March 2011
1 post
Will rise again.
December 2010
2 posts
R2
R2 a Porto-based design studio formed in 1995 by Lizá Defossez Ramalho and Artur Rebelo.
Here are some goodness.
Blankpage – clothing and customizable shirts.
Circo de Ideias – cultural events.
A43 Arquitectos (Architecture studio)
“Vai com Deus” Typographic installation on “Ermida Nossa Senhora da Conceição” facade.
Unfinished Trajectories (Graphic...
I dream in color.
Gabriel Dawe
August 2010
1 post
Inspired by
but not limited to…
Photographed by John Madere.
July 2010
2 posts
"The painting carries its own history."
Paintings by Tomma Abts.
"Places contain a complexity that reveals the...
Photographs by Rona Chang
June 2010
2 posts
GothicFuturism
Rammellzee is a creative force in his own rights. He helped pioneer the graffiti art movement in the early years and have redefine the movement many times over with his thoughts, style and extraordinary personality. He was also a truly magnificent MC in every sense of the art form. To me, he represented the best of what graffiti should be and about. A true original. Rest In Paradise.
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West African Masquerade
“Large-scale color photographs from 2005 to 2006 reflect the ritual adornment and spirituality of masquerade in Nigeria, Benin and Burkina Faso in West Africa. These portraits of masqueraders build on Galembo’s work of the past twenty years photographing the rituals and religious culture in Nigeria, Brazil, Cuba, Jamaica and Haiti, as well as the homegrown custom of Halloween in...
May 2010
1 post
What is American Power?
What is American Power? is a series of photographs taken from 2003 to 2008 by Mitch Epstein to create a complex portrait of energy production in the United States, its environmental, economic and personal costs, and its complicated role in our politics, culture and national image. Please visit the site and leave your thought.
April 2010
1 post
Top Notch.
Easy to be hard. Harder to be easy.
March 2010
3 posts
Joni Niemela
Some wonderful photographs by Joni Niemela.
via ThisIsntHappiness
Case-Real
Case-Real is a multidisciplinary studio from Japan head by Koichi Futatsumata. Case-Real works on spaces, constructions, furniture and products. Here are some beauty shots
Kinetic Sculpture
I was poking through ART+COM and found this piece, Kinetic Sculpture, they did for the BMW Museum. The BMW Museum is a joint project of ART+COM (spatial media design, interactive installations) and Atelier Brückner (architecture, exhibition design).
Here’s a clip of the piece in action
“The Kinetic Sculpture is a metaphorical translation of the process of form-finding in art...
February 2010
1 post
Josef & Annie Albers
I was made aware of this dynamic duo, Josef & Annie Albers, via Aisleone. I was mesmerized by the album covers, he was the covers designer for Command Records between 1959-1961, shown on Aisleone so I had to dig a little deeper.
“Josef and Anni Albers were artistic adventurers who were both pioneers of twentieth-century modernism. Josef Albers (1888-1976) was an influential teacher,...
January 2010
2 posts
Inside Outside
” Inside Outside is a film about the energy artists get when working in the street. An energy they’re missing when exhibiting in galleries and museums, an energy that brings life to their art and to their own lives. It´s an energy that’s partly caused by the fact that everything these artists do in the street is illegal.”
The film provides a good insight into the...
LOGORAMA
Logorama is a slick short film written and directed by French design collective H5. The film set in a fictive metropolis, an action packed short film with logos as its stars.
An interview with H5 collective done by creativity-online.com
December 2009
3 posts
Mag+
Here’s a concept video on the experience of reading magazines on hand held devices. The project initiated by Bonnier R&D in collaboration with Berg.
“The concept aims to capture the essence of magazine reading, which people have been enjoying for decades: an engaging and unique reading experience in which high-quality writing and stunning imagery build up immersive stories. ...
The Language of Music
The Language of Music is a documentary about the legendary Tom Dowd. He was a recording engineer and producer for Atlantic Records and credited with innovating the multi-track recording method. Dowd worked on a virtual “who’s who” of recordings that encompassed blues, jazz, pop, rock and soul records. He recorded for many musical legends such as Ray Charles, The Drifters, Bobby...
The Rape of Europa
“In a journey through seven countries, the film takes the audience into the violent whirlwind of fanaticism, greed, and warfare that threatened to wipe out the artistic heritage of Europe. For twelve long years, the Nazis looted and destroyed art on a scale unprecedented in history. But young art professionals as well as ordinary heroes, from truck drivers to department store clerks,...
November 2009
2 posts
Either war is obsolete, or men are....
Sculptor Al Farrow has over 20 years of bronze casting experience. His work is in many important public and private collections around the world, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the di Rosa Preserve in Napa, and other collections in New York, Germany, Italy, and Hong Kong.
Bansho-ji
In a space that commonly associates with death, the charnel house can often provokes undesirable feeling in all of us. The head priest of Buddhist temple Basho-ji, a 16th century Buddhist temple in Nagoya, Japan, asked Masuo Fujimura for an innovative space featuring LEDs: a bright setting free of the gloomy and undesirable atmosphere.
Interior designer Masuo Fujimura created a delicate...
October 2009
16 posts
Pinar Yolacan - PERISHABLES
Pinar Yolacan, a fashion-design student turned artist. These photographs are part of her series of portraits titled “PERISHABLES”. In this series, the featured women are Afro-Brazilian, the women are dressed in the style of the Portuguese colonizers and the dresses are made using inner organs of cows. This may sound repulsive to many but there’s a strange beauty and elegance in...
Save your logo.
