Love this new t-shirt by You Work For Them that mimics the cover of Brockmann’s famous book Grid Systems In Graphic Design.
Category: Grid Systems
Oscar Wilde Booklet
Stunning booklet by Design Has No Name that covers the life and work of Oscar Wilde. The typography is superb as well as the grid.
You can see more photos on the DHNN site.
The History of Visual Communication
Here’s an excellent site that walks you through the history of visual communication, giving you a glimpse of the different styles through-out history. My favorite section, obviously, is the Modernism section which covers the Swiss Style and includes some nice galleries of work by Max Bill, Armin Hofmann, Fridolin Mueller and Josef Müller-Brockmann.
Wim Crouwel 80 | 20 | 100
Another great exhibit that I won’t be able to see. I thought NYC was the art capital of the world? Great shows like this are never here.
Anyway, Vivid Gallery in Rotterdam will be hosting an exhibition on Wim Crouwel from October 11 – November 23. If you’re in the Netherlands you won’t want to miss it.
An exhibition with 100 designs by Wim Crouwel celebrating his 80th birthday
and also celebrating 20 years Nijhof & Lee
To celebrate the 80th birthday of Wim Crouwel and 20 years Nijhof & Lee VIVID organises the exhibition 80 | 20 | 100
100 works by Crouwel will be on display. For this VIVID gallery made a selection out of the superb Crouwel collection of Frank Nijhof and Warren Lee.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue designed by David Quay.
Pentagram Redesigns the Khaleej Times
Luke Hayman and Paula Scher of the New York Pentagram office have redesigned the Persian Gulf’s leading English language newspaper, the Khaleej Times. The new design makes use of the space saving typeface, Freight by Joshua Darden, and a wider 6 column grid.
I’d love to one day redesign a newspaper. Text and grid heavy project is paradise.
A Brief History of Emil Ruder
A short but excellent write up over at Thinking for a Living about Emil Ruder, one of the pioneers of the International Typographic Style.