AisleOne. A visual journal on design, photography, film, music and culture.
A lovely publication by Iaspis and Sternberg Press that examines staging, theatricality, and performative strategies in contemporary art practices.
Art direction and designed by Stefania Malmsten and Ulrika Hellberg, Voice Over’s gorgeous cover is printed in silver foil and the entire magazine is set in Chronicle Text and Chronicle Display by Hoefler & Frere-Jones.
Overall this is stunning work, the interior layouts are to die for.
Tankboys is a multidisciplinary Venice based studio founded in 2005 by Lorenzo Mason and Marco Campardo, focusing on cultural, artistic, editorial and
design project.
Every piece in their portfolio exhibits beautiful typography, strong grids, and a minimalist approach. It’s great to see the International Typographic Style still thriving. Tankboys have become one of my favorite design studios, up there with Experimental Jetset and The International Office.
Here’s an great example of a well designed graphic identity that doesn’t over do it and supports the content. Designed by Ruiz+Company for Spanish chocolate company Chocolat Factory, the identity features a clean sans-serif (which looks like DIN) and a wonderful color palette. Reminds me of the gorgeous identity system for Brooklyn Fare.
We’re all familiar with the silver Objectified poster, but Michael C. Place designed a second version with a white background and silver objects and black text that wasn’t used. It’s now being released as a limited edition letterpress, printed in metallic black and silver ink, on Crane’s Lettra 300gsm paper. Sounds like heaven.
It’s being printed by the awesome Brooklyn based Coeur Noir Letterpress, the same folks that printed the Helvetica poster and my son’s baptism invitation. They do stellar work.
Only 100 will be printed and you can grab one for $125.
I love seeing work from young designers, especially when it kicks freakin’ ass. Mike White is a recent graduate of the Bath School of Art and Design and his portfolio is filled with quality work. I personally love the simplicity the colors of this HUD poster.
I’m back in action folks, sorry for the short hiatus.
While I was away I came across this new blog called 80 Magazine that features classic design and typography from the 50’s and 60’s. It instantly has become one of my favorite blogs to read by featuring work by Gerstner, Brockmann, Lohse, Crouwel and Emil Ruder, who’s poster is pictured above.
The blog has a lot of pieces that I’ve never seen, including this collection of posters by Emil Ruder.