The cover for Novum’s 11/11 issue, designed by Caroline Rauen & Max Kuehne of PaperLux, shows that with a little ingenuity, a solid printer & die maker and few extra bucks, you can create something really stunning. The cover was printed by Print Arena.
These proof portfolios & tubes for Gavin Martin Colournet, a London based printer, by Magpie Studios are really quite brilliant. The single color on craft cardboard proof carriers are designed to bring a smile to anyone who sees them, making the brand more memorable as well as adding value to the carriers in hopes that the clients will keep them around.
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The latest print in the Editions of 100 project, the brain-child of Glasgow based design firm BERG, is Kompakt-Kassette by Daniel Freytag. The beautifully simple graphic representation of the bygone music medium, the cassette, is hand-pulled in silver ink on Plike 240gsm Matt Black fine art paper and is also hand-numbered. You can pick it up on the Editions of 100 website for £23, around $45.
I Love Creative Thinking is an awesome self-promotional piece by Brooklyn based designer Jose Ortize and a really beautiful example of letterpress capabilities. I Love Creative Thinking was printed by the talented guys at Peter Kruty Editions.
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Charleston-based designer Jay Fletcher’s beautiful branding & collateral for home furnishings store Celedon features elegant type, color, and pattern usage and really brings the store’s high-end feeling to its printed matter.
Rethinking The Waiting Room is a holistic case study, by Barcelona based design studio FuelFor, looking at ways they can enhance the waiting room experience for patients in healthcare. The final designs incorporate signage and wayfinding, industrial design, as well as graphic design and print elements and a smartphone portal for all the relevant information. The information is all wrapped up in a bound book published & sold through Blurb.
“Modu” is a modular furniture system that is adaptable to a wide range of needs & spaces and includes spaces for wheelchair accessible sitting. “Tableau” is a modular table and counters space that works in conjunction with “Modu” and includes spaces to hold documents from “Folio,” the color coded system of documents that includes patient notes, doctor notes, prescription information, as well as a building map and wayfinding guide for the hospital.
“Inline” is the smartphone portal to all the information included in “Folio” and provides real-time updates to waiting time, healthcare tips and notes, as well as access their medical records. “Counter Act” a free standing counter that includes a public announcements board, tips for healthy living, or any other relevant information to the patients. The final piece of the system is “HealthPoint,” a guideline for architects to include certain parts in the healthcare environment.
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The “A Bunch of Crock” Poster Series by Safwat Saleem may be a little rude but what it lacks in politeness it makes up for in honesty. The posters were created as part of a Kickstarter funded show in Pheonix, AZ in which Safwat comments on the political landscape in America today. Watch the video Safwat used on Kickstarter below for some context on this project and his ideas behind it.
In his words, “It was a response to the current public discourse and the political landscape in the US. Being a Pakistani immigrant living in Arizona, the last election cycle and the general anti-immigrant rhetoric prevalent at that time was particularly alarming. Going through various campaign ads, I almost felt like the jokes were already written and all I had to do was find a nice bow to put on them.”
Also part of the show was a video that yelled obscene “public service” announcements at the audience, an audio installation titled “Box of Bullshit” and a game called “Fling Some Shit Game” that encouraged the visitor to throw shit at a target on the wall.
I realize that some of the content might be unsettling & rude but I think the works over all are a brilliant reaction to the turmoil in our current political scene. You can learn more about the show, see the public service video, hear the audio from “Box of Bullshit” and purchase prints for only $40 on the A Bunch of Crock website.
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I love all this! The Veiwmaster wedding invitations by Mélangerie Inc. are a really amazing use of a toy most of us remember from our childhood. The boxed invitations come with a custom Viewmaster reel containing 7 slides with images of the soon-to-be newly weds.
The invitations were created for a client but can now be purchased as a whole set, for 100 guests, for $3,450 though Mélangerie Inc.’s Etsy store. Seems like a lot but I can only imagine how much work goes into these, not to mention the wow-factor for your guests.
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This Hello Greeting Card by designer Beau Eaton is a beautiful use of a technology not usually used for “print.” The card, which says hello in many different languages, uses laser etching to create its image and is cut from the chip board that Eaton has received as protective packaging from his printers. This is a beautiful use of technology, mixed with some recycling to create a piece that is quite stunning.
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This has to be my favorite summertime project ever! The Solar Powered Ice Pop truck by Jason Anello of Manifold for Sungevity is an amazing summertime advertising campaign about the benefits of solar energy. The Truck is making stops all over the east coast (I think its in Boston right now) handing out free ice pops. There are two really cool things about this truck. One, all of its electrical usage is generated from solar panels on the roof of the truck. Two, the entire exterior of the truck is wrapped in amazing ice pop shaped infographics by the amazingly talented Kelli Anderson!
Be sure to watch the video of the truck unfolding below and you can track where the truck is on the Sungevity Facebook page.
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