scribbling the corn field!
from the netherlands Driver on cocaine + police + high speed chase + corn field = art! Found via The Daily Mail Tweet
View ArticleAsterisks*
* Large wood-backed asterisks around Portland, Oregon The Results Under Action Project. Details here. Tweet
View ArticleDavid A. Carter: Popping up in Roseville
The Pop Up Artist Video produced by Manny Crisostomo for The Sacramento Bee Pop-up book master – and paper engineer – David A. Carter has been expanding his art into geometric abstraction. Inspired...
View ArticleLiquid logo
From Tokyo: Click on the image to watch video/jump. Found via Twitter.com/rockstaronline Tweet
View ArticleFuturism by the bay
‘Futurism was an international art movement founded in Italy in 1909. It was (and is) a refreshing contrast to the weepy sentimentalism of Romanticism. The Futurists loved speed, noise, machines,...
View ArticleHangul at the Design Museum
Claudia Pungaru, one of my students, turned me on to the work of Dr. Hyunju Lee. Lee’s work is typographic and she uses the Korean script Hangul as a starting point for expressive interpretations –...
View ArticleBarbara Kruger: Born/Dying
Continuing in NYC is Barbara Kruger’s typography-based exhibition about media bombardment, Between Being Born and Dying. Show runs thru November 21. More info here and here. Found via Michael Martinho...
View ArticleMarian Bantjes: Optimistic modernism and soap
Modernism was optimistic. A utopia for the future! More than just a style to be pillaged. And even if you weren’t able to see Modernism: Designing a New World 1914–1939 at the Victoria & Albert...
View ArticleBauhaus at the MoMA
”It’s a Haushold word, the Bauhaus, but a misunderstood one. Its influence is all around us, from Ikea furniture to glass skyscrapers, but it is credited – and blamed – for much more than it should...
View ArticleDepero 50
Roxy, c.1930 I finally made it over to the Depero 50 exhibit at the Italian Cultural Institute in San Francisco. Discovered many of Fortunato Depero’s originals were an interesting mix of ink washes....
View ArticleLess and More: Braun in London
‘Transparent plastics and wooden veneers were mixed and colour schemes were limited to tones of pure whites and greys, the only splash of colour being allocated to switches and dials’ Designer Dieter...
View ArticleDJG Design
Graphic designer Danny Gibson doesn’t do things the way he’s supposed to. And last we spoke, I think he said he’s not even using a computer anymore. Based out of Kansas City, Danny is a prolific...
View ArticleGuy Saggee, posters
‘with particular emphasis on culture and politics’ Check out the online exhibition of the poster work of Israel-based Guy Saggee. Tweet
View ArticleHoliday windows, NYC
It’s a shame that department stores nationwide have mostly converted to printed advertising posters in their store windows. Money’s tight, of course. In NYC, the window display tradition lives on....
View ArticleAn SPP Valentine from my wife
Jeanne’s gotten herself hooked on this thing called SuperPoke! Pets. And she’s turned it into a major playground, building elaborate constructed environments. With pets at the center. Grendl is her...
View ArticleDr. Frankenstein, photographer
The photographic work of Daniel Gordon. Website here. Interview (video) below. Found via Oded Ezer Tweet
View ArticleJustin Lovato has a new website
New work posted, installations and a new shop. Go here. Tweet
View ArticleJanet Jackson’s breast: STILL tying up the legal system
Justin Timberlake’s Rock Your Body, feat. Janet Jackson . . . Costumes designed by Alexander McQueen (no one mentions that) Like ripples in a pond. The legal battle resulting from the 2004 Superbowl...
View ArticleDigital graffiti at the Olympic Village
‘Canada’s home grown electro kings Holy FUCK lend their funk to this incredible snippet of the digital graffiti out of the olympic village. A huge backlit projection was set up in conjunction with...
View ArticleThe International Printing Museum: New logo, new site
One of the coolest printing history finds in the Los Angeles area is The International Printing Museum in Carson. Tucked away in an industrial section and run by the incredible Mark Barbour, the...
View ArticleDead Sea Scrolls and Gutenberg, locally
Opening April 8, 2010 at the Bayside Church in Granite Bay, CA is ‘From the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Bible in America,’ an exhibition featuring five pieces of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Also on hand will be...
View ArticleItalic Room
‘The Italic Room’ is an installation created by student Linna Xu – shown at the Bauhaus University in Weimar. Tweet
View Articleun-titled: SJSU senior show
‘if graphic design did not exist, information would suffer, you’d die, and things would be ugly.’ This weekend, my alma mater – San Jose State University – is putting on their 2010 senior graphic...
View ArticlePlastic in the Pacific Ocean
‘Depicts 2.4 million pieces of plastic, equal to the estimated number of pounds of plastic pollution that enter the world’s oceans every hour. All of the plastic in this image was collected from the...
View ArticleMaira
Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World) opened today at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. Show details (and video) here. Found via Blair Barton Tweet
View ArticlePrinting Machine invented
Thomas Bernard and Florian Chevillard have invented The Printing Machine. Presented at the Festival de l’Affiche in Chaumont, France. It helps if you understand French. If not, that’s okay too. Found...
