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- Office Jealousy: MoCo LoCo in Montréal
Apartment Therapy’s Unplugged recently got a chance to see where contemporary design blogger, Harry Wakefield (of MoCo LoCo) works to eat up his portion of the interwebs. Beautiful view of cathedral. Check. Amazing room divider and custom Furni table. Check. Empty energy drink collection? Well, this is a blogger we’re talking about.
Not too [...]
- Font ♥: Typeworkshop
Typeworkshop is an amazing/beautiful/fun example of experimental typography. It was started by the people over at Underware (who also have an amazing book called “Read Naked,” meant to withstand saunas, with parts that can only be read actually within a sauna). Acting as a web platform for real-world type classes, the site displays [...]
- DoubleButter: Thoughtful Vandalism
In preparation for their upcoming show at the 400, David Larabee and Dexter Thornton (a.k.a. furniture design team DoubleButter and Milkweed) have been placing their own furniture around Denver. This guerrilla promotional installation features chairs and benches permanently installed in front of and around various Denver high art institutions. This (I’m assuming illegal [...]
- Helvetica: The Circle Jerk not the Typeface
Huh? That’s what I was thinking as well. Much like the documentary they were watching, Helvetica viewers were very much in different camps. I had a chance to see the film at an earlier screening in September. Personally, I felt it was well done, presenting views from different schools of designers, explaining [...]
- Hudd Byard: Editorial Design Guru
Hudd Byard, who previously worked at GQ and is now art director for Memphis magazine recently spoke to a group of students and faculty at Michigan State University. Despite the stiflingly hot room, he presented a nice overview of what editorial design requires, as well the nuts and bolts of editorial design. His [...]
