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FIGURE is a cultural journal featuring art, design, music, architecture, nature, photography, medias, gastronomy, style, sport and art de vivre investigations. Biannual and bilingual, each issue features 10 portraits of anonymous, emerging, famous or iconic personnalities.

To produce FIGURE N°1, they need 6500 €. It will cover their printing and shaping expenses, as well as iconographic production, translation and travels costs.

To make this possible, they need your support! They have launched a fundraising campaign on the french crowdfunding website Kisskissbankbank.

This video shows 50 years of D&AD work in under two minutes. How many can you spot?

THIS IS Studio presents their new showreel. Nice work!

Novo Typo is the typefoundry of Atelier van Wageningen (typo)graphic designers, based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The Family Gagarin was first published at 2rebels and Fontshop Benelux. The typefaces Cerny, Laika and Sjablony are part of the Linotype / Monotype Collection. All the fonts are designed by Atelier van Wageningen.

Images should tell a story, they are a lingering snippet of time, that leaves the viewer questioning, what has just happened? What is about to happen? Why are these people there? What are they doing? Is the composition set up? Why has it been set up that way?

Hannah Starkey uses actors in carefully chosen settings to create lingering pictures in time that raise all of these questions, in choosing women that are ‘ordinary’ and clothed, she is challenging the ‘raunchy aspect’ of how women are represented in everyday imagery. Her work, creates a counter aesthetic for representing women. As one of the most influential and significant photographers of her generation, she creates images that emerge from the split second of the everyday and are resolved into what appears to be an extended moment in time.

Art catalogue, published on the occasion of the exhibition Hannah Starkey 29 Pictures at the Mead Gallery. Design by Stefi Orazi studio

594mm x 841mm
90gsm Recypal
1-colour offset print + glow-in-the-dark screen print
Ships in poster tubes

Available over at PupilPeople.

Exhibition design: Experience, Communication
[Okumura Akio and works]
@ddd gallery, Osaka Japan
January 18 – March 8, 2012

UMA/design farm designed an exhibition of graphic designer Mr.Akio Okumura. Contents is his 40 years work and ‘now-future’ work.

Exhibition was divided in four parts, Package / Poster / VI (logo animation and logo cards) / Mr. Akio Okumura’s studio (stay production).

Each part was separated by partitions that are 1,000 mm height. Visitors can feel Mr. Akio Okumura’s existence from anywhere in the room. And when they squat down, they can focus to appreciate his work.

Furthermore, visitor can order name card design and poster design to him. He will design in the exhibition studio, so they can experience his design process while talking with him.

photo: Yoshiro Masuda

Commercial Type is pleased to announce the release of Marian, a new typeface family in 19 styles designed by Paul Barnes. Marian is a series of faithful revivals of some of the classics from the typographic canon: Austin, Baskerville, Bodoni, Fournier, Fleischman, Garamont, Granjon, Kis and van den Keere. The twist is that they have all been rendered as a hairline of near uniform weight, revealing the basic structure at the heart of the letterforms. Together they represent a concept: to recreate the past both for and in the present.

Stretching over a period of nearly two and a half centuries from the mid sixteenth century to the early nineteenth century, they represent a period when the serif typeface as used in book typography was the dominant style. From the high Renaissance of Granjon and Garamont through to the Scotch roman; all the styles are represented: old style, transitional, and finally the modern. Meretriciously researched from original sources, together they represent a concept album of cover versions of the standards of type design.

Faithful to the originals, Marian comes with small capitals in all nine roman styles, with lining and non-lining figures, with swash capitals (1554, 1740, 1800 & 1820), alternate and terminal characters (1554 & 1571). And like the hidden track so beloved of the concept album, Marian is completed by a Blackletter based on the work of Henrik van den Keere.

Marian was first introduced in the temporary exhibition “Thieves Like Us”, a collaboration between Commercial Type and designer and artist Dino Sanchez in New York in October 2011. The show explored the possibilities offered by these single stroke forms in a variety of media, including neon, nails, and pure light on a mirrored surface.

A 20 page tabloid style promotion by designed Jennifer Lee at VSA Partners for Peter Ross portrait photography, in which the subjects are asked to name the five people that they would most like to invite to dinner.

Who doesn’t know typographer/art director from the 50s and 60s Roger Excoffon? Published for an exhibition at Musée de l’imprimerie in Lyon, this book gather more than 100 documents previously unpublished.

éditions Deux-Cent-Cinq
Format 14 x 19,5 cm / 128 pages
Softcover
French texts
1000 copies, printed in France!
Graphic design: Extrafine
15 €