The year has just past and it’s a time for lists. Top 100’s, 50’s, 20’s and 10’s in everything you could emagine. Therefore, since we haven’t had a tradtition for being exceptionally different and innovative so far, we’re gonna do our own list of top 5’s from the past 12 months, and we promise, this upcoming year, we’ll do some seriously innovative, original writing to make up for it.
Portuguese/Chilean design studio Martino&Jana Design, consisting of João Martines and Alejandra Jaña, has made a series of incredibly beautiful posters for Guimarães Jazz 2009.
Nice Type must be one of the most beautiful channels on Vimeo. A channel dedicated soley to typography related videos. Matthew Buchanan is the man behind the 251 strong selection of videos. A great resource for inspiration.
Legendary designer Peter Saville talked about Banksy, St Martins and designing for kate moss at the D&AD presidents lecture this march.
The third part of this more or less regular column. The videos that caught our attention since the last collection includes a bit more varied stuff. The new Kings of Convenience video, a bit of animated identity work by Buro Knapzak and lots of other inspiering and cool clips.
D&AD has made a bold move with this years D&AD annual. Luke Sanders, a recent graduate was given the task to design it. He created the members limited edition together with Peter Saville, who art directed.
NYC based designer Brian Thomas has just launched The Mixtape Club whose goal is simply to share and discover good music.
November 17th is the release date for new art and design magazine Elephant. Elephant is a “direct, sincere and multi-disciplinary” look into the art-world. The art direction and design is made by Matt Willey, Studio 8 design
A new round of videos. With work from YouWorkForThem, Ross Cing, Esteban Diácono, Sebastian Lange and the design students at BYU the selection is a bit more artsy this time around in addition to a fair share of typographic goodness.
Generation Press are giving away a set of “Not For Commercial Use” posters. To enter the competition, follow Generation Press on twitter and paste RT #iwantNFCU in a tweet. The giveaway will be open through september. The “Not For Commercial Use” posters were designed by Generation Press and Build in limited editions and are, obviously not available through commercial retailers.
Typographic clock? Yes, German designers Biegert & Funk has designed Qlocktwo, a gadget sure to make many designers wishlists.
Roland Tiangco has made this cool poster. This typographic spotvarnished poster gets your hands dirty. No need to explain really, take a look at this creative work.
YouWorkForThem has released a digital pdf magazine about typography and design. “Lorem Ipsum Vade Mecum” is type-porn for everyone.
IKEA, which has been adorned for their functional and to the point design in everything they do, have been on every designers lips the last couple of days. The reason for this is that, apparently, IKEA has anounced that they will change their fonts.
Moving Brands has decided to let everyone take part in their pitch for the re-branding of London, given by The Mayor.
