The Pattern Foundry is an archive of decorative patterns, open for anyone to license and use, created by designers and artists from around the world. The uses of these patterns are not prescribed; they can be applied anywhere and to anything. All patterns must be licensed (payed for) through the pattern Foundry to be used anywhere.
The patterns are available for use in 3 different ways; digital download, print-per-order and an evolving preprinted range of products. Total current number of patterns in the foundry is 82.
—Published September 17, 2008 at 10:19 am, by Xavier Encinas
My friends of Commonwealth in Brooklyn just released their brand new fancy-shiny website… Don’t miss that!
About:
Founded in 2005 by Zoe Boira Coombes and F. David Boira, Commonwealth is an art and design studio based in New York City. Harnessing a new fluidity enabled by machine languages, Commonwealth’s interests are as material and emotional as they are technical.
Deeply influenced by the artistic disciplines that naturally hover at the borders of design, Commonwealth’s works have been showcased in galleries in Europe, America and the Middle East, and their architectural and visual designs have been commissioned by culture-driven clients such as Issey Miyake and Warp Records.
Working within the world of contemporary art and industrial furniture design, Commonwealth aims to produce work that embodies a sense of elegant desire through an engagement with both the newest of tools and the oldest of techniques.
—Published September 3, 2008 at 3:49 pm, by Xavier Encinas
Even it’s not directly linked to swiss graphic design and typography, I wanted to share that with you. This summer I was reading John Maeda’s new book, The Laws of Simplicity which I found very interesting and very inspiring for every life including graphic design. So I invite you to read this book and watch this lecture. The world needs more people like him….
About John Maeda: John Maeda is a programmer and an artist — and is committed to blurring the lines between the two disciplines. As a student at MIT, studying computer programming, the legendary Muriel Cooper persuaded him to follow his parallel passion for fine art and design. And when computer-aided design began to explode in the mid-1990s, Maeda was in a perfect position to influence and shape the form, helping typographers and page designers explore the freedom of the web.
He jokes about himself as “the guy who makes the flying letters.” But behind this joke is a deep insight into the way good programming can create new forms of good design — the guiding principle of Web 2.0, where type and images can behave in brand-new ways to communicate and amuse.
—Published August 27, 2008 at 4:17 pm, by Xavier Encinas
I was going through some old stuff the other day and I found this scrap book. It’s not revolutionary, it’s not amazing, but it’s colourful and I thought you’d like it. So I put it on Flickr.
—Published July 14, 2008 at 10:54 pm, by Octave Zangs
Severin Furneaux from SampsonMay Design send us a mail to inform us the release of one of their new work. Worth the look…
We have just designed the London College of Fashion Graduation 2008 brochures. They have just been launched at their Royal Academy show and consists of four A3 brochures covering their BA Courses – Fashion Design and Technology (64pp), Fashion Photography (36pp), Fashion Illustration (24pp), and finally a joint Specialist make up design and Styling and Photography brochure (24pp).
—Published June 19, 2008 at 4:24 pm, by Xavier Encinas
