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HORZON HORIZON

Monday, July 12, 2010

Rafael Horzon is a bit of an enigma in Berlin – famous for his one and only book shelf system, which is, well, why don’t we call it minimal. Horzon is the kind of furniture designer that makes the kind of furniture that anyone would come up with. Only he makes it better. So buying [...]

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DE ZINES

Friday, June 25, 2010

De Zines, a new exhibition focusing on the theme of cultural production and publication is opening next week, in Madrid. mono.kultur is being featured among another 400 hundred international (and very appealing) titles like Apartamento, Cabinet, dot dot dot, It’s Nice That, Many Stuff, …
De Zines aims not to create simple traffic but to [...]

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BEYOND PETROL

Saturday, June 19, 2010

And if you’d prefer to get creatively involved in the political protest against BP’s sloppy handling of their oil drilling, the ubiquitous Greenpeace have launched an open competition in redesigning BP’s annoyingly green logo. Abuse at your leisure.

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DRUGI OBIEG / SECOND CIRCULATION

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Apparently after the big success of Samizdat workshop, which took place in Lisbon few months ago, Marco Balesteros and Sofia Gonçalves continued their partnership in setting up and running workshops and educational programs centered around the themes of publishing, content distribution and editorial activity. This time in Germany, they’re developing along with Michael Satter a [...]

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THE ART OF CONVERSATION

Monday, June 14, 2010

We like design, we like the exchange of views and collaborations, we like London, we like Berlin – The Art of Conversation feels almost custom-made. Bank in Berlin and Inventory in London invited 10 graphic design studios each in Berlin and London to engage in a visual game of Chinese Whispers, including regular mono.kultur contributors [...]

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DIGITAL ARCHAEOLOGY

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

While reading about Web visuals I came across this article from designer and critic Max Bruinsma, for Eye magazine, about The 1st International Browserday, a design student competition which took place in 1998, in Amsterdam, based on the concept of reinventing Netscape’s browser, from its roots to visuals.
The article features some of the 38 designs [...]

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LESSONS IN MAGAZINES #06: PIN-UP

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Personally, I’ve never understood why architecture, obviously an art that has an immediate impact on our daily lives and thus a truly popular genre, has always been hiding behind a nebular cloud of abstract and highly intellectual, and all too often pretentious, vocabulary. And so it’s been wonderfully invigorating to see an architecture publication indulge [...]

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COMING SOON TO THE WEB: MORE FONTS

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Despite its promise of horizonless opportunity, the web has proven to be a desert of diversity. Aside from a few diehard fringe-dwellers, the world uses one search engine, one encyclopedia, one video channel and one social networking site.
Typographically, the web has been equally limited. Web designers have been forced to use only those fonts which [...]

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EVOLVED GARDENING

Friday, May 21, 2010

It really comes with little surprise that it took an antipodean to turn the world of indoor plants upside down and on its head.  With New Zealand-born Patrick Morris’ awarding winning Boskke Skyplanter you can now harvest your ceiling.  And not only is this fabulous planter saving you floor space, it will also reduce your [...]

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GRID COLLAPSE

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Carsten Nicolai is a busy man: not only is the Berlin-based artist currently in the process of transforming the façade of the Temporäre Kunsthalle in Berlin, he also has a new show opening at The Pace Gallery in New York this Thursday exploring moirés, the visual interference of conflicting grid systems. The exhibition will also [...]

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