Hasta La Ideas

London studios Anomaly and Unit9 are collating patterns donated by artists, which users can print out with instructions to make origami cranes in exchange for a donation to disaster relief in Japan.

Top: Zeitguised
Above: Matt Lyon

Called One Thousand Cranes for Japan, the project draws on Japanese legend that a person who folds 1000 origami cranes will be granted a wish.

Above: Laura Quick

Artists involved so far include Zeitguised, Tokyo Plastic and Matt Lyon, with new artists added each day.

Above: Hennie Haworth

Join in here:

www.onethousandcranesforjapan.com
www.facebook.com/onethousandcranesforjapan

Above: Actop

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Above: Todd Selby

The information that follows is from the designers:

As the aftermath of the tsunami continues to cause serious disruption throughout northern Japan, we need to bring aid and support to the area as quickly as possible. Although financial donations will be greatly appreciated, it is also important that the people of Japan to know that we are contributing in a way that transcends monetary worth.

Above: Tokyo Plastic

An ancient Japanese legend promises that anyone who folds a thousand origami cranes will be granted a wish. Today, the Japanese still respect this custom and use it to help loved ones recover from illness or injury.

Above: Tom Uglow

One Thousand Cranes for Japan takes this tradition and expands it across the globe in a unified display of goodwill. Anomaly London has together with Unit9 created a project where in exchange for a donation you can print a specially designed pattern to fold into an origami crane in support of Japan.

Many famous artists have donated patterns for the initiative. We launch with designs from animators Zeitguised, photographer Todd Selby, artist Paul Slater, creative collective Actop, illustrators Brian Grimwood, Hennie Haworth, Laura Quick, Matt Lyon and directors Tokyo Plastic.

We will add designs as they come in day by day: we are expecting submissions from Diane von Furstenberg, Brian Grimwood, Andy Gilmore, James Joyce, Mr Bingo and Jody Barton.

A donation to the Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Relief Fund allows you to download and print off one of these illustrations, complete with instructions on how to make your own origami crane.

We are hoping many thousands of people will make a crane and in doing so focus their wishes of hope and recovery for those in the grip of this tragedy.

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Help Japan Poster by Wieden + Kennedy	“Please help Japan” – Tokujin Yoshioka	Heart for Japan by Delphine Perrot

Graphic designer Max Erdenberger of Wieden + Kennedy has designed this screen-printed poster to raise money for disaster relief following the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan at the end of last week.

The single colour handmade screen-print is available from Wieden + Kennedy’s online shop in exchange for a donation.

Get one here.

Here are some more details from Wieden + Kennedy:

To raise relief funds for the the devastating 8.9 earthquake and subsequent massive tsunami that struck Japan March 11, 2011.

%100 of the proceeds go to the Japanese earthquake and tsunami relief.

Max Erdenberger, a designer at Wieden + Kennedy in Portland, Oregon, created this simple 1 colour hand screen-printed poster to help send Japan in this time of need. You can choose how much you want to donate in exchange for the poster, starting at $25.

W+K Tokyo has set up this person finding aggregator: http://buji.me

Designed by Max Erdenberger
Printed by Steve Denekas and Walker Cahall

40″x26″ 1-color screenprint on Neenah Environment Ultra Bright White 80# Cover.

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Joy of Living at Somerset House	Cardon Copy by Cardon Webb	Wieden + Kennedy London offices

Danish typeface designers e-Types have opened a shop for their type foundry in Copenhagen, Denmark, where customers can buy digital fonts in a physical space.

Customers can buy fonts loaded on USB sticks at the shop as opposed to the online Playtype store where fonts are downloaded or sent by email.

The shop also stocks posters, t-shirts and homeware decorated with letters designed by e-Types and their colleagues.

Oversized fonts have been printed on the glazed storefront and on the walls inside.

Merchandise is displayed on wooden tables, and the floor is tiled in black and white.

The shop will be open for just one year.

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The following information is from e-Types:

The world’s first brick and mortar type foundry. e‐Types launches concept store to celebrate the revamp of Playtype.com.

In connection with the redesign and launch of their online type foundry www.playtype.com, the Copenhagen‐based design agency e‐Types is launching a typographic concept store, “Playtype”, located in the heart of Copenhagen, Denmark.

“We ́ve always been type nerds. It’s what founded our company and what keeps the midnight oil burning at e‐Types, with people spending hours on the correct curvature of a “C” or the appropriate amount of space around an “A”. Typography is essential to who we are as a firm but also for the work we do for our clients; much of a company’s identity rests in its use of type. Just think of Coca Cola or IBM. Releasing our fonts like this is a way of signaling that we want to put Danish type design on the map” says Jonas Hecksher, Partner and Creative Director at e‐Types.

Apart from selling fonts, the shop will feature a number of products and editions ‐ some designed by e‐Types, some in collaboration with friends and colleagues from the design and art world. “The offline shop is a way of starting a dialogue with a wider audience about the significance of typography, sure. But it is also a place where we can experiment with our craft. A place where our designers can work more freely than they normally would when working with a corporate design programme.

