
Heidelberg Calendar 2012
2012 is the year of Dragon. Dragon is the oly mythical creature among the 12 Animals in the Chines zodiac. This legendary creature has aroused plentiful of interest and inspired many throughout the Chinese history. Dr...
WIKI/WORKS
Offenes Wiki über GrafikdesignDas Projekt WIKI/WORKS in Kurzform: Ein offenes Wiki über Grafikdesign. Dabei geht es um Gestalter, Studios, Magazine, Veranstaltungen — eben um alles, was sich im Dunstkreis von ...
Le Creative Sweatshop: Jelly & Light
Of all the uses for jelly, surely this careful tinting and casting about lamps is one of the more creative. But for Le Creative Sweatshop – aka Julien Morin and Mathieu Missiaen – the casual re-appropriation of everyd...
Werkschau Hochschule RheinMain
Unter dem Motto »Wir putzen uns raus«, zeigen Kommunikationsdesign-Studenten der Hochschule RheinMain ihre Abschlussarbeiten aus dem Wintersemester 2011/2012.Vernissage:09. Februar 2012
Eröffnung um 19:30 UhrAusstel...
agideas 2012 Design Week
Zum 22. Mal findet bereits das traditionsreiche agideas Festival am anderen Ende der Design-Welt im australischen Melbourne statt. Neben dem 3-tägigen internationalen Design Forum mit 40 Sprechern wird es auch wieder ...
TYPO to San Francisco
A story’s been quietly developing out of our San Francisco office over the past few months. Meghan Arnold and Michael Pieracci, our respective communications director and logistics man have steadily laid the groundwor...
Pablo Genovés: Precipitados
So here are some photos from last week’s apocalypse…just kidding! It’s actually the work of gifted collage artist Pablo Genovés, who’s created en-masse a series of theatrical clashes between culture and nature, any of...
Benedikt Groß & Bertrand Clerc: Metrography
Every Londoner knows that it’s quicker to walk from Covent Garden to Leicester Square than to tube it and yet, collectively, we rely on maps and devices that give us “abstracted projections of the real world’s spatial...
Josh Atlas
The drawings of Josh Atlas fill my head with jingles and my mouth with the taste of pudding. But these delectable sketches are merely the appetiser to some seriously quirky sculptures – made from a mash-up of donuts, ...
L.A #08 Les Ambassadeurs Magazine
LA magazine issue 8.The white issue.White cover with embossed baroque motif with uv varnish.White photoshoot in paper and fabric collages
Stockholm Design Week 2012: Clemence Seilles
Starting today and ending on Friday 10, all the lots in Örnsbergsauktuinen (an auction of studio-produced objects by Swedish and international designers), will be exhibited in Stockholm, including a rather great armch...
Stockholm Design Week 2012
The eyes of the design world turn to Scandinavia this week, to Sweden to be precise, for the Stockholm Design Week festivities. Sir Terence Conran recently said that Scandinavia has “design in its DNA” in a way many o...
Viewing Room
Viewing Room aims to explore and discuss the role of the book within contemporary creative practices. Through utilizing examples from The Library of Independent Exchange the curators will construct within the gallery ...
Yackfou Relaunch
Endlich haben wir unsere relaunchbedürftige Seite überarbeitet und online gestellt. Neben vielen neuen Artikeln gibt es natürlich einen neuen Look, bessere Benutzerführung, genauere und schickere Artikelbilder und vie...
TYPOGRAPHY SUMMER SCHOOL 2012
TYPOGRAPHY SUMMER SCHOOL 2012Applications now openA week-long programme of typographic study in London for recent graduates and professionals. Alongside live projects run by Fraser Muggeridge, the school will host tal...
Design Indaba Conference 2012
Vom 29. Feburar bis 4. März findet in Südafrika die Indaba Design Konferenz statt. Bereits seit 1995 lädt die Design Indaba Konferenz Top-Kreative aus der ganzen Welt ein, um Fachleute aus kreativen, unternehmerische...
Superbowl 2012 Adverts
So last night the Superbowl happened, sending the USA into paroxysms of sporting superlatives and left most of the rest of us slightly baffled – us Brits woke up to Twitter timelines full of patriots, giants and Madon...
Needing/Getting
“Needing/Getting” by OK Go. What you have here are more than 1000 instruments setup across two miles of desert, and a car with equipped with arms to play those instruments. The idea is a tiny bit better than the execu...
