Hey, remember when Jack Black and Mos Def sweded VHS movies in Be Kind Rewind? Well, Swissted is kind of like that, only with punk gig flyers…
Category: Noteworthy
Little Printer – your personal mini newspaper machine!
You remember a while back I wrote about how London based design agency BERG redesigned the common sales receipt? Well, guess what, that was really just a sneak preview of what BERG has really been working on for the past year…
Lucha Libre letterpress posters from Mexico City
Hans Gremmen of Amsterdam procured this great set of Lucha Libre posters from a letterpress print shop in Mexico City in 2009. Hard to believe that an outdated printing technique can trump the efficiency of digital production in the 21st century. Here’s the proof…
A minimalist packaging design experiment
Mehmet Gözetlik of Istanbul, Turkey, is Executive Art Director and Co-Founder of Antrepo, a multidisciplinary design collective. His exploration in minimalist packaging has been receiving some attention lately. At first, his objective was to see what effect it would have to gradually remove all elements from the packaging design of global brands except for the… Continue reading A minimalist packaging design experiment
You only need one font on the Moon
A look at the typography employed in the 2009 sci-fi thriller Moon.
The quest for an average font
The fascinating explorations in finding an average of all existing fonts has lead different people down different roads, here are some examples…
MoMA’s in-house design studio
The Museum of Modern Art in New York City has a very productive in-house design team with a bulging portfolio of exhibition designs, advertising campaigns and other printed materials…
Interactive type design game
Hey, remember that kerning game from a couple of weeks ago? Well there’s a new game which is a little more challenging: Shape Type.
Lovely posters letterpressed by Typoretum
Letterpress is essentially the very earliest method of printing text, invented by Gutenberg in the 1400s. Print shops like Typoretum are reviving this old fashioned art…
Jack Daniel’s label update – part two
About four months ago I mentioned that the Jack Daniel’s label design was being updated. Well, here’s the latest on the subject…