The Making Hard Things Soft pillow line by the new Swedish design company How Are You is brilliant! The 50cm x 50 cm hand made pillows, printed in Sweden, are made from heavy 100% cotton canvas and feature detailed images of hard surfaces like rock, plywood, & concrete.
The pillows are available for purchase direct from How Are You for 600 Swedish Kronas or around 84.00 US dollars.
— Via Fine Little Day
The beautiful typeface, Intro, by Svetoslav Simov of FontFabric is currently on sale right now at MyFonts for a whopping 80% off making the $499 family of 29 fonts only $99.80! The typeface, designed for readability both in print and on the web, features clean geometric lines, optimized kerning, and a substantial set of glyphs and alternates.
Be sure to check out REX, another beautiful typeface we featured in February.
The InBetween House, designed by Tokyo based architecture firm Koji Tsutsui Architect & Associates, is a collection of small combined cottages built outside of Tokyo in the mountains. The clients wanted a simple & elegant retreat from their hectic city lives. The collection of 5 structures, each with its own purpose, are built with independent roof lines that bleed into each other, creating both intimate interior spaces & covered “exterior” passages.
The design intent of this construction method was to create an architectural language similar to that of the city, with separate buildings and alleyways, allowing a free-form arrangement so that each space is perfectly situated to its surrounding landscape.
— Via ArchDaily
The Paul & Paula side table by designer Matthias Ferwager are a beautiful pair. The tables, designed for German furniture company Nils Holger Moormann, are built using sturdy reversible laminated wooden tops and steel legs that are held in place by rope that from the looks of it, allows you to adjust the height of the tops.
— Via Artibazar
The Aldas Project: 366 Drawings for Good is the beautiful brainchild of artists Kristy Modarelli. The project began on January 1st, 2012 and will continue through the end of the year. Kristy makes a drawing every day, a daunting task in itself, and puts the images up for sale on the Aldas Project Etsy page for $100 each.
The “for Good” part of the project is that Kristy will donate $25 for each sold print to one of her 3 favorite charities: 826 National, The Schoerke Foundation, and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society with the purchaser choosing which charity he/she would like the money to go to.
— Via Black. White. Yellow
This beautiful little animation, “Where Things Come From,” by student Hardy Seiler explores of the question, “What do we want to know if all information is permanently available [online]?”
Graphics: Hardy Seiler
Text: Hardy Seiler & Daniel Nauck
Motion-Design: Jascha Müller & Jonathan Winkler
Sound: Torsten Strer
Speaker: Peter Bennett
Support: Stefan Heijnk
This beautiful identity & collateral package for the fictitious spy-themed store Spion, by student designer Sarah Taylor features a dark, minimal color pallet, bold type and elegant illustrations. Sarah is enrolled in Capilano University’s IDEA program.
— Via Design Work Life
I can’t wait until Linotype: The Film is released to the public sometime this summer. The film, by producer/director Doug Wilson & director of photography Brandon Goodwin, with sound by Jess Heugel, charts the rise and fall and rise again of the Linotype type setting machine. Thomas Edison once describe the Linotype as the “Eighth Wonder of the World.”
The film seeks to answer three main questions about the Linotype: What place does the Linotype have in the age of new technology, should the machine be shoved into a museum and left to rust, and why should anyone care about typography or the technology of communication? The film is full of beautiful shots of the machine working and talks to tons of quirky Linotype masters as well as a few brave souls trying to keep the technology alive.
Be sure to check our their website for screenings in your area and to learn more about the film and the people behind it.
Hard Graft, known for their amazingly beautiful gadget cases made from 100% wool felt and leather, now has the print collateral to match. The package was designed in house at Hard Graft and printed by the letterpress experts at Studio On Fire.
The Harriet Series, by Chicago based Okay Type (Jackson Cavanaugh), is a beautiful new typeface that draws inspiration from transitional typefaces like Baskerville and more modern faces like Century.
Harriett Series includes both stunning Display faces and impeccable text faces that render amazingly at almost any size. The typeface was awarded this years Certificate of Type Design Awesomeness from the Type Director’s Club.
The entire family is available for download on the Okay Type website for only $450.
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