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.

PET PROJECT

Being mindful of animal cruelty is neither obsessive nor compulsive, but I have to applaud  “100% vegan and cruelty-free” Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics  for broaching a serious issue (or two?) with humor. And this color is nice, too.

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.

DARK MATTER

 

It’s not every day that a 62 year-old female director makes the cover of Time magazine, and rarer still for a memorable piece of copy to find its way there. But this week’s Time goes arty and literary (though I really, really wish they had let that excellent headline stand alone).

HOLE TRUTH

 

 

A 1977 Laurie Anderson lyric makes a timely 2013 reprisal.

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.

WISTFUL THINKING

Oh, yes, I’ll second this holiday wish from Berg Studio.

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.