Golden Cosmos
What could be better than a boy and a girl making fantastically beautiful prints and books together? Not much, apart from if they were in love. Oops! They are. Golden Cosmos are probably most recognisable by the image...
Black Cab Sessions: Bonny Prince Billy
Stop Press! The fantastic Black Cab Sessions have reached their one hundredth video! It’s a corker, and a credit to a fantastic series. Does that voice really come from that man?!www.blackcabsessions.com
Bänziger Hug
Last year, to quiet applause rather than rattling fanfare, Samuel Bänziger and Olivier Hug founded Bänziger Hug – an appropriately named design studio whose body of work, like the pair’s admirers, grows steadily and w...
Aaron Embry / Your Heart and Mine
As Valentines Day fast-approaches it’s hard not to get swept up in the fanfare of lovey-dovey songs – so when I came across LA-based songwriter, Aaron Embry performing “Your Heart and Mine” I fell pretty hard. Embry p...
Gaudi Chair & Stool
The shape of the Gaudi Stool was created in the same way that Antoní Gaudi designed the structure of his churches, by making a model of hanging chains, so letting gravity determine the strongest and most logical shape...
BOLD ITALIC 2012
BOLD ITALIC 2012Sint-Lucas visual arts Ghent presents an entire day related to graphic design with lectures and presentations by (in order of appearance):Bart De Baets & Sandra Kassenaar; Paul Gorman, on the life & wo...
David Homer exhibition
Friend of Design is Kinky, David Homer, is having a show of his urban collage photography. It opens in Sydney on Thursday 16th at Mart Gallery.
Featured illustrator: Malika Favre
Malika Favre creates wonderful vector-style illustrations. She uses color and white space perfectly.
937 DAILY DESIGN NEWS AM 05.02.2012
{BTST 02.12}: Stuttgarts Studenten & Spiekermanns Schriftgestalten
Grafik gesetzt in der Libero (Christoph Koeberlin) und FF Marten (Martin Wenzel)Die klirrende Kälte draußen ist Anlass genug, es sich mal wieder drinnen gemütlich zu machen. Und was könnte besser wärmen, als die Gesel...
Fabrice Lig Vinyl & CD
Fabrice Lig Genesis of a Deep SoundCD and Vinyl 12Design, art direction and custom type by Sawdust.Photography by Andrew Moore,Creative production by Edit2010
Bookshelf: Jeff Mermelstein
We were blown away by the ineffable goodness of Jeff Mermelstein’s work when we first came across it. A prolific photojournalist, Jeff’s innate curiosity and inspirational debt to the great street photographers has cr...
Sybarite v2
Sybarite is a fat face that works at any size. Capitals with sweeping curves and sharp unbracketed serifs command attention while charming minuscules expose the amiable side of its demeanor.
937 DAILY DESIGN NEWS AM 04.02.2012
Come Closer Club Invitation & Club Box
Come Closer Club Invitation & Club BoxSpecial Collection for the color collection presentation for the automobile industry.Invitation and Club Box, that invites all club members to collect favorite items with great co...
Joia Magazine Cover type
I was recently asked to develop a type treatment for the 18th edition of Chilean creative magazine JOIA. The guys from JOIA asked me to use the phrase Hacerlo bien es la mejor promo as quoted from a Spanish rap song. ...
JUNK JET 5: NET.HEART
JUNK JET 5: NET.HEARTJunk Jet has developed an archive impossible that transports, in print format, net based works, or fragments of works showing collections, series, animations, applications, and reflecting anti-...
Things
So it’s that time of the week. That Things time of the week. And what have we got in store for you? Are you sitting down? Well then get ready to be blown away by the rockin’ smorgasbord you’re about to get served up. ...
Liverpool English Pub
While working on project it was very important to show the connection between our brand and traditional England. Especially with its famous town Liverpool. Thats why weve started from analysis of history and key eleme...
After Dark Social Club 01
A range of posters and web banners ive been working on for the After Dark Social Club in Melbourne, Australia.
Vårdapoteket identity
I wish we could see more visual identities like this one. For Vårdapoteket, a swedish pharmacy chain, Stockholm Design Lab created a colorful infography of the human body that serves as the base for the whole branding...
937 DAILY DESIGN NEWS AM 03.02.2012
The Weekender
There’s a lot of hating about February. “It’s so short.” “It’s so cold.” “It’s so unambitious.” Yeah?! Why don’t you take a look in the mirror pal? When were you ever a month?! Yeah?! One of twelve?! In your dreams ma...
