May 2009
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Architecture / Photography: The Eichlers by...
Ooh, The Eichlers! Such delicious morsels of Modern real estate greatness.
Joseph Eichler (1900 - 1974) was a California-based, post-war residential real estate developer known for building homes in the Modernist style.
Unlike many developers of the day, Joseph Eichler was a social visionary and commissioned designs primarily for middle-class Americans.
He hired the respected architect and...
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Architecture: Catherine's Palace [St. Petersburg,...
I was just watching the BBC’s Dan Cruickshank’s Adventures in Architecture. He visited the 18th Century Baroque style Catherine’s Palace which is just so beautiful, I wanted to see more and share! St. Petersburg Guide the gray monk The famed ‘Amber Room’, a replica of the original which was destroyed during WWII. In 1979, the Soviet government initiated the...
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Artist: Giovanni Battista Braccelli [Baroque...
I recently found my way over to Rare Book Room via TypeNeu.
There I was blown away by images I found of a book by Giovanni Battista Braccelli (b. between 1600–1650). He was an ‘almost unknown’ Florentine painter and engraver and the book illustrated below book remained obscure until relatively recent times.
A remarkable precursor of the radical artistic movements of the twentieth ...
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Web Sensation: Illustrator Blanca Gomez [Madrid]
Blanca Gomez is an illustrator living and working in Madrid. She has been featured heavily around the internet lately and I really love her work, so at the risk of being a bit of a Reblogger, I thought I’d pull it all together and post on it anyway, even if it’s just for my benefit.
UPPERCASE Magazine
Blanca recently illustrated the cover for UPPERCASE (‘a magazine for the...
Save the Melbourne Museum of Printing!
Oh no! The Melbourne Museum of Printing needs some help and are offering an open day on Sunday the 17th May — I will definitely be there!
About the museum:
Melbourne Museum of Printing (MMOP) is a working museum of typography and printing. Since 1993 the museums focus has been on the retention of traditional printing methods and equipment. Initially established as the Australian Type...
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Studio: Hofstede Design [Melbourne]
Hofstede design were established in 1996, and their office is located in leafy Prahran in Melbourne. They specialise in environmental, publication and identity design.
Their Talking & Teaching Type poster (below) for Tobias Frere-Jones’ Melbourne visit caught my eye this morning as I browsed through TypeNeu.
I particularly enjoy the way a collection of artifacts that use Hoefler &...
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Artist: Catherine Campbell [Melbourne]
Catherine Campbell runs herself a little Etsy store filled with treasures like these little gems:
From Diamond Pullovers set
‘Curious Adventures on the High Seas’ 2007 - Print Set
Searching for Romantic Icecream Moments & detail
Visit her blog at myfolklover.typepad.com and Etsy store called myfolklover.
April 2009
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Studio: Ma + Chr [France]
Ma + Chr is a French design duo of Mathilde Aubier + Christine Delaquaize.
According to their website, they like “little dogs, riding bicycles and decorating”.
I thoroughly enjoyed my little visit to their site this morning, not least because I can’t even remember how I got there. Here is a selection of their work that I loved:
A work from their January 2009 Exhibition...