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Brit Insurance Design Awards 2011
The sun is just about managing to shrug off a rather cold winter in London and what better way to showcase a bit of optimism than this year’s Brit Insurance Design Awards. The nominees have been announced and the top floor of the Design Museum has been taken over by the functional, amusing and in ...
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Stumpy: The World Cup Mascot
For once in my life, I don’t instinctively know that there’s a cricket world cup going on, given that in good ol’ Blighty where the game originated, not a radio can be heard belting out live scores, not a hoarding seen with team-spirited punchlines and not a headline in the daily newspaper over the latest ...
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Digital Fonts in the MoMA Collection
It’s not everyone that thinks of a typefaces as designed objects that need to be used with care, unless they’re designers, serious typophiles and/or people like me who have limited patience with people who set Powerpoint presentations in 18-point Comic Sans. It definitely got my serifs excited when I heard that an institution like the ...
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Image of the Week: Protest
These scuba divers hold up an underwater sign that reads “leave before we run out of air” – a clear message to Hosni Mubarak who finally stepped down as President of Egypt on Friday. Even the most pressurised protestors it would seem, have a sense of humor.
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The Wrong Trousers
‘Would you like a bag?’ is a line you get used to while shopping in most high street stores here. A line that if delivered with the right tone can make a harmless trip to the shops seem like a raid on our fragile ecosystem. However I’m yet to come across that pretty shop girl ...
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Nanimarquina: Spanish Indophiles
After over a year in New York, I have become hardened to the prices that Indian craftsmanship fetches outside India. And we’re not talking about Abu Jani-Sandeep Khosla type embroidery over which craftspeople go blind. In my second week in New York, for instance, I was furious when I found an absolutely unremarkable Bandhni scarf ...
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Image of the Week: John Stezaker
The best visual tickle I’ve had this week was at Whitechapel Gallery’s exhibition of the works of British artist John Stezakar. Comprised of his collage works from the 1970s to the present, the exhibition reflects his engagement with the acts of looking and perceiving. Each collage splices together found postcards, images form newspaper clips and ...
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Peter Bilak: When type isn’t just type
Listening to a speaker after many years is like reading a book again after a long long time. The author and the content may be the same, but the meaning changes with all the experiences one has had between the two readings. I realised this at Neville Brody‘s talk Kyoorius Design Yatra ’07 (he was ...
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Kasheeda 3D typeface
Dutch product design company Freedom of Creation recently obegan offering a new 3D typeface for commercial production. The font Kasheeda 3D available for Latin and Arabic was developed by Yara Khoury and Mella Hammer at the invitation of the Khatt Foundation based in Amsterdam. A centre that promotes Arabic typography, the aim of the project ...