Strange Attractors featured in Items Magazine
Our work was featured in the portfolio section of the latest issue of Items Magazine, accompanied by an article written by Max Bruinsma
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Strange Attractors design for the Design Platform Rotterdam
As part of the identity we developed for the Design Platform Rotterdam we are designing a series of essays (publications) which discuss design from broad perspectives.
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Strange Attractors in March issue of Design
Our work was featured in the Dutch Graphic Design Issue, #369, of the Korean magazine, Design.
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Strange Attractors awarded by Type Directors Club
Facing China was awarded a certificate of Typographic Excellence by the Type Directors Club and will be featured in their annual publication as well as the traveling exhibition.
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Strange Attractors contribute to Eye Magazine #68
We are happy to be contributors to Eye Magazine’s article ‘Who cares about graphic design history?’ from issue #68.
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NEW ROTTERDAM OFFICE IS FINALLY OPEN!
It has been a long time coming, and we are very happy to finally be in our new studio in the Schiecentrale building on the Rotterdam harbor.
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Strange Attractors in 'icons of graphic design'
We are honored to be included in ‘icons of graphic design’ by Steven Heller and Mirko Ilic.
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Strange Attractors work at Brno Biennial 2008
5 pieces of our work were selected to be exhibited in the 23RD International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno 2008, from June 17th until October 19th, and chronicled the accompanying print catalog.
Read more about the 23RD International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno 2008 here.
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Strange Attractors + Croatia = 4 Lectures, 1 Workshop
Custom poster triptych announcing the events.
Typonine recently hosted us in beautiful Croatia to give a series of lectures for the University of Zagreb, UMAS plus two lectures and a workshop for Bruketa & Zinic.
View more images from Croatia here.
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Private Collection of Contemporary Chinese Art
We had the opportunity to work with a private collector of Contemporary Chinese Art, Fu Ruide, in the design, editing and publishing of an overview of his impressive collection.
Read more about Facing China here.
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Typographic Installation on Broadway
We designed a typographic installation for the new downtown office of Q Model Management on Broadway, in Tribeca.
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NYC Studio Opens!
Strange Attractors Design recently opened a new studio in Manhattan, NYC.
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Diesel catwalk uses 19th century parlor trick
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 “The Haunted Man” (Charles Dickens).
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Spell with flickr (aka ransom note type)
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.
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Bob Noorda lecture and publication
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.
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Strange Attractors in the Rotterdam Design Prize Exhibition
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.
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New & Updated Website
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).
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Kurt Schwitters Exhibition & Catalog
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.
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New Tschichold books
There are 2 great books on Jan Tschichold that have recently been released.
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