Austrian graphic designer and self-confessed TV fan Albert Exergian has created a series of strikingly minimal posters with a humorous take on popular TV shows. Their iconic design has been such a hit that online gallery Blanka are turning the full collection into A1 Giclee Prints.
Filed under: Animation, Film, Graphic Design | Tags: "Kenichi Tanaka", info-graphics, Japan
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I’m loving this info-graphic film, by Kenichi Tanaka, about the strange and wonderful Japan.
Filed under: Graphic Design, Visual Identity | Tags: business cards, Murmure, thermo-sensitive
These thermo-sensitive business cards are a killer idea by French agency Murmure. One series of cards appear jet black on both sides. It’s only through the warmth of human touch that the images on them are revealled.
Filed under: Graphic Design, Sculpture | Tags: calendar, Faltjahr 2010, Johann Volkmer, paper sculpture
I am in awe of Johann Volkmer’s Faltjahr 2010 pop-up calendar. Check out the crafting of it here.
Filed under: Graphic Design, Illustration | Tags: Delicious Design Leauge, gig posters, Hammer Press, Scott Campbell, Spike Press
This post is, as the title would suggest, ode to the gig poster – in all its limited edition, screen printed glory.
Mogwai and Yourself & The Air posters by Delicious Design League, The National and Sonic Youth posters by Spike Press, Do Make Say Think and Club of the Sons posters by Scott Campbell, and White Stripes and Ra Ra Riot posters by Hammerpress.
Studio Lin collaborated with Lisa Naftolin to design these invitations for Erwan Frotin’s Wildflowers exhibition at Art+Commerce. As for the airbrushed edges – this blog is not worthy.
As a fan of the stamp (I have a moderately geeky collection), I was really taken with Gavin Potenza’s sublime letterpress print ‘Homage to the Stamp’. A limited run of 200 were released in conjunction with his poster, A Field Guide to the Stamps of the World, created for Tiny Showcase’s Learning Press – a new series of “mildly factual, mostly fictitious, educational posters”. I would love to add these make-believe stamps to my collection.
Filed under: Art, Exhibitions, Graphic Design | Tags: Constructivism, Popova, Rodchenko, Tate Modern
While I was in London, I also went to the Rodchenko & Popova Defining Constructivism exhibition at Tate Modern. The exhibition comprises 12 rooms documenting the works of renowned Russian artists Alexandr Rodchenko and Liubov Popova. Whilst it was their graphic design work I was mostly interested in, the body of work on display covers an impressive range of disciplines, including their abstract paintings, architectural drawings, sculptures, textiles, book designs, and poster advertising. I particularly like Rodchenko’s Spacial Constructions (c.1920) comprising a series of hanging three dimensional objects. During his lifetime he deemed these kinetic sculptures too radical for public viewing. He later went on to destroy them after documenting them in photographs. Below are replicas of the work on display:
Rodchenko’s Spacial Construction No.12 (photo from MoMA) and
Spatial Construction No 108 1920-1 (photo by Dan Korkelia).
Filed under: Exhibitions, Graphic Design, Product design, Sculpture | Tags: Designs of the Year
I spent a couple of days in London this week and took the chance to check out all 91 designs shortlisted for this year’s Brit Insurance Designs of the Year. The award, which pays homage to outstanding international design, went to Shepard Fairey’s Barack Obama Poster. Here’s a round up of some of the nominations that put a glint in my eye:
Merry-go-round cloakroom at Rotterdam’s Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, designed by Wieki Somers
Chase & Galley’s Is Not Magazine, which is published as a bill poster on the streets of Melbourne and Sydney.
Kinetic Sculpture by ART+COM for the new BMW Museum in Munich. The sculpture is made from 714 metal spheres hanging from thin steel wires attached to individually-controlled stepper motors. See it in motion here.
Designer Singihh Susilo Kartono picked up the award for best product design for his Magno Wooden Radio, which is manufactured by locals in Java, Indonesdia.
Clever, practical and environmentally conscious design for jar tops by Jorre van Ast
22 meter long electroluminescent installation, designed by the art and design practiceTroika for British Airways Heathrow Terminal 5.
Not just any shabby trophy will do for the design greats. These beauties were created by Michael Marriott and Anthony Burrill.
Filed under: Graphic Design, Music, Visual Identity | Tags: CD design, Must Be Something
I teamed up with creative comrade, Jill Murphy, to design the logo, EP artwork and merchandise for Glasgow-based band Must Be Something. Their debut EP, Give Up The Ghost was released last Saturday and is available on itunes.
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