Brooklyn-based Scott Albrecht is a typographic fine art genius. From drawings and painting to woodwork, fonts and co-founding Process , it seems like there’s nothing Albrecht can’t do. On the eve of his solo exhibition, SOMETHING MISTAKEN...
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Quick-read representations of modernist flatness combined with logotypic abstractions of mimetic picture space, or something like that. Curvitecture , 2010, acrylic latex on canvas Installation photo of Syntaxiomatic exhibition, July-August 2010 Unichrome...
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words Manijeh Verghese This year’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition had the theme “Raw”. Co-curated by Stephen Chambers and David Chipperfield (icon 008), the architecture room had a rationalised arrangement that gave it a cohesiveness that it has...
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words Manijeh Verghese ? Amid the glassy modernism and old stone buildings that populate the Berlin cityscape, the new Science Center for Medical Technology by Gnadinger Architekten joins the ranks of recent projects that merge architecture and science....
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Positioning itself in opposition to the London Design Festival, the Anti-Design Festival comes to east London on 18 September. Initiated by Neville Brody, it’s aim is to promote work that challenges perceived stereotypes of contemporary design
Positioning...
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On Tuesday, July 6, Lorenz Schirmer, Atilla Korap, and I made the two-hour drive to Saarbrücken, a small city on Germany’s border with France.
On Tuesday, July 6, Lorenz Schirmer, Atilla Korap, and I made the two-hour drive to Saarbrücken,...
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Rob Keller sitting to my right in a Brno jazz bar. Photo by Martin T. Pecina
Rob Keller sitting to my right in a Brno jazz bar. Photo by Martin T. Pecina.
Do you know the old expression, “getting there is half the fun?” When it came time...
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We went along to the Royal College of Art’s SHOW Two yesterday.
We went along to the Royal College of Art’s SHOW Two yesterday. There was some great work to be seen; here’s a selection of some of the best bits from the Communication...
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The fourth International Conference on Typography and Graphic Communication took place in during the middle of June 2010, under the theme “lending grace to language.” For the first time, the ICTVC to place in Nicosia, Cyprus; previous ICTVC...
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Recently received an email from Sheffield-based photographer Theo Simpson with a link to his recent Dead Ends project. Dead Ends is a collaboration between Simpson, writer Tom Mclaughlin and graphic designer Tom Common.
Recently received an email...
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