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No Meat Balls but Spaghetti Grafica
Ministero della Grafica (Ministry for the Graphics) proudly presents "Spaghetti Grafica", a brand new compendium of some of the best examples of italian graphic design (corporate identity, typography, exhibition design, motion graphics, self promotion...) that started as a public exhibition and turned into a book that is distributed worldwide and published by DeAgostini.
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Uppercase goes Old School
UPPERCASE gallery, books & papergoods is located in the Art Central building in downtown Calgary and is pure candy for the eyes. Visit their site for old style magnetics, anatomic frogs and various paper goods.
And this fall, UPPERCASE is going old
school. The "Old School" theme celebrates the aesthetics of twentieth
century education through an art exhibition and companion book, as well
as curated objects. It is inspired by vintage flash cards, old desks,
biology class, science fairs, crayons, card catalogs, textbooks, class
photos, teachers, yearbooks, lunchboxes, gym class, maps, lockers,
report cards, film strips, recess, spelling, chalk... and the list goes
on!
"I Will not tell lies", 10×10 fine art giclee print of a Polaroid
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Objectified
I just bumped into this new project reading about canadian
experimental graphic designer and over the top type creator Marian
Bantjes' magic toothbrush!
Objectified is a feature-length independent documentary
about industrial design. It's a look at the creativity at work behind
everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It's about the people who
re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a
daily basis. It's about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and
sustainability. It's about our relationship to mass-produced objects
and, by extension, the people who design them.
Through vérité footage and in-depth conversations, the film
documents the creative processes of some of the world's most
influential designers, and looks at how the things they make impact our
lives. What can we learn about who we are, and who we want to be, from
the objects with which we surround ourselves?
Read director Gary Hustwit's post about the film.
Objectified is currently in production and will have its world premiere in early 2009
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Simple Pleasures
There's a simple pleasure in life that some people use as a substitute for coffee, cigarettes, chocolate and other small things like these. And it's throwing your nose in a brand new fresh out of printshop magazine and/or newspaper. To fulfill your thirst for knowledge about the magic world of press, i'm gonna share with you this juicy blog i just bumped into.
magCulture
magCulture is a site about magazine and (occasionally) newspaper design written by Jeremy Leslie, author of the books
'magCulture' and 'Issues'.
It grew from a previous website which is no longer maintained but is still accessible here. Jeremy is Executive Creative Director at London-based customer publisher John Brown.
He regularly contributes to the design press and speaks at conferences,
and is co-curator (with Andrew Losowsky and Mike Koedinger) of the Colophon independent magazine symposium.
Buona lettura.
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Riders
For all of you out there that love motorbikes and maybe know italian, theres a new magazine out called Riders. Check the blog at www.riders-online.it
Graphics by Studio Fm Milano.
