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Jean-Paul Goude Exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs

08-11-2011

Opening at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs on Friday is the retrospective ‘Goudemalion’ of the work of defining 80s art director and photographer Jean-Paul Goude. A highlight of this season’s cultural programme, it will be the first ever retrospective of Goude’s work, now iconic on the French advertising and fashion scenes. Conceived as a giant installation retracing his 40 year career, there will be 6 special areas dedicated to his most influential projects: Toukie Smith, Les Galeries Lafayette, Grace Jones, cut-up slides, neon furniture and Chanel.

Fri 11 Nov-Sun 18 Mar. Tue-Sun, 11am-6pm (9pm, Thu).
Musée des Arts Décoratifs
107 rue de Rivoli, 1st.
M° Palais-Royal

House Industries Eames LTR Exhibition at Herman Miller Japan

By: Xavier Encinas

21-10-2011

Event, Typography, Video

House Industries and Herman Miller Japan announce a conceptually elegant collaboration that combines the classic Eames wire-base table with timeless typographic forms drawn from the House Industries Eames Century Modern font collection. Each tabletop is hand-printed in House’s Grand Rapids, Michigan factory, returned to Herman Miller for assembly then packaged in a special House Industries-designed wooden crate.

House Industries and Herman Miller are producing a limited edition series of 80 tables that include A thru Z, numbers and ornaments from House Industries Eames Century Modern font collection. Forty tables will be available at the Herman Miller Reach event on September 16, 2011 and 40 will be available at the House Industries exhibition at the Herman Miller Tokyo Showroom on October 27, 2011.

Trip Print Press & The Making Of FreshSox

By: Xavier Encinas

18-10-2011

Typography, Video

Directed & Edited By: Matt Barnett
Director of Photography: Konrad Czystowski
Art Director & Second Camera: Tatjana Green

A little over a year ago we started branding our good friend Konrad as the newly minted FreshSox. One of the final elements of his brand to get produced was his business card. During the design process, we knew we wanted to go the letterpress route. The tactile quality, vibrant colours and overall aesthetic has always appealed to us. We recently met Nicholas Kennedy at Trip Print Press here in Toronto. We were so wowed with his work and amazing shop from day one, we found each subsequent visit was getting longer and longer. It’s the kind of place you don’t want to leave. It was a perfect storm of opportunity to record both the process of this new brand coming to life and the inner workings of a truly amazing letterpress shop.

Alex Trochut – More is more

By: Xavier Encinas

05-07-2011

Book, Graphic Design, Illustration, Shopping, Typography, Video

Just 30 years old, Alex Trochut is one of the most internationally renowned Spanish designers. Typographer and illustrator, Trochut shows us in this book his most intimate, most personal and, at the same time, professional side.

Trochut talks about his professional influences such as Dali and Miro and of course about his work, but also about his creative processes. In this book we find an entire series of sketches and the transformations his ideas undergo from the moment they are conceived until they reach the paper.

Alex Trochut’s illustrations, designs and typography take the modern notion of minimalism and flip it on its side.
Trochut’s work philosophy is ‘More is more’. It is rich with elegant, brilliantly detailed executions that simultaneously convey indulgence and careful, restrained control.
Trochut is driven by a desire to constantly evolve, which can be seen in his eidetic body of work.

The Alex Trochut’s monogram is printed on the cover with phosphorescent ink.

More over at Index Book