Observed | October 01
Adnan Lotia recreates iconic album covers with ...
Lego. [JH]
Designers Verònica Fuerte and Sebastián Londoño turn circles into an
international design language. [JH]
Jim Jarmusch,
collage artist. [JH]
Posted without comment. [JH]
Observed | September 24
For the ABC Science series
Phenomena, the Australian artist and filmmaker Josef Gatti collaborated with the Australian composer Kim Moyes for an amalgamation of art and science exploring ‘naturally occurring patterns, and the fundamental forces of nature that create them’. [BV]
Jack Kerouac,
book designer. [JH]
An
exquisite memorial by the American artist Suzanne Firstenberg. [JH]
Observed | September 17
From Aunt Jemima to AI, How Racism Creeps Into Design: an
insightful video from Bloomberg Equality. [JH]
The
40 winners of this year’s Posterheroes Becoming e-Quals competition have been announced. Congrats to all! [BV]
German artist Max Hattler finds inspiration in the immense size, muted colors, and relentless repetition of
the facades of Hong Kong’s apartment high-rises. [BV]
Swatch Bharat—online collections of Indian native aesthetics, created to preserve artifacts disappearing due to globalization—has completed their
eighth collection. Get inspired![BV]
Observed | September 10
Rachel Berger’s
Shooter Box—an exhibition protesting the United States military’s use of Microsoft Xbox controllers as battle equipment—now on view at California College of the Arts. [JH]
Pantone No. 1837, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and a
conspiracy theory about art and commerce. [JH]
Designing a better airport. [JH]
Revisiting a seminal
guerilla signage project, twenty years later. [JH]
Observed | September 03
Everyone’s a (design) critic! The internet goes wild—not in a good way—for the
cover art “design” for Drake’s new album. [JH]
A new graphic novel on censorship—from MITPress—gathers insights and highlights from
a profession under attack. [JH]
Rebranding Chernobyl with a logo that decays over time. (Via Michael Bierut.) [JH]
Today we chase after information, without gaining knowledge. We take note of everything, without gaining insight. We communicate constantly, without participating in a community... This is
how information develops a lifeform: inexistent and impermanent. [JH]
