Posted by the editors on Friday, 30 March 2012
Design: Design Observer: Accidental Mysteries 03.25.12, by John Foster: “..Accidental Mysteries is an online curiosity shop of extraordinary things, mined from the depths of the online world and brought to you each week by John Foster..” Another inimitable gallery offered by John Foster. This time replete with relatively vintage clothing labels, fascinating..
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Posted by the editors on Saturday, 10 March 2012
Design: Design Observer: Accidental Mysteries by John Foster: “..Accidental Mysteries, a weekly cabinet of visual curiosities curated by John Foster, highlights images of design, art, architecture and ephemera brought to light by the magic of the digital age. This week’s focus is charts and diagrams..” Charting the way, diagrammatically, through the visual environment..
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Posted by the editors on Wednesday, 1 February 2012
Typography + 3D Design: ‘Arkitypo – Alphabet of Alphabets’ by Studio Johnson Banks (with Ravensbourne): “..3D alphabet shows the history of type..for each of the letters ‘A’ through ‘Z’, the designers selected a typeface beginning with that character, which is used in the sculptural work. each piece furthermore encapsulates a bit of the history of the typeface: the ‘J’ adopts the form of a metro system map, because its fontface ‘johnston’ was originally designed for the london underground; the ‘C’ is composed of ‘courier’, used in 1950s typewriters, and thus is composed of an assemblage of typewriter keys..” See all the letters of the alphabet towards the end of the original article..
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Posted by the editors on Friday, 27 January 2012
Design: Design Observer: Accidental Mysteries by John Foster: “..Accidental Mysteries is an online curiosity shop of extraordinary things, mined from the depths of the online world and brought to you each week by John Foster, a writer, designer and longtime collector of self-taught art and vernacular photography..” Mysterious..and wonderful..
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Posted by the editors on Sunday, 8 January 2012
Architecture: Alphabet Building by MVRDV: “..an incubator of creative ideas, the design features a series of spacious loft-like units and a highly graphic exterior aesthetic. situated on a relatively small site of 30 x 30 meters, the building consists of a transparent parking plinth with a solid office block on top. twenty-five exaggerated letters define both the exterior aesthetic and interior composition, which is organized as a grid behind each opening. each measuring 128 square meters, the flexible spaces can be sold individually or as a series of letters..” Graphic writ large..
See our previous post on MVRDV: Architecture: In Korea: MVRDV: The Cloud
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