well that was fun, i spent an evening last week with my good buddy eric wie and his 7 year-old son romer vandalising posters around amsterdam
it was a guerilla action to mark the exhibition of renowned ‘übermaler’ artist arnulf rainer in the ‘cobra museum’ this summer
i have to be honest it was quite addictive, i might have another go soon :) anyone fancy joining me?
commissioned by renowned chocolate company callebaut: a kit to create these naïve, 3D chocolate animals
created by spanish graphic designer ingrid picanyol
an incredible collection of german graphic design…
…from (roughly) the past 100 years, which i came across by chance recently… enjoy this huge flickr set
…after what must have been a stormy initial meeting, Jock received the following letter from Sir Colin: ‘I am anxious you shouldn’t embark upon inventing an alphabet of a character quite “new”. We have, as a committee, got into the habit of accepting the general weight and appearance of the German alphabet as being the sort of thing we need! I think therefore something on those lines is what the Committee believes it wants…
those talented people from A2 type have collaborated with margaret calvert to revamp the seminal sixties transport font which she created together with jock kinneir
check the website for more background info plus these two ‘kinneir & calvert’ related posts from the me archives…
…you’ve got floating M’s. Squares and circles and other geometric backdrops. Tiny notches or flairs. Rather outrageous flourishes. Capital and lowercase M’s alike. There are lots of allusions to motion: from tracks to tunnels to a train itself…
interesting article on the myriad variations of the letter m
