A Visual History of the Beastie Boys Through the Artist’s Voices

A Visual History of the Beastie Boys Through the Artist’s Voices

May 15th, 2013 | Design, Music, USA, Videos

In conjunction with their very special June 2013 issue, Beastie Boys: A Visual History + Tribute to MCA, Juxtapoz brings you excerpts from some their interviews with Beastie album cover artists from Polly Wog Stew to Hot Sauce Committee Part Two! We find the inside… Read More

Circusmuseum – The largest collection of Circus Posters

Circusmuseum – The largest collection of Circus Posters

May 14th, 2013 | Collections, Design, Graphic Art

Circusmuseum.nl is the ultimate image bank with posters, photos and prints from the collection of Jaap Best, the Netherlands’ largest collection of circus memorabilia. For your enjoyment, the online show, now has nearly eight thousand circus posters from 1880 to the present, from the Netherlands… Read More

Hajime Asaoka × Takashi Murakami TOURBILLON

Hajime Asaoka × Takashi Murakami TOURBILLON

May 14th, 2013 | Design, Fashion, Japan

Japanese superstar artist Takashi Murakami teamed up with watchmaker Hajime Asaoka to bring you a watch called “Death Takes No Bribe” with flowers and skulls in Murakami’s trademark style. Asaoka will premiere the watch at the Academie Horlogere des Createurs Independants’ (AHCI) 2013 watch fair… Read More

The History of Typography

The History of Typography

May 10th, 2013 | Animation, Design, Typography, Videos

A paper-letter animation about the history of fonts and typography. 291 Paper Letters. 2,454 Photographs. 140 hours of work. The History of Typography Until the Digital Age, typography was a specialized occupation. Digitization opened up typography to new generations of visual designers and lay users,… Read More

GRAD: New gallery for Russian Arts and Design in London

GRAD: New gallery for Russian Arts and Design in London

May 3rd, 2013 | Design, Galleries, Propaganda, Russia

GRAD: Gallery for Russian Arts and Design opens in Central London this June with See USSR, an exhibition of Russian propaganda from the 1920s and 1930s. These dazzling Intourist posters have never before been exhibited and include works loaned by the prestigious State Pushkin Museum… Read More

Visual Arabia 2013

Visual Arabia 2013

Most excellent website “Watch the titles” is taking a look at Visual Arabia 2013, the gathering of creatives in the field of design, illustration, animation and photography which took place for the first time on March 20, 2013 in Dubai: “Visual Arabia 2013 was born… Read More

United Micro Kingdoms (UmK): A Design Fiction

United Micro Kingdoms (UmK): A Design Fiction

May 2nd, 2013 | Design, England, Shows

United Micro Kingdom (UmK): A Design Fiction presents multiple perspectives on a fictional United Kingdom, as imagined by designers and educators Dunne & Raby. The exhibition at the Design Museum (until august 26) sees England devolved into four selfcontained counties or micro kingdoms, each free… Read More

Bembo Zoo – Typographic Animals & A Font Fight

Bembo Zoo – Typographic Animals & A Font Fight

April 24th, 2013 | Books, Design, Kids, Typography

The website Bembo Zoo is an animated version of the picture book Bembo’s Zoo: An Animal ABC Book by graphic designer Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich. The Bembo typeface is one of the most elegant of the classic typefaces, and its clean, graceful lines inspired… Read More

Movies in Color – Color Palettes from Films

Movies in Color – Color Palettes from Films

April 21st, 2013 | Blogs, Design, Film, Tools

Movies in Color is a blog featuring stills from films and their corresponding color palettes, a tool to promote learning and inspiration, an excellent source for designers. Movies In Color is curated and created by graphic designer Roxy Radulescu who says: “So far, the blog… Read More

Reopening of the Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt

Reopening of the Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt

April 19th, 2013 | Applied Art, Design, Germany, Museums

Under its new director Matthias Wagner K, the Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt am Main, has developed a new presentation concept, which will depart from the permanent display form dedicated to stylistic eras and geographical regions, and work instead with temporary thematic room modules within… Read More