Archive for December, 2009

“Dream” (Chinese Character)

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

2010. Year of Tiger. Year of Dreams Come True!
虎年。夢想。2010

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Have a wonderful 2010! : )

The Best & worst identities of 2009!

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

The Best & worst identities of 2009! / via under consideration

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Emigre No. 70: The Look Back Issue

Friday, December 4th, 2009

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Selections from Emigre magazine #1 – #69

This 512-page book, designed and edited by Emigre co-founder and designer Rudy VanderLans, is a selection of reprints that traces Emigre’sdevelopment from its early bitmap design days in the mid 1980s through to the experimental layouts that defined the so-called “Legibility Wars” of the late 1990s, to the critical design writing of the early 2000s. Featuring interviews with, among others, The Designers Republic, Allen Hori, Rick Valicenti, Vaughan Oliver, Mr. Keedy, Ed Fella, and essays by Lorraine Wild, Anne Burdick, Zuzana Licko, Kenneth FitzGerald, Andrew Blauvelt, Kalle Lasn, Rick Poynor and many more.

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Emigre magazine is in the permanent design collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, the Design Museum in London, and the Denver Art Museum. The magazine was also recently on exhibit at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. / via Emigre

Tokujin Yoshioka x Maison Hermés

Friday, December 4th, 2009

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Designer Tokujin Yoshioka (吉岡德仁) has designed a window display for Maison Hermés, Tokyo. ‘The window is designed with an image of woman projected on to a monitor. The scarf softly sways in the air in response to the woman’s blow.’

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‘On designing a window-display of Maison Hermès, I intended to express people’s daily ‘movements’ with a suspicion of humor. There are moments when I perceive a hidden presence of a person in the movements born naturally in daily life. I created a design where one can perceive someone behind the scarves as if life were being breathed into them.’

The installation will run until January 19th, 2010. / via Designboom