Abschlussausstellung Wiesbaden
Jede Arbeit wird durch unsere Hände geformt.
Die Idee beginnt aber im Kopf.Unter dem Motto „Wir machen uns die Köpfe schmutzig“ präsentieren die Wiesbadener Kommunikationsdesigner putzmunter ihre Abschlussarbeiten a...
Grafik12 – Werkschau für Grafik und junge Kunst
Im März findet zum ersten Mal die Schweizer Werkschau Grafik12 statt, bei der Schweizer Grafiker, Illustratoren, Typografen, visuelle Gestalter und Künstler ihre liebsten Werke aus dem letzten Jahr präsentieren können...
John Spinks: Factories
Anyone who got their hands on John Spinks’ Factories book since it was published last year will know what a great story of human interest it is. As team photographer to the front line “modern crafted” clothing brand A...
Slacktory: Shit People Say About Shit People Say Videos
From the majesty of the original Shit Girls Say video this meme has taken on a life of its own. Whether its pro skaters, hipsters or college freshmen the web is now awash with them, and we can’t really decide if that’...
Whats On: Immortal Nature
A exhibition touting itself as “various realisations of the prophesised end of the world” could be construed as a ploy to prick up ears, but to call Immortal Nature a sensationalist gag would be to undermine a thoroug...
Deutschland-Start des Interview Magazine
Das berühmte Interview Magazine, welches Andy Warhol 1969 gegründet hat und Vorlage für viele weitere Interview-Formate und Magazin-Ideen war, kommt nach Deutschland. Nach Wochen und Monaten der Vorbereitung und dem A...
Typografie und Macht – Call for Papers
Unter dem Thema Schrift / Macht / Welten – Typografie und Macht fragt die fünfte Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Designgeschichte (GfDg) im Rahmen von ON-TYPE und in Kooperation mit dem Studiengang Kommunikationsdes...
M.I.A: Bad Girls
Unreal. If this is Vice’s new Noisey Channel setting its standard, that bar is going to be high. M.I.A returns in a big cloud of two stroke engine fumes, ricocheting through the desert in a terrifying, electrifying Ro...
James Bridle: A Ship Adrift
We were thrilled to welcome artist, publisher and writer James Bridle to kick off our Words Words Words talks’ series last night, and as usual, he has an unbelievably interesting project on the go, based on Artangel’s...
METAPAPER
Europas erste Online-Serviceplattform für Papier und PrintAm 15. Februar geht METAPAPER online, eine Plattform, die Agenturen, Designern, Unternehmen, Verlagen und Druckereien eine schnelle und einfache Auswahl an wei...
William Strobeck: My Lovely Mess
Filmmaker William Strobeck’s day-to-day seems rife with contrast. One moment he’s on the beach with style icon Chloe Sevigny, the next he’s with his mum, laughing at Photo Booth distortions. Both scenes appear side by...
Endless Roads
“Endless Roads”, a road trip through spain with Longboard Girls Crew.Watch the videos below!
Angoulême Winners: Frank and the Congress of Animals
We’d never claim to be psychic, but there was an air of serendipity to the announcement that Jim Woodring (to whom we gave a little retrospective “hurrah!” at the start of Angoulême) took home the Special Jury Prize o...
Selection 2012
Germany’s Finest Agencies Band 6Neu erschienen ist die sechste Ausgabe von Selection – Germany’s Finest Agencies, vollgepackt mit 150 Agenturportraits, 4 Fachartikeln und 8 Interviews. Im orangenen Hardcover mit golde...
Jour Fix GlyphArt
Im Rahmen der munich creative business week (über die wir im Zusammenhang mit der tgm bereits berichteten) findet am Freitag die Vernissage zur Ausstellung GlyphArt von Gert Wiescher statt. Auf seiner Webseite gibt es...
Brix - Font by Superfried
Brix - Font by Superfried. Available from our site for just £1. Inspiration for this display font was found in the classic interlocking childrens building blocks. www.superfried.com/fonts
Richard Robinson
The cat in the spacesuit gracing the The Klaxons’ Surfing the Void was one of the best album cover designs of recent years, combining our twin loves of extraterrestial travel and domestic pets. We spoke to Richard Rob...
Suzanne Antonelli
A woman who can design patterns that make us want to look at/buy/touch things should not be underestimated; the fact that the designs that she makes are wholly functional and pretty much timeless is even more impressive...
