Helvetica is a full-length independent documentary film that investigates the deeper and more subtle ways in which type affects our daily lives. Using the now ubiquitous font helvetica as the thematic centerpiece, the film explores urban spaces with regards to…
Continue Reading →Along with Comic Con (July 20-23, 2006) came a myriad of goods--and some items definitely not to be missed are the new tees from UNKL. You can support your favorite characters JunPo, TinPo, HazMaPo, and SUG by wearing one of…
Continue Reading →Forget any ideas you have about old woolly jumpers in stuffy second hand shops. TRAID (Textile Recycling for Aid and International Development) innovatively bridge the gap between recycling and fashion. TRAID has customers that re-design and reconstruct donated materials into…
Continue Reading →A nice little update over at Beautiful Decay last week brought two new stellar additions to their quickly growing line of limited-edition designer t-shirts. Here we have Aya Kato's design on the left entitled Mermaid and Jonathan Nicol's Conan Shirt…
Continue Reading →Using acrylic paints on flattened beer and soda cans Charles Kaufman creates truly one of a kind works of art on crushed cans. The often quirky painting is on one side of the crushed can, while the other side reveals…
Continue Reading →Collaborations between companies have become extremely prevalent lately, but with some careful filtering you can spot the good and ignore the bad. One recent combination of forces, the wall decal meets t-shirt, is that between blik Surface Graphics and always…
Continue Reading →Front, the team of Sofia Lagerkvist, Charlotte von der Lancken, Anna Lindgren, and Katja Savstrom, is a design agency out of Stockholm, that, as the name suggests, is at the head of the design game. Pushing out concepts and prototypes…
Continue Reading →A novel idea by Dror Benshetrit of design Studio Dror is the Pick Chair for Italian furniture company Sintesi. Dror's designs are more than objects, "becoming part of their narratives, expressed in transformations that are both metaphorical and literal." Exhibiting…
Continue Reading →Outer Edge Studio, the creation of fine artist Andrew Jackson, is a wonderful space enveloped in eye-catching art and people happy to engage in intelligent conversation about it. Previously the youngest gallery owner in Carmel, Andrew's background in art includes…
Continue Reading →The JDF (Japan Design Foundation) will be hosting the 2006 International Design Competition in Osaka, Japan later this year, but with the technical details that being a competitor involves we thought we'd give you the heads up. This year's emphasis…
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