November Next week, on November 19th, the latest German-Polish Award will be presented to two organizations in Berlin. We have redesigned the award certificate which will be given to the winners in the name of the German and Polish governments. The prize has, in previous years, been given to individuals and organisations who have done good for the relationship between the two countries.
November Slowly but steadily the visual identity we designed for Berlin and Salzburg based Anah architects is being implemented.
More to come sooner or later. October Books, books, books. We are working on four new publications in total, but have a feeling they still have a way to go May We recently designed several items for the 30th birthday of the Second Hand Records shop of our friends in Stuttgart. Also, good to see that our cover design survived a marketing process on the other side of the world! Thank you to our hosts — we had a great time out there! The show is open between — until on Saturdays and closed on Sundays and national holidays admission is free.
From 2, entries from 43 countries, from 18 countries were selected. The page newspaper publication documents the mammoth task of the breaking of the RFA Grey Rover at Canada Docks, Liverpool during and through a sequence of jumbled-up images by photographer Tim Mitchell. November The holding page we designed for Anah is now online. Anah is an architectural and landscaping practice based in Salzburg and soon in Berlin.
It is also a magazine. For more answers about Anah , visit www. There were also a lot of calligraphy welcoming ceremonies and welcome dinners. I like Chinese!
Visitors can follow his journeys chronologically by clicking on the dates, geographically by clicking on the locations, or thematically by clicking on the words silently spoken in his head.
Thank you to Chris Brown for the programming. Visitors can therefore choose between the two, or browse both without a structure being imposed on them. Thank you to Simon French for the programming. In the meantime, the proof reader has been pretty busy correcting the final, final, final proof. For a full list of the winners visit the Creative Review Blog. What's next — a Golden Cage? For other awards we have won this season read here. Images include a sign post, snow, a dead cow, and at the highest peak, some graffiti.
More about the event here. May We are very happy to see our website for painter Clare Chapman, www. The design breaks down the painting caption into its component parts title, year, size, materials to use as the website navigation. Thank you to Chris Brown for the development. April We recently presented our new book, I used to be a design student , along with thoughts about our student and professional work at the University of Darmstadt in Germany where Frank is also professor of Graphic Design.
For a full list of winners click here or for information on the selection process view the video below. March It's been great to see our first ever book to hang on a wall at the Design Museum today, selected for the Design Museum Designs of the Year Awards.
Whoever buys a copy gets a Zumtobel Annual thrown in for free. More information on the exhibition here. Lots of great responses by the students, it was fun being back. February The time has come! So please come along if you are free! From 6. Richard Walker from KK Outlet and Tim Balaam from Hyperkit will then give us an insight into their student years also at Camberwell and what has happened in their professional lives since.
This should all last approximately an hour; then there will be drinks. You will find more information on the book here and here. And here are ways of buying the book online.
January Happy New Year! You can read more about the shortlist at the Creative Review Blog. More information about the Designs of the Year exhibition to follow. Published by Laurence King and officially launching on February 18th , it features the student and professional work as well as past and current influences of 50 graphic designers. The book offers a rare chance to find out how graphic designers feel about their education and profession and gives the low-down about their student days and their professional lives.
A piece of their college work is shown alongside an example of their current work. The German book launch will be on the 24th and 25th of April, 7pm at the faculty of design, Hochschule Darmstadt, Olbrichweg 10, Darmstadt, www. To buy the book online go to amazon.
More news to follow in February November Our latest catalogue for Anish Kapoor has just arrived from the printers. September The German half of Brighten the Corners has moved into the woods. Our new studio is in the Odenwald region near Darmstadt and Frankfurt. Click here for map and contact details. August Since March, we have been working with Anish Kapoor on the Annual Report of lighting company Zumtobel , and the results have recently arrived from the printers.
The issue, focussing on the London Olympics, is out on July 28, A total of 10 standard and bespoke neon colours blending, overprinting and bleeding. The finished item is due in July May Click here to find further information. April In Frank took a 6-month sabbatical away from his responsibilities at Hochschule Darmstadt to research a topic he has always been interested in: design and attitude.
During this time, he interviewed over designers from all over the world, asking them professional and personal questions in equal measure and collecting examples of their student and professional work. We are delighted that the resulting book, is in the pipeline as a Laurence King publication to be released on 18th April More information to come March We are currently working on the design for the annual report of international lighting solutions company Zumtobel.
The report will be released this summer. More information to come soon. The winners will be featured in the book Typography 32 and in an exhibition in New York mid-year. January We have just finished working on the communication design for Everything Must Go, a three-day exhibition following the journeys of worn clothing as they are sold for reuse and recycling across the world.
The show brings invisible global waste economies into public view, explores the people involved and the impact these businesses have upon their lives, and questions our ability to control, contain and curtail waste. November Some of our old work has been featured in the new issue No. The moment was captured by Kai von Rabenau.
August New studio, new year almost , and a new visual identity. Our fluorescent stationery just arrived from the printers in Germany. We opted for a loose and simple approach to the layout, occasionally contrasting the dark and bloody subject matter with interruptions of light Pantone yellow neon.
