As a perfect companion to Mike Perry’s Hand Job: A Catalog of Type, a year later Princeton Architectural Press publishes Over & Over: A Catalog of Hand-Drawn Patterns. The hand-drawn pattern collection seen in Over & Over spans the work of 50 talented designers / artists (plus Mike Perry himself).
Below is a small sampling of the work found inside:
Deanne Cheuk
Damien Correll
Gina and Matt
August Heffner
Jeremyville
Blake E. Marquis
Yuko Shimizu
Yokoland
Link: I Amsterdam Manifesto
Link: UPPERCASE Gallery
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.
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.
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About Me:
- Working on:
everything but what I should be doing. - Listening to:
television - Reading:
a few too many things at once: The Host by Stephanie Meyer, The End of America by Naomi Wolf, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami - Watching:
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
