In 2050, over three quarters of the world’s population will live in cities.
This book investigates the links between the physical and the social in cities. It is not an academic exercise, but one that stems from a sense of urgency that
something needs to be done to address the dynamics of urban change described by the statistics on the front cover.
Roger Excoffon French typeface designer and graphic designer.
In 1947 he formed his own advertising agency and concurrently became design director of a small foundry in Marseille called Fonderie Olive. Later he co-founded the prestigious Studio U+O (a reference to Urbi et Orbi).
Excoffon’s best known faces are Mistral and Antique Olive, the latter which he designed in the period 1962–1966. Air France was one of Excoffon’s largest and most prestigious clients.
Here is a preview of David Rault’s new book on Excoffon.
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Beautiful editorial and information design for zukunftsinstitut österreich, 2010 by Christoph Almasy.
View more here: http://www.almasy.at/index.php?/projects/oesterreich-2025/
The Natural Object is an amazing work produced by designer and visual Communicator
Ashleigh Maule-ffinch.
“The water industry and the shifting parameters of how water is ‘sold’ to us shape the foundation of this work. Contained within this vital resource is the story of an industry, a public and a body politic, fighting to assert their own profitable ideas of what water should mean to us. And as designers and consumers, we will all inevitably be responsible for the outcome of this battle: a human right and need or a marketer’s blue gold.
Countering the industry’s commercial construction of reality, this book is a content focused, visual investigation of the true reality behind the ‘pure, healthy, convenient’ image of bottled water; an expose of the control exerted through visual culture over today’s society.”
Ashleigh Maule-ffinch
You can see more of Ashleigh’s work here: http://ashleighffinch.com/
Follow her on twitter @affinch
Cutting Edges documents the new heyday of collage in current art and visual culture. Today’s artists, illustrators, and designers are increasingly drawn to this artistic technique by the challenges of seamlessly melding traditional craftsmanship with skilled computer montage. They are not only composing a wide variety of visual elements, but are also deliberately omitting, deleting, and destroying them. This book is an inspiring collection of these unique examples of contemporary collage.
James Gallagher one of the book author on Creating and Curating Contemporary Collage
Book editor website: http://www.gestalten.com/
( via clark magazine )