Twitter Roundup: Week of 12 January.
Pinch. A Design Office. produces a daily Twitter stream we call @Pinch_Bespoke. The premise is simple: six tweets a day on issues related to brand, design, and sustainability. Last week looked at Nick Felton's new tool Daytum, brewer Stella Artois, legendary designers Florence Knoll Bassett and Wim Crouel and the young conquistador, Nacho Carbonell. Of course we added a few projects of our own and we basked in recognition from two of our favorites: Visuelle and minimalsites. Follow along with us and don't be shy. If there is anything that we can do to improve this service, we want to hear from you.
- Revisit:
- We've shared this with you before, but needed another look. Half-life: 25 years of books from Triangular Press.
- Giggle:
- You know that The Modern Materialist cracks us up. And it's Friday. So by all means, Play Guitar Like a Dick.
- Strive:
- I.D. Magazine's Fiona Rattray with Emerging Designers I.D. 40 issue and Spanish designer Nacho Carbonell. More.
- Traverse:
- Royal Mail's British Design Classics moves from Mini to miniskirt in their nod to Britain's cultural heritage.
- Submit:
- Art Directors Club ADC88 extends professional submission deadline to Jan. 23. Students deadline; Jan. 30.
- Broadcast:
- Leading up to the inauguration, Stephen hosts Shepard Fairey on The Colbert Report. And rightly pimps Obey.
- Rewrap:
- Quite a few years old and still timely. Northwest Film Center Film & Video Festival circulars from '93-'94.
- Share:
- Creative Commons works to increase creative content to the public for free and legal sharing, use, repurposing.
- Commend:
- Italy's Leftloft. Print, Web, Editorial, Identity, Infographics, Packaging, Signage, Type, Environments. Nice.
- Track:
- Annual Report(er) Nicholas Felton and Ryan Case introduce Daytum to collect, display and communicate daily data.
- Raise:
- Tent London, Woking's Lightbox gallery, Art Fund announce £100,000 competition for 2009 London Design Festival.
- Grow:
- Pinch pal Michael Buchino celebrates one year of beards in the style of Milton Glaser. Limited edition poster $20.
- Review:
- Last week's Twitter roundup, illustrator Matte Stephens (Tuesday Flickr Set), and wind power goes fast. Bespoke.
- Challenge:
- Redesigning America’s Future represents design policy proposals to help face economic and democratic hurdles.
- Proffer:
- Europe by Designers extends its deadline in asking creatives, "what does Europe mean to you?" Submit by Jan 16.
- Contemplate:
- Oslo's Jan Michl On Seeing Design as Redesign. An Exploration of a Neglected Problem in Design Education.
- Learn:
- Elif Ayiter's The History of Visual Communication. From Aldus Manutius to El Lisitzky. From caves to computers.
- Read:
- Cold War Modern Design '45-'70. Politics defined one front of the Cold War. Creative conflict flared on another.
- Download:
- Divided into Intangible and Tangible issues, the Vignelli Canon available. Digital edition PDF. Via @buchino.
- Check:
- Lürzer's Archive. For design trends in music, packaging, catalogs and brochures, illustration, and photography.
- Question:
- What Does AIGA Do with What It Hears? And How Does It Respond? Richard Grefé answers. (If I had a nickel...)
- Honor:
- Heller on Pierre Mendell, poster artist/designer who presided over visual ID for The Intl Design Museum Munich.
- Persevere:
- With roots from 1366, Belgium's Stella Artois is a study in endurance. A brand with undeniable staying power.
- Blush:
- Thanks to minimalsites, one our favorite sources of inspiration, for supporting Pinch. A Design Office. Again.
- Refer:
- New Zealand's Experimenta Design & Typography is modern typographic design and art direction rooted in the arts.
- Assign:
- MIT's Sherry Turkle on the periodic table and LEGOs as art. The Romance (and role) of Objects for SEED Magazine.
- Admire:
- Florence Knoll Bassett — minimalist architect, furniture designer, visionary — and the company bearing her name.
- Examine:
- An enlightening video with Dutch designer Wim Crouwