Sharon Pazner

Découverte de “Paper Art”, ces artworks faits main par l’artiste israélienne Sharon Pazner. A partir de simples feuilles, et selon une découpe bien particulière, elle arrive à transformer le papier en des objets 2D et 3D. Plusieurs galeries disponibles en ligne.



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London’s 7/7 memorial

Today sees the unveiling of a permanent memorial to the victims of the London terrorist bombings of July 7 2005. Typographer Phil Baines talks to CR about his involvement

The 7/7 memorial, which was designed by architects Carmody Groarke and commissioned by the UK Government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport, features 52 pillars (or ‘stellae’), cast in rough textured stainless steel, each representing one of the victims. They are grouped together in four inter-linking clusters reflecting the four incidents, with each bearing an inscription of the date and location of the particular incident that its cluster represents, but not the name of the victim. Apparently, the names were left off in order to suggest the random nature of the attack – that it was indiscriminate. Instead, the names of the victimes are listed on a separate plaque. The memorial is located in the north-east corner of Hyde Park, close to Park Lane and Lover’s Walk.

Baines, who is Professor of Typography at Central St Martins, as well as being a leading typographer in his own right, was responsible for the lettering and its layout on the stellae and the plaque. “I was approached by Carmody Groarke along with two other designers/design groups in September last year, quite late in the whole design process,” he says. “I was selected after a couple of meetings where we discussed the brief, the problems of casting in stainless steel, my work to date, and possible approaches to the job. A full planning application had already been submitted by this point with the only items needing to be resolved were the lettering and the plaque material (carved granite in the application but changed to cast stainless steel shortly after I became involved).”

Drawing for the stellae lettering

What were the main considerations in the design? “From a lettering point of view the process was driven by considerations of practicality and aesthetics. The practical considerations were simply about what kind of shapes would cast well, and a sample casting using the foundry’s standard pattern letters was very informative – the letters shapes degraded slightly on the face as well as the sides, small counters had a tendency to fill-in. Aesthetic considerations centred on a wish by the architects to ‘suggest London’. In discussion we all agreed that we should not use Johnston which is too specifically TfL (the bombs may have targetted the transport network but this is not a TfL memorial) and has some very awkward details if you were to cast it as intended at the required size. One further consideration was that the Project Board had already suggested the serif typefaces Garamond and Perpetua – the latter was in the planning application – but when I saw the sample which used standard pattern letters I knew that neither would work, far too fussy.”

Casting the stellae at Nortons in Sheffield

“I decided to use the 19th Century, un-tutored, signmakers’ sanserif you see on buildings around the city as a starting point and draw a bespoke font for the job,” Baines explains. “The lettering is set in capitals-only to provide maximum character area.”

The plaque contains all 52 victims’ names the setting of which required all 26 letters of the alphabet.

On the plaque: “The centre point before names has a resonance with early inscriptional practice but works better visually with the long lines than full points or commas. The lettering is centred for formality, you couldn’t set it in columns due to the extreme difference in name lengths (from 5 to 30 letters in the first draft). Although we trialled a version with names broken across lines, which reflected the architects’ wish to create a field of names, this was felt to be insensitive by the Project Board. Lines therefore vary in length with the version used being the best balance that could be achieved in the space.”

“It had been decided that the stellae would not be personalised with names but only carry date, time and place of death and that a plaque would state what the memorial’s functional aim and list all the names. On the stellae are: orthography of date (7 July 2005, not the coloquial/MSWord ‘7th July 2005’) and the time as in 24hr clock (to avoid needing AM). A centre point is used as the time divider as it suits the vertical arrangement of letters better than full point. The letters read down like a British book spine.”

What does he hope that people will feel when visiting the monument? “I think they will find it calming, and enjoy the sensation of walking among it (the stellae are 3.5m high, and set at 1m centres). The other thing we noticed when taking bereaved relatives round Nortons (the founders in Sheffield) was that people like to touch it, because it’s trough-cast, each surface has a slightly different texture, and to accentuate the tactile effect, each is turned 90º to adjacent stellae.”

Muslim and Jewish Groups Join Forces in Another Effort to Stop Frank Gehrys Museum of Tolerance

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Frank Gehry just can’t catch a break lately, can he? Between the much-discussed Atlantic Yards booting, his Beekman Tower getting trimmed in half, and the Grand Avenue project in Los Angeles now on hold, it’s a rough time to be this particular starchitect. And now adding to the mix is the news that Muslim and Jewish groups are banding together to try and halt the building of the Gehry designed Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem, finding both sides upset that the museum is being constructed on top of an ancient Muslim cemetery. This has been an on-going battle for a while now, with Gehry’s side fairing well in court battle during the first round of complaints (they argued that no one had been complaining about anything for all the years the site has been a parking lot), but now with a growing, multi-religious organization gathering wind in their sails to cause another uproar, who knows if this might be the next big Gehry building to fall. Certainly didn’t work for the Atlantic Yards protesters — they just had to wait for the economy to take its toll.

Gary Fernández

Coup de cœur pour le style très graphique et le bel univers de l’artiste Gary Fernández, avec une mise à jour de ses travaux sur son portfolio en ligne. Actuellement en exposition à Shanghai.



