anarchic german graphic design collective ‘hort’ often use collage in their album sleeves and other artwork, i really love this magazine piece they have produced for a show entitled (funnily enough) ‘collage’ in NY
…through the removal and deconstruction of the existing layout, new images appear while flipping through the magazine allowing the viewer to redefine their way of seeing and creating…
UK designers ‘johnson banks’ have been working on merging roman and non-roman typography for a while (most notably their ‘phonetikana’ project from several years back) this time they have turned their attention to mandarin chinese
here’s an interesting archive of the complete set of designs submitted for the euro banknotes dating back to the original design competition in 1995-96, including the winning entries plus a rather glum conclusion on my behalf that none of them were actually very exciting anyway… (thanks to ‘michiel schuurman’ for the tip via FB)
a short interview (in dutch only) with friendly fella and much-in-demand illustrator pieter jansen or ‘palla’ (as the japanese apparently call him), nice to see you doing so well piet! (tip via ‘isis v’ on FB)
magazine art director and ex-colleaugue ‘anneke krull’ runs her own very popular fashion illustration blog and has recently edited a book on that very subject for german publisher gestalten entitled ‘the beautiful’, the launch is taking place next week in amsterdam at the american book store