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Branding the Museum of Arts and Design
September 29th, 2008I’m loving the branding work done by Pentagram for the reopening of the Museum of Arts and Design in NYC. The use of the MAD acronym is a nice touch which opens up so many possibilities. For the logo they created a new face called MAD that is made up of circles and squares which mimics the museums location.
In the blog entry, Michael Bierut explains their process, which includes some sketches of the logo.
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Small Victories
September 26th, 2008Today I visited Experimenta’s site and noticed that they have some tasty new work up. The project seems to be for a fashion designer called Lela Jacobs which includes an A2 poster and a look book. The work makes use of Helvetica and Courier. Very nice indeed.
They also reviewed the typeface National. What a gorgeous face.
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Martin Dominguez
September 25th, 2008Here’s a sweet poster by Martin Dominguez that charts each instrument in the song Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division.
Man, this song is definitely popular with graphic designers.
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Now Showing/Barcelona
September 24th, 2008Darren from Six and of WIWP fame contacted me about an art exhibition called Now Showing that explores the lost art of the film poster. Artists who’s work is on display include: Build, Hellovon, Non Format, Corey Holms, David Pearson, Marian Bantjes, Tomer Hanuka, Wallzo, James Joyce, Yuko Shimizu, Siggi Eggertsson and Many More.
The show is currently in Barcelona at the Vallery gallery from Sept. 18 — Oct. 18. Here’s a Flickr set of the Barcelona show where you can also purchase the posters from.
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Love/Hate/vetica
September 23rd, 2008Nice Helvetica poster by designer Sean Rees. I love how the word “love” is intertwined with the word “Helvetica”. Clever.
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Chocolate Letterpress
September 22nd, 2008Delicious looking letterpress sorts made out of chocolate.
UPDATE:
Ministry of Type confirms that the typeface used here is FF Fago Normal.
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Patrick Mullen
September 18th, 2008Patrick Mullen is a talented young chap who just recently finished his degree. If you’re in Dublin and need some fresh talent, give this guy a look.
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Intervista: Peter Crnokrak
September 16th, 2008Born in Croatia, educated in Montréal, working in London. Peter Crnokrak is renowned graphic designer who’s worked has been featured in publications such as Grafik, IdN and Creative Review. He recently droped the ± (Plus MInus) moniker and found The Luxury of Protest. Peter took a moment to answer a few questions for AisleOne.
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Minimalsites.com
September 16th, 2008Minimalsites.com is an excellent collection of sites featuring a minimal design. Just what the doctor ordered. Ironically, the site design itself isn’t all that impressive.
My personal site has just been added.
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Projekttriangle Design Studio
September 15th, 2008Excellent portfolio by Stuttgart based studio Projekttriangle.
This was sent in by a reader but I forgot who. Sorry!
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Meta Serif Dot Com
September 12th, 2008I think this is the first time a typeface has had it’s own dedicated site. Metaserif.com is the site for the new font by Erik Spiekermann. It contains a great section on the story of Meta Serif.
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9 – 11
September 11th, 2008In remembrance of those we lost 7 years ago. Where were you when it happened?
I was sleeping. The day before I had been laid off from an ad agency I’d been working at for a few years. Big merger, you know the drill. Anyway, that night, for some odd reason I shut off my cell phone and locked the door to my room. My wife, who was my girlfriend at the time, was trying to call me to tell me that she was ok since she worked in Manhattan. She couldn’t get through to me. I slept while the city was in chaos. I was awoken by the sound of my cousin pounding on my door. When I opened the door she had this look of dread on her face and told me that two planes crashed into the towers and one of the them went down. She said it was an act of terrorism. I imagined the tower falling over like a tree and destroying multiple city blocks. I ran to the TV and saw what had happened. I couldn’t believe what I was looking at. I never imagined something like this happening in the city I was born and raised.
At that time I lived in a quite area of Queens. I remember going outside to see if there was chaos on the streets. There wasn’t. It was like any other day. It was such an erie feeling to see all that madness happening on TV, only a few miles away, and then looking out my window to see a warm, sunny, quite day.
It’s a day I will never forget for the rest of my life.