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Competition: we’ve teamed up with Italian designer Denis Guidone to give away nine of his Rigolo notebooks with slanted and squiggly ruled pages.

Designed for Fabriano boutique, the notebooks in red, blue and yellow are inspired by the way school children first learn to write on ruled paper.

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Competition closes 23 August 2011. Nine winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeenmail newsletter and at the bottom of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.

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Here are some more details from Denis Guidone:

There’s something irresistibly poetic in observing the notebooks of the children taking their first steps in writing; a wonderful mess rules.

In Rigolo errors will draw our thoughts … free to make mistakes, every day all over again.

Rigolo is a lined notebook where the printing becomes landscape.

The idea takes shape from childhood memories; it is just a rethinking of the old lined notebooks that we used in kindergarden. How often has our teacher been reproaching us because we were unable to keep our notebook in good order?

In Rigolo the lines change colour and slope, they convey subjects ranging from geometry to figurative abstraction and the child is invited to follow them through writing.

While projecting the graphic, the optometry’s studies stating that children at their first steps in writing tend to tilt their handwriting of 30 degrees were taken into account.

Rigolo: Bruno Munari national award 2008 for editorial graphic experimentation wanted by national committee Bruno Munari and its proponents: the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, the Foundation DNArt, Regione Lombardia, the association Bruno Munari and the Triennale of Milano.

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Competition: we’ve teamed up with British illustrators People Will Always Need Plates to give away four sets of books and platters in anticipation of their upcoming first book, London Buildings: An Architectural Tour.

Four winners will each receive a copy of the book plus three bone-china platters that feature imagery drawn from the English industrial landscape.

The book comprises a selection of the authors’ favorite London buildings depicted in their signature line-drawn style. Submit suggestions for buildings to feature in their next book via the People Will Always Need Plates Facebook page.

The platters, from their British Industry is Dead, Long Live British Industry collection, bear golden images of a coal mine, gasometer and shipyard.

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Competition closes 16 August 2011. Four winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeenmail newsletter and at the bottom of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.

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More information is provided by People Will Always Need Plates:

People Will Always Need Plates are delighted to offer four Dezeen readers the chance to win a set of platters to celebrate the launch of their first book, London Buildings: An Architectural Tour.

Created by founder members Robin Farquhar and Hannah Dipper, their illustrations have been used by the company on a successful range of plates, mugs and other objects but appear for the first time in a book.

Covering a range of architectural styles, well-known buildings such as the Barbican, Battersea Power Station, Sir Christopher Wren’s 1675 Greenwich Royal Observatory are included as well as the 20s modernist masterpiece – the Isokon Building – and Brutalist icons, the controversial Trellick Tower and the Royal National Theatre. Each image is accompanied by text summing up why the authors love the buildings they depict.

The duo behind the drawings initially began their business People Will Always Need Plates in 2004 with a focus on the buildings that they love, namely Modernist examples from the 1930s as well as concrete structures of the 50s, 60s, and 70s. Their colourful illustrative design is unique and they are just as eager to celebrate the unsung architectural heroes as well as the well-loved, famous ones.

About the Platters:

British Industry Is Dead, Long Live British Industry

This new edition is a response to the perceived wisdom that Britain no longer makes anything.Though coal mining, ship building, and much of our motor industry has been lost, the UK is not simply a nation of shopkeepers – or more latterly, IT consultants and telecoms engineers. Happily, elements of traditional industries, such as Stoke-on-Trent’s potteries are beginning to see new growth as they recognise the need to protect the wealth of experience inherent in over two hundred years of ceramics manufacturing.

Each platter is worth £100 and the line drawings are printed in burnished gold.

Next book:

For the Month of August we’ll also be asking fans to submit buildings they love for the next book which will be the same theme but for the whole of Britain (not just London). We’ll pick a few winners to send Glicee prints of their favourite building to. Enter via our Facebook page.

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Competition: we’ve teamed up with Page One Publishing to give away five copies of Jyanzi Kong’s new architecture book, Geometry of the Unconscious.

Geometry of the Unconscious: an Uncertain Truth in Architecture examines our perceptions of architecture within varying contexts.

The 172-page paperback compiles theoretical texts accompanied by over 150 illustrations and photos of projects.

Jyanzi Kong has held teaching positions at universities across the US, Singapore and China.

To enter this competition email your name, age, gender, occupation, and delivery address and telephone number to competitions@dezeen.com with “Geometry of the Unconscious” in the subject line. We won’t pass your information on to anyone else; we just want to know a little about our readers.

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Competition closes 23 August 2011. Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeenmail newsletter and at the bottom of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.

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Here’s some more information from the publisher:

About Geometry of the Unconscious

The experience of seeing space in its relationship with matter is inherent in the gap between the visible and invisible in architecture. This book examines architecture where the complexities of chance, atmosphere, situation and circumstance are amalgamated into geometry of the unconscious. From this, new architecture can be realised not only based upon accepted norms of modernity but also upon cultural context and origin. Such geometry is an endpoint that involves a continuity of perception, conception and action.

About Jyanzi Kong

Jyanzi Kong began teaching at the Department of Architecture, Cornell University. Subsequently, he taught at the College of Architecture, University of Houston and Montana State University.

Since 1985, he taught at the School of Architecture, National University of Singapore and the Raffles Institute of Design, DongHua University in Shanghai. He has served as Guest Critic at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University and several American schools of architecture, including SCI-ARC. He has presented papers in various international conferences including the Union of International Architects in Barcelona, 1996.

