Mill Co and Monotype’s type-tastic art show

Creative agency Mill Co teamed up with Monotype Imaging and tasked a selection of image makers to create artworks using one are all of three Monotype fonts – Akko, Neue Haas Grotesk, and Rotis II. The resulting exhibition runs at the Mill Co Project gallery in East London until November 24 and features work by artists including Kavel Rafferty (above), Adam Smith, Kelly Angood, Lisa Stannard, and Rob Flowers…

Here are a selection of images of works in the show:


Under Milk Wood, by Stewart Scott-Curran of Ony More Never Less, graphic print, £100

Risograph print (£15), by graphic designer Thanyaporn Jarukittikun


Detail of an untitled, two-layer illustrative work by Anne-Kathrin Schubert’s and Oliver Harrison. £250

Here Be Dragons, by Rob Flowers, giclée print, £180

We also really liked this film made for the show, Expanded Font, directed by Mark Jewitt and shot by Paul Lilley. Sound by Bent Ear.

Expanded Font from Mill Co. on Vimeo.

The exhibition runs until November 24 at the Mill Co Project gallery space at Lime Wharf, Vyner Street, Tower Hamlets, London E2 9DJ. All the work is for sale via the Mill Co store with proceeds donated to The Billie Butterfly Fund.

See more of the work created for the show, visit pixeldisco.millco.co.uk

 

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Designing our Competitive Advantage, by Beth Comstock

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Article by Beth Comstock, Senior Vice President & CMO, GE.

According to the United Nations, today we celebrate the birth of the world’s seven billionth person. This is both awe-inspiring and terrifying. Awe-inspiring when we consider the new ways that technology will connect those seven billion people and the tremendous opportunity it creates. Terrifying in that it raises some serious challenges for society. How do we feed, clothe, treat, educate, and supply power to seven billion persons, all while not destroying this beautiful planet?

There has never been a better platform upon which to showcase the power of design thinking than this moment. The complexities of our expanding world require innovations that go beyond simply adding more to meet the growing demand, but that identify the true roots of the demand, consider the context surrounding the need and apply creativity and empathy to defining the solution. In short, design thinking is the answer to managing the growing global community.

The good news is that brilliant designers around the world are already hard at work creating these solutions. Consider—how would you house seven billion people, when two billion are surviving on less than one dollar a day? You’d need houses that were both safe and functional, and that cost only a few hundred dollars. Sound impossible? Patti Stouter, founder of Simple Earth Structures, proved us wrong. She recently won Vijay Govindarajan’s and Christian Sarkar’s $300 House Challenge with a home that would cost $293 to build.

Or, think about the challenges we face delivering water and sanitation, when already one billion people lack access to clean water. IDEO is doing some incredible work with the people of Ghana to create better access to sanitation services via portable, low-cost, functional toilets that will reduce spread of disease while preserving the dignity of the Ghanaian people.

And I’m not the only one lauding the power of design. Across industries we are witnessing an increased focus on solution-centered designs. Design with the Other 90%: CITIES, a Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum exhibit at the United Nations in New York City, is filled with real-life examples of how designers are addressing major world challenges. I encourage everyone to check out the broad range of powerful designs on display, such as the Millennium School Bamboo Project that addresses the large number of Typhoons in the Philippines and bePRO motor-taxi helmet for motorcycle taxis in Uganda.

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Give It To Your Mother Laundry Tag

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Inspector Gadget Costume

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Transparent Steel Church

Découverte de cette chapelle transparente et entièrement en acier, composé de 2000 colonnes sur 10m de haut. Un travail et projet impressionnant conçu par Arnout Van Vaerenbergh et Pieterjan Gijs du studio d’architecte Gijs Van Vaerenbergh. Plus d’images dans la suite.



