Radikal Medium specimen by Marius Lundgard
Radikal Medium is a grotesk typeface created for the typography class taught by Radim Peško (2nd year, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, 2009).
Bauhaus Dessau by Hort
more : www.hort.org.uk
When we began working on the new identity of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation we decided to search for a solution that would relate more to the original ideas of Germany’s most influential Modernist school instead of relying on the visual clichés connected to Bauhaus – it seems almost impossible to use circle, square and triangle nowadays without it coming across as ironic or historicist. Apart from stationery, brochures, posters, tickets, website etc. the new identity also included the redesign of the signage of Gropius’ famous Bauhaus building. This factor making it even more important that a clear distinction could be made by visitors what was apart of the original structure and what new additions we had made.
We thought a generic design would work best in order to make this distinction. The new identity was created by using strict typography, a minimalist layout, standardised formats and no colour. Being the most generic and incidental typeface, Courier was selected as the new corporate font. To guarantee a unique identity we changed the capital « A » of Courier according to Herbert Bayer’s well-known logo on the front of the Bauhaus Dessau building. Additionally, the new Bauhaus Dessau logotype is always set vertically. The entire typographic system consists exclusively of common system fonts, an approach connected to the original Bauhaus ideology that demanded functionality and designs based on the potential of mass-production. by Hort.
Daniel Arsham
Born in 1980 in Cleveland Ohio, USA
Lives and works in New York and Miami, USA
more : www.danielarsham.com
Another light (blue) » 2008: Gouache on mylar, frame: 17 x 24 in
« Coming Apart » 2008: Gouache on Double Sided Mylar, frame: 24 1/4 x 34 1/4 x 2 in
« Another Light (orange) » 2007: Gouache on mylar, frame.
Edith Dekyndt
Born in 1960, Ieper, Belgium. Lives and works in Belgium
more : www.edithdekyndt.be
video : One second of silence / 2008
Video-projection : Les ondes de love / 2009 / extrait
A flag made of 20 meters of black cloth, standing on the desert plateau of an active volcano, waves generated as if the mast movement of the fabric, forming a wave, a wave. When conditions are most favorable, the movement becomes sinusoidal and visually approximates the seismic waves discovered by the British mathematician Augustus Edward Hough LOVE (1863-1940).
Rachel Whiteread – Untitled (Bath)
Untitled (Orange Bath) 1996 Rubber and polystyrene 80 x 207 x 110 cm
Untitled (Bath) 1990 Plaster and glass 103 x 209.5 x 105.5 cm
Yosuke Hayashi-Yours
Yosuke Hayashi — As a metaphor of limited time, I place my wishes that these silent objects give birth to, a special bond, or a subtle richness, and a new story or value.
more : www.editionhorizontal.com
Yours : size w.520 h.750 material : incense, paper
Keetra Dean Dixon
I’m not sure what makes Keetra Dean Dixon. She illustrates; writes ; and creates ‘fickle banners’ complete with zips & a hugging wall.
But perhaps it doesn’t matter that we don’t know what she does, exactly, so long as she keeps doing it.
Keetra’s image of the year: “Excerpt from the Divided series; Banners for a fickle will. May your 2011 be sans zippers (IDEAL)!”
DIVIDED / Banners for a fickle will.
The Anonymous Hugging Wall
Cyprien Côté
Cyprien Côté loved people, loved nature, and everything in between. « Especially everything in between » he would say. He was an explorer, an industrial designer, and more than anything else a friend to the natural world. As a designer he was known for his strange antics with clients. Routinely he’d lose fifty pounds for the first meeting, get the brief, only to show up four months later buff with fifty pounds of new muscle. In the early 60′s, when he got his start, he convinced more than one client that doing macaroni art was a critical part of the design process. He was from the town of Tadoussac in Quebec and from visits to his Aunt in Terrebonne he quickly gained an appreciation for plants and beasts early in his life. His first design/invention took 10 years to produce- the whalesong radio : a radio that could tune in to the bellows of whales from around the world.
Côté died young at age 35 in a diving accident. In 1974, four years after his death, his brother Cypriaque realized and released one of Cyprien’s early sketches- a sea shell empowered white-noise generator. All proceeds went to an undisclosed charity.
Does Côté’s legacy live on? A quick google search will tell you that it doesn’t, but certainly this was a man that deserves to be remembered. There are huge gaps in his career history and any evidence of his existence is welcomed.
As Côté would say: « Fête fort pour les bêtes, fête fort pour toé. »
the whalesong radio (chant des baleines), ≈ 1960
Insectes Tremoloitants, 1967
CowCows (vachement vache) , ≈ 1960
A sea shell empowered white-noise generator (un coquillage a pouvoir générateur de bruit blanc.)
Bas Koopmans
more : www.baster.nl
Bas Koopmans (1981, NL) is a very busy man. He has been like this since the first time we met, working on his own practise years before earning his Bachelor degree in Graphic Design (Utrecht School of the Arts, 2004).
I can’t tell if Bas is a good dancer himself, but his work surely is swinging. He is responsible for countless productions in the realm of the music, entertainment and art industry. With a signature that is as clever as it is obscure, he is able to spend literally hours of work on random looking details with one hand, while creating bold or sometimes even slick images with the other.
Eclectic as he is, Koopmans also co-produces the infamous DumDum parties (since 2007), was a guest teacher at the maHKU (2006-2008) and recently started FVSTER, a project in collaboration with fashion designer Femke Agema.
When creating your own professional playground is unrealistic for some of us, Baster easily succeeds at just that. Personally, I wouldn’t survive one year in his shoes. I would most likely exhaust myself sooner or later. But for Bas, he will probably manage. Maybe I should try some of his overnight dance classes, to get in better shape.
Now
Stereo
Kristoffer Myskja
more : www.kristoffermyskja.com
Kristoffer Myskja lives and works in Oslo, Norway. He graduated from the Art Academy in Oslo in 2008, finishing the BA program he started in his hometown Trondheim, in 2005. He has participated in a large number of exhibitions and has received several awards.
Giving back to the reservoir, 2010
click click, 2008
Smoking machine, 2007
Conspiring machine, 2007
Machine that uses a thousand years to shut itself down, 2006