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For a project cooked up by media agency Happiness Brussels, Anthony Burrill has designed a limited edition poster made using leaked BP oil harvested from the beaches of Grand Isle, Louisiana. All the money made from the sale of the 200 signed and editioned prints will go to the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana…

Here’s one of the Happiness Brussels team foraging for oil on the Louisiana coastline. The sandy oil / oily sand was then used to screenprint Burrill’s Oil & Water Don’t Mix design onto 200 posters…

Here’s a film made by the agency of the project:

OIL & WATER DO NOT MIX from Happiness Brussels on Vimeo.

The 200 (76.2cm x 50.8cm) prints, each signed and numbered by Burrill, will be sold online (€150 each) at gulfofmexico2010.com and all profits will go towards funding the work of the CRCL in the Gulf of Mexico.

Oil & Water Do Not Mix credits
Agency: HAPPINESS BRUSSELS
Creative management: Karen Corrigan, Gregory Titeca
Creative director: Gregory Titeca
Creatives: Tom Galle, Ramin Afshar, Cecilia Azcarate Isturiz
Graphic designer: Anthony Burrill
Screenprinting: Quitin Good, Michael Shoemaker, Purple Monkey Design

Voici plusieurs séries de compositions typographiques, par l’artiste Alexandre Beltechi, qui sont à découvrir sur son portfolio. Ce graphiste, basé à Oradea en Roumanie, est également l’éditeur de Psdtuts+. Une sélection complète de son travail, dans la suite de l’article.

Previously on Fubiz

• Typefaces by Moshik
• Standard Chartered Bank
• Alexis Taieb

It may not be glaringly obvious, but this is, in fact, a New Era baseball style cap. It’s unusual design is the brainchild of Craig Green (who has just started an MA course in fashion at Central Saint Martins) – one of several art and design students selected by the hat brand to design a New Era cap, the most uniquely creative of which would win its designer a £10,000 bursary to help them launch their career…

New Era, to help celebrate its 90th birthday, issued 90 New Era XC commemorative boxes (containing a blank New Era 59FIFTY hat, as above) to a shortlist of 90 graduate artists and designers from some of Europe’s most prestigious design schools. The brand is soon to exhibit all the responses to the project in five galleries across Europe, in London, Paris, Berlin, Milan and Barcelona – but here’s a preview of some of the weird and wonderful caps from the show…

Dominika Lipniewska of Central Saint Martins in London was inspired by her fascination with faces and characters

This is fellow Central Saint Martins student Hayley Merrington’s response, inspired, she says, by Victorian engineering. “My cap has a handmade steampunk-inspired look,” she adds. “Made for artists, it carries useful objects such as brushes, pencils and a sketchbook.”

“I thought about the words ‘New’ and ‘Era’ and have come up with something with a fusion of old and new,” says James Gardner of his design. “I thought about iconic head adornments of the past like Ceasers head wreath and taking something cheap like the cable ties and dyeing them to give a new look, something unrecognisable.”

Janosch Mallwitz of the Universität der Künste in Berlin created this baseball stitching inspired hat

Central Saint Martin’s Jennifer Yang cites metal art as her inspiration

Kenji Kawasumi, also of CSM, wanted to create a cup/cap-cake. Muffin cases never looked so fancy

Roser Moll Pascual from Elisava school in Barcelona created this computer themed hat complete with partial keyboard and screen

Sergio Cruz – also from Elisava cites African masks, global crisis, Joan Miro and Lady Gaga as inspiration for his hat

Sophie Waterfield, who created the above hat, is shortly to begin her MA in Knitted Textiles at the Royal College of Art

Nice glitterball hat. Designed by Soth Korean student Sunny Park at Central Saint Martins

Terry Chong’s hat is based on the Lion Dance of traditional folk performance art of China

In case you’re wondering who won the £10K bursary / prize – it was Craig Green, whose design is the topmost image on this blog post.

The exhibition will run in London from November 5 – November 7 at Dray Walk Gallery, Dray Walk, E1 6QL.

It will then run in the following cities / galleries:

Berlin: November 12 –13  at CircleCulture Gallery, Gipstraße 11, 10119
Milan: November 19 – 21 at Spazi Originale, Via Savona 55a, 20144
Barcelona: November 26 – 27  at Angels, C. Dels Angels, 16 08001
Paris: December 3 – 4 at Espace Vertbois, 40 rue Vertbois, 75003

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Three design stars will be inducted into Interior Design‘s Hall of Fame this year: Shigeru Ban (Shigeru Ban Architects), Neil Denari (Neil M. Denari Architects), and Karim Rashid. The magazine has also created a new award—the Design Icon. The inaugural recipient of the honor will be Paige Rense, former editor of Architectural Digest and a 1985 Hall of Fame inductee. The foursome will be feted at a December 1 gala at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, with proceeds from the event benefiting the Council for Interior Design Accreditation and the Alpha Workshops. While the Interior Design Hall of Fame has historically cast a relatively wide net in fulfilling its mission “to honor design professionals who have contributed to the growth and prominence of the interior design field,” this year’s selections aren’t sitting well with everyone. “Why are two architects, an industrial designer, and a shelter magazine editor being lauded as the best of the best by Interior Design magazine?” asked one commenter on ID‘s website. “Why isn’t Interior Design magazine lauding interior designers? This seems to happen every year, and it’s sending a pretty negative message to those of us who are trained interior designers.”

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AMC is planning a huge promotional stunt to promoteThe Walking Dead.

The cable network is staging “zombie attacks” in 26 major cities — hundreds of extras in zombie makeup roaming landmarks such as the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., Big Ben in London, The Prado Museum in Madrid.

I cant wait for this show to start sunday.