an absolutely wonderful (concept for a) book on the workings of the mind, created with laser-cut paper pop-ups, by young designer moon brouwer, see more stuff on her own site…
me news
1957-2010
a large collection of posters from the archives of the london film festival spanning a period of nearly 60 years, posted without any further information on the collection or the designers involved, what strikes me is the almost catalogue-like sequence of typical design styles and font choices from all of the periods featured… there are a few real gems here but for the large part they are pretty average at best, i find…
(via ‘john de vries’)
no man’s land
one of my most favourite illustrators of the moment ‘blexbolex’ has created a new (3 colour) graphic novel due for imminent release from the lovely people at nobrow, his work is probably the closest modern equivalent to one of the all time great ‘graphic novel without words’ artists: belgian woodcutter and social activist frans masereel
celebrating ‘diy’ culture
i stumbled across this wonderful new british magazine this week: flamingo: a small format simpatico magazine with a whiff of alternative culture that ‘celebrates doing it yourself’ a timely notion in these troubled times and a magazine with a worthy message instead of just more crap you and i do not need, take a look… it took me a while to realise that it is completely devoid of adverts