View ArticleCohen, Masareel
‘Tho all the maps of blood and flesh are posted on the door, theres no one who has told us yet what Boogie Street is for.’ Animation by cronogeo, featuring late 1920s woodcuts by ‘image novelist’...
View ArticleTomorrow night: Corporate Wrath
Art by Patrick Drayus The great Jennifer Jacobsen has kept me in the loop on this: The Corporate Wrath Art and Poetry Show at the Marco Fuoco Gallery in Sacramento. The show starts at 7 tomorrow...
View Article‘There is No Why’
The work of Alida Rosie Sayer, now on exhibition in London. Articles here and here. Blog here. Tweet
View ArticleTypeCon next week, Wood Type today
‘We’ll explore the hot button topic of web fonts; antique type and lettering of the textile trade; the typography of Disneyland; making smart fonts even smarter; the influence of Charles Eames; liquid...
View ArticleReverse View
‘The installation consists of a paint-bucket and a reversed, continuous world map cut from polyester-coated aluminium.’ This piece by Jørgen Craig Lello and Tobias Arnell illustrate the disconnect....
View ArticleRalph Lauren 4D
‘The world’s first 4-dimensional experience featuring 3D imagery, digital sound effects and scents from Ralph Lauren fragrances.’ On November 10, Ralph Lauren celebrated the 10 year anniversary of its...
View ArticleSnow
‘In a huge space of 15m in width, fine feathers are blown up by the wind’ The work of Tokujin Yoshioka. Found via Design Scene Tweet
View ArticleNo pants on the Subway 2011
‘As in years past, there are No Pants Subway Rides happening in cities around the world on January 9.’ Info above, more detail here. Found via Shandi Pierzina, who’s organized the Vegas trouser drop...
View ArticleTavi, hats
‘decades worth of the milliner’s designs and to get inside the head behind the hats.’ Fashion blogger Tavi headed to Antwerp in September to review Stephen Jones’ career retrospective exhibition,...
View ArticleElektro: The robot that smokes!
‘Seven feet tall, weighing 265 pounds, humanoid in appearance, he could walk by voice command, speak about 700 words, smoke cigarettes, blow up balloons and move his head and arms.’ Westinghouse’s...
View ArticleIconic Bunny
‘Contemporary artists interpret the iconic Playboy Bunny’ Pictured, detail of Vincent Cacciotti’s ‘Peek-A-Boo’ from Playboy Redux II. More here. Tweet
View ArticleKorean Convergence
‘It’s an amalgamation of ‘sign’ (Korean written language) and ‘space’: signs become spaces, and spaces become signs’ The South Korean pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo 2010. Designed by Mass...
View ArticleErr: Art of the factory
Factory mistakes become art. Curated by Jeremy Hutchison. Details here. Found via Gregg Berryman Tweet
View ArticleBlast!!
‘Vorticism was a radical art movement that shone briefly but brightly in the years before and during World War I.’ A few months back, I picked up Black Sparrow Press’ reprints of Wyndham Lewis’...
View ArticleUrinal in bronze, +Murdoch
Above, artist Sherrie Levine’s Fountain (Buddha) (1996) with Duchamp’s original (1917). From the exhibition, Keeping it Real (2010). Below, ‘a personal note from Queen’s Roger Taylor’ (2011). Roger...
View ArticleThe theft: Degenerate Art
‘Avant-garde German artists were now branded both enemies of the state and a threat to German culture.’ In 1937, the Nazi party hosted ‘Entartete Kunst.’ This traveling exhibition showcased modern art...
View ArticleSchelbert, West, Rietveld
‘handprinted and unique posters in A0 format, printed and digital invitations and adverts in various Dutch magazines . . . woodcut printed.’ E-flyer for Alban Schelbert and Christopher West’s End...
View ArticleRobin Rhode: Variants
The work of Robin Rhode. Below, image from Rhode’s Variants. Tweet
View ArticleGood 50×70
‘It’s a competition to raise awareness amongst the creative community of the power we have to be a force for good.’ Posters from the Good 50×70 Competition. Found via Robert L. Peters Tweet
View ArticleWall Street effigy
‘Give a Wall Street banker enough rope and he will hang himself’ The work of Miami-based street artist Above. Video by Peter Vahan and Hermes, location provided via Primary Flight and White Walls...
View ArticleNew Vintage Digital Vernacular Letters
‘~600 photos, >100 photographers, >40 countries’ New Vintage Digital Vernacular Letters runs thru March 31, 2012. Mota Italic Gallery, Berlin. Details here. Tweet
View ArticleTypographic soft porn, via Italy
Last week I attended TYPO in San Francisco and noticed that my notebook was full. No room for notes. My solution was the #typo13 hashtag, Twitter, plus big fingers and cranky iPhone. Everything I...
View ArticleClients know shit
As a side project, Irish graphic designers Mark Shanley and Paddy Treacy turned a bunch of client feedback (the bad kind) into a series of posters. They then put them up for sale and ended raising a...
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