Simplicity Wins, Again.

Im enthralled by German industrial designer Dominik Hehl's 'Rhohlinglight'. Made of a single piece of aluminum.

More of his work > H E R E

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Miami Nice

New York graphic designer Chris Nosenzo's risograph printed 'Tubbs' book is absolutely spectacular. It's also for sale.

Peep more of his work > H E R E

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Corporate Slick

Great article on the career and work of English graphic designer/creative director John Lloyd > H E R E

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Good, Sir.

Back in London, Steph and i hit the Design Museum for a run through.

Sir Terence Conran is the "Big Deal" we were introduced to. The exhibition was named 'The Way We Live Now' and rightly so.

Here's a copy/pasted snippet from Design Museum:

Terence Conran has had more impact than any other designer of his generation on everyday life in contemporary Britain through a series of parallel careers. Conran describes the private boarding school he attended as an “inspired” choice by his mother, because it particularly encouraged creativity in its pupils and balanced academic study with practical, physical activities like digging the vegetable garden and rudimentary plumbing. Later, at the Central School of Art and Design in London, Conran absorbed the Bauhaus and Arts & Crafts influenced beliefs that “a good design should be available to the whole community, not just to a few”. After Central he set up as an independent designer at the age of 21. Through his friendship with the sculptor Eduardo Paolozzi he was on the fringes of the Independent Group, the artistic avant garde of the 1950s that brought Pop Art to Britain and worked on the Festival of Britain. But he was driven to establish his own shop, as he once said, to prove to people that his designs could find a market even if nobody else wanted to sell them.

And here's a snippet from my camera:

More on Terence Conran > H E R E

A bit about his current empire > H E R E

Great bump-in.

- jelsen

Styles Upon Styles

A few weeks back, i attended AIGA/NY's Karel Martens lecture at Parson's Tischman Auditorium.

I previously didnt know much the Dutch designer or the body of work he's amassed in the last half-century but it didnt take more than the first three slides for me to be smitten by not only how well the work was executed but the conceptual layers dripping off of them.

...his sunny, 'call me uncle karel' disposition didnt hurt either.

Here are a few pulls:

More about Karel Martens > H E R E

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Artisanal

Here are some graphic works from late German artist Anton Stankowski.

More of Anton Stankowski's life + work

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Just Minimal Enough

Decha Archjananun of Thailand-based Thinkk Studio has made these beautiful vases.

More work > H E R E

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QUOTABLE '41'

"The older you get the more apparent it becomes that authenticity is the mission and simplicity is the trophy."

- Candice Madrid

Ice, Ice

Some new work by sculptor Jeff Zimmerman being shown at R Gallery.

More > H E R E

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