designer ‘nick sherman’ like me, has a fascination for manhole covers and he has also created a few typefaces based on vintage material like film titles and a butcher shop, nice…
me news
day dreamers
dutch photographer ‘krista van der niet’ and furniture designer ‘caroline ziegler’ are teaming up for a show at the amusingly named coming soon gallery in paris, from sept the 30th till mid nov, i quite like the idea of shows with different disciplines together like this, an interesting development…
condensed type
designer ‘paula scher’ has just created a set of childlike typographical murals for a school in queens in the US
(via the CR blog)
mit vielen zufällig gestalteten momenten
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…
mandagrams
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