LIBRARY

An image from the Bidoun Library at the Serpentine Gallery in London, from last summer. I still love the spacial and sort of trompe l'oeil effects of this arrangement.

MATH

From my MA work, Distillates Wallpapers on display at the Rochelle School. Photo by Siyu Chen.

DISTILLATES

My Distillates Wallpaper series is up right now at the Rochelle School in London, until Thursday. 

1991

COMPANY

I like these two projects from London-based Company.

NEW

Check out this A0 poster available from New Garde. Use as desktop wall paper or print and hang. Download here.

1972

Was just watching Woody Allen's Play It Again Sam, a film from 1972 set in San Francisco. The interiors feel kind of familiar, I guess it's the California vibe coming through. I'm trying to imagine the reception of the same poster if it were designed today -- love the cut out silhouette mixed with the super 70s style drawing.

SWISS MUSEUM POSTERS

Found here.

NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM

Pitt-Rivers Museum in Oxford is directly behind and connected to the Oxford Museum of Natural History (see: pyrite). Here's a poster I designed commemorating a recent visit.

POSTER

I'm really into this poster for Sofia Coppola's new movie. The title and actor's names perfectly frame the "place" in question. Kind of brilliant. Anyone know who designed it?

LATEST CRUSH: CRAIG OLDHAM

Olé? Thanks, Craig Oldham. 

ARCHITECTURE LIVE POSTER SERIES

Designed Paulus Dreibholz and printed by Olivia Sautreuil. Found these on publisher Gaffa Design's site. The event, which happened in 2009, is long over but these posters are not.

DAVID CARSON

Remember him? At one time so prevalent, and now so incredibly foreign.

IT IS

MARTIN KIPPENBERGER

Prolific German artist Martin Kippenberger made his own exhibition posters, which are perhaps more beautiful than the rest of his work. I could easily fill a wall with these. On looking for a collection of the posters in book form, I found Martin Kippenberger: The Complete Posters, but it was published in 1998 and is therefore annoyingly out of print. In 2007 Dickinson Gallery published a book of Kippenberger's exhibition posters and invitations but that seems to be unavailable as well. Posters aside, a wall of his other, and very eclectic, work resembles a wall of strange and bad artwork in a cafe, but that is most certainly part of it's charm. All of it is currently filed under WANT.

PAN AM

Recently posted over at Eye Magazine's Blog, the story of Pan Am's Helvetica posters, designed by Chermayeff & Geismar in 1971/72. I'm a big fan of photo and type, so these, of course, in combination with the 70s slight desaturation, are completely gorgeous. Find more on the Eye's flickr page.

TOXEL

TOXEL, an innovation and design blog, showcases projects featuring unusual materials or contrasting ideas. Top: Camouflage yourself with a poster. Middle: Brown bear sleeping bag. Bottom: bread shoes.