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Museum Bound? Skip the Acoustiguide and Ditch the Docent, Advises Joe Queenan

“Just look at the paintings and relax.” Better yet, laugh. Such is the advice of Joe Queenan, whose latest Wall Street Journal column takes the form of “three tips for surviving the art museum.” His first rule? Avoid the acoustiguide. “Art phones have turned museum-going into a dreary chore,” writes Queenan, who we suspect didn’t opt for the experience-enhancing headphones at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s recent Alexander McQueen blockbuster. “It’s like being back in high school, where you’re expected to memorize everything.” He’s also no fan of docents, who he describes as “blathering idiots who think they missed their calling as stand-ups” and “living proof that people should not be allowed to retire, because in retirement, the pathologically garrulous cease to be merely annoying and become truly dangerous.” (We’ll spare you the bit about dispatching NATO warplanes on a docent destruction mission.) Focus on his third tip: Don’t be afraid to laugh at the art. “If an art museum is clicking on all cylinders, you shouldn’t be able to get out of there without doubling over in laughter at least three times,” writes Queenan, who offers examples ranging from Francois Boucher‘s toddler hunters to comtemporary works. “If you can’t laugh at Anthony van Dyck’s boozed-up cavaliers, Thomas Gainsborough’s cadaverous, blue-faced debutantes, or Damien Hirst’s 13-foot shark in a few thousand gallons of formaldehyde, you’re really missing out on some great fun.”

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255 Litres – Mobili al sapore di vino

225 Litres è il nome di una collezione di arredi costruiti con le vecchie barriques, le botti in legno usate per stagionare il vino. L’idea è venuta al francese Christophe Lorenzoni, specialista nell’uso di materiali alternativi e già autore di fantasiosi arredi in cartone. Io non mi intendo di vini, e prima d’ora non sapevo nemmeno cosa fosse una barrique, ma su Wikipedia c’è una pagina che spiega bene come vengono costruite e utilizzate queste botti. Ovviamente 225 è il numero dei litri di vino contenuti in una barrique.


Christophe Lorenzoni ha recuperato le doghe delle botti da smaltire e le ha protette con una vernice acrilica che mantiene il colore e la patina acquisita in anni di utilizzo in cantina. Ogni sedia e tavolo 225 Litres è costruita usando solo legno proveniente dalla stessa barrique (per avere uniformità di colore) ferro, e alcune imbottiture.


In questo articolo ho pubblicato i modelli che mi piacciono di più, ma Lorenzoni si è sbizzarrito e la collezione è molto più ampia. Ovviamente ogni pezzo è unico e da commissionare, perché si tratta di una produzione artigianale.


All’autore non manca certo la fantasia! Alcune creazioni mi sembrano un po’ forzate, come il seggiolino per bambino “Mange ta soupe!” , ma quando invece la curvatura delle doghe è valorizzata in maniera più naturale, i risultati sono interessanti. Le linee della poltrona in copertina “Plaisir solitaire”, ad esempio, sono eleganti ed azzeccate; il dettaglio del bracciolo porta bicchiere è proprio di questo modello.

Eliodomestico Solar Household Still by Gabriele Diamanti

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Milan-based designer Gabriele Diamanti‘s “Eliodomestico” solar-powered eco-distiller was recently selected as one of 12 finalists for the Prix Émile Hermès 2011. The small, vat-like still is made entirely from terracotta and zinc-plated metal sheets, and, in keeping with the Italian designer’s intention for “Eliodomestico” to be completely open source, “it’s designed to be produced (and eventually repaired) by local craftsmen.”

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The project is conceived like an household: it works autonomously during the day, just in front of people’s houses. Its design is inspired from archetypal forms and materials, because it has to be highly recognizable: as a matter of facts, one of the biggest problems in delivering technologies to the developing countries, is that usually the people doesn’t understand them.

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The device can produce up to five liters of drinking water per day through a direct solar-powered distillation process—i.e. no filters or electricity—making “Eliodomestico” nearly three times as efficient as existing solar stills of equal size.

The distiller is very easy to use: in the morning, simply fill the water tank with salty or dirty water from a local source, and in the evening collect clean, evaporated and re-condensed water in a portable recipient placed underneath the tank.

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The Black Cube Steven Heller

Seneres Side Tables

Double tiered side tables for the bedroom or the living room with a single dovetailed drawer box.