IDEA 323: Wim Crouwel
Due to be published in July this is will be a must have for anyone interested in Wim Crouwel’s work. It will include a reprint of his New Alphabet quadrat print as a special supplement. (The following text is taken from the Idea site)
Special Feature: Wim Crouwel’s adventures into the experimental worlds
Wim Crouwel (born 1928) is of the most influential dutch designers in the 20th century. His typographic designs, envisioned through his unique combination of functionalism and aesthetics, have been influential on designers of younger generations.
This issue of Idea specially devoted its 190 pages to Wim Crouwel’s representative design works, including posters, book designs, logotypes, stamps, typefaces and others. His legendary New Alphabet is also introduced with full details. Two historical essay’s by Crouwel and comments from important design figures are also featured.
[tags]Wim Crouwel, Dutch design, type, typography[/tags]
Nice post ! Welcome on board Jon !
Awesome!
out of curiosity and desperation, where do you get your copy of said mag. thanks
The info was from the Idea website. The check it out here link above should take you to the site. If not here it is again. http://www.idea-mag.com/
It is due out this month in Japan, but there is usually a delay of about a month or two for the issues to reach Europe. Hope this helps.
sorry a bit unprecise my asking. unfortunately i haven’t come across a physical store in zürich/basel to sell idea mag. also i haven’t really been succesful in finding an online ordering possibility with decent shipping prices and older issues… the shipping from idea mag directly is obviously breathtakingly expensive. any recomendations? thanks.
Try Magma books. It is a UK store but they do deliver worldwide and the postage prices are pretty good. http://www.magmabooks.com/content/service/terms.asp
Otherwise you could try Nijhof and Lee in Amsterdam.
http://www.nijhoflee.nl/design/graphic/
i thought i had seen an issue in a basel bookstore for 31.- CHF, but after checking said and other sites I’m beginning to doubt it. thanks for reminding me about N&L (although rather expensive), much appreciated.
amazon japan
http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/switch-language/product/B000R34AOC/ref=dp_change_lang/249-6775373-5425950?ie=UTF8&language=en%5FJP