July 13, 2008 |Comments (0)
Link: UPPERCASE Gallery
July 09, 2008 |Comments (1)
If I get the chance to go home, I really want to see the new exhibition at the Wolfsonian titled “Thoughts on Democracy.” The show which opened on July 5th will run through December 7, 2008.
“The Thoughts on Democracy exhibition is comprised of posters created by 60 leading contemporary artists and designers, invited by The Wolfsonian to create a new graphic design inspired by American illustrator Norman Rockwell's “Four Freedoms” posters of 1943, which were recently gifted to the museum by Leonard A. Lauder. Some of the participating artists involved in the project are Neville Brody, Seymour Chwast, Wim Crouwel, Elliott Earls, Richard Tuttle, Lawrence Weiner, Paula Scher, Francesco Vezzoli, Chip Kidd, and Italo Lupi, among others...” —The Wolfsonian
Here are some examples from the show:
by Winterhouse
by The Map Office
by Kate Spade
by Ellen Lupton
by R.O. Blechman
The posters can be viewed as small thumbnails on a recent Wolfsonian brochure. And ofcourse there is flickr (where I found all images seen here).
But one my favorite part of the Wolfsonian’s advertising campaign is seeing a giant Elliott Earls poster plastered to a wall (right next to Nordstrom) in Aventura mall.
For the exhibition Chip Kidd designed four posters for a series with the tagline “Freedom isn’t free, this is abuse of the Freedom of Want.” They can all be seen on his blog Good is Dead.
Paul Scher also designed four posters which are described in detail on Pentagram’s blog.
And for a bit more reading, Rockwell’s Four Freedoms poster series is part of the American Treasures of the Library of Congress
credit for the top poster Want: designed by Daniel Arsham.
Link: and a review from The New York Times
July 08, 2008 |Comments (1)
Such Subtle Beauty - Hammerpress Profile
Anthony from Double Wide Films goes behind the scenes with the founder of Hammerpress, Brady Vest.
I first came across the lovely paper products from Hammerpress at Little Otsu about a year ago. Last month I saw their notebooks at the Moma design store.
The Kansas City letterpress shop was founded in 1994. Hammerpress is also a full service design studio.
Link: Hammerpress via Chronicle Books
July 03, 2008 |Comments (0)
I’ve loved the design of Penguin UK's Great Ideas series, and the cover designs for volume III look like they keep in line with my high expectations. I’m interested to know more about the designer's approach to conceptualizing each cover in the series. I read that “each is set in a manner suggestive of the lettering or typography of the time of the work’s first publication.”*
Taking this further, does every cover in the series reference a specific classic design from the past? For example, the cover for The Fastidious Assasins by Albert Camus instantly recalls Alvin Lustig's design for The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles. Alistair Hall gives a little more insight on this.
Old Penguin style conventions are used on a few covers in the new volume—which I love with the tactile touch of debossed type and uncoated stock. It would be fascinating to see each new cover design up against the historical graphics that influenced them .
Below is in regards to the first volume of Great Ideas from 2004:
“Editorial Director Simon Winder came up with Great Ideas as a way of introducing a different readership to key texts that have helped civilization. Art Director Jim Stoddart handed responsibility for the design to David Pearson, who decided to let the flavour of each individual text influence the look of its cover.”*
Volume III in the Great Ideas series will be published on August 7, 2008. David Pearson, Phil Baines, Catherine Dixon and Alistair Hall contributed cover designs to the latest volume (I discovered AlistairH's Flickr photos via Kottke).
Credits for covers shown here:
Cover design for Walter Benjamin / The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by David Pearson.
Cover design for George Orwell/Books v. Cigarettes by David Pearson.
Cover design for The Fastidious Assassins by David Pearson.
*taken from Penguin by Design: A Cover Story 1935-2005, by Phil Baines
Link: Alistair Hall's Flickr Set of Penguin Great Ideas
July 02, 2008 |Comments (0)
If you missed the viral You Tube video showing the intricate pop-ups for Roaring Brook Press' ABC3D designed by French book designer Marion Bataille, a higher quality video has been added to LookyBook (see below). I thought this book was amazing the first time around, but the presentation is even better here. The 4-letter lenticular cover is quite flat on a computer monitor...But the book is only available for pre-order and will not be released until October 14, 2008.
Link: ABC3D by Marion Bataille
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