His professional practice covered both sides of the Atlantic. He was Architect-in-Design with the office of O M Angers in Cologne, Germany, while on the American Coast he worked with several architectural firms. Jyanzi conducts architectural explorations in design studios and lectures on contemporary topics related to architecture and its urban determinants.

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Competition: we’ve teamed up with publishers Laurence King to give Dezeen readers the chance to win one of five copies of Folding Techniques for Designers. 

The 224-page paperback book gives step-by-step instructions for creating 3D paper forms through photographs, diagrams and drawings.

These movies show demonstrations by the book’s author Paul Jackson – watch more movies in this series on the Laurence King website and check out their Facebook page.

To enter this competition email your name, age, gender, occupation, and delivery address and telephone number to competitions@dezeen.com with “Folding Techniques for Designers” in the subject line. We won’t pass your information on to anyone else; we just want to know a little about our readers.

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Competition closes 9 August 2011. Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeenmail newsletter and at the bottom of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.

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Here’s some more information from Laurence King:

Folding Techniques for Designers From Sheet to Form by Paul Jackson

Folding Techniques for Designers by Paul Jackson and published by Laurence King in May 2011 is an elegant, practical handbook, covering more than 70 folding techniques explained through clear step-by- step drawings, crease-pattern drawings and specially commissioned photography.

All designers fold, that is, all designers crease, pleat, bend, hem, gather, knot, hinge, corrugate, drape, twist, furl, crumple, collapse, wrinkle, facet, curve or wrap two-dimensional sheets of material, and through these processes of folding, create three-dimensional objects.

Despite being so ubiquitous, folding as a design topic is rarely studied, however in recent years more and more designers of all disciplines have turned to folding to create a wide range of handmade and manufactured objects, both functional and decorative.

Folding Techniques for Designers is the first book to present this essential topic specifically for designers.

Drawing on 30 years of experience, the author aims to establish folding as a primary design tool and, by doing so, to reintroduce it as an essential topic in design education and practice.

Paul Jackson has been a professional paper folder and paper artist since 1982 and is the author of 30 books on paper arts and crafts. He has taught the techniques of folding on more than 150 university-level design courses in the UK, Germany, Belgium, the US, Canada and Israel.

These include courses in Architecture, Graphic Design, Fashion Design, Textile Design, Jewellery, Product Design, Packaging, Ceramics, Industrial Design, Fine Art, Basic Design and Interior Design. He has also taught many workshops in museums, arts centres and festivals and has worked as ‘folding consultant’ for companies such as Nike and Siemens.

575 illustrations
220 x 220 mm 224 pages
Paperback
ISBN – 978 1 85669 721 7
£19.95

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(in association with amazon.co.uk)

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Competition: we’ve teamed up with German typography magazine Slanted to give away five copies of their latest issue.

Slanted is a quarterly-printed magazine that features typography, illustration, layout, and photography.

Issue #14 focuses on Grotesque san-serif fonts.

The publication includes photos, essays and interviews about numerous type projects.

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Competition closes 26 July 2011. Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeenmail newsletter and at the bottom of this page.

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The following is from the magazine:

re.: Slanted #14 – GroteSque 2

While Slanted #13 dealt with contemporary and historical humanist grotesque fonts, Slanted #14 – Grotesque 2 focuses on current fonts that are in tradition of Lineal, Neo- or Geometric Grotesque.

They mainly have their origins in the time of the turn of 19th to 20th century. In 1880 Ferdinand Theinhardt designed the Royal Grotesque with four weights for the Königlich-Preußische Akademie zu Berlin, from which developed the Akzidenz Grotesque in 1918. Simultaneously, from 1905 to 1930, Morris Fuller Benton created fonts on the basis of Lineal Neo- grotesque: the Lineal Grotesque. Nowadays there can be observed different procedures of designing fonts, which can be named as quotations. A variety of fonts bear on historical models.

With great pleasure we present a huge number of these corresponding and related grotesque fonts, illustrations and projects. The type essays by Flo Gaertner (Karlsruhe), Robert Schumann (Berlin) and Anna Sinofzik (London) deal with them. Worth seeing photos stories are “Almost Europe” by Miguel Hahn and Jan-Christoph Hartung (Frankfurt am Main) who visualize the situation of refugees in the Spanish enclave Melilla, as well as »Ein Abend auf der Wiesn – Pictures taken during the great beer rush« by Volker Derlath (München).

Numerous interviews with Lizá Defossez Ramalho and Artur Rebelo (Porto), Edwin van Gelder (Amsterdam), Marta Podkowinska and Karol Gadzala (Krakow) and Hans Gremmen (Amsterdam) as well as an article about Kiyoshi Awazu as well as the 4th part of the Tokyo Report, both by Ian Lynam (Tokyo) and a musical travelogue by Frank Wiedemann (Berlin) round up the stuff to read.

By the way: Slanted #13 and #14 are conceived as a double-issue featuring the wide field of grotesque fonts. The availability of issue #13 is limited. Get the last copies from our shop at www.slanted.de/shop!

Slanted Magazine #14 Grotesque 2 Summer 2011 148 pages

Frequency: 4 p.a. (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter)
Print: E&B Engelhardt and Bauer, Karlsruhe, Germany

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