Feb 27

Interview: PechaKucha’s Mark Dytham: As Heineken’s Your Future Bottle competition draws to a close we talk remixing and Kit Kat collecting

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Interview: PechaKucha's Mark Dytham

Advertorial content: As Heineken’s second annual Your Future Bottle Design Challenge comes to a close we want to encourage all aspiring designers to get their final designs submitted via Facebook before the 1 March deadline for the chance to have their work on display during Milan Design Week. To offer…

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Feb 12

Interview: Us: We speak with the directing duo Us on using 3D motion capture rendering in the Foals’ video for “My Number”

Posted in: musicvideos, rendering

Interview: Us

by Sabine Zetteler Christoper Barrett and Luke Taylor, more commonly known as Us, are the powerhouse directorial duo behind the latest music video for Foals, released this week by Warner Bros UK. Far from newcomers to video direction—Us directed an award-winning video for Thom Yorke while still attending Kingston University—the…

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Jan 15

Deko: Create your own abstract patterns with the swipe of a finger

Posted in: ipadapp, iphoneapp, visuals

Deko

You may never tire of turning on your iOS device to find a picture of your adorable puppy staring back at you, but if you’re interested in creating a less loquacious background try the new app, Deko. Programmed by designers Jaakko Tuomivaara and Johan Halin, whose experimental music app,…

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Jan 11

Essays on Reality: London-based Swiss director Greg Barth premieres his latest work

Posted in: artdirection, avantpremiere, essay, stopmotion

Essays on Reality

There’s a good chance you have come across Greg Barth’s work recently. In the past two years, the Swiss multi-disciplinary art and video director has gotten noticed among enlightened circles, as well as the general public, for his clearly identifiable aesthetic combined with audacious choices of content. After graduating…

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Dec 20

Fifty and Fifty State Mottos: Typographic slogans from native designers on view at the Ace Hotel in NYC

Posted in: acehotel, dancassaro, society6

Fifty and Fifty State Mottos

On view at the Ace Hotel in NYC, “Fifty and Fifty State Mottos” is an exhibition of prints paying graphic homage to our historic maxims, curated by designer and illustrator Dan Cassaro. After designing a print for his native New York, Cassaro reached out to friends and colleagues in…

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Nov 22

Numbers in Graphic Design: Roger Fawcett-Tang’s numerical sourcebook

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Numbers in Graphic Design

A British graphic designer and founder of Struktur Design, Roger Fawcett-Tang brings us “Numbers in Graphic Design,” a new sourcebook for dealing with information-heavy design. The practical guide surveys one of the more fascinating players in graphic design, and one that isn’t limited by linguistic or cultural boundaries. Essentially,…

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Nov 20

Litographs: Digital books screen-printed for posters and tees

Posted in: bookdesign, Kickstarter

Litographs

Litographs—a company known for reprinting full texts of books as posters—recently caught our eye when they sent us a custom poster printed with text from Cool Hunting articles. The execution was just too slick not to share. There in a pristinely etched screen print was a feed of our…

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Oct 30

The Airship: Hand-pulled letterpress meets augmented reality in a graphic novel

Posted in: graphicnovels, qrcodes

The Airship

Bridging futurist design, letterpress technique and augmented reality, “The Airship” is a new graphic novel from Todd Thyberg. The writer, illustrator and publisher is also the founder of Angel Bomb Design + Letterpress, and has put his array of talents to the test in this work. Twenty-two photopolymer plates…

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Oct 09

ECAL Yearbook

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Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne showcases its talented grads

ECAL Yearbook

During last week’s Swiss Design Days, Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne—more commonly ECAL—debuted “ECAL Diplomes 2012,” a conceptual yearbook showcasing student thesis work from the past academic year. With sections devoted to everything from photography to industrial design, the book offers a comprehensive look at the school’s top-notch talent….

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Sep 13

Poster II, The Hustler

Posted in: joeyroth, metaphors

Designer Joey Roth breaks down the art of making things happen

Poster II, The Hustler

According to multidisciplinary designer Joey Roth, a hustler is someone who creates something from inspiration, mediated by an uncompromising picture of reality, then launches it with precision into the world. To illustrate this archetype and the processes behind it, Roth’s new letterpress poster upacks the “Hustler” column from his…

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