AisleOne. A visual journal on design, photography, film, music and culture.
Flatmade’s story begins with a poster was created by John Massey for Container Corporation of America titled “chicago has a great lake“. They fell in love with the poster, and contacted Mr. Massey to print a new edition of it, and he agreed. They now are producing other classic masterpieces, which you can purchase directly from them. I’ll take one of each, please.
To celebration 90 years of BMW Motorrad along with 40 years of the iconic R90S design, BMW teamed up with Roland Sands Design to create the Concept 90. It’s a modern take on a classic motorcycle, and it’s extremely well done. It mixes a timeless cafe racer style, with modern technology to create the perfect motorcycle. I’m hoping that BMW produces it because I would get one right now.
A graphic design must satisfy the problem, but it can achieve a life of its own, transcending the assignment.
In this video created by Pentagram’s Michael Bierut and Aron Fay for Mohawk, Massimo Vignelli discusses his process of designing a book using a grid system. He draws out each page on paper, including the photos. To me this seems so inefficient, but it works for him. It’s so fascinating to get a glimps into his design process.
Along with the video a small limited edition journal with Vignelli’s grid from the film is printed on 100 interior pages made of Mohawk Superfine. You can get a copy of the journal from Mohawk. Got me one!
Fontsmith has released a lovely new typeface called FS Emeric. Design studio, Believe in, handled the the campaign, which consisted of a beautiful type specimen booklet, and a series of studio posters from studios like Pentagram, Build, NB Studio, Hey, Bibliotheque, and Non Format. Each poster has been designed with one specific weight of the FS Emeric typeface. Screen printed onto 175gsm Colorplan stock and hand numbered, each poster has a limited run of 50.
