Observed | July 19
Today’s New York Times feature on the fire at Notre Dame has superb photography & dazzling interactive animations, but nothing is more mesmerizing than these sketches made at the scene by French firefighter Laurent Clerjeau. A landmark piece of visual journalism. [MB]
Everyone at
this new advertising agency has served time in prison. [BV]
Observed | July 18
From ancient art to modern manuscripts,
Harvard digital collections provides free, public access to over 6 million objects. #Explore! [BV]
Observed | July 17
Can a typeface embraces uncertainty and celebrates differences?
Ambiguity is up to the challenge. [BV]
Observed | July 16
New out today from Shutterstock:
Elements video effects. And some pretty fun
behind the scenes footage. [BV]
Get Up, Stand Up Now is a major new exhibition at Somerset House celebrating the past 50 years of Black creativity in Britain and beyond. The exhibition explores migration, psychological and social borders, the body and participation, power and resistance. [LY]
Observed | July 15
Congratulations! Acclaimed Dutch typographer
Wim Crouwel has just received the 32nd TDC Medal from the Type Directors Club. [BV]
Observed | July 12
Ikea claims to have created the World’s Comfiest Font,
Soffa Sans, where each letter is formed by pieces from a sofa! Free download here. [LY]
Can you imagine the cereal isle? Kellogg’s has temporarily
made the packaging for its most popular cereal varieties black and white in a new partnership with Crayola. [BV]
Not over the hill:
Design With Nature, Ian McHarg’s landmark book of ecological design turns 50. [LY]
Observed | July 11
Congratulations to Collins,
Ad Age‘s first design agency of the year! [BV]
Our
privacy crisis is a crisis of design. [JH]
Observed | July 09
A wonderful deep dive online Bauhaus exhibition from Getty Research Institute. [BV]
Featuring upside-down pages, illegible interviews, and appearances from Sonic Youth, Björk, and David Bowie,
Ray Gun, 90s America’s bible of music and style, shook up US publishing in the ‘90s. [BV]
Observed | July 08
Pioneering video artist
Gretchen Bender predicted our obsession with screens. [BV]
Observed | July 02
“Not having anything to do sounds terrible. I fear that more than anything else. It’s greater than the fear of death.”
Anne Quito interviews Milton Glaser on his 90th birthday. [MB]
70% of graphic design students are women, yet only 11% are Creative Directors. Discuss. [JH]
Observed | July 01
What a better way to kick off July than with some new art? And what better place to get it than the
20x200 weeklong sitewide semi-annual sale? Starting tomorrow their
vintage & space editions are on sale. [BV]
Congratulations to our co-founder, Jessica Helfand, and
all the Fall 2019 Bogliasco Fellowship recipients! [BV]
What’s as satisfying as a good book?
Seeing one made the old-fashioned way, by hand. [BV]
Observed | June 28
Matthew Carter will discuss his ambitious new Latin superfamily of serif, sans, slab, and rounded typefaces at the Katherine Small Gallery. [BV]
Observed | June 27
The enduring appeal of
mustard yellow. (via
James I. Bowie) [BV]
Observed | June 26
Color theory explored by Peter Kraus in three jewels of book-making. [BV]
Observed | June 25
Jessica Helfand gave a poster design workshop to scientists at Yale a few years ago and was told by one that if he followed her advice, nobody would take him seriously as a scientist.
Behold: the future! A graphic design revolution for scientific conference posters. [BV]
The new
ghost museums of China. (via
James I. Bowie) [BV]
Observed | June 20
Poster House, the first museum in the US dedicated exclusively to posters, opens today!
Listen here to their first audio newsletter and guide narrated by Steven Heller. [BV]
Observed | June 19
Remembering the Bantam paperback of
The Greening of America with its truly relentless deployment of Bookman Swash Italic. Quintessential 70s.
RIP Charles Reich, 1928-2019. [MB]
Here’s your chance to hear Debbie Millman on the other side of the mike. Recorded live on stage at the famous Design and Advertising festival in London in May, Debbie is interviewed on
episode 14 of This Way Up. [BV]
Observed | June 17
The School of Visual Arts has donated nearly 100 of its beloved
Subway Series posters from the past three decades to the brand new
Poster Museum, opening Thursday, June 20. These, as well as all new posters created in the future, will live in the Museum’s permanent archival collection. [BV]
Can a small Italian village point the way to more livable modern cities?
A conference of urbanists aims to find out. [BV]
