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An excellent collection of well designed stamps, mainly Dutch. Here’s also a great set done by Wim Crouwel. It’s amazing how these designers were able to cramp such wonderful designs and compositions in such a small canvas.
I don’t know about the rest of the world but here in the US are stamps are ugly and cheesy. Would love to hear from people outside the US, especially in Europe, about the design quality of their current stamps.
Yesterday I posted about the talented studio House Of Burvo but what I forgot to mention was their excellent book “Be Invisible Be Seen”. It’s a collection of typography created by them between 2005 and 2007.
Contains 158 pages of black; and 80% red ink throughout. Content as seen in pictures below, but with the new cover design. (QR code takes you directly to Houseofburvo.co.uk with code readers available for mobile phones!)
Compare and contrast all of HouseOfBurvo’s fonts on an unprecedented scale! View samples and examples of the fonts in use! Read about how they were made and what ideas inspired them! Even includes two full type-discussions essays in book format! Read about Helvetica-Serif in Sans-no-More! Wonder about Times-New-Roman-Sans in ‘Sans Means Without’! This book is an interesting companion to anyone with an interest in typography/letterering and is available now!
I’m obsessed with design books, to the point where I’ll buy a book just because it has a well designed cover. What’s interesting (or weird) about my obsession is that I really don’t read much of what’s written in these books, I skim through. If it’s a book that’s strictly text, for example a book about type formating and structure, I’ll read it word for word. But if the book mostly contains great visuals, I’ll concentrate on that for inspiration. I’m definitely more of a visual person.
Anyway, I’m slowing building a nice collection and so I’m going to post the books on here for all to enjoy. In this edition of AisleOne Bookshelf we have a book, a magazine and an exhibit catalogue: Wim Crouwel Alphabets, Grafik Magazine Issue 150 and Wim Crouwel: Typographic Architectures.
Wim Crouwel Alphabets
A book by Kees Broos in which Wim Crouwel explains in detail the reasoning and working methods behind his typefaces. The text is accompanied by many of Crouwel’s illustrations and designs.
Grafik Magzine: Issue 150
This limited edition copy contains a cover hand printed by K2 Screen in London. Since it’s hand printed, each issue is unique.
Wim Crouwel: Typographic Architectures
Published for ‘Wim Crouwel: Architectures Typographiques, 1956-1976’, an exhibition that took place in Paris featuring texts by Wim Crouwel, Catherine de Smet and Emmanuel Bérard and various work by Wim Crouwel. The publication also includes his catalogue work for the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. The catalogue was designed by Experimental Jetset.
You can view more photos of the books on my Flickr page.
“Phenomenal” work by CalArts graduate, MacGregor Harp.
Matthew Burvill’s portfolio is excellent. He also has a nice collection of typefaces for sale.
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Here’s a great motion graphics piece by Gary Butcher in tribute of graphic design legend Josef Müller-Brockmann. The video was made for the Forty Eight Posters exhibit.