the stedelijk museum amsterdam, is organising an exhibition called type dynamics on the eve of the publication of the doctoral thesis by frederike huygen on the graphic designer, photo-book pioneer, art director, teacher, arts administrator, and environmental artist jurriaan schrofer, the exhibition opens next week and with an installation by ‘lust’ it all sounds very promising…
a new book has been released on the amazing ‘wes anderson’, see also this article with some choice favourite anderson moments; let me tell you about my boat…
created in 1931, this russian erotic alphabet was, in fact, created to combat illiteracy; i wonder whether it actually worked…
thanks to ‘pepijn rooijens’ for the link
…originally published in 1981, the codex seraphinianus is an illustrated encyclopedia of an imaginary world, created by the italian artist, architect and industrial designer Luigi Serafini during thirty months, from 1976 to 1978. The book is approximately 360 pages long (depending on edition), and written in a strange, generally unintelligible alphabet…
i had never heard of this fascinating book before, although the morphing crocodile image i have seen before, see also this article
really interesting typographic trick in this plugin for web called ‘beeline reader’; which essentially creates a series of gradients in text to aid (and speed up) reading…
(thanks to jeroen disch for the tip)