The Biblio-Mat, for old and unusual books
The Monkey’s Paw, Toronto’s “most idiosyncratic secondhand bookshop”, just got a little bit more idiosyncratic. A new in-store Biblio-Mat book dispenser is offering up mystery titles for a mere $2
The Monkey’s Paw, Toronto’s “most idiosyncratic secondhand bookshop”, just got a little bit more idiosyncratic. A new in-store Biblio-Mat book dispenser is offering up mystery titles for a mere $2
InformForm is an impressive new publication from studio Mwmcreative. The first issue looks at the theory and practice of information design, while issue two is set to examine pictorial design systems, with help from submissions from design students
Today, Grey London launches the next phase of its British Heart Foundation campaign with a number of new films, including Mini Vinnie that look to further promote the potentially life-saving ‘hands-only’ CPR technique first demonstrated by Vinnie Jones last year…
Last week, we posted about the apparent similarities between Grey London’s Printer Orchestra spot for Brother and James Houston’s Big Ideas (don’t get any) graduation film from 2008. The issues raised in the piece, and subsequently on Twitter, touch on familiar rows about copyright and plagiarism. Here, we explore both sides of the story in extensive detail
Photographer Robert Landau started documenting the billboards of LA’s Sunset Strip in the 1970s, and has published a book collecting together images of some of the most iconic LA billboards of the 70s and 80s…
50by70 has just announced the release of its third volume entitled Yellow Subversion: The Artwork of Yellow Submarine, a boxed set of five 50 x 70cm screen prints of artwork from the famous Beatles film…
In 1837, the world’s first publicly funded design school opened in Somerset House on the Strand in London. Later, the Government School of Design was to change its name to the somewhat more grandiose Royal College of Art, change its location, and, just for good measure, change the world. A major new exhibition shows how
Set up by the University of Salford’s graphic design students and lecturer Tim Isherwood, the Salford Type Foundry is an online repository for type designed by students from Salford and beyond…
The Los Angeles Fund for Public Education and ForYourArt initiative are working with a series of artists to create pieces for Arts Matter, a campaign to support arts education in the city’s Unified School District. Barbara Kruger’s bus wraps and billboards are the first works to be unveiled
Google have created an interactive 3D star map that beautifully visualises the location of 100,000 stars in our galaxy…
For its third annual exhibition, Creative agency Mill Co has once again teamed up with a sponsor and tasked a selection of image makers to create new work. This year it has teamed up with The Co-operative and the brief to the 25 contributing artists was ‘Co-operation’…
This is rather neat, a business card/mailer for a furniture shop that can be made into a mini bent plywood chair