Save Your Logo, based in France, is a global initiative that helps companies represented by plants or animal to contribute to the conservation of their beloved species. Save Your Logo is supported by Global Environmental Facility (GEF), the World Bank, the International Union for Nature Conservation and the Endowment Fund for Biodiversity. The initiative will also focuses on the global...
Haze
Haze just updated his website with more works. He’s the man responsible for many classic logos such as EPMD and MTV (Headbangers Ball) as well as album covers for the Beastie Boys, Public Enemy and Tommy Boy Records. He’s one of the first wave of graffiti artists turn designers to break into the realm of product design and able to apply his signature style onto products for companies...
1969 Plan for New York City
“New York City Planning Commission’s ‘1969 Plan for New York City,’ published under Mayor Lindsay, all six volumes (one for each borough, plus one titled “Critical Issues”). These are oversized (17 in. sq.), and packed with incredible information graphics, photography and design. Famous Magnum photographers (Helen Levitt, Andre Kertesz, Robert Frank) were...
10/GUI—A new approach to Multi-touch UI design
“This video examines the benefits and limitations inherent in current mouse-based and window-oriented interfaces, the problems facing other potential solutions, and visualizes my proposal for a completely new way of interacting with desktop computers.”
UI designer R. Clayton Miller proposes, 10/GUI, a new kind of multi-touch user interface display. An UI that will retired the...
House in Sakai
“house in Sakai” by Daisuke Maeda/sequence studio
“In this project, the umbrella is turned upside down. Then,the residents are surrounded by the scenery. The wall layout is arranged like the windmill. Windmill begin to turn, when wind flows. Like that, the nature flows to inside,when we walk. The residents will feel...
Lawrence Weiner
Lawrence Weiner is a central figure of conceptual art, whose work often takes the form of typographic texts. In this video by Hillman Curtis, he explained why he detest Helvetica, his philosophy and his approach to conceptual art. Very inspirational to say the least.
Liu Bolin - "Some people call me the invisible...
“Standing silently in front of his chosen scene, in locations all around the world, the 36-year-old uses himself as a blank canvas.
Then, with a little help from an assistant, he paints his body to merge as seamlessly as possible with what is behind him.
He claims they make a statement about his place in society. He sees himself as an outsider whose artistic efforts are not always...
HOUSE IN INBA
By: SHSTT
Via WhatWeDoIsSecret
Samo - Jean Michel Basquiat
Jean Michel Basquiat
House Industries - Posters
House Industries collaborate with serigraphic genius David Dodde to produce these delicious hand printed posters from the Photo-Lettering type collection and the Alexander Girard’s collections launched earlier this year. The images shown are some of my favorites.
Typophile Film Festival 5 Opening Titles
Check out this nice opening title for Typophile Film Festival 5 then go to FontFeed for the documented process undertook to create this title.
Slit house — AZL Atelier Zhanglei
“Fits to its historical context formulated in begining of 20’s in centre part of Nanjing city, Slit house express itself in harmony with surroundings in the new form of concrete facade. The entir structure & facade even roof are made from concrete with 5cm horizontal wood textile strip which shares the same scale with neibour buildings of brick built almost 100 years ago. Even we...
China's 60th year anniversary.
I’m sure everyone has their own opinion about China but I don’t think anyone can deny the fact that this country is growing, very fast. Let’s enjoy the awesomeness of these pictures. You can see more via Boston Globe.
BapexModernica
I’m not one for BAPE, never been one except for a few things but this collaboration is one. Team up with Modernica—a specialist in handcrafted contemporary furnishings, BAPE got its way with the famous Eames designed Shell Side Chair. This version comes in 3 colorways of green, blue, and pink. The exterior is decorated with BAPE’s 1st Camouflage pattern, while the seating surface is...
On the Origin of Species: The Preservation of...
Ben Fry is director of Seed Visualization and its Phyllotaxis Lab, a design laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts focused on understanding complex data.
On the Origin of Species: The Preservation of Favoured Traces
“The idea that we can actually see change over time in a person’s thinking is fascinating. Darwin scholars are of course familiar with this story, but here we can view it...
Georgia & Verdana
“Elk Grove Village, IL — September 8, 2009 — Ascender Corporation, Carter & Cone and The Font Bureau, Inc. announced today that they are working on a project in conjunction with Microsoft to extend the Georgia and Verdana typeface families. This project began more than a year ago, and the first of the new typefaces are expected during the first quarter of 2010.”
The...
September 2009
6 posts
Dan Tobin Smith
Dan Tobin Smith updated his site with some new shots include those for Visa and for Jay-z’s THEBLUEPRINT3.
Stefan Kanchev
“Kanchev, Stefan Kirov, the son of an iconographer, was born on 06 August 1915, in Kalofer, Bulgaria. An applied graphic artist, honored with the Bulgarian State title “National artist” in 1971. He studied mural painting in the National Art Academy (1940–1945) under prof. Dechko Uzunov. He was recognized as one of the top ten designers of trade marks along side with Paul Rand, Saul Bass...
Space Collective
Space Collective—Where forward thinking terrestrials exchange ideas and information about the state of the species, their planet and the universe, living the lives of science fiction today.
"Work. Meaning and Worry"
ART+COM has developed a statistics strip for the exhibition “Work. Meaning and Worry” to visualize and process large volumes of data and facts.
The objective strip folds along the wall and widens occasionally into graphs and charts of various types: 3-D lines, surfaces, columns, beams and dots show extensive, transparent and easy to understand background information and amazing...
Alphabeasties and Other Amazing Types.
“Alphabeasties and Other Amazing Types.” a book by Werner Design Werks. The fold-outs are nice and especially, the additional information for each letter is a nice touch. As always, start them young.