Font Plague, Century Gothic
Used to be that Designers set typographic trends. A spanky new typeface would be released by some hot shot type foundry and, with enough universal appeal, and despite the cost, that typeface would spread like wildfire, pricking the public consciousness and giving a new language to entities the world over. It happened with Meta, Insterstate, [...]
What’s Up #45: Hexaplex
Want to POD but not sure how? Hexaplex have a quick and easy solution that will get you PODing in no time. Print Screen Screen Print [hexaplex.nl/printscreen-screenprint] takes a wadge of the most recent content from their rapidly updated website and turns it into a dinky A5 size, four page booklet which you can hold [...]
100 Things: #007
Modernist London Cards Designed and produced by Stefi Orazi [stefiorazi.co.uk]. This year sees a special Winter Edition featuring illustrations of Telecom Tower, Royal Festival Hall, The Isokon Building, a K8 Telephone Box, Great Arthur House (or Boicozine Towers, if you like… joking!) and the Barbican (natch). Available via [thingsyoucanbuy.co.uk].
What’s Up #44: House of Kids
You can’t talk about design and illustration studio House of Kids [houseofkids.fr] without mentioning French record label, institubes [institubes.com]. The two are intrinsically linked through House of Kids members Jean-René Etienne and Lola Raban-Oliva, although each has their own outstanding bodies of work and institubes continues to team up with some of the more interesting [...]
What’s Up #43: Buchanan-Smith
Buchanan-Smith [buchanansmith.com] are the talented bods behind Paper [papermag.com] magazine’s graphic re-invention. They have just released the first in a series of ‘graphic still lives’ (‘lifes’, surely… am I wrong? I dunno), investigating various graphic anomalies (we heart graphic anomalies at Boicozine), the first being all about dots. On their website you’ll find an intriguing [...]
Reading List November 2008
Gosh, it’s been a while since I got round to doing one of these. Not that reading matter hasn’t been stacking up in massive piles around the flat (still haven’t found a decent bookcase). A lot of it has been old faithfuls like Wired, Little White Lies, Grafik, Dwell etc. This time around though we [...]
