Fiona Rae exhibition at Leeds Art Gallery

Fiona Rae remembers acquiring a PowerBook in 1999 at about the same time that she met her husband and fellow artist Dan Perfect. Something of a tech boff, Perfect introduced Rae to the joys of Photoshop and the rest, you could say, is history. Fiona... 

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The Foundry’s latest Crouwel-inspired typeface

Architype Ingenieur is the latest Wim Crouwel-inspired type family to be released through David Quay and Freda Sack’s The Foundry … The lower-case only typeface was inspired by Crouwel’s exhibition catalogues and posters from the late... 

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Bed Buds pillow cases designed by Andy Rementer

I’m loving these Bed Buds pillow cases designed by American artist Andy Rementer for Australian storefront and online museum, Third Draw Down . Rementer is best known for his colourful gouache portraits, plants and typography work, an example of... 

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Bed Buds pillow cases designed by Andy Rementer

I’m loving these Bed Buds pillow cases designed by American artist Andy Rementer for Australian storefront and online museum, Third Draw Down . I’m loving these Bed Buds pillow cases designed by American artist Andy Rementer for Australian... 

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Lance Wyman in Norwich

Lance Wyman at the launch of his show, You Are Here, at The Gallery at NUCA. Photo: Finola Gaynor Remember when the Olympics produced great graphic design? Lance Wyman at the launch of his show, You Are Here, at The Gallery at NUCA. Photo: Finola... 

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Dexter Sinister builds MoMA a better exhibition catalogue

WIth so many clever language experiments on exhibition in MoMA’s “Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language,” it makes sense that the exhibition catalogue would be equally cheeky and avant garde. So instead of taking the traditional check... 

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The Modernists hold their ground in MoMA’s "Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language"

Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language , which opened at MoMA this Sunday, is a survey of text-based art over the last sixty years. Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language, which opened at MoMA this Sunday, is a survey of text-based art over the last sixty... 

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Salone Milan 2012: Another Terra, curated by Barbara Brondi and Marco Raino

Studio Besau-Marguerre’s hand-held greenhouse “Handgep?ck” Design curators and architects Barbara Brondi and Marco Rain? founded the IN Residence program in 2008 to be an annual design workshop bringing together 5-6 young designers... 

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Salone Milan 2012: Rotterdam’s Piet Zwaart Institute Presents "Fabrikaat" at Ventura Lambrate

Like many of their fellow student exhibitors at Milan’s Ventura Lambrate district (and elsewhere , the eight Master of Interior Architecture & Retail Design candidates at Rotterdam’s Piet Zwaart Institute made a strong showing. The exhibition,... 

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Vibrant, colourful illustrations by Melbourne artist Lwnski

I’m excited to have recently discovered Lwnski . I’m excited to have recently discovered Lwnski. The Melbourne-based illustrator and I are paired up in an upcoming exhibition titled True Self. His bold use of colour, mixed with typography... 

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