Julian Germain: Generations
Mr. Julian Germain has made images for nearly 30 years and I’ve gone almost as long without ever hearing of him (but a lady doesn’t disclose her age). Well I’m glad I know him now – this Northumberland-er’s got a knac...
GRAPHIC ISSUE #20 POSTER ISSUE – exhibition
©Experimental JetsetGRAPHIC ISSUE #20 POSTER ISSUEExhibitionMass-produced and posted in public places, posters communicate with the public. Traditionally, they have represented a powerful means of expressing certain v...
How to take charge of clients who want free work
When you are conducting your own business there will become a time when a person feels you should do certain work for them and not get paid. Relatives and ‘friends’ are notorious for this and it is not uncommon for ot...
ARVIL SANS
Arvil Sans is a strong, condensed display sans serif. Arvil has strong lines with rounded, soft terminals, to produce a strong, yet friendly letterform.Personal Project
Win one of two sets of flyers from online printer Next Day Flyers
Calling all Designer Daily readers who are interested in winning free printing, Next Day Flyers is celebrating the grand opening of their second printing plant by offering a giveaway. This offset printing company has ...
937 DAILY DESIGN NEWS AM 02.02.2012
Ab ins App
Die jährlichen Bestenlisten dieser kleinen Randgruppenwebseite erfreuen sich großer internationaler Beliebtheit. Das begeisterte Feedback gefällt mir und motiviert mich, hier noch etwas weiter zu machen – bevor Blogs ...
LE FOURQUET DF 19
Le Fourquet Magazine Issue No.19. Mexico City. Vanitas Collection, Sweet Tea, Ace Hotel, Gourmet, Sweet & Sour.
New G-type website launched today!
At last! my foundry G-Type has a web presence. Its only taken 13 years!You can see it here.I have updated/extended/improved many fonts to OpenType. Not only that, but all G-Type fonts have a 25% discount for the whole...
Student of the Month: Shantanu Suman
Currently studying graphic design at the University of Florida, Shantanu Suman’s submission for Student of the Month caught our eye as a competently executed and unusual take on a multifaceted issue – what’s more, it ...
Whats On: Robert Montgomery
There’s a new game you can play just a stone’s throw from It’s Nice That headquarters, which involves watching passers-by double take at three billboards on which three strange, stark poems have been written. They are...
Temporary Stedelijk (4)
©Karl Nawrot, Goblin and GhostTemporary Stedelijk (4)“(…) The Stedelijk forgot the internet, the Stedelijk overlooked the abundance of young and promising artists that the city itself has to offer. As simple as that. ...
Represent: The Ideal Candidate
It’s that time of the time of the year when students are starting to think seriously about life outside the university bubble and there’s a slew of advice, some of which sadly comes down on the wrong side of the help/...
modernism 101: from aalto to swart
Modernism 101 is specialized in rare and out-of-print art, architecture, design books and periodicals. The site features an extensive collection of images and provides very detailed informations. A great resource.
Whats On: 50 Years of The Sunday Times Magazine
You know when you open a Sunday newspaper and a baffling array of glossy things come tumbling out – not just magazines and cultural guides, but ad pamphlets for garden furniture and plates with bad paintings of the Ro...
Notebooks des Arbeitskreises Prägefolien Druck e.V.
Der Arbeitskreis Prägefolien Druck e.V., eine Qualitäts- und Innovationsgemeinschaft von Druckereien und Technologiepartnern rund um den Prägefoliendruck, ist bekannt für sein Engagement auf diesem Gebiet. Auf der Int...
Bartholomäus Traubeck: Years
For the first minute of this film by Bartholomäus Traubeck, I recommend you enjoy the quiet build-up by wrapping your head around the elegant and technically fascinating set-up that allows a custom record player to pl...
Angouleme Winners: Ta Mere La Pute
The Prix Revelation went to this gritty comic from Gilles Rochier. Throughout his career Rochier has drawn from his own childhood to tackle issues of poverty, boredom and restless youth culture. Ta Mere La Pute falls ...
TYPO Day Hamburg
Am 23. März 2012 findet im Hamburg der TYPO Day statt, eine kleine, feine Veranstaltung zum Thema Font-Technik für Verlage und Agenturen. Es handelt sich hier um Fachseminar – wie man den aus der Typo-Szene wohl bekan...
