Design Museum Designs of the Year show opens

The London Design Museum’s Designs of the Year show opens today with its usual eclectic mix of the useful, the beautiful, the obscure and the obvious The process of selecting work for the Design Museum’s Designs of the Year show, whereby... 

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More amazing Type Specimen and Printing Books/Brochures

Just some days ago, I updated my article Rare Type Specimens at the Open Library. In a comment, a user suggested another great resource: The Silver Buckle Press Collection. Just some days ago, I updated my article Rare Type Specimens at the... 

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Prada 24 Hours Museum, Paris

A little Dan Flavin, a little Studio 54, a little sculptural assemblage and lots of pink neon. That’s more or less the flavour of the 24h Museum, an ephemeral,culturally kooky conceit that will already be halfway over by the time you read this A... 

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An Interview with Verena Gerlach

By Ivo Gabrowitsch & Christoph Koeberlin After more than 10 years, Verena Gerlach has revised and extended her FF Karbid super family, an interpretation of German storefront lettering from the early 1900s. By Ivo Gabrowitsch & Christoph Koeberlin After... 

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Mill Co and Monotype’s type-tastic art show

Creative agency Mill Co teamed up with Monotype Imaging and tasked a selection of image makers to create artworks using one are all of three Monotype fonts – Akko, Neue Haas Grotesk, and Rotis II. The resulting exhibition runs at the Mill Co Project... 

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P is for Window

Established in 1892, the Portland Art Museum is the seventh oldest museum in the United States and the oldest in the Pacific Northwest. The museum houses more than 42,000 objects that span American, Asian, Modern and Contemporary, and Native American... 

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Graphic Design: Now in Production

This Saturday, October 22, the Walker Art Center will open Graphic Design: Now in Production (GD:NIP), a joint exhibition with the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. This is the first major exhibition on the field of graphic design since the Walker’s... 

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Works by Chris Piascik

Advertise here with BSA An artist who recently held his sixth solo exhibition, Chris Piascik is also active in the design community. He is currently working as a freelance designer and illustrator Advertise here with BSA An artist who recently... 

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Surf City art show at National Grid Gallery in Sydney

Ever wondered what would happen if you threw a collection of dark photographic seascapes onto some whitewash plywood boards and added a hand-painted homage to beach and surf culture over the top? What about a bunch of beaten-up wetsuits sewn together... 

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Pangrams for our time and more from Mill Co

Modern takes on the ‘Quick brown fox’ type designer’s pangram referencing the August riots are among the works on show at an exhibition of new projects from the Mill Co creative community The three Modern Pangrams, which were written... 

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