In a new video interview from Gestalten.tv, Coralie Bickford-Smith—A Series Woman, the Penguin Books designer discusses designing covers and jackets for a series. Bickford-Smith usually starts with research and finds inspiration in Victorian book bindings. She finds the balance between variety and keeping the series look unifom. The video highlights her designs for the Hardback Classics and F. Scott Fitzgerald books. 

The History of Typography is a visual lecture about the origins of fonts and typographic classifications. Ben Barrett-Forrest created the animation with 291 cut-out paper letters and 2,454 photographs.

Counting Koi is a new addition to House Industries’ line of typographic products. The Counting Koi set includes 10 wooden fish embossed with numerals pulled from the Worthe font.

“Straight from the pure breeding environment of Uncle Goose’s exclusive stock pond, our new Counting Koi are reared from original House Industries numerical data and feature the most coveted pure black bloodline.” —House Industries

In Mexico, paper company Scribe funded construction of The Billboard House. Architect Julio Gómez Trevilla designed an elevated house with a billboard attached.

Artist Cecilia Beaven was the first resident to live in the house. For ten days she painted a mural on the billboard based on 50 different requests from Twitter.

Sun Yeo is an artist and graphic designer based in Los Angeles. Her artistic illustrations are both whimsical, minimal, and at times spiritual.

The MoMa Design store collaborates with littleBits to construct large scale kinetic sculptures for their windows. The window displays are titled “littleBits Make Big Things Happen” and will be on view through May 12th, 2013.







“…The installation required no programming, no wiring, and no soldering – just sensors, switches, lights, and motors snapping together with magnets. The projects aim to present electronics as just another material, accessible to everyone including kids, artists, makers, and designers – not only engineers and experts…” —littleBits press release







“We partnered with Brooklyn-based design studio Labour and challenged them to restrict themselves to only using littleBits for electronics, and no other hardware platform, or robotics tools for the entire display. Something as remarkable as a giant shark swimming after a tiny lure, or a cyclist turning a large Ferris wheel 10 times her size are at once iconic and familiar but absolutely distinctive in how we have merged two worlds, the world of art, and that of electronics…”
—Founder and CEO of littleBits, Ayah Bdeir

Joseph Burwell’s solo show at Miyako Yoshinaga gallery, entitled A Survey of Nonexistence at a Glance, consists of meticulous drawings and sculpture. The witty titles of the pieces add significant depth to the work. The exhibition is on view in New York City through April 13, 2013.

A Typical Example of Mid Century Medieval Modernism

“This exhibition is based on the idea of altering historical narratives by generating a visual system of architectures from disparate cultures that collide in time and space.” —Miyako Yoshinaga gallery

The Exact Location of a Sacrifice

Isometric Funeral

Castle Elbow

Sacrificial Office Plant

Tomb Design of the Late Period

Section of Scaffolding

(top piece titled: The Center for Modern Disintegration)

Neenah Paper has launched a new online resource and community for letterpress design, The Beauty of Letterpress.

“Within the letterpress and design community at large, the passion for paper thrives and the appreciation of print remains alive and well.” —Neenah Paper

The initiative also serves to raise awareness and assistance for the relocation of the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum.

Vermont-based artist Luciana Frigerio transforms old books into typographic folded book sculptures. The different word creations can be purchased through Etsy.






(via Art is Epidemic)

When collecting old photographs it is the backs of cabinet cards that often catch my interest. As advertisements for photographers’ or artists’ studios they commonly are ornate and use decorative typography. These examples are dated around 1890.