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MONO.CONTRIBUTORS #05: STUDIO8

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

We’d been wanting to work with London’s Studio8 for quite some time but never quite dared to ask – after all, they’d ascended into the top league of editorial design a few years ago, with titles such as our favourite Port magazine (which they co-publish) or the indispensable illustration/design bible Elephant to their name, and [...]

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GUGGENHEIM GEMS

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Imprint’s August Heffner reports the exciting news that the Guggenheim has digitized a host of out-of-print catalogues. This is wonderful news: not only are these publications valuable scholarly resources, but together they form an inspirational treasure trove (no surprise, considering so many were designed by Herbert Matter). Look at that Klimt \<>/ Schiele cover!

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SLIMTARRA

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Need a change in 2012?
We recommend the SLIMTARRA wallpapers!
SLIM means clever, smart, cute in Dutch. And SLIM means slender or thin in English.
TARRA (Dutch for tare weight, empty weight, dead weight) is a nice word, like DADA or ANNA BLUME.
Every little while Extrapool in Nijmegen (Netherhlands) invites artists to design a SLIMTARRA wallpaper. The wallpaper [...]

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MONO.PUNKT #14: WHAT WE MAKE WITH WORDS

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

This nice exhibition around words – aptly subtitled What We Make With Words – has been going on at Glasgow’s venerable Centre for Contemporary Art for almost two weeks now, but what’s really exciting to us is the adjoining art book fair taking place this Saturday, including yours truly, live and in the flesh. Because [...]

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THE VOICE KNITTING COLLECTION

Saturday, December 3, 2011

No Christmas presents yet?
Translate your favorite song or personal audio message into knitting patterns (orders until tomorrow will arrive in time for Christmas). The perfect scarf, cardigan, pullover, skirt, or blanket for music-lovers.
Trikoton, created in Berlin, is more than just a fashion label: as an interdisciplinary team, trikoton explores new ways of generative design and [...]

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MONO.CONTRIBUTORS #04: NODE BERLIN OSLO

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Since they just launched their beautiful new website, what better moment to mention our friends at Node Berlin Oslo, the acclaimed design studio based in, erm, Berlin and Oslo. Talk about trans-European partnership here, but the climate remains the same: cold and grey. Node, in the meantime, are kind people, and they are one of [...]

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TRAVEL LONGINGS

Monday, November 28, 2011

Anywhere – A Travel Guide – “This is a travel guide that will hopefully lead you to places you have never seen before—though you may visit them every day. A place you have forgotten, a place you have never searched for or a place that does not exist.” With my longings for travel and adventure [...]

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MONO.PUNKT #13: MISS READ

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Ah yes, it’s that time of the year again: Idealistic young men and women flock to the grey pastures of Berlin to unleash their pretty books and magazines on art and the like on idealistic young men and women who can think of nothing better to do on a weekend than browse pretty books on [...]

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LIGHTNING VEST

Thursday, November 17, 2011

The Lightning Vest is one cool (and practical too) bike accessory that I’ve recently come across. It’s a hand-netted, highly visible safety vest made from a custom developed 3M reflective material. I want one!

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LIGHTSCAPES

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Much talk has been made of art and fashion in these past few years, mostly in a superficial and unsatisfying way. More sense makes a recent collaboration by Belgian fashion designer Dries van Noten, cover star of our issue #20, and photographer James Reeve: when van Noten discovered Reeve’s beautiful Lightscapes, a series of night [...]

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