AFFIRMATIVE

Most irritating to find myself on the wrong side of the Atlantic (again) from Build’s pop-up shop, where Yes, another in their Word Power series of typographic prints will be on sale May 9.

Afterglow

Oh, to have an extra $60,000 on hand to buy this fiery red neon text work by the French artist and filmmaker, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. It’s glowingly on sale right now at Artspace.

REVELATION

A lovely illustration for the Washington Post Magazine’s 2012 year-end issue, which recounted the lives of 6 recently deceased local citizens, by the Berlin-based studio, Ariane Spanier Design.

 

TABLE FOR 6

 

Must Say this is a sumptuous number 6, screened onto a porcelain plate at Do, the shop at Tokyo’s Hotel Claska.

HEARTY

Turkey, bacon, gruyere cheese, tomato, iceberg lettuce, and dijon mayonnaise. Sounds like a New Yorker to me. The sandwich, that is, being offered by the London cafe chain, Benugo, which has just undergone a branding makeover that includes cute visuals, like this poster.

BIG TIMES

 The New York Times seems to be getting bigger–and better, I say–lately. They gave uncharacteristically large prominence to a Barbara Kruger text piece a few weeks back, and yesterday Anthony Burrill got the two-page spread treatment.

GETTING CLEAN

In one of the most peculiar brand loyalty stories ever told, New York Magazine reports that Tide laundry detergent–no lie–has become valuable currency in street drug transactions.  It sells ”for either $5 cash or $10 worth of weed or crack cocaine.”

 

READERSHIP

 

A self-initiated publication by the Netherlands-based design practice Atelier Carvalho Bernau, Dear Reader is “a collection of obsessions, oblique references and footnotes of design processes.”

PRESS RELEASE

Bah. I wish I’d found these hand printed letterpress cards a bit sooner.

INITIAL APPEARANCE

The Swedish designer and blogger Sandra Juto has an exceptionally beautiful blog, and has adopted this typographic module of her initials as a personal logo.