Credit: Richard Tran, graphic designer and illustrator, Paris.
Designer Aleksi Hautamäki created a collection of playful typography lamps by reusing the letters of old electric signs and retrofitting them with long lasting LED lights, capable of emitting 30,000 hours of glow. “Sustainability of this product is not superimposed, but in the very essence of it. The second life cycle creates new value for everybody involved, the sign maker, the producer, the retailer and the customer.” – Aleksi Hautamäki
Recycling Typography | Aleksi Hautamaki | Iconology
Letterpress Amy from Fish & Crown on Vimeo.
What a fun idea... another edible designer fetish.
(Thanks to r27 for digging this goodie up)
Mix it up with some Helvetica Cookies?
One of my favorite stop-motion animators, PES, creates great scenes with moody sets highlighted by wonderful lighting and sound, and unusual objects animated with lively kinetics. This set of Bacardi ads is charming.
From the U.S. Postal Service Release:
About the stamp pane:
Art director Derry Noyes selected objects designed by 12 of the nation’s most important and influential industrial designers to feature on this colorful pane of self-adhesive stamps. The selvage features a photograph of the “Airflow” fan designed by Robert Heller around 1937. Denis Farley photographed the fan for The Macdonald Stewart Foundation.
Each stamp includes the designer’s name, the type of object, and the year or years when the object was created. The pane’s verso includes a brief introduction to the history and importance of American industrial design, as well as text that identifies each object and briefly tells something about each designer.The Pioneers of American Industrial Design stamp pane honors 12 of the nation’s most important and influential industrial designers. Encompassing everything from furniture and electric kitchen appliances to corporate office buildings and passenger trains, the work of these designers helped shape the look of everyday life in the 20th century. The stamps go on sale in July.
About Industrial Design:
Industrial design is the study and creation of products whose appearance, function, and construction have been optimized for human use. It emerged as a profession in the U.S. in the 1920s but really took hold during the Depression. Faced with decreasing sales, manufacturers turned to industrial designers to give their products a modern look that would appeal to consumers. Characterized by horizontal lines and rounded, wind-resistant shapes, the new, streamlined looks differed completely from the decorative extravagance of the 1920s. They evoked a sense of speed and efficiency and projected the image of progress and affluence the public desired.
Consumer interest in modern design continued to increase after World War II, when machines allowed corporations to mass produce vacuums, hair dryers, toasters, and other consumer goods at low cost. Industrial designers helped lower costs further by exploiting inexpensive new materials like plastic, vinyl, chrome, aluminum, and plywood, which responded well to advances in manufacturing such as the use of molds and stamping. Affordable prices and growing prosperity nationwide helped drive popular demand.Even as streamlining gave way to new looks in the 1960s, the groundbreaking work of industrial designers continued to transform the look of homes and offices across the country. Today, industrial design remains an integral component of American manufacturing and business, as well as daily life.
About the 12 Selected Designers:
Frederick Hurten Rhead
Frederick Hurten Rhead helped pioneer the design of mass-produced ceramic tableware for the home. He is best remembered for the sleek Fiesta® line (shown on the stamp) introduced by The Homer Laughlin China Company in 1936.
This visionary series of luxury powerboat and motoryachts concepts incorporates every possible flexibility of transportation into a sleek, elegant line. Fly above the surface, submerge beneath, or raise the top to expand deck space in category-breaking luxury speed and style. The Cruiser Series are conceptual designs by Phil Pauley.
Starting with concept sketches and ending with meticulosly-crafted paper people, objects and sets, Russian team People Too create these outstanding and charming illustrations.
This video is a wonderful demonstration of how the craft of debossing works, as applied to a custom edition of Moleskine notebooks for Trourist. A brass die is cut, then heated, and finally pressed against the cover along with a white foil for extra pop.
Never Use More Than Two Typefaces and 50 Other Ridiculous Typographic Rules is based on quotes from designers about the seemingly untouchable type rules as they are muscled through academia, suggesting that these rules are in fact little more than frameworks. An act of typographic rebellion, some would say.
Publisher: BIS Publishers, Holland.
These maps by Laura Canali do a great job of shedding light on geopolitical issues often too complex for most people to comprehend without this kind of visual illumination and organization.
Source: Heartland, a Eurasian review of geopolitics, in association with La Repubblica's Limes, an Italian Geopolitical magazine.
Obama's Big Game shows the distribution of U.S. bases in the Middle East, alongside with the distribution of nuclear power, lines of friction, and the stability of the region's states.
How Israel can Strike Iran depicts a potential, hypothetical path of attack, if the former were to strike the latter and targeted uranium and water plants in order to disrupt nuclear programs.
Pakistan's Paranoia depicts the country's retreat strategy into Afghanistan, were an Indian invasion to occur.
