Rob Ryan

Can you believe these drawings are paper cut-outs?



































Rob Ryan

Peter Hvidt

I have just discovered another Danish furniture designer: Peter Hvidt. He made this elegant chair in the late 1940s.
















Actually, it is for sale at marktplaats.nl, only 200 euros! (but quite damaged)

David Shrigley

David Shrigley: 'A few years ago I went to St Moritz in Switzerland. I decided to build a non-conformist snowman. When the art collector who owned the hotel saw it, he became very exited that I had created an artwork in the grounds of his hotel. I had to explain that it was not an artwork - it was just a snowman. It's an easy mistake to make.'

100% copied from Swissmiss (sorry, I wanted to keep it too)

Happy new year 2

This is the best Christmas card I got this year! By illustrator Sytse van der Zee. I am also making potato cartoons myself, so it must be the vegetable of the year. Thanks, Sytse!

New modernism

Happy new year!!

I love looking back on the previous year, especially reading lists of trends and what-nots. My favourite was a list I found in an old copy of The Face, looking back on 1998. I am surely getting old, 2007 was not half as exiting!

Anyway, from my own research I have extrapolated that in 2007 the most discussed thing in 2007 was Helvetica (font + film) and the most discussed person Wim Crouwel.

We are back on a wave of modernism! So what can we expect in 2008? More work like this:









































All work by Robin Uleman.

100 beste Plakate des Jahres

100 beste Plakate des Jahres is an anual competition for the best German, Swiss and Austrian posters. The winners are presented in a travelling exhibition and can be seen online. Below some of my favourites...















Burri Schaefer
















Volker Kuehn















Tachezy Kleger
















Hesign
















Florine Kamm

100 beste Plakate des Jahres

Geoffrey Cottenceau

This is already my third mention of Geoffrey Cottenceau. I have to conclude I am a fan.

I have discovered his portfolio website here.

Underground warnings

Don't you think it is odd that the London Underground puts these figures out in the open? I wonder if that's typically British..
These posters are only three out of a bigger series. It adds up to a terrifying number of accidents. Scary!

The posters are designed by Anthony Burrill.

Rene Knip

I always enjoy seeing René Knip's posters for the Concertgebouworkest in the streets of Amsterdam.

René Knip

Corporate Design Publications

I love good information design, so I was immediately attracted to the Corporate Design series. These books are developed for the students of the Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd because of a lack of analytical literature about corporate design. Authors Julia Laub and Carolin Oelsner were so nice to offer the first two issues to download here. But the printed set is definitely worth buying!
































(via Swissmiss)