Diesel utilized an old visual trick to woo viewers during their Spring/Summer 08 catwalk show at the Pitti Immagine Uomo fair in Florence. Pepper’s Ghost is the parlor trick developed by Henry Dircks in 1862 and used in Charles’s Dicken’s “The Haunted Man”.
Erik Kastner created Spell with flickr, an interesting script that takes text as input and searches flickr to return images of the letters contained in the word(s). I haven’t been in need of any ransom note type lately, but it’s still a fun tool to play around with.
Bob Noorda, one of Europe’s great modernists, gave a short lecture and interview at the invitation of Premsela, Museum de Beyerd and the Association of Dutch Designers (BNO). He discussed his work including design for Agip, Pirelli, Unimark, the Milan & NYC Subway signage (with Massimo Vignelli). This coincides with a small publication on Noorda from the Association of Dutch Designers (BNO) which was mailed to members.
Strange Attractors Design has been selected as 1 of the 14 nominees for the Rotterdam Design Prize, the most prestigious design award in The Netherlands.
We worked with Museum Boijmans to re-install BIG TYPE SAYS MORE, our 50 sq. meter typographic installation alongside a selection of our work from the past 2 years.
More images & info after the jump.
Finally! strangeattractors.com
We have been working for a long while on a proper way to present a large amount of our work on the web. Our own studio site is often the last thing we want to think about (making new work always trumps documenting past projects).
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen just had a great exhibition on Kurt Schwitters. It presented a large amount of his work along with work from many other notable artists and designers from the time.
There are 2 great books on Jan Tschichold that have recently been released.
We have decided to start posting studio events & thoughts on this simple blog.
