EATING WRIGHT

10 December 2009

New York’s Guggenheim Museum is having a landmark year. Having just turned 50, it’s now also home, for the first time, to a restaurant. Wrightwhich is a pretty good name for a restaurant, never mind a fitting homage to you-know-who–officially opens today, and was designed by the New York-based architect, Andre Kikoski.


DESIGNING MATTERS

9 December 2009

Herbert Matter, the Swiss-born photographer, graphic designer and visionary is the subject of The Visual Language of Herbert Matter, a documentary to be released in 2010.  Some of Matter’s more famous work was for the furniture manufacturer, Knoll, including their original logo from 1947.


LIP SERVICE

9 December 2009



Nicely illustrated ads from the magazine Ty i Ja, a Polish publication from the 1970’s.


PERFECTLY PUNCTUAL

7 December 2009

Punctuation marks are typographic stars in themselves.  And I’m not just talking asterisks.

A semi-colon carves out a niche for itself.


Gorgeous experiment in  quotation marks.

The usually lowly brackets get top billing here.


GOOD SHAPE

5 December 2009

Love this Frank Stella-like typographical composition by Sydney’s Toko design studio, complete with T-shaped canvas.


LOVELORN

5 December 2009

For the love of both Helvetica and Helsinki–adoring poster design by the Finnish designer Fräck.


LINE DANCE

4 December 2009

I’ve not experienced the meticulously-crafted paintings of the British artist Terry Haggerty in person–but must.


TYPE WRITER

4 December 2009


Highly inventive fonts from Dutch type designer Jonathan Looman.

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COLOR FIELD

3 December 2009

Rothko-esque beauty in CD illustration and packaging by Hamburg’s Markus Schäfer.


STRIKE ONE

3 December 2009

One, in an array of striking type-based posters from Experimental Jetset.