Rian Hughes is a force of nature (logo nature, that is). For 20 years he has been illustrator, type designer and letterer for scores of varied clients…
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Bolts Are Back
Aguinaldo Perrone is an Italian designer who seems to channel the spirit of Fortunato Depero. He recently published an homage to Depero's Bolted Book, tit…
Deleted By Fascists, Now Undeleted by Design
Vuk Ćosić is a Slovenian contemporary artist associated with the net. art movement commemorates the Jews murdered during the Holocaust in Ljubljana. The project is called “Undeleted” uses photos of residents of the Slovenian capital that have been reconstituted as concrete poetics with Hebrew letter forms. He created their faces by combining faces with...
The Three Plakateers
In 1905 the first modern advertising poster was created: bold eye-catching lettering with flat colors; simplified shapes and objects and the composition focused on a central object. The Plakatstil was born. Lucian Bernhard, Ludwig Hohlwein, Julius Klinger: these were the three plakateers who revolutionized the approach to advertising and left a heritage of ideas...
How To Teach Our Children Justice
Last Thursday an animated video version of Graham Nash’s Crosby Stills Nash & Young hit song ‘Teach Your Children’ was published on the The Atlantic website. Using his signature style of sketchily painting over photographs, Jeff Scher used charged images of of 60s grassroots protest for civil rights and constitutional freedoms to recent protests...
Wojnarowicz at the Whitney and Seven Miles A Second
Last month a retrospective of the work of David Wojnarowicz—author of Seven Miles A Second—opened at the Whitney Museum in Manhattan.
Weekend Heller: Finally, Christoph Niemann Proves His Innate Genius
[Special to the Daily Heller] Science has finally proved beyond a Neil DeGrasse Tyson-shadow-of -a-doubt that Christoph Niemann, an engagingly witty, Teutonically charming, inscrutably clever editorial, book and bathroom wall illustrator and Lego-expert, is actually a natural bone fide genius on the cosmically gifted level of Issac Newton, Pablo Picasso, Albert Einstein and Mel Brooks....
Design Expert’s 10 Coffee Table Book Recommendations
Coffee table books are having a moment, and as a lifelong creative with a deep love and appreciation for good design engaging content, Daniel Dejan is…
Bosnia And Herzegovinia’s Design Legacy
The third edition of “Museum In Exile: Bosnia And Herzegovina In The Modern Era” by Asim Đelilović, (Buybook Sarajevo) is based on the first 2015 edition designed to represent the visual and industrial arts – a draft of history – of Bosnia and Herzgovina. It addresses the periods when designers made important contributions to...
8 Snippets of Design Wisdom from Book Designer Irma Boom
Amsterdam-based graphic designer Irma Boom is best known for her work designing book covers – but that’s not all. Recently she took on her mosr ambitious…