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Catalog Hermann Eidenbenz: Grafa International catalog

2010-01-27T16:59:37Z

Title, Year Grafa International, 1936 Cover Designer Hermann Eidenbenz (1902-1993) Size (h x w), Pages, Language 8.25 x 5.75" (20.96 x 14.61 cm), 96, German Description The official catalog for the third Grafa or “Graphische Fachausstellung” (Printing Trades Exhibition), located at the Basel, Switzerland Trade Fair, June 13-26, 1936. This 2-color cover design (adapted from the exhibition poster) was designed by the prolific Hermann Eidenbenz who handled all printed matter for the exhibition. This catalog includes an important article by Jan Tschichold (who also organized the exhibits foreign section submissions) titled Neue Typographie. --> Display

enzo mari: 16 animals

2010-01-27T16:51:21Z

produced by danese, 1957 --> There's a really nice set of enzo mari's and gabriele pezzini's work at DesignBoom

SNOW Magazine

2010-01-26T16:25:22Z

Lovely new Web-mag from Jean Snow and Co. So why launch a web magazine? It’s an idea I’ve long had — taking what I’ve done over the years with my own blog (this very place) and turning into something a bit less personal, and more magazine-like. I’ve always felt that a site named after a person and set up as a blog has certain limitations in what it can achieve. Yeah, yeah, no need to remind me that the name I’ve chosen for this new project doesn’t exactly stray far from what I have now, but to me it does — I wouldn’t have chosen it if my family name could not double as a common noun. But more than just the name, it also comes through in the presentation. As you’ll see when SNOW finally launches, it was important for me to have a design that doesn’t just feel like a constant stream of titled posts in chronological order — even though it will still be powered by WordPress — and something that also allows me to be more flexible with image size.

Andrew Zuckerman: Wisdom

2010-01-25T17:12:34Z

Go watch this trailer, it may change you.

Mitsubishi Chemical Industries: 1958 calendar (Japan)

2010-01-25T16:41:14Z

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Hiroshi Sugimoto: Theaters—Movies in a single frame

2010-01-25T16:36:45Z

I'm a habitual self-interlocutor. Around the time I started photographing at the Natural History Museum, one evening I had a near-hallucinatory vision. The question-and-answer session that led up to this vision went something like this: Suppose you shoot a whole movie in a single frame? And the answer: You get a shining screen. Immediately I sprang into action, experimenting toward realizing this vision. Dressed up as a tourist, I walked into a cheap cinema in the East Village with a large-format camera. As soon as the movie started, I fixed the shutter at a wide-open aperture, and two hours later when the movie finished, I clicked the shutter closed. That evening, I developed the film, and the vision exploded behind my eyes. - Hiroshi Sugimoto -> See more of Hiroshi Sugimoto's work here and here --> Susan Everett Design

Workerman: Lady GAGA tour poster

2010-01-21T18:02:19Z

A Banksy Film: Exit Through The Gift Shop

2010-01-21T16:56:44Z

"The world's first street art disaster movie" -> Official site --> Wooster

Enthoven Associates: Triplet Hawk' for swiss-axe

2010-01-20T16:50:43Z

this is a diamond loupe which combines a high-quality optical lens with an ergonomic, lightweight design. It won a Henry Van De Velde award --> See more winners at Design Boom

Matthias Heiderich: Photographie

2010-01-20T00:29:51Z

-> See more --> iso50

Hartford Courant: Newspapers design

2010-01-20T00:21:33Z

Country: USA Circulation: about 250.000 http://www.courant.com/ (to bad the Web site's not as nice) --> Abduzeedo

The Ovopur: An objet d'art that provides clean water - Core77

2010-01-19T18:04:34Z

Manual Desrochers' Ovopur water filtration system is three E's--eco-friendly, elegant and expensive. The porcelian and mouth-blown glass unit lets water seep through a four-stage internal filter, filling up the lower part of the egg; the glass base provides the necessary height to get a drinking glass under the tap. -> Read more about it --> Core77

H&FJ News | Hoefler & Frere-Jones

2010-01-19T17:02:53Z

Big types customarily bring up the rear of a type specimen book, and Catalogue No. 14 does not disappoint. The book reaches an explosive crescendo with this design at 864 point, in which just two letters fill the entire page. This typeface, which Hamilton called “No. 266,” is the design that inspired our Knockout No. 66 font. It appears on p. 119 of Hamilton’s Catalogue No. 14; check out page 120 for the biggest type of all. -> Quoted from the H&FJ News --> Coudal

Ross Berens: Under the Milky Way posters

2010-01-19T16:37:40Z

-> See more of his work --> Ministry of Type

Geoffrey Cooper: Geocentric watch

2010-01-19T01:02:50Z

A science and science fiction inspired watch that uses a motion similar to planets rotating around a sun. The rings of the watch are in constant motion, creating a mesmerizing spectacle. The goal of this watch is to create a new form of telling time that will inspire and spark wonder in the viewer. -> See more --> The Design Blog