May After one year in the making we are really happy to announce the launch of the new website for Anish Kapoor with us having developed the concept, design and programming. It is a very simple, 2-level website, but with lots and lots of content. Simple but dense. Hope you enjoy it. We are very happy to see this site come to life! In the background of the poster one can read the entire German history according to Wikipedia and set in 6pt Times. A microsite for the competition will go online in two weeks time.
May Bye-Bye! After having worked on this for the past 10 years almost the entire life span of Brighten the Corners it is time to say good bye.
The next issue will be in an electronic format and so far we haven't been asked to do this. So this is a double good bye April We have just been designing the latest identity and call for entries for the Allianz Business to Art Awards This is the fourth year since it all came to life and it's yet another play on the logo which we designed five years ago.
The magazine is currently being printed, and launches on April 28th. March Conversations about Culture, a book containing the conversations about culture and the arts by people all over Ireland, has been published by Business to Arts , Dublin. Boz gathered all the material over a one-week period and we have designed the resulting book in collaboration with Ben Branagan. Photographs by Matthew Thompson. March We have been asked by Barcelona based design publisher Index Book to select work for a publication featuring interesting design projects completed during the past year.
The name of the publication is Selected B. With editing and production based in Berlin, the new magazine will offer in-depth coverage of contemporary art and culture throughout Germany, Austria and Switzerland while closely following the international artist communities in this region.
And another one in the category Poster for the work we have done for a screening of the film Kippenberger at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Design. January We designed the directional billboard ads in Stuttgart city centre and all graphics vinyl signage, bags, posters and postcards for the new store of Second Hand Records in Stuttgart.
For more information on Second Hand Records click here. It also includes a conversation with the exhibition curators, Andrea Rose and Greg Hilty, essays by Homi Bhabha and Nancy Adajania, and an extensive, illustrated chronology. All text was printed in red.
For more information about the exhibitions in Delhi and Mumbai and an interview with Anish Kapoor click one of these links. A dummy has been designed and the publisher is presently exploring the market potential for such a release. Everything is confidential at the moment, more information to follow if everything goes ahead November The bus shelter ads, billboards and posters we designed for the Anish Kapoor exhibition in India are going up in the streets of New Delhi and Mumbai.
For press about the exhibitions click on these links. November This Friday and Saturday, 12th — 13th November, we are opening our drawers once again to sell our products at the Small Publishers Fair. We have a little stall together with Tom Gauld see news below. The fair is open from 11am to 7pm each day and admission is free. October We have just designed and produced the latest project — 12 Postcards — by Tom Gauld. Click here for more information about this publication. Click here for more information on this book.
Click here to buy this issue on the Okido website. Hi Brighten the Corners, My friend bought me the Inbox prints for my birthday and got them shipped to Australia.
I got them framed this week and I just wanted to pass on this photo to show you how rad they look. I just love them. Kind Regards, Tara. Drawing on the rich cultural heritage of the Philippines and the participatory nature of the organisation, we used a system of overlapping colours to develop illustrations and a set of different logos.
Click here to visit the Business to Arts website. May Pavement the band played Brixton Academy on May 13th, a few metres down the road from our studio. May Show Down, 12 hours of conflict, is an exhibition with projections, sound, films and performances designed and organised by 22 students of the Faculty of Design, University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt Germany. Many kisses. Our contribution to the collection was a typographical interpretation of a 3-minute interview with Tenzin Lose into a page booklet.
All proceeds go to the Tibet Relief Fund. Click here for an article about Okido on the Guardian website, and here to buy the latest issue. March Eat the cow! We developed the logo, stationery, promotional literature and website for Chez Vous, a complete home dining experience in Athens created by French chef Tony Mordelet and hospitality professional Eirene Kollintza.
Our design plays with the idea of cooking as an art that brings different elements together. For more information email info chezvous. Please let the flowers live! The publication deals with the question of what is good, bad and ugly design and whether one can give answers of that kind.
The show ends on 30 April In a rare moment, he actually seems to be revealing something about himself. But even the most sedentary tunes on Brighten the Corners have at least a few pleasures details that reveal themselves on repeated listenings: a precious melody here, a wicked pun caught in a skewed guitar riff there.
After six years, Pavement have made a clean, well-lighted album. Rolling Stone is a part of Penske Media Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Newswire Powered by. Close the menu. Posted by Maplesyruple at PM No comments:. Friday, May 18, Baby Talk. We've got a lot of new stuff to get through today so I think I'll post this in multiple parts, without too much commentary. Of all that's here, I think the new Spoon album is by far the best.
Even Ozzie has a new leaked album but I'll only post if I have time Enjoy! Posted by Maplesyruple at AM. Tuesday, May 8, Nooo! Geez, late again. OK, still kind of a slow week for the new releases. No time yet to listen but there's a song on here about Mesopotamians that I'm looking forward to hearing. First we've got a great introduction to a solid band -- Pavement. One or two songs might sound familiar to you and yes, most of the songs sound the same, but still I think a great album.
It may have been released last year, but how can I not post a concept album about robot horses programmed to think they're real who are struggling in the aftermath of a war between humans and angels?!! This has actually gotten some good reviews; of course Pitchfork likes them but so does Rolling Stone.
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