Anyone Can Swiss
I find this site kind of insulting but at the same time very funny. Anyone Can Swiss, by Dirk+Weiss, is a satire on the Swiss style of design. Type in some text, select the between Helvetica Light, Ultra Light, Roman, Heavy and Bold, select a type size and hit the Swissfy button. What comes out (above) is your text in white, in Helvetica, on a black canvas.
It’s a great laugh and I definitely get the joke but I hope that people don’t think it’s this easy to design in the Swiss style. Far from it.
Posted at 11am on 02/04/09
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Filed Under: Design, Grid Systems, International Typographic Style, Typography
Tags: graphic design, grid system, helvetica, International Typographic Style, swiss style, Typography
Mercatdelgust Poster
Swiss style inspired poster by Spain based firm Bisgràfic. They sent me an explanation of the info on the poster, but I think I deleted it by accident. Oops!
*UPDATE*
They re-sent me the explanation.
“It’s all written in catalan, but I’ll explain you. It is about a market. The Taste Market is a fair where you can find every kind of foodstuff that comes from the cultivation of the earth. In the poster there is a mixture between two elements: the earth and the food. The earth is green, like the nature, the grown fields, … and the food is orange. Both things are shown with the most elementary symbol: the round, symbolizing the plate, the earth, the food.”
Posted at 11am on 02/03/09
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Filed Under: Design, Grid Systems, International Typographic Style
Tags: graphic design, grid system, International Typographic Style, posters, swiss style
