One of my favorite aspects of working at Wieden+Kennedy is that I get to be around and be inspired by so many amazing artists, many of whom have been featured here. Today—let’s add Ramon Coronado and his side business to that list. His bio is impressive and humbling—and so is he. Public-Library is a non-traditional design group formed by himself and equally as impressive Marshall Rake.
Keywords: Swiss inspired, experimental and well-considered typography, unexpected and superbly executed design.
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Second round of 30 Reasons. Second time loving it. [You guys know where I stand politically] This one, by Elizabeth Amorose, is rad. Check the site daily or subscribe to the emails. And then—go vote.
HFF!
A/ I really need everyone on the East Coast to go see this.
B/ “Co-organized by Andrew Blauvelt of the Walker Art Center and Ellen Lupton of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Graphic Design—Now in Production is the single largest exhibition of contemporary graphic design to take place in the United States in over 15 years.”
C/ Imagine being tasked (BY THE WALKER!!) to create an identity system and exhibit space for this. No big deal right?
Project Projects does it, again. They continue to create beautiful, meaningful, time-sensitive but also timeless work that strikes by simplicity and conceptual strength, by printed matter and exhibition design. Just incredible (and rad).
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Deutsche & Japaner produce an amazing array of beautifully conceptual and immaculately executed work. Posters, books, records, online, editorial, products—RAD. I’m a little green with envy (it’s a happy green, don’t worry).
Great clients + great designers + in my homecountry. YAY DEUTSCHLAND!
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A short post today, but that’s only because I think these posters from Portugal’s Atelier Martino & Jaña deserve the spotlight. So good.
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I really just can’t get enough of the stuff coming from French design studio Superscript. A refined typographic density seems to permeate all of their work, resulting in beautifully layered compositions. Inspiring.
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No joke. Handmade type. Created by Taiwanese designer and current Pratt student Tien-Min Liao.
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Finally, a typeface that Douglas Hofstadter would approve of.
Frustro is a typeface by Hungarian designer Martzi Hegedűs based on the impossible figure called a Penrose Triangle (which you may be familiar with since The Verge adopted it as their logo). At a quick glance, the letterforms seem to be simple 3-d renderings sitting on an isometric grid. But if you look closer, you can start to see how the letters make impossible connections and simultaneously occupy several different 3d constructions at once. It’s as if you took a 3d letterform from two different angles and mashed them seamlessly into one form. Following the forms, it’s as though parts of the letters are sitting on the page while others are simultaneously standing off of it. Blink your eyes and they switch places. Pretty slick and well done. Now I just need to find a reason to buy it when it comes out.
When I see work like that of Italy’s Think Work Observe, I wish that I had the patience (and know-how) to fully develop working fonts. But for now, I can rest easy knowing that all that hard work is being done by others so that we can all reap the benefits.
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Pam&Jenny is the Brussels-based studio of Nathalie Pollet. So much interesting work, going all the way back to 1998.
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