Publikum Calendar
Okay, so I'm a few months late posting this, but here it is nonetheless. The 2008 version of TheBrainDesign's Publikum Calendar is a socialist nightmare of graphic design and visual anarchy somehow corralled into a website, downloadable calendar and video documentary--just to name a few of the outlets for this inspiring international effort. The designers and artist represented hail from all over Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. If nothing else, it's visually interesting stuff. And, yes, these images to the right are each different months of the Publikum Calendar.Labels: Art, Drawing, graphic design, self-publishing, Typography
They Called Her Styrene
This tome of Ed Ruscha's word drawings should satisfy both lovers of contemporary art and designers alike. They Called Her Styrene
collects almost 600 'word' artworks created by Ruscha since the early 1960s onward, which he executed in a variety of mediums including pastel, graphite, acrylic, gunpowder and even vegetable and fruit juices. While some pieces are as deadpan as the image on the book's cover, others are stunning renderings of three-dimensional ribbon-like words. Shaped like a good sized brick, you're sure to have enough room for this must-own monograph on your coffee table.Labels: Art, Drawing, Ed Ruscha, hand-painted, Typography
Type Selector
It took me long enough to write about this most "handy" tool. The Type Selector
, created by Michael Wörgötter, is the Pantone swatchbook equivalent to typography. The 226 specimens, which are grouped as Serif, Slab Serif, Sans Serif, Script, Black Letter and Display, fan out allowing you to compare multiple faces at once. It's quite solid, in fact, and will stand up on its own allowing you to keep your selections sticking up for easy reference. I'd call this the most useful design tool of 2006. Good on ya, Michael!Labels: Font, Foundry, Pantone, Type Selector, Typography
More Signs!
Alas, I've gotten caught up on the past 4 or so years of sign pictures laying around my hard drive. Feast your eyes on about 140 new gems of hand-painted and hand-made goodness.Labels: folk art, hand-painted, outsider art, signs, Typography
