This short video presented by Mohawk Papers, shows legendary book designer Massimo Vignelli and his creative process of book design. It displays the beginning of his process using a carefully calculated grid system followed by hand drawn images. The video was released along side a limited edition sketch book with Vignelli’s grid printed on all one hundred pages of Mohawk Superfine paper.
When husband and wife art/design duo Jason and Sharon Gale (Quite British Accent) began working together, someone told them that sport had no place in art. Rather than take heed, the couple produce all their work using the visual vocabulary of sporting culture. Their latest collection, exhibited recently at Core at Nolias Gallery, includes a series of textile slogans appliquéd onto vintage football shirts. The work satirises the sport-in-art argument and likens popular culture heroes to sporting heroes.
Design studio PEGA has just released a very innovative design for a chair at the recent Milan Design Week. The WindUP Chair is designed with a large windup key that has the ability to charge your smartphone.
Dimitris Polychroniadis takes courage in his latest work. The latest work was made for an ongoing solo exhibition titled ‘Repent’. Polychroniadis is a stage designer, architect and artist that lives and works in Athens Greece. His work consists of mixed media, surreal-pop, humorous, diorama sculptures that makes a comment on the harsh realities of his country and much of the world is facing at the moment.
As you well know, we here at BBB love anything that’s all bubbly and melting and these chairs have it in spades. Therese Granlund created these chairs for a project entitled “Form Follows Foam” for her MA project at the Design Academy in Eindhoven in collaboration with BASF Polyurathan, Boxtel.
Kristiina Lahde creates fantastic optical illusion artwork out of coloured measuring tape. The numbers and dashes add another element to the already distracting coloured shapes.
Designer, Art Director, Illustrator, Artist David Schwen created a very humourous and brilliant series where he matches the food we all love to eat with a pantone swatch depicting these as the exact colours along the pantone spectrum.
Sophie Calle, born in 1953, is a French writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. This work “The Chromatic Diet” is a conceptual piece that truly gets the viewer thinking about what they’re eating.
“Starting with a bathymetric chart (the underwater equivalent of a topographic map), the contours are laser-cut into sheets of Baltic birch and glued together to create a powerful visual depth. Select layers are hand-colored blue so it’s easy to discern land from water, major byways are etched into the land, the whole thing’s framed in a custom, solid-wood frame and protected seamlessly with a sheet of durable, ultra-transparent Plexiglas.” – Below The Boat
