- ARCHIVE / March, 2008
- Jenny Tondera / Oliver Laric’s 50 50
Jenny Tondera writes: I saw this last week in NYC at The New Museum as part of the Unmonumental exhibition. I’ve been a huge fan of Oliver Laric ever since seeing his “Flying Dropkick” video, and this 50 Cent mash-up seals the deal.
- Quirk / Shrinkage
International Poster Exhibition
Above: Shrinkage International Poster Exhibition, Shahneshin Foundation.
Organized by Quirk Gallery / VCU Design Center (see typographic masks) Richmond, Virginia.Above: Andrea Wilkinson. Original announcement and post on
how to hang the posters here.
Geotypografika says: Oh, thanks, John.
Mabrouk!
- Left Coast News
Above: Pop-up alphabet book ABC3D, available in October 2008, from Roaring Brook Press. Happarently, this little ditty has been making it around the book club on the left coast.
Thanks for this, DB!
- Awkweird
Irwin/Killian Call for Entries
Awkweird is a book project dedicated to endearing images like the one above, or perhaps much worse? Just getting off the ground recently, follow the link for more info and a submission download.
Awkweird is being run by Amelia Irwin (see earlier post here) and Nicole Killian.
Write them directly at awkweirds.
- Typeladies (dot) org
Female Typeworkers Unite
Above: Veronika Burian.
Tyepladies is a blog dedicated to the work of Andrea Tiennes, Veronika Burian, and Verena Gerlach.Above: Andrea Tiennes.
Above: Verena Gerlach
Check in with Typeladies often. Recent news: Burian’s typefaces Karmina and Ronnia have been selected for the 23rd International Biennial of Graphic Design in Brno, June 2008.
- Verena Gerlach / Frühling in Kreuzberg
Geotypografika Berlin, er, Kreuzberg!
Verena Gerlach writes: Winter is over! Yesterday, the Germans got the summer time back. We now are one hour earlier again. And this morning I also found the first bit of sunshine on our balcony! Plus 18°C and sunny today.
Relating to Erik’s walk around town, I would like to share the first [...] - Some things from walking around town.
Minneapolis, MN
Bumper sticker, Nicollette Ave. (pronounced Nickel-ett, yo.)
Sticker, Nicollette Ave.
Still hanging in there (posted last December). Hi, James.
- MN Graphic Screams / MN Power Couples
Above: Hilarious and enlightening video with Aestethic Apparatus, starring Minneapolis based designers Dan Ibarra and Micheal Byzewski (power couple warning one). I visited AA last week and they don’t scream at all, in fact they were really nice and spoke very softly about very important things. Like science.
I found the video after finding Kelly English [...] - Recession / Reshmeshon
Is everytin’ ire?
Above: From today’s Kleine Zeitung in Grasz, Austria. Literally, “The fat years are over.” (From Newseum.)
What is happening out there? Look to this recent interview by Carmela Cruz in Foreign Policy in Focus with Prof. Josef Stiglitz. His latest, The Three Trillion Dollar War, is also discussed in the light of the [...] - Yunker to Craigslist: “What took you so long?”
Noted web language researcher analyzes new features.
English (750 px)
Deutsch (1,030px)
Above: Images from John Yunker’s Global by Design work.
Yunker publishes an annual evaluation of globalization issues, The Web Globalization Report Card. In this story, he comments on the recent move by Craigslist to include limited language translation.
The images above, while deceptively “simple,” speak to basic [...] - 68 Hendrix Poster / Redux
Long overdue re-post from Phil
Above: A bit of typographic history history via Phil in Golden Valley, MN, with an amazing story to go along with it – he was actually there. I am re-posting this (with sincere apologies to Phil), since it was lost in the reactor meltdown of March 10.
Phil writes: Here’s a [...] - I heart the Asahi Shimbun.
This is why.
Above: From today’s Asahi Shimbun.
Above: The full front page, March 28, 2008. Tokyo, Japan. Sugoi, desu-ne. Check in with Newseum daily, front pages from around the world.
- Bouthayna Al-Muftah / Richmond, VA
Mabrouk Bouthayna!
Above: Poster by Bouthayna Al-Muftah from a Typography One
class I taught in VCUQatar in Spring 2007.Bouthayna’s posters are featured in the 2008 VCU Juried Student Show at the Anderson Gallery in Richmond, VA. Her work is exhibited in the entrance room (high profile) of the Anderson. I will post pictures of her work in [...]
