Portrait of a studio in 1000 images. by 2x4, New York. it is what it is by 2x4 Inc. I must get this book since 2x4 has been one of my favorite studios since university and i feel that they had quite influence on the kind of designer i am today. Read More…
Tenfinger. is a Brussels-based studio for graphic and spatial design. At the intersection of graphic conception, architecture and visual technology, we conceive and create highly communicative environments. Addressing ourselves to businesses, arts institutions and cultural organisations, we as Tenfinger stand for balanced and layered realisations that match the precise and multi-faceted demands of each client. Read More…
"There are many women designers who deserve to be recognised for their immense contributions to the field of graphic design, but few so deserving as Jacqueline Casey (1927-91). " this link was ripped from the new eye´s blog ;) Read More…
Objectified is a documentary about industrial design; it’s about the manufactured objects we surround ourselves with, and the people who make them. On an average day, each of us uses hundreds of objects. (Don’t believe it? Start counting: alarm clock, light switch, faucet, shampoo bottle, toothbrush, razor…) Who makes all these things, and why do they [...] Read More…
Back in 2001 Craig Giffen created a website called humanclock.com. Since the Human Clock website represented time with pictures, he figured he could predictably milk the idea with slower-moving units of time — calendar dates. Sadly however, the calendar remained neglected until now Read More…
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NORWEGIAN COLLECTION OF POTENTIAL ARCHITECTURE is an online collection of the half-baked, the promising, the raw and the invisible architecture; Projects that miscarried, went over the top, were turned down by clients or for other reasons never became realised. The idea was to create a database of this collective knowledge, designed as a user-generated web platform [...] Read More…
LICHTWERK is a public art project, transforming the recently redesigned IBM building in the heart of Vienna during the evening hours into a computer controlled light sculpture. Read More…
I grab this movie yesterday from the video shop because the title was echoing in my head for awhile and i wasn't sure if i had seen it or not. As i start the dvd i'm surprised by a great opening sequence! Motion graphics replicating vintage cigarette packaging with the movie credits. Worth to check [...] Read More…
I was reading one of my favorite blogs and i saw a post about the Ellen Luptons, Free Font Manifesto which i couldn't resist to post here as well. Unfortunately Reactor-Reactor Blog is mostly written in portuguese and understandably hard to follow for non portuguese speakers... Here's the 5 reasons,"Why would a typeface designer want to [...] Read More…
The annual Graphic Design seminar and competition by Grafill, a norwegian Association of Graphic Design and Illustration member of Icograda, just happen last week with a great program including talks from Adrian Shaughnessy, Rinzen Steve & Rilla Alexander, Sami Kortemäki (Underware), Rick Webb (Barbarian Group), Geneviève Gauckler, Mateus de Pula Santos (Lobo), among others. At [...] Read More…
Cette publication ambitionne d’être un espace d’échange, de partage, de confrontation et offrir ainsi une approche plurielle du design graphique, à la fois visuelle et théorique. Elle veut parler du design graphique comme d’un champ de création et de recherche. Elle veut faire parler les acteurs du design graphique – professionnel, étudiants, théoriciens, journalistes, etc. [...] Read More…
NODE is a Berlin and Oslo based graphic design studio, founded in 2003 by Anders Hofgaard (NO) and Serge Rompza (DE). Vladimir Llovet Casademont (DE/ES) joined the collaboration 2006. All three studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam. The studio works for international clients and on self initiated projects across various media: books, magazines, [...] Read More…
There is at least 2 things I'm afraid I'm too geeky about. 1st: always to have a nice email signature! and change very often with an even greater one! 2nd: always have nice desktop image! change very often with an even greater one! So, here is my current desktop (luckily it wasn't a mess like it [...] Read More…
Since my portfolio is an eternal work in progress i will post some work as it happens along the way. Right now i'm doing a small profile for a architecture models company "Super Modell". I just finish the business cardswhich i am happy with and i have some really nice footage from last night experiments [...] Read More…