if you are not really familiar with the typically british phenomenon that is blackpool or have never heard of design agency why not associates (they were what you might call ‘hip’ back in the mid 90’s) then this may not mean very much to you at all: a gigantic (granite) typographical installation made to commemorate the culture and stars of the ‘working class’ seaside resort of blackpool, aptly dubbed the ‘comedy carpet’
it really is worth spending a bit of time looking around on the website… the process, sheer scale and certainly the finished result are all pretty astounding to my mind… enjoy
shown below is a short video of the ‘making of’
this is an adaptation of a post i wrote for ‘fontanel’ last week, i also still haven’t checked but this could well be the largest installation of it’s kind in the world, does anybody know?
(via sandra@het ballet)
last week i spoke to designer ‘herman van bostelen’ who won the ‘dutch theater poster awards’ back in 2005 with this beautiful poster ‘mauerschauer’ shown (above left), since which time he has been collecting an amusing series of rip-offs of his design like this t-shirt…
the fabulous curated collection ‘typogaphic posters’ by andré felipe has just turned three years old this month, congrats from me
