Soviet Telegraph Agency Posters

Posted by Thorbjorn 18 July 2011

A set of beautiful posters created by the Soviet Union’s news agency, TASS during World War II. Working from Moscow, this studio produced hundreds of storefront window posters, one for nearly every day of the war. View more here.

Robert Montgomery

Posted by Thorbjorn 14 July 2011

Interesting typographic works by artist Robert Montgomery.

www.robertmontgomery.org

Venom Yum

Posted by Thorbjorn 20 June 2011

Japanese Fall is the latest project by Danish multi disciplinary design & illustration studio Venom Yum. 80% of the 12 x 12 cm patch blocks are designed and printed by Venom Yum. The rest are gathered and found in Japan, Scandinavia and the US by friends and VY. read more

Posters in Amsterdam

Posted by Thorbjorn 26 May 2011

‘Posters in Amsterdam’ is a project initiated by Dutchman Jarr Geerligs who since 2002 has walked the streets of Amsterdam photographing posters which then has evolved into a beautiful gallery online.

www.postersinamsterdam.com

Alvin Lustig

Posted by Fabio 12 May 2011

Alvin Lustig’s contributions to the design of books and book jackets, magazines, interiors, and textiles as well as his teachings would have made him a credible candidate for the AIGA Lifetime Achievement award when he was alive. By the time he died at the age of forty in 1955, he had already introduced principles of Modern art to graphic design read more

Fragments of RGB

Posted by Thorbjorn 11 May 2011

Fragments of RGB is an interactive installation by Berlin based design studio Onformative.

www.onformative.com

Matthijs van Leeuwen

Posted by Fabio 4 May 2011

Matthijs van Leeuwen is a graphic designer and Art director, recently awarded with three ‘2010 red dot communication awards’, including ‘Best of the best’. He currently lives and work in Newark, USA.

www.matthijsvanleeuwen.com

Norman Mailer’s Life as Seen Through His Last Home

Posted by Fabio 3 May 2011

Author Norman Mailer expanded his fourth-floor apartment in Brooklyn Heights into a nautical adventureland and filled it with mementos of his life. Now that he and his wife are deceased, his nine children have listed the co-op for sale for $2.5 million. (New York Times)