Et Lettera is a current european project about 'the shape of the letter as an art form in itself': exhibitions, workshops, and also an online library of typo/calligraphic antique books scans, even a typo-game!
Upstairs, the new Mansueto library in Chicago is a dome covered in 700 panels of glass, but the real deal is downstairs, in an underground storage holding 3.5 million volumes, accessed by robotic cranes! By architect Helmut Jahn.
Mobile libraries are not a new concept - but this converted shipping container that can transform to double its size certainly is! BiebBus by Dutch architect Jord den Hollander.
Brilliant! “The Many Faces of Woody Allen” by Brandon Schaefer, a poster for the Gallery1988 x Funny or Die “Is This Thing On?” show in LA. Prints available at G1988.
Davina Pardo turns the story of "Minka", the farmhouse in Japan restaured by John Roderick and his son, Yoshihiro Takishita, into a short film : "a meditation on place, architecture, memory and the meanings of home."
The Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford unveiled last week its new £26-million Book Storage Facility (BSF), capable of holding 8.4 million volumes on 153 miles of shelving, built by Scott Brownrigg Architects.
"MY NAME IS CHARLES SAATCHI AND I AM AN ARTOHOLIC" (Phaidon) is OUT and a MUST-READ of this autumn! "Everything you need to know about Art, Ads, Life, God and other mysteries and weren't afraid to ask"
"It’s a surreal scene: a hyper-modern housing development in the middle of nowhere that answers some of New Orleans’s oldest building challenges even as it clashes with the city’s traditional patina." - GOOD on the MIR project.
Vanity Fair’s World Architecture Survey is out! The 5 most important constructions since 1980, and the greatest work of architecture thus far in the 21st century, according to 52 leading architects... Curious, aren't you?
The Born Ruffians video for “What to Say”, directed by Jared Raab with Rob Bairos, displays vector images made from only one continuous line. A first-of-the-kind "video to scope" process re-thinking the creative use of oscilloscope.
"Laptopograms" are images made by pressing photosensitive paper onto a laptop screen and flashing an image in a manner not unlike contact printing or photograms. From Aditya Mandayam and Fabrizio Urettini.
Oneybike, by industrial designer Peter Varga, is a leisure bicycle concept inspired by the classical highwheeler simplicity, connected with comfort of recumbent bike with retro feelings.
Frédérique Morrel creates one-of-a-kind products made with vintage tapestries: poufs, lamps, trays, but also life-sized animals... Strange encounters in Milano.
'Peripetics', a video by Zeitguised: "six imaginations of disoriented systems that take a catastrophic turn"... Strange, mechanical and organic at the same time, indeniably inspiring.
An entertaining and cheeky music video for “70 Million” by Hold Your Horses!, that offers a wink at art history as band members playfully reconstruct famous paintings in an off the wall lyrical interpretation all their own.
A cute caged bird, pop-up plant leaves, pink paper and elegant type, for a deliciously sweet show of design skills in this invite for a fashion client by Daniel Baer.
'Create=Resist". The Graphic Design Dpt of ESAD, a french art school that gave many great recent illustrators and graphists, is endangered: Students made a creative blog to protest. Powerful images.
Greek design studio Kanella presents this "Happy and Sweet 2010" calendar: 12 chocolate bars, to be eaten each month. Minimalist design classic inspiration.
'Neurath, Bliss and Language of the Pictogram', an essay by Phil Patton: Otto Neurath's Isotype and Blissymbolics in perspective, or how to go past the failings of language inventing a new -graphic- one. A must-read!
"The city is our office.": WorkSnug, an augmented reality application to find the best places to work at, is coming soon... Stop using your eyes, use your mobile instead.
Every single piece of the dutch design studio Tas-ka is just lovely, from their tea-cosies to their house-shaped wooden plates, but my favorite is their paper-cranes lamps... so poetic !
Lizzie Allen creates wonderful hand-screen-printed wallpapers. Her patterns are inspired by illustrations from the 50's (here is her 'london city gents' theme).
