I cannot agree more to the Manifesto of Holstee, a small company designing and selling sustainable lifestyle goods.
You can buy the Holstee Manifesto as poster or greeting card as well as many other great products in the Holstee online shop.
This signage system made of environment-friendly cardboard shows impressively, that sustainability and great design don’t contradict each other. It was created by Isidro Ferrer in collaboration with Paul Alabau and Versus for the Spanish Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo.
Via CreativeRoots, thanks Guido for sharing.
Arabesque 2 showcases contemporary work by young designers from the Arab world and Iran. Combining Arab type, calligraphy and modern graphic design, the presented artwork expresses the increasing cultural emancipation and modernization of the Middle East.
Supplemental texts and interviews by the editors Ben Wittner and Sascha Thoma from design studio Eps51 give background information and describe the environments in which the featured designers and artists work.
You can learn more about the book at arabesque-graphics.com and order in the Gestalten shop.
Via Page online.
Designer Anthony Neil Dart from South-Africa created this posters as contribution to the Barcelona SHOW US YOUR TYPE Exhibition 2010. He impressively combines typographic element and photography of beautiful women – who can resist that?
Be sure to check out all posters of this series and the complete portfolio of Anthony at his site.
Via The Inspiration Grid.
I love typographic maps! Here is another great example that you can actually order in form of wall stickers for your home or office.
“A Different World' by Sunny Side Up is available in 175cm x 108cm and your chosen color on notonthehighstreet.com (unfortunately delivered only within the UK).
Traditional letterpress printing as a contrast to the “perfect” look of today’s laser-printing enjoys a growing interest over the past decade. Unfortunately much of the letterpress’s traditional technology was lost over the last 30 years and what’s left fetches premium collector prices. LetterMpress is an interesting kickstarter project committed to recreate the experience of authentic-looking letterpress design and print in a virtual environment released first on the iPad.
In a time where most typography is created digitally, designers, artists, and printmakers can draw a lot of inspiration from the handcrafted appearance of traditional letterpress printing. A real luminary in this field is Alan Kitching. Having worked as graphic designer, typographer, letterpress printmaker and teacher, Kitching is internationally renowned for his expressive use of letterpress type, process and materials in creating typographic designs for publishing, advertising and his own limited edition prints and ‘Broadside’ publications.
Find more of Kitching’s typographic designs at Debutart.
Identity, promotional posters & editorial design for the upcoming new Deichmanske Library in Bjørvika, Oslo, by graphic design student Mikael Fløysand. The design makes beautiful use of paper, forms, typography and colors to integrate the old library tradition and the evolution towards the new digital media.
