September 19th, 2007 Jerry
We just received our invites to the opening reception of the AIGA 50 Books / 50 Covers exhibition in New York.
Dear J, will be showcased during the exhibition at the National Design Center, followed by Next: AIGA Design Conference in Denver. In addition, selections become part of the AIGA Design Archives, and are documented in 365: AIGA Year In Design 28, an annual print publication. The physical artifacts join the AIGA Design Archives in the Denver Art Museum.
The exhibition starts today and runs through November 21, 2007. We’re unfortunately bound here by our work and won’t be able to make it (unless of course we dump everything and head over, which we just might). If you happen to be in New York during this period, please do drop by and give our book a little pat, rub and a flip.
Check out the AIGA 50 Books / 50 Covers 2007 selections.
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September 17th, 2007 Justin
Agathe de Bailliencourt’s 2nd exhibition at Taksu Gallery, Singapore, titled “Urban 64″ runs from 21 September till 11 October 2007. Her solo show will feature a series of her paintings done in Berlin in the last few months.
Agathe’s work is unnervingly poignant, unassumingly primal and unmistakably indelible. And if you ever chance upon meeting her in person, you will not fail to know why.
In adoration, always.
More about Agathe here.
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September 12th, 2007 Jerry
Found this interesting article over at Design Observer by Michael Bierut.
Are you
a) a stylist,
b) a strategist, or
c) a stylist and strategist?
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September 7th, 2007 Jerry
We’ve long been big fans of Ron Mueck, and we were blown away when found this video, filmed during his residency at The National Gallery, London.
How he gave life to mere fiberglass and silicon. How he captured the intensity of an expectant woman coming to term. How he took kindly to patience and perfected the “imperfect” specimen of our human form. We are in truly in respectful awe.
Video courtesy of The National Gallery, London.
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September 6th, 2007 Jerry
Good day, people. Guess what greeted me this morning before I ran off to work?
Yes, it’s called the iPod touch, the iPod with multi-touch screen and 3.5-inch display. Basically, an iPhone without the call button, and thinner too. It was announced at Apple’s “The Beat Goes On” media event just a few hours back. Along with iPod touch, Steve Jobs also introduced us the new shuffle with colour, the chewing gum-packaging looking nano, and iPod classic - your retro iPod without the touch screen function - with 80 or 160GB of storage.
As for iPod touch, besides your normal music/photo/video functions, it will be Wi-Fied, with built in Safari browser, YouTube player, and Wi-Fi iTunes Music Store.
Learn more at Apple’s official site.
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September 5th, 2007 Jerry
Colette Paris is currently running Helvetica at 50, an exhibit curated by Gary Hustwit, director of the documentary film Helvetica.
As read from Gary’s official blog:
For the colette show, I managed to cobble together a nice little overview of Helvetica, with a selection of movie posters, record covers, prints, t-shirts, and other ephemera. Special thanks to Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones for their contribution of several rare Helvetica brochures from the Haas and Stempel era. The film is being shown on a loop on a huge plasma screen, and I also got to sprinkle Helvetica-releated quotes from various designers around the walls of the store. They’ve brought in stock of Lars Müller’s Helvetica book, and a bunch of great t-shirts from Blanka.
We are unfortunately stuck on this island with our work and unable to make it to the show. However, having been waiting too long for an official screening to reach here, we’ve already ordered our Helvetica DVD boxset Deluxe limited edition, which includes the retail DVD, three letterpressed mini-posters, a color C-print of a still from the film (one of ten different stills) signed by Gary Hustwit, two love/hate Helvetica buttons, and a letter of actual Helvetica metal type! Now all we can do is wait…
Colette’s exhibit running from 3rd to 29th September.
Image taken from Helvetica’s official site.
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