Beauty Is Embarrassing
“Beauty Is Embarrassing”, finally a documentary about Wayne White. The man is an absolute genius! I CAN’T WAIT to see this documentary.Watch the trailer below!
Call for Entries: Poladarium 2013
Das Poladarium-Team lädt ab sofort alle Fotografen und Freunde des Sofortbilds herzlich ein, ihre Fotos für das POLADARIUM 2013 einzureichen. Der Call for Entries läuft seit gestern Abend auf
Werkschau Hochschule München
Vom 07. bis 12. Februar zeigt die Fakultät für Design der Hochschule München eine Werkschau aktueller studentischer Arbeiten. Die Ausstellungsobjekte entstammen den drei Studienrichtungen Fotodesign, Industriedesign u...
Whats On: There You Are
In a collaborative effort, New York gallery Lehman Maupin and international cultural community Istanbul’74 present Sandro Kopp’s latest exhibition of Skype portraits. There You Are is a collection of paintings that di...
Olivier Tallec
Olivier Tallec is a French illustrator with a beautiful way of wordlessly capturing the petty dramas and joys of childhood which seem so important at the time. His charming portfolio is at its best with these mini-nar...
Adidas
Adidas vs. TronAdidas collaborated with Disney on the Tron legacy film through Society6 which launched a competition to win a promo project for the film. We won the project and adidas was very clear that it was import...
Anatomical cross-sections made with quilled paper
Stunning artworks by Lisa Nilsson. She takes rolled pieces of paper and assembles it to create anatomical drawings. These pieces take forever to create and look absolutely gorgeous. Via Colossal.
Is your website secure?
Have you ever come across a website that has been infected with malware? If not, chances are you will. Even worse, there is a chance that your own website or blog can be targeted. Hackers aren’t always interested in m...
Tissue Series
Lisa Nilsson‘s “Tissue Series” are anatomical cross-sections made of paper. Beautiful work.found at Colossal
From Mine to Market - The Diamond Story
Q: How do you tell the complete story of how a rough diamond is transformed into the more familiar precious, polished gem?A: Journey to the frozen tundra of northern Canada and follow the trail of the diamond around t...
937 DAILY DESIGN NEWS AM 01.02.2012
Art Shanty Projects
Happening now, through February 5th, 2012. On Medicine Lake in Plymouth, MN. The fabulously quirky Art Shanty Projects, is a four-week-long exhibition that is part sculpture park, part artist residency and part social...
Super Bowl 2012 Werbespots
Am Sonntag ist es wieder soweit. Der Super Bowl XLVI findet in Indianapolis statt. Das “Derby” zwischen den New York Giants und den New England Patriots wird umrahmt von einigen Perlen der Werbefilmindustrie. Allerdin...
QCC
QCC is an art series that abstracts comic figures in simulated photographs of surreal sculptures. The sculptures show signs of genetic mutation and nanotechnological manipulation. Grey goo as the contemporary material...
LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL STOP PLEASE ALLOW FEATURES ASSUME EXPRESSION INDICATIVE OF AMUSEMENT JOY PLEASURE BENEVOLENCE ETCETERA BY DRAWING UP CORNERS OF MOUTH AND GENERALLY RELAXING FACIAL MUSCLES STOP LOVE FOR ALL STEFAN STOP
Located outside the Art & Music Department of Los Angeles Public Library’s Central Library, Works Sited is an ongoing series of displays featuring work with themes relating to the library’s collections and practices. ...
TGM News #14
TGM meets SlantedEin Depot der Neuen Sammlung München gewährt uns seltene Blicke auf in München beherbergte Designschätze aus aller Welt und Jochen Rädeker von Strichpunkt beschäftigt sich in einem Vortrag mit dem ...
Whats On: Luis Urculo
JET LAG, the latest exhibition at The Popular Workshop, is a new collection of work from designer/artist/architect Luis Urculo that hangs on the edges of the conventional architecture periphery. Interested in mark-mak...
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Jack Howard: In Pursuit of Coriolanus
This time last year, Jack Howard was delighted to be chosen for the C/O Berlin Close Up! project giving up-and-coming photgraphers access to the 61st Berlin International Film Festival. Being the only Brit selected, h...
Zukunftsdialog – Design by Aperto
Wie sehen Sie unsere gemeinsame Zukunft in Deutschland? Wollen Sie der Bundeskanzlerin konkrete Handlungsvorschläge mit auf den Weg geben? Hier erfahren Sie, wie Sie sich beteiligen können und was mit Ihren Vorschläge...
