17/12/2009

apartamento




Dario always buy apartamento, which is great for me! Apartamento is a dream interior magazine, no flashy stuff all down to earth and really nice! The current issue features a great interview with Enzo Mari, a nice tale of plants, a colouring in bit and lots of other stuff!
Learn more here

09/12/2009

BOOK LAUNCH


Iaspis presents a new publication on graphic design. Conversations with Kajsa Ståhl, Maki Suzuki (Åbäke) and HC Ericson; James Goggin (Practise) and Mia Frostner, Robert Sollis, Paul Tisdell and Rasmus Troelsen (Europa); Will Holder and Samuel Nyholm plus Nille Svensson (Sweden Graphics) and Marieke Stolk, Danny van den Dungen and Erwin Brinkers (Experimental Jetset). In other articles and interviews: Vinca Kruk, Daniel van der Velden and Gon Zifroni (Metahaven); David Reinfurt and Stuart Bailey (Dexter Sinister); Emily Pethick, Ramia Mazé, Zak Kyes and Mark Owens.

Editors: Magnus Ericson, Zak Kyes, Martin Frostner, Sara Teleman and Jonas Williamsson.


Book release and public talk tonight at:

the Architectural Association, London
9 December 2009, 6.30pm, AA Lecture Hall
Keith Schofield


The new video for Charlotte Gainsbourg and Beck's duet "Heaven can wait", directed by Keith Shofield who made it using inspiration from images he has found on the world wide web for all video treatments he has worked on, is quite an amazing video! Thanks George.
Watch it here.

07/12/2009




The only reason for time is so that
everything doesn't happens at once

– A.E







29/11/2009

The Form of the Book Book
Occasional Papers


Come to the launch of The Form of the Book Book, an interesting collection of essays on book design by Catherine de Smet, James Goggin, Jenny Eneqvist, Roland Früh & Corina Neuenschwander, Richard Hollis, Chrissie Charlton, Armand Mevis and me.
Edited by Sara de Bondt and Fraser Muggeridge.


The celebration of the launch will take place on:

Wednesday 16 December 2009
6.30–8.30pm

Artwords Bookshop
20–22 Broadway Market
London E8 4QJ
www.artwords.co.uk

25/11/2009

24/11/2009

MUJI / LEGO
Ideal x-mas present...





Muji in Japan will start selling this hole puncher which match up with the four stubs on LEGO bricks, this way you can expand the horizon of you LEGO creations - oh what fun we'll have!
from Muji Japan

23/11/2009

Frankfurter...

22/11/2009

Nymphenburg






18/11/2009

If life was like this....

Ed Ruscha


mountains...

17/11/2009

fifty years

09/11/2009

Discussion Week

Questioning design competitions I got to write a piece for It's Nice That's weekly discussions on the blog. Have a read and discuss here!
R-Echos

Jerome Rigaud's experiemental online magazine with a vast variety of topics from biology to graphic design to ecology to business, and around again feeding you another load of art, computing and science. Time well spent, at least for sourceful information and knowledge worth knowing. Have a red here

05/11/2009

Emma draws


We have just finished illustrator Emma Löfström's website, she has a quite explicit mind and a broken line - I like it alot. Have a look here

27/10/2009

GEEK!


But somehow I get warm and fuzzy inside because Robin Kinross knows a thing a two when he says: "One might remark also that a book open on a table – while the reader holds a cup of tea in both hands (for warmth and comfort), or sews a button on a shirt, or carries a young child – is no more than a mark of decent civilization". Read the full article about books that lies open, and save the list of, non-British for some obscure reason we can only speculate about, binders who knows how to do a good job finishing of that book, here.

23/10/2009

FABIEN CAPPELLO


Fabien Cappello is a designer working mainly with furniture, products, cities, factories, systems, key cutters, locality, christmas trees, collaborators and friends.
Just finished his super super simple site, have a look here

22/10/2009

READ!


20/10/2009

Gerhard Richter












I need to buy Gerhard Richter's book with his painted photographs and find out what German printer printed it - it is an absolutely amazingly beautiful book. Only quality like that can reproduce these incredible images. mmmmmmmm beautiful!



15/10/2009

Ben Pearce has a nice collection...




Argh could spent ages on Ben Pearces collection of found images on his flickr, kill time with Ben here

12/10/2009

To be a man, a...



Fantastic Man has updated their web site, it is utterly simplistic and very very nice! Sometimes I wish I was a man...

See it here

01/10/2009

Enzo Mari!



Friday the 3rd of Oct 2009 6.30pm at AA, Bedford Square, London

Be there! For what? For: Enzo Mari talk and the opening of Auto-progettazione Revisited exhibition with contributors Clemence Seilles, Travis Broussard, Ryan Gander, Martino Gamper, Graham Hudson, Phyllida Barlow, Keung Caputo, Lucas Maassen, Joe Pipal.

18/09/2009

50 Hands a Household Orchestra at DesignMade this Tuesday

We're part of the "My Perfect Neighbours" the Korean Design Council exhibition during Design Week. The show opens this Tuesday, where we'll be holding a 50 Hands Orchestra workshop - come and join us!

6.30pm
22 September 2009
Korean Cultural Centre UK
Ground Floor, Grand Building
1-3 Strand, London, WC2N 5BW

01/09/2009

Unter dem Motto - Self-publishing Fair


I wish I was in Berlin on the 5th of September, then I would go to Unter dem Motto a one day self-publishing book fair!


Look out for stuff from the very wonderful Rollo Press operated by Urs Lehni.

Find the fair here:
Motto Bookstore &
Chert Gallery
Skalitzer Straße 68
10997 Berlin
Underground U1
Schlesisches Tor

5th Spetember 2009
12 am — 12 pm



Typographica at Kemistry Gallery


Go have a look at the legendary graphic design journal Typographica, which ran from 1949 to 1967, founded by Herbert Spencer at the next exhibition at Kemistry Gallery. Large scale spreads detailing the journal's content and a full set of the journals will be on display.


The show will run from 11th September - 31st October 2009.

27/08/2009

Back to work...

14/08/2009

I want to bike to Richmond park again!


Go and see more of Dario's photos and thoughts on his blog.

05/08/2009

Animal Kingdom Love

Summer of Love by Saiman Chow

02/08/2009

Hopefully a joke!?!


following up on "America's next top..." reality series Graphic Design will be up for grabs...
Is this for real???
Applaud Yourself

Sometimes you just need some appreciation, buy your own applaud machine from Laikingland designed by Martin Smith

26/07/2009

No no - no no no no - there's no limit

CDEFGABC from lernert Engelberts on Vimeo.



25/07/2009

Lego History


Mike Balakov loves Lego, and it looks like Lego's advertisement company Blattner Brunner also likes what he does...

For Lego's 50th birthday campaign they made this print campaign: