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London based studio Spin updated their website. New work available.
They’ve also released this silkscreened poster in a limited edition of 75.

Size: 100x70cm.
Price : 10£/13€/20$ + postage.

Also available at Blanka: Spin/3 — Action Time Vision: Punk 7″ Singles for £4/€5/$8 plus postage.

To purchase it, email : made [at] spin.co.uk

Sam Mallett, 3rd year Graphic Design student form The University of Wales Newport, just sent me mail talking about his poster project.

Last summer I did a short work placement in Zürich and had the opportunity to play with some lead type. As it was the 50th birthday of Helvetica and I was in its home country I thought it would be only fair to celebrate it, so I designed and printed this poster to illustrate a small but important change in the typefaces development.
Its an A3 poster with 72pt. Halbfett Haas Grotesk in one colour and 72pt. Halbfett Helvetica in another.
To make some funds for my final major project I was hoping to sell a few

If you want a copy you can contact him : sammallett [at] mosaicparty.com

See some pictures of the project here.


Desing by Frédéric Teschner

19th International Poster and Graphic Design Festival of Chaumont

After giving tribute to some of the major figures influencing 20th century graphic design – such as R. Savignac, A.M.
Cassandre, and P. Rand – the Festival will focus on one of the forefathers of typography and layout, the Swiss Josef
Müller-Brockman. The ideas of the “International Style” instigator are essential to understand our world and its
rationale for globalization.

FROM MAY 24TH TO JULY, 6TH 2008

Download press kit here.

See exhibition pictures here.


More pictures here

Designer Antonio Carusone, also running the excellent AisleOne blog, just release a new poster. Grids Are Good For The Soul is screen printed by hand by Post Expose and contains a quote by the legendary Josef Müller-Brockmann. This goes without saying, but it was also designed on a grid system.

- Edition of 20.
- 23×33 inches.
- Set in Helvetica.
- Numbered and signed
- 25$

Buy here