Archive for February, 2008

Meek FM Typographic Synthesizer Demo

http://meekfm.org/

—Published February 25, 2008 at 10:07 am, by Xavier Encinas

Comments (0) | Filed under: Typography, Video

All-Time Winners

My best friend Romuald Stivine (The Lazydog) is having a 12 pages focus in the next issue of WAD Magazine. We wanted to make a “All-Time Winners” book selection. So he asked me to make mine. Here it is… A little bit of swiss, a little bit of that…

The List:

  • Josef Müller-Brockmann, The graphic artist and his design problems (niggli)
  • Josef Müller-Brockmann, Monography (Phaidon)
  • The Designers Republic, IDEA vs Designers Republic (IDEA)
  • Adrian Shaughnessy, Look at This: Contemporary Brochures, Catalogues and Documents (Laurence King Publishing)
  • Daniel Mason & Angharad Lewis, Materials, Process, Print: Creative Solutions for Graphic Design (Laurence King Publishing)
  • Josef Müller-Brockmann, Grid Systems in Graphic Design (niggli)
  • Nicholas Bourquin, R. Klanten and Christian Mareis, Altitude: Contemporary Swiss Graphic Design (DGV)
  • Richard Hollis, Swiss Graphic Design (Laurence King Publishing)
  • Imin Pao and Joshua Berger, 30 Essential Typefaces for A Lifetime (Rockport)
  • Adrian Shaughnessy, How to be graphic designer without loosing your soul (Laurence King Publishing)
  • Wim Crouwel, Alphabets (BIS)
  • Geert Setola et Joep Polhen, La fontaine aux lettres (Fontana)
  • Niklaus Troxler, Jazz Blvd. (Lars Müller)

    • —Published February 23, 2008 at 1:33 pm, by Xavier Encinas

    Comments (12) | Filed under: Book, Graphic Design, Grid, Helvetica, Typography

    Flag opening - pictures

    See exhibition pictures here.

    —Published February 21, 2008 at 8:00 pm, by Xavier Encinas

    Comments (1) | Filed under: Event, Graphic Design, Poster, Typography

    Grids Are Good For the Soul, Poster


    More pictures here

    Designer Antonio Carusone, also running the excellent AisleOne blog, just release a new poster. Grids Are Good For The Soul is screen printed by hand by Post Expose and contains a quote by the legendary Josef Müller-Brockmann. This goes without saying, but it was also designed on a grid system.

    - Edition of 20.
    - 23×33 inches.
    - Set in Helvetica.
    - Numbered and signed
    - 25$

    Buy here

    —Published February 20, 2008 at 4:34 pm, by Xavier Encinas

    Comments (1) | Filed under: Graphic Design, Grid, Helvetica, Poster, Shopping, Typography

    Le Houellebecq

    French can do it too… Video by MK

    —Published February 20, 2008 at 2:39 pm, by Xavier Encinas

    Comments (1) | Filed under: Typography, Video

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