What a nice idea, with the some home decoration on the horizon I will definitely be keeping these in mind for the kitchen maybe.
Designed by Made A Mano.
via Swissmiss (thanks).
Liking the above innovative wallpaper design by Lori Weitzner.
One of the most impressive pieces of work I have seen in a long long time, beautiful stuff at South Kensington tube station courtesy of Troika. Below is an explanation of how it was created.
The technique of mirror-polished high-quality brass and stainless steel was followed with an acid-etching process resulting in a highly contrasted decorative pattern. Using traditional machine processes proved unfeasible for gears of this particular thinness and the complex surface design required a bespoke method of cutting.
This distinct work process required that the gear profiles were developed within the limitations of its process. By adopting high precision water-jet cutting meant that we could allow the stainless steel plates to be acid-etched, then filled with gloss black acrylic varnish before being cut into their final profiles.
Suspended from a lit casing, the bright blue letters are each 0.5 metre high, and balanced by an internal pocketing to ensure a minimal load on the purpose-built mechanism. As a result, the work can be powered by a small motor and generate the revolving motion using only the three small mitre gears seen on the top of the ampersand.
The entire delicate compilation is encased in a clear acrylic tube of 0.7m diameter wide and 1.3m long. The tube is closed off with rings, each 0.74m diameter wide produced from solid aluminium to give it its spectacular finish.
Via CRBlog (thanks).
Nice. Click here for the architects website.
Good stuff. By a Mr Chris Nixon.
Dalton Maag Part One, is a great looking, one colour typography brochure, created by Mode.
via September Industry (thank you).
With the World Cup around the corner, the excellent Blanka has produced the above t-shirt niceness. Get yours here. I got my NGLND on it’s way ready for the first game against the U.S. on June 12th.
I came across this delightful promotional website for an album release. Nice simple, but clever use of streaming. Click here and have play with the fullscreen options.
Nice stuff.
Find out here.
Having ‘done’ Vegas in the early 90′s I have not really felt the need to go again, but having stumbled across the above images taken at Vegas’ Neon Graveyard, whilst I am not maybe going to make a point of getting there as soon as I can, if I happen to ever be in the vicinity in the future, I sure would like take a walk around all this typographic niceness.
Nice.
Whilst reading the first issue of the delicious new art & visual culture magazine Elephant, I happened upon the work of London-based text artist Liz Collini. You can see more typographic niceness here,
Very, very nice outdoor seating at a hospital in Bristol. The concept of the bench is in the format of a folded postcard from an actual letter sent by a patient who stayed at the hospital. The idea is to reassure new patients about the experience they will have during their stay.
Made by Boex from hardwood, letters hand carved supported on a stainless steel frame.
Size 2500mm wide x 900mm high.
The Macclesfield Alphabet Book dates from around 1500, had been in the library of the Earl of Macclesfield since 1750 but was only discovered very recently. It is now proudly in the hands of the British Library.
Fantastic stuff.
via CRBlog (thanks).
Interesting if maybe slightly odd typographic expirement by Oded Ezer.
Typosperma is the second experimental typo project in his ‘Biotypography’ series. As a paraphrase on the biotechnology definition, ‘Biotypography’ is a term that refers to any typographical application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to create or modify typographical phenomena. The main idea of the ‘Typosperma’ project was to create some sort of new transgenic creatures, half (human) sperm, half letter. These imaginary creatures are cloned sperms, that typographic information has been implanted into their DNA.
More here.
Via itsnicethat (thanks).
Something else that was kindly dropped into my inbox whilst having a bit of downtime, was a collection of links to some great timeless inspiration courtesy of Herb Lubalin. Well worth a looksy. Here, here and here.
Via Grain Edit (thanks). Also thanks to Justin Thomas Kay for doing the hard (but fun) work.
oh yes they do, thankfully not I though. Not never.
Nice work and typography courtesy of the excellent skinnyships.
A double-sided concertina alphabet book made up of 26 pop-up capital letters.
Nice. Available to buy here.
via itsnicethat (thanks).
Alex Haigh has launched HypeForType, an online digital type foundry that features exclusive typefaces by Si Scott, Alex Trochut, Jon Burgerman, HelloHikimori, and Luke Lucas.
Nice
Tart cards are the means by which many London prostitutes advertise their services. Step into almost any central London phone box and you can contemplate up to 80 cards inviting you to be tied, teased, spanked or massaged.
Even if a police crackdown, the internet and the increasing use of mobile phones suggest their days are numbered, tart cards are still so pervasive they are now regarded as items of accidental art and have something of a cult following. Once on the periphery of design, tart cards have influenced the work of many mainstream artists such as Royal Academician Tom Phillips and Sex Pistols designer Ray and Nils Stevenson.
In conjunction with St Bride Library and Type, we asked designers – from students to superstars – to find the tart hiding in every type and create their own graphic numbers. Along with a selection in the magazine, all 450 cards can be viewed here. They will also be on display at KK Outlet, London from 22nd to 29th June.
In among this plethora of brilliant, witty graphic designs we would like to highlight the serious issue that lies at the heart of the world of tart cards – the plight of trafficked women in the sex industry. It is a subject touched eloquently on by Mike Dempsey of Studio Dempsey, who is a volunteer at the Helen Bamber Foundation which helps rebuild lives broken by human rights violations. While our exhibition is an ode to the graphic qualities of the tart card phenomena, Dempsey’s design is a pertinent reminder of the sinister world that lies beneath every card.
Nice. via selectism
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