The Vignellis’ contributions to design have included everything from book design to furniture design. Whether it's identities for Bloomingdales, United Colors of Benetton, American Airlines, their environmental and product design and one of the most beloved renditions of the New York City Subway map. Today we show to Massimo Vignelli explaining his approach to book design in a video produced for Mohawk's "What Will You Make Today?" campaign. Video design by Michael Bierut/Pentagram.
“The grid is an integral part of book design,” says Massimo Vignelli. “It’s not something that you see. It’s just like underwear: you wear it, but it’s not to be exposed. The grid is the underwear of the book.”
Massimo Vignelli. In 1931 he was born in Milan, he studied architecture in Milan and...
"All The Buildings In New York" is a personal project of James Gulliver Hancock. An illustrator from Australia now based between Sydney, and New York. This project stems from an interest in obsession and recording of places. New York holds a special place in everyone’s heart, romanticized from Seasame Street and old movies like Rear Window and Breakfast at Tiffany’s. In his blog records an attempt to make the city personal by passing a pen over every structure, hopefully making up for the time not spent in New York.
The book features a whole bunch of building drawings not featured on the blog, this is an amazing hard cover book put out by the art book experts Rizzoli/Universe.
James Gulliver Hancock is an artist and illustrator. His work has been exhibited in galleries worldwide, and he has worked with a wide variety of high-profile clients, including Coca-Cola,...
We published yesterday an app for rough calcs in structures and today this other app is focused in design. "Morpholio" 2.0 is the latest version of a project that provides several tools that allow users a new way to work on all kinds of graphic documents. Designed also for sharing files, transforming, editing, making comments... is organized into several categories according to the actions to do and the types of design.
The Morpholio Project unveils seven new and forward thinking design tools with the launch of Morpholio 2.0, the App Store’s number one portfolio app. The app re-imagines the portfolio as a design utility, moving it into the fast, flexible, at-your-fingertips device era. The project seeks to advance the ways that creatives access, share, discuss, and get feedback on their work from a global community of users.
Designed and built by the office of Oyler Wu Collaborative along with students of the Southern California Institute of Architecture, Stormcloud is the third project in a series of installations designed for SCI-ARC.
Project Description.
The previous two installations, Netscape and Centerstage were designed for the school's graduation ceremonies in 2011 and 2012 respectively. With SCI-Arc celebrating its 40th anniversary, the school commissioned the new pavilion for the after-party of its April 2013 gala. Tasked with the...
Dream Downtown Hotel is a 184,000 SF boutique hotel in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City. The 12-story building includes 316 guestrooms, two restaurants, rooftop and VIP lounges, outdoor pool and pool bar, a gym, event space, and ground floor retail.
Dream sits on a though-block site, fronting both 16th and 17th Streets, and is adjacent to the Maritime Hotel. In 2006, Handel Architects was engaged to convert the main annex for the National Maritime Union of America headquarters, designed by Albert Ledner, into the Dream Downtown Hotel.
Along the 17th Street exposure, the sloped façade was clad in stainless steel tiles, which were placed in a running bond pattern like the...
Jazz. New York in the Roaring Twenties. This week was held the Jazz's night and we have found that this book TASCHEN, is perfect, was an excellent choice and also it reminds our METALOCUS-TASCHEN contest.
It’s the Roaring Twenties, and New York is exploding with jazz fever. Crowds flock to the nightclubs and dance halls in Harlem to see the likes of Louis Armstrong with the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra playing at the Kentucky Club, or Duke Ellington at the Roseland Ballroom or the world-famous Cotton Club. Designed, illustrated, and edited by Robert Nippoldt, this award-winning book pays homage to this exceptional era, via an entertaining blend of...
Presented as the first Flea Market in Madrid, breaking away from what we know traditionally by a regular flea Market and out of other standart known markets, Mercado de Motores moves us over a place where it renewals its old time and able to hold up a Vintage style and a "retro" inspiration.
A place that has a huge engines that served as power generators for Metro de Madrid infrastructure to almost 1930. Fortunately there were not destroyed but kept and preserved, helped by the fact that they were housed in a industrial unit declared Cultural designed by Antonio Palacios, architect of buildings known as the Círculo de...
A canvas shaped chair with a drawing of a chair. It can be used by leaning against a wall. A frame made of wood and aluminum is covered by an elastic fabric printed with texture of a canvas and a drawing of chair. There are 3 types of size, a stool, an armchair and a sofa.
The “Canvas” series was designed by YOY, a relatively new design firm established in 2011 by Naoki Ono and Yuuki Yamamoto. Presented last week at Milano Salone, the canvases have yet to make their way into your nearest furniture shop, but hopefully we will soon be able to replace all our foldaway chairs that are stashed in every nook...
Westcosast is a 7-minute video directed, edited, photographed and written by Ulu Braun, mounted in 2009, was presented recently at the gallery YoungProjects in Los Angeles. 7 minutes that let you think. Braun is known for his painterly approach to video and film-based artworks and has shown at numerous film festivals and museums alike.
Settled between film, video, collage and animation, an image detail pans a digitally mounted tableau that offers humans and animals space for their existence. From a bubbling primordial soup, eminiscent of Tarkovsky's Solaris, the panorama shot glides along the coast. The central point is a seaport, built in the style of the late financial eclecticism and utilised by bizarre-seeming pachyderms, outlandish...
Designed and built for the launch of COLORS #86 - Making the News, the COLORS News Machine churns your tweets through different media filters and into print, simulating the contemporary 24-hour news cycle.
The new issue has been presented at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy. The News Machine, an interactive installation designed and created by young talents at FABRICA, will also engage festival attendees from April 24th to 28th at the Spazio Cantarelli in Piazza della Repubblica 9. The installation is in continual motion,...