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Fancy Fast Food

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I am totally intrigued by Fancy Fast Food. The picture above is Tacobellini (Fancy Burrito Supreme) its made from:

  • 2 Taco Bell Burrito Supremes (beef)
  • 1 beef soft taco
  • 1 large Sierra Mist
  • packets of mild, hot or Fire sauce (to your liking)
  • parsley (for garnish)

Its so crazy.

thanks BB

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Wanted: Worldly Graphic Designer

globe.gifTired of jobs that allow you to save the world but require a wardrobe of spandex unitards, primary colors, and bulky capes? You’re in luck, because the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is in the market for a graphic designer. The non-profit public policy organization is looking for someone to apply his or her knowledge of print and web design to assist CSIS in its mission “to provide strategic insights and practical policy solutions to decision makers concerned with global security.” Bring your “good sense of clean design principles” and crackerjack Photoshop and InDesign skills. And it probably wouldn’t hurt to brush up on matters of global security before your interview. Our advice? Simply memorize key phrases from WarGames and Sneakers (bonus points for delivering the latter in the icily maniacal cadence of Cosmo, the character played by Ben Kingsley). And while “The only way to win is not to play” may be true when it comes to global thermonuclear war, not so with job listings. Learn more about and apply for this graphic designer, Center for Strategic and International Studies job or view all of the current mediabistro.com design/art/photo jobs.

Self Edge New York

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San Francisco denim mecca Self Edge will be peddling their pure quality goods at a new location in the heart of NYC’s Lower East Side beginning 24 July 2009. Known by denim heads around the world, Self Edge offers authentic Japanese selvedge jeans—at times joining forces with denim connoisseurs, like for their recent Self Edge x Dry Bones x Superfuture Community Denim collaboration.

Owner Kiya Babzani answered a few questions for CH about the upcoming boutique and the beautifully crafted denim found within it. For an in-depth look at Self Edge, be sure to check out our Rough Cut video on their San Francisco shop.

What’s the address? Why that location?

One fifty-seven Orchard at Rivington, right between BBlessing and Reed Space. We thought the Lower East Side was perfect for us, exactly the type of neighborhood which we feel comfortable in, it has it’s similarities to the Mission District, where Self Edge San Francisco is and we enjoy that.

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How big is the space and will the vibe/decor be like the SF location?

The space is about 25% larger than SESF, but the vibe and look will be similar—a very comfortable boutique where we welcome clients to come in, sit down and hang out for a while. It’s a place where people can come and learn about vintage styling manufacturing processes and really see what the Japanese have achieved in reproducing some of the long lost styles of garment design and manufacturing.

What about product line? Same as San Francisco?

Same as SESF but we’re adding Joe McCoy’s and Ande Whall. We’ll also have a fuller representation of Flat Head, Real Japan Blues and 3sixteen, carrying things that we never brought in at SESF. In addition we’re bringing in some Self Edge New York exclusive products starting with a couple of items from MFSC.

Why NYC? Why now?

We wanted to open another Self Edge and Los Angeles was on our mind, then the right opportunity came up in New York with the owners of 3sixteen taking part in the store. We think between the two entities we can bring something fresh to New York, a very purist view of denim and vintage style garments from the Japanese point of view, with purist being the key word.

Does this mean we get to see you in our fair city more often?

I’ll definitely be making the cross country trip quite often, something which I used to do about ten years ago when I lived in between SF and NY for a couple of years. I’m older now and not looking forward to traveling back and forth but it’ll be quite worth it in the end, especially if New York’s reaction is as good as the Bay Area’s was to SESF.

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Indie Rock Poster Artists Get Their Close-Up

DYSP.jpgIt’s proving to be a banner year for designer documentaries. In the wake of such must-see films as Valentino: The Last Emperor, Objectified, and Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight comes Died Young, Stayed Pretty, a raw look into the underground world of indie rock poster design. Iranian-born Canadian filmmaker Eileen Yaghoobian spent four years shooting the film, which screened at this year’s South by Southwest Film Festival and has its New York premiere next Friday at the IFC Center.

DYSP takes viewers into the offices, studios, backyards, cars, and lives of artists such as Art Chantry, Brian Chippendale, Print Mafia, the Ames Brothers, and Rob Jones. Along the way, Yaghoobian harvests killer visuals (gig posters for everyone from Arcade Fire to Marilyn Manson as well as inspiration-soaked sojourns to carnivals, zoos, and the gigs themselves) and delightful—if occasionally profane—commentary, including spirited debates about the glut of octopus imagery in rock posters (great minds…) and memorable quotations (“With a band like Elf Power, can’t go wrong”). Of course, it proved impossible to choose just one poster for the film, and so there are six (Bryce McCloud‘s swashbuckling feline design, above, among them). Check out the film’s trailer, below, and then head to GigPosters.com, the world’s largest historical gig poster archive.

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Sour Videoclip

Curieux clip réalisé pour le groupe japonais Sour sur le titre “Hibi no Neiro”. Des fans du monde entier ont conçu cette œuvre collective grâce à de simples webcams en se mettant en scène dans une impressionnante chorégraphie.



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