Nothing more, nothing less in this edition of Quipsologies.
Milton Glaser, George Lois, Brian Collins, Tony Hendra, Kurt Andersen, James Victore and Jessica Helfand sit down with Steve Heller to talk about design for social change.
ADC: “Designism”, September 21, New York.
An Evening with Underware, Post Typography, UpNorth and Ellen Lupton.
SPD/FIT: “RAW TYPE”, Thursday October 5, 2006 New York.
A “trip back to the visual landscape of the psychedelic sixties by way of the evidence in photography, typography and design” with Jim Marshall, Victor Moscoso, and Chris Peterson and Jim Parkinson.
AIGA SF: “Vibe, Volume and Veneer: Graphic Design from the Psychedelic Sixties”, September 28, October 12 and October 26, 2006, San Francisco.
Murray Moss will interview preeminent industrial designer Dieter Rams.
Moss Gallery: Walls & Heroic Structures, September 12 from 4:00–5:00 pm, New York.
Christian Leborg’s new “little red book” Visual Grammar offers students and professionals alike an illustrated glossary of terms referring to formal composition devices. At a time when grad students at MICA are finding the joys in making and formal experiments and hundreds of new design programs are opening in China, it might be good timing on Leborg’s part (and Princeton Architectural Press) to publish a tool that encourages us to verbally articulate what we see.
Maybe a bit utopian or a bit robotic, but I’d love it if someone leaned over my shoulder and said “The active structure is limiting the impact of repetition, but the asymmetric repetition of your shapes of influence is pulling the eye towards the compound shapes that give the page weight.”
Smartly printed in 2-colors, the book’s self-referential elements (“This rectangle is 0.1% of a spread of this book”) bring about a smile or two. Mmmm.
Amazon Opens Video Download Store: Unbox Video Store, which will compete with iTunes, sells TV shows, movies, and other video content.
The guys at nobody&co have designed 5 meters of books into a comfy chair titled Bibliochaise.
From the makers of Gum, Lemon: The Espionage Issue is now available on newsstands.
Creative Review gets with the program and launches a blog. Should be good.
A faux-rospective of 50 years of Radar magazine covers. Dig the faux-volving logo.
The Starbucks Salon is in New york City. Make of that what you will.
Roger Black and Red all over .[Via]
The Science of… science museum in London invites you to satisfy your inner spy: “We invite your ideas for surveillance and counter-surveillance products of the near future (in 20 years time) for exhibition in SPYMAKER: The Science of Spying, which will open at the Science Museum in February 2007 before touring internationally for 5 years.” PDF with more information.
Pictograms for the Beijing 2008 Olympics.
The ever-impressive Banksy is in Los Angeles this week. For a recent piece at Disneyland, he placed an inflatable doll dressed as a Guantanamo Bay detainee inside the Rocky Mountain Railroad.
On a personal note, please forgive my light contribution of Quips this week. With today’s anniversary of 9/11, I’m taking a media break in an attempt to distance myself from the Grand Guignol of treacly tributes, looped horrors and campaign appearances dressed in solemnity. Consider all the graphic dreck that will pollute the airwaves and internet today — the slow-motion flags, the word “remember” writ in all manner of awful typefaces, archive footage of impromptu shrines — none of it in the least bit helpful.
Roger Black has lost his mind. White type with shading on a vibrant red background?? And to think of the crap Design Observer got for their white type on grey background! Safe to say Black's blog won't be on my reading list.
On Sep.11.2006 at 01:27 PM