Lucas Maassen and Raw Colour: D/Struct
Don’t get upset, but those little sachets actually contain the pulverized remains of what once was your computer, garden rake, or toy car. D/Struct is the innovative brainchild of Dutch artist Lucas Maassen and design...
Beni Bischof
In Beni Bischof’s world, very little makes sense. Fingers disrupt the gloss of fashion ads, castle windows appear bricked up, a church is turned on its side, suddenly transformed into a jet. Bischof’s work is filled w...
Lumio
Ein neues Startup soll Ordnung in die tägliche Arbeit von Fotografen und Grafikern bringen: Hinter dem Namen Lumio verbirgt sich eine Plattform, die von der Fotografin Mareen Fischinger gegründet wurde. Das einfache u...
The Solar Annual Report, powered by the sun
Solar energy is the main business of our client Austria Solar. That?s why we thought about how we could put this energy to paper. The result: the first annual report powered by the sun. Its content remains invisible u...
Mayer Hawthorne - No Strings Attached
Music videos are getting more and more scarce these days (is it true that MTV have actually stopped playing them?) but who cares, because everyone’s got a sweet camera and the internet exists. So hats off to High5Coll...
Angoulême Winners: Une Vie dans le Marges 2
Born in Osaka in 1935, Yoshihiro Tatsumi was at the head of an alternative manga vanguard in the late fifties, circumventing the childish connotations for the comic medium and developing instead the gekiga style: a te...
Do You Read Me?
Do You Read Me?,une exposition de 60 ouvrages du Département Communication visuelle réalisés à l’ECAL/Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne dans le cadre du cours «Edition Magazine» donné par Pierre Fantys et François Rap...
Editors Letter: February
Come on then February, let’s be having you. You might be short but think of all the WONDERFUL short things that have made our lives infinitely better. Danny DeVito? Short back and sides? Fun size Mars Bars? So chin up...
Werkschau an der Hochschule Niederrhein
Vom 08.–11. Februar 2012 findet am Fachbereich Design der Hochschule Niederrhein die Werkschau statt.Pressetext: In der Vergangenheit haben wir viel gelernt, erlebt, verdaut, gezaubert und geschaffen – durchkämpft, ve...
Flut:koerper
Ich muss gestehen: Ich habe ein bisschen darüber nachdenken müssen, wie ich diesen Post aufbereite. Denn ich saß vor dem Video und schwankte zwischen großer Faszination und Ekel, was den Machern aber bewusst und vermu...
Werkschau Augsburg
„Kennen Sie das Land zwischen Wachen und Schlafen, den Ort, an dem Ihre Träume noch bei Ihnen sind?“ Tinker Bell bezeichnet damit das „Nimmerland” in James Matthew Barrie’s „Peter Pan”. Die blaue Stunde ist „Nimmerlan...
Dan Matutina: Twisted Fork
Twisted forks might remind you of picnics gone awry, but Twisted Fork (a.k.a. Dan Matutina) definitely hasn’t missed a beat with his excellent portfolio of fanciful, futuristic illustrations. Based in the Philippines ...
Mobolaji Dawodu
I feel like I’ve been overlooking the intense work of stylists for years – for each photoshoot he works on, Mobolaji will commission a photographer, cast the models and then scout a perfect location all by himself. Th...
Jason Middlebrook
New stripy trees have been discovered in the Big Rock Candy Mountains! Oh wait, these are actually paintings. Not content with the existing patterns and geometries found in nature, Jason Middlebrook has taken it upon ...
Upcoming Book Fairs
Why Do You Publish? is an art book fair that focuses on arts and culture publishing in the Middle East and beyond? Over a period of 4 days, publishing houses, artists and writers will meet in Beirut to present their c...
Jason Middlebrook
New stripy trees have been discovered in the Big Rock Candy Mountains! Oh wait, these are actually paintings. Not content with the existing patterns and geometries found in nature, Jason Middlebrook has taken it upon ...
A new interface for Adobe Photoshop CS6
Adobe recenty released a sneak peak video on Youtube to demonstrate a couple of features of the upcoming version of Adobe Photoshop CS6.The first part of the demonstration showcases the new capabilities for processing...
Graniph Design Awards 2012
Design is Kinky is happy to be a sponsor of the 2012 Graniph Design Awards. The entries are now open so check the site and get your t-shirt designs in!
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