“Counter-print.co.uk is dedicated to the promotion and sale of Art and Design related material. Often out of print or hard to find, we aim to celebrate both forgotten gems as well as those heralded designers that we all admire.”
Gorgeous selection of vintage, design-related books and journals available from this English site.
London’s Design Museum, in collaboration with Beefeater 24, have recently opened a new exhibition entitled Super Contemporary. Featuring projects from 15 of the capitals leading creatives, each of the 15 commissions aimed to improve day to day life in the city. Some of the responses include a lamp post chandelier and a post office kiosk located within a disused phone box. The exhibition runs at the Design Museum until October 4.
I finally got around to building my personal website last week . On it you’ll find a selection of recent work , as well as some older projects I have completed over the last number of years. (I’ve decided to move my site over to the excellent Cargo
publishing platform. This means a little more work to do, but should be up and fully running within a week or two.)
Militant Modernism argues for a Modernism of everyday life, immersed in questions of socialism, sexual politics and technology. It features new readings of some familiar names – Bertolt Brecht, Le Corbusier, Vladimir Mayakovsky – and much more on the lesser known, quotidian modernists of the 20th century. The chapters range from a study of industrial and brutalist aesthetics in Britain, Russian Constructivism in architecture, the Sexpol of Wilhelm Reich in film and design, and the alienation effects of Brecht and Hanns Eisler on record and on screen. Against the world of ‘there is no alternative’, this book tries to excavate Modernism’s other futures.
Since 2002, Industrial Facility have been creating a variety of brilliantly designed objects for clients including Established & Son, Muji and LaCie. Their new website, Retail Facility, is making available a selection of these previously difficult to acquire products for online purchasing.
Très Bien have just posted this little behind the scenes look at the making of their new retail space in Malmo, Sweden. Looks really nice.
“With his graphic design work for the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Otl Aicher (who also designed for Braun and Lufthansa) developed a comprehensive system to articulate the games’ character across a wide range of materials, from signage to printed pieces and even staff uniforms.”
Exhibition of Otl Aicher’s renowned work for the 1972 Olympics runs in SFMOMA until July 7.