The shop gives us a place where our designers can have a cool idea on a Monday and see it come to life in the shop the following week. For now, we’ve created a couple of t‐shirts and posters, but maybe we’ll transform the whole space into a gallery next month or something completely different the month after that. It’s an experiment. A playground.” comments Rasmus Ibfelt, Partner and Managing Director at e‐Types.

The online shop Playtype.com will feature over 100 new fonts designed by e‐Types and longtime friends and partners, the prolific London‐based typographers A2/SW/HK run by Scott Williams and Henrik Kubel. The font collection is the culmination of over 20 years of type design, with many typefaces never having been publicly available till now. “Some of the fonts we are releasing were originally for clients and some are sketches and doodles that gradually have evolved into full‐blown type families.

Some were inspired by a particular context – for example “Nouvel” which was inspired by Jean Nouvel’s architecture for Koncerthuset, the new concert venue designed for the Danish Broadcasting Corporation. Others were designed to be purely functional and work under extreme circumstances ‐ like “Medic” that is designed for emergency medicine.” says Jens Kajus, Partner and Creative Director and like many of the e‐Types team, a long‐ time contributor to the Playtype font collection.

“Playtype.com is the perfect match for A2’s commercial fonts. Like e‐ Types, our studio has been crafting high‐end and versatile typefaces for many different kinds of clients for more than a decade. It is our hope that the expanding world of advertising, branding agencies and design studios across the globe will see this injection of fresh faces as a starting point for future communication.” says Henrik Kubel, Partner at A2/SW/HK.

The shop in Copenhagen will open on December 1st 2010 and close exactly one year later on December 1st 2011. Playtype.com however, is here to stay.



Værnedamsvej 6
Copenhagen, Denmark

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Lettera 9 by Demian Conrad	Type the Sky by Lisa Rienermann	Virtureal by Jelte van Abbema

Lei è Hannah K. Lee.

We’ve teamed up with publishers Fiell to offer our readers the chance to win one of five copies of Cult-ure by graphic designer Rian Hughes.

The 356-page paperback bound in faux leather is the result of 10 years work, combining graphics and text to explore the language of signs, symbols and meaning in contemporary culture.

Hughes is particularly interested by the way ideas can now travel further and faster than ever before via the internet.

The volume is divided into eleven chapters: ideas, communications, media, representations, frames and maps, objects, perceptions, solutions, arts, identities and proscriptions.

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IDEAS CAN BE DANGEROUS

Ideas are the currency of our modern me- dia-driven world. They shape our very culture. CULT-URE is your incisive survival guide for navigating this modern landscape of ideas.

From the far past to the future, it shows how ideas were coded first in signs and symbols – the spoken word, the flag, the alphabet.
Now virulent ideas, whether they be a YouTube video, a political ideology or a fundamentalist religion, have the ultimate delivery mechanism – the internet. Ideas are travelling further and faster, and now have the power to change the cultural landscape like never before.

In our new electronic ‘democracy of ideas’,political and religious authorities no longer controlwhat we are allowed to have access to. Cultural power is devolving to the creative individual, who can now address the world. Soon we will all have the means to create; we just have to decide whether it be art or bombs.

Why do you think what you think? Where do our values, beliefs and prejudices comefrom? How do symbols and signs, the codifed lan- guage of ideas, shape our perceptions? Who controls the very ideas that shape our culture?

Through words and pictures, the language of our media age, CULT-URE powerfully il- lustrates how ideas are created and ma- nipulated.
Culture is your local consensus reality; your clothing, cuisine and hairstyle, the music you listen to, the films you see; it is the lens through which you interpret reality. Cul- ture, unlike your race or eye colour, is not a compulsory accident of birth, but an intel- lectual position.

Written and designed by celebrated graphic designer and illustrator Rian Hughes, CULT- URE represents a new experiment in ‘au- thored design’, a unique melding of graphics and text that provides a thought-provoking exploration of the media age, the pervasive language of signs, symbols and meaning, and the ideas – both benign and dangerous – that travel through them.

The ‘Gideon’s Bible for the boutique hotel’, CULT-URE is an insider’s guide to the changing nature of communication, perception and identity, and is set to become a cult publication for the digital generation – the 21st century answer to Marshall McLuhan’s The Medium is the Massage.

A must-have bible for anyone interested in the power of ideas, CULT-URE is both a bold graphic statement and a potent inoculation against infection by contagious ideas. CULT-URE will help you survivive the next Cult-ural Revolution.

CULT-URE
Written and designed by Rian Hughes
Published by Publishing Limited December 2010
Bound in faux leather with foil blocking and gold page edges
Size: 229 mm x 152 mm (6×9”)
356 pages, 500 illustrations, die cuts, tip ins.
ISBN 9781906863289
RRP: £24.95/$45.00

Also available in numbered limited edition which includes limited edition print signed by the author, real leather binding, slipcase and sticker set.

About the Author

Rian Hughes is an award-winning graphic designer, comic artist, logo designer, and typographer. He studied graphic design at the London College of Communication before working for an advertising agency i-D magazine, and a series of record sleeve design companies. In 1994 he founded his own studio, Device, and has since worked with a wide range of international clients in publishing, advertising, comic books, music and fashion.

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