Lorem Ipsum Vade Mecum is a publication that YouWorkForThem pieced together to provide the community with insightful content about typography and other design topics while utilizing our versatile font collection. LOREM includes articles from Design Assembly, Willi Kunz, Terese Elhard, Matt Desmond, Ryan Nelson and interviews with Gerard Unger and John Maeda.
I am very happy to announce the Common Thread exhibition, an initiative of Seven25. Design & Typography. and is co-curated with Xavier Encinas.
Common Thread is a poster exhibition whose primary goal is to explore how identity is influenced by one’s emotional ties with a certain country.
Populations are more mobile than ever before and birth in a particular country no longer determines where one might live or settle. This means that the notion of us and them and the awareness of otherness might be more prevalent.
Why, when moving to a new country, do we often gravitate towards people of similar backgrounds and ethnic or national origin? Are we defined by where we are born, where we grow up, where we choose to live, by the language we speak or other notions that affect belonging and identity? Where do our values come from? When we think of home—and all that this entails in terms of emotion, memory and connectedness—where is that place?
We’ve invited 20 renowned and up-and-coming designers from around the world to offer their own answers and give them form: Andreas Banderas, David Carvalho, Eva Tatcheva, Frank Philippin, Frauke Stegmann, Guido Callarelli, Harel Schreiber, Henrik Kubel, Hyperkit, Isabelle Swiderski, Jaime Barrett, Michael Cina, Olga Norman, Sanjit Fernandes+Bakshi, Setareh Shamdani, Silke Klinnert, Silnt, Simon Svärd, Xavier Encinas, Marcus Eriksson and Folch Studio.
7–17 October 2009
Private view 7 October 2009, 6:00 pm
Screening of “Freedom on the Fence”
9 October 2009, 6:30 pm
—Q&A with producer Andrea Marks after the screening
Emily Carr University of Design + Art
Concourse Gallery (North Building)
Granville Island Campus
1399 Johnston Street
Vancouver, BC V6H 3R9
(604) 844-3800
Greg Durell, designer for Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games just sent me this email this morning. Very sad news.
Last Friday, Leo Obstbaum, the design director for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games, passed away unexpectedly at his home. Leo’s design leadership and influence are evident throughout Vancouver 2010’s visual identity, including such iconic elements as the mascots, the Look of the Games, the torch designs, the yet to be unveiled Olympic and Paralympic medals and podium.
VANOC CEO John Furlong paid tribute to Leo in an internal message,
saying “Leo is everywhere you look, in every color, every texture, in
every little bit of Vancouver 2010. Leo led and influenced the design
of some of the most iconic pieces of the 2010 Winter Games. His spirit
and daring inspiration has touched absolutely everything and because
of him memories of the Games will live on for generations….a true
enduring legacy of what went on here in Vancouver.â€Leo was a strong advocate for design excellence at these games and his
efforts will be strongly evident in February 2010. We will miss him
dearly.
Unfolded – Paper in Design, Art, Architecture and Industry paper conquers the third dimension and demonstrates the undreamed-of possibilities it holds today for lightweight construction, product design, fashion and art. From Paper, the collection of bags by Stefan Diez, to Konstantin Grcic’s paper models and the paper garments of Issey Myake, this book presents paper as a high-quality contemporary and ecological material. An enormous selection of projects, the lavish design and numerous illustrations provide designers with invaluable inspiration for their work. The content core of the book is a comprehensive list of state-of-theart paper products and innovative paper technologies, supporting designers in their everyday work with detailed information on the »high-tech« material paper. From Japanese washi paper and paper foam, to ceramic paper and carbon fiber paper, Unfolded presents the latest in research and development, as well as the most important methods and technologies in handcrafts and industry.
Petra Schmidt and Nicola Stattmann
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel;
1 edition (September 1, 2009)
Language: English
Unit Editions is a new, progressive publishing company dedicated to producing high-quality, affordable books about graphic design and the visual arts. As well as superlative visual content, Unit books will have insightful texts, and offer the highest standards of design and production.
Our website will be the place to find information about current and forthcoming titles. From time to time, we’ll post samples of content and additional material not contained in the books. And of course, visitors to the site will be able to buy books. Some of the books bought from here will have added extras that won’t be available in the shops.
But the site isn’t just about Unit books. We’ll also post reviews, comments and articles about design and the world of visual culture. We hope to make this an important destination for design fans, book lovers and anyone who has ever had a tremor of excitement after seeing a bit of nicely kerned Akzidenz Grotesk, a record sleeve by Vaughn Oliver, or a Herb Lubalin ligature.
Unit Editions is a collaboration between Tony Brook (Spin) and Adrian Shaughnessy (ShaughnessyWorks). You can see our growing archive on Flickr; we’re also on Facebook.
Sign up to the mailing list to keep up to date with Unit Editions and receive special offers.
Studio Culture: The Secret Life of the Graphic Design Studio is the first title to be published by Unit Editions.
It will be on sale here and in bookshops from September 2009.
Studio Culture provides a unique glimpse into the inner workings of 28 leading graphic design studios. In a series of penetrating interviews, the mechanics of building and maintaining a vibrant studio culture are laid bare with disarming frankness.
Studio Culture is a book for both seasoned professionals who have been running studios for years, and for idealistic designers contemplating starting up. It is the complete guide to creating, maintaining and growing a studio culture.
312pp, 165×230mm, 4 colour + 1 PMS
£24.95 + P&P
