February 2012
26 posts
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potato box
This potato box (as this is what we have used it for) has been in the family for years and is still in good condition.. Great at hiding your potatos while still making your home look nice :)
Interfinity mark
An interfinity question is a question that has both an infinite number of answers and no answer at all. Interfinity allows opposites to coexist.
It can be said that the “an interfinity question is always more interesting than its response” and that the “response to an interfinity question is always more interesting that the question itself.” In written conversation the interfinity mark*...
The Shakespeare Mangle
There has for a long time been an eccentric minority who believe that Shakespeare was written by, well, almost anyone except Shakespeare. Sir Francis Bacon has often been put forward as a candidate; one of the best known exponents of this hypothesis was Delia Bacon (no relation) whose mental stability was definitely questionable. It is worth pointing out at once that mainstream opinion,...
Winners list for the 59th Book Design Award 2011 →
Shortlist for the 59th Annual APA Book Design... →
Lined & Unlined: 18 One-Week Projects →
Using the laws of modern handwriting analysis, modify an existing typeface to have the attributes of a liar’s script.
Using the Handbook of Regular Patterns, design at least five wallpaper samples for the home or HQ of a major historical person or group.
Make a map of your routes through the city during the next five days.
Curate a timeline that includes all major projects from Parsons as...
In Reply to "How the computer will save poetry"
I’m thinking about this stuff a lot these days. My daughter is being raised bilingual and is just on the cusp of language acquisition. In the last few weeks, she’s been mimicking with real precision and it’s a recurring shock to hear a moment of perfectly articulated speech pop out from her random vocalizations. She’s watching us as much as we’re watching her....
Tell me something about Otto Treumann book. I...
Irma Boom: Yes, he disliked it. He said: ‘Irma it’s your book’. I said: ‘That’s right, I made it.’ Then he said: ‘But it is a book about me’. ‘Yes, It is my book about you’, and he didn’t like that at all. I returned the question: If you have to make a book about me, it won’t be a ‘Irma’ book, but a real ‘Treumann’. That makes design so interesting; you ask a designer you want to work with, because you like the design. It was my own interpretation of work, I wanted to show the best of him. I wasn’t trying to be Otto Treumann; I stayed myself.
“A book is a sequence of spaces. Each of these spaces is perceived at a different...”
– Ulises Carrión, “What a book is” in The new art of making books
Book Poster for Irma Boom
2010 / Print / Personal Project
For announcing the visit of Irma Boom’s thesis book workshop Brian and I made this poster/book.Perfect bound, with a page size of 1.25x17in and several thousand pages of many colors (the thickness of the book ended up being about 11in), the cover became the spine and the fore-edge the cover. The two copies of the book book were displayed on a little...
“More often you are operating under one major but overlooked assumption — that...”
– Keenan Cummings
“Yes, you had a lousy childhood. Yes, you had a rotten relationship throughout...”
– Don’t Look for Pity When Looking for Work
“Take It To The Next Level
Feel Free to Just Be Creative
Let Your Creative...”
– 10 Awful Client Cliches That Make Every Designer Cringe
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Big desk for free!!
Whoa nelly be careful around this behemoth it will swallow up your assignments and spit out near perfect marks. This desk can fit a computer, printer, a sprawl of textbooks and lots of study snacks and a bottle of wine - this used to be my regular study routine so trust me I know. Measuring approx 74cm tall, 90cm deep and 150cm long, this bad boy demands space. It is a bit ugly and battered but...
Graphic Design at SANDBERG INSTITUTE
The profession of design is changing significantly. Design today is first of all a dialogue and doesn’t so much exist as a book, poster or website; as a medium - it exists IN the media. In the media-society we now live in, designing is no longer about shaping information, but about how to deal with information. Not the medium is the message, but the mentality is transmitted. “Media...
“Although a great deal of activities is presented, your own efforts and...”
– SANDBERG INSTITUTE
Buck Mulligan on The Authenticity Hoax: How We Get...
The new IKEA catalogue just arrived in my mailbox. The cover shows a pair of tykes sunk in matching EKTORP armchairs ($499 each). One kid is reading a storybook; the other appears to be dozing, with her bare feet resting fraternally—or I guess sororally—on the outstretched legs of her sister. Surmounting this tranquil scene is the slogan ‘Hooray for the everyday’. This is a gutsy choice of...
January 2012
50 posts
Rebrand...or else!
The new millennium of corporate misconduct was spearheaded by Enron, the Houston-based energy, commodities, and services corporation that went bankrupt in 2001 after its massive accounting fraud was discovered. The Enron logo was the very last piece of work by the designer Paul Rand, one of the fathers of American modernism. Rand was born and raised in a “prebranding” age, in which corporations...
A 229 word definition of a Bed by the NHS
‘[A bed is] a device or arrangement that may be used to permit a patient to lie down when the need to do so is a consequence of the patient’s condition rather than a need for active intervention such as examination, diagnostic investigation, manipulative treatment, obstetric delivery or transport.
‘Beds, couches, or trolleys are also counted as hospital beds where:
‘a)...
“Jennifer stood there, quietly ovulating.”
– Adam Cadre – Lyttle Lytton Contest
“Little did Beethoven know, on that cold December morning in 1770, that he was...”
– Randall Munroe – The Lyttle Lytton Contest
“People Who Don’t Know They’re Dead: How They Attach Themselves to...”
– Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year
The Untergunther
The Untergunther is a French team whose activity is to restore the invisible parts of the heritage in total clandestinity.
In November 2005, the Untergunther infiltrated the Pantheon of Paris and, with the help of the professional clockmaker Jean-Baptiste Viot, started to restore the abandoned monumental 1850 Wagner clock before its irreversible state of defacement.
Once this restoration...
Swallowed by a whale — a true tale?
An idea’s been floating around for some time that whales more than chewed people — that they swallowed them, and people might have survived in the stomach. Jonah’s story came first, and then there were rumors from the 19th century Yankee Whale Fishery — whaling ships leaving New York and New England ports for years on the open ocean. I’d like to believe in swallowings, but it’s tough. There is no...
“A study from the Netherlands finds allowing ideas to incubate in the back of the...”
– How the Unconscious Mind Boosts Creative Output
“As a result, a certain percentage of the population is going to follow their...”
– S. virens on To Find Happiness, Forget About Passion
“I’m really looking forward to your follow-up posts, “You Guys, Love...”
– Eric G on To Find Happiness, Forget About Passion
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