- Chris Burns / Campbells Soup Closet, LA
What is left to explore when we all have the same eyes?
Chris Burns writes: This hand-painted closet is presently located in an outdoor store on La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles California. Sitting a door down from stores Union, Stussy, and Undefeated, this closet represents the same spirit that they do: Los Angeles and New [...]
- Jenny Tondera / “No Parking” grid, NYC
Jenny Tondera writes: Kevin showed me this terrific sign in New York City’s Lower East Side yesterday. Look at that “G,” it’s gorgeous!
- Akzidenz Grotesk 4:0 Helvetica
Germany defeats Switzerland comfortably…
Above: Jürgen Löw, German national team coach. Es gibt nur ein Jogi Löw!
Photos from Kicker.
As you know, the jungs won deservedly 4:0. We can always hope. Summer beckons, and the European Championships are nigh… Olé, super Deutschland, o-olé!Here’s another photo with my childhood heroes Kaltz and Hrubesch (both played for the HSV), [...]
- Flat, but spiky.
Canadian Press reviews Richard Florida, “Who’s your city?”
Above: The Canadian Press, one of the cutest/best marks ever?
The latest from Prof. Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class. Reviewed here by The Canadian Press, this is an exciting interpretation of contemporary globalization phenomena.
Pointing to so called “megaregions” (Greater Tokyo and London, the Boston-Washington Corridor) [...] - David Hilliard / The Black Panther
Amazing find in the used bookstore.
Above: A 1969 cover from The Intercommunal News Service. From David Hilliard’s, The Black Panther: Intercommunal News Service 1967-1980. Atria Books, 2007
Must have book, amazing documentation of Black Panther political graphics, page spreads, excerpts, and more.
- Elisabeth Workman / Circus Poster I Can’t
Notes from the recent Ed Fella lecture.
Above: Elisabeth Workman’s notes/poem from the recent Ed Fella
lecture at the Walker Art Center.
Open call for images: Would anyone else care to share a scan from their notebook? Feel free to write Geotypografika here. Your work will be credited and linked to your info. A thousand thanks to the [...] - Jenny Tondera / Michael Bierut
Above: A poster by Michael Bierut for the
Yale School of Architecture.
Tondera / Bierut
A fresh installment of Jenny’s interviews with contemporary designers on
the Bauhaus. See her previous interview with Experimental Jetset here.
Jenny Tondera writes: Omnipresent in our current design culture, designer and design critic Michael Bierut works at Pentagram, is an editor of Design Observer, [...] - MCFA SF / Fashion, Identity, Globalization
Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco
Above: From the Museum of Craft and Folk Art’s website. (Detail of a Chinese woman’s robe, silk with hand embroidery, 20th century.)
The Fabric of Cultures: Fashion, Identity, Globalization
Fresh from the Google feed, a review by Candice Chan of the San Francisco Bay Guardian Online. The Museum of Folk [...] - Matterhorn!
Above: Mercedes Euro 2008 Spot (English version)
Look! The jungs have spotted their goal, the mighty Matterhorn! A delightful play on vintage film techniques and humor, even Jens Lehman (currently benched at Arsenal), is there to save the day. The truth? More than half the guys in the video are injured right now and it doesn’t [...] - Justice / D.A.N.C.E
Posted just in case you didn’t catch this… coz, ya just gotta. Watch for the “Internet Killed the Video Star” T-shirt, but then they are all effing’ hot, yo.
This is some serious science.
- Mamzic / DVNO
Above: DVNO, Justice. The Mamzic rocks sexy.
This video recommended by the Mamzic, who approves this message. Pavel sends his best and asks all to enjoy his new favorite music, and to dance. It is happening all over again. Death before Disco? Apropo body movin’, make sure you also watch Justice’s D.A.N.C.E video, cool animated T-shirts [...] - Abandon Ship
New theme test swallowed comments.
Above: Lint data disk I made, circa 2001. With data like this,
no wonder the new theme failed.
UPDATE March 24, 18:10 CT Hello and my apologies everyone, my maniacal theme tests have yielded strange results, the comments were swallowed whole by the new theme. Unable to resolve it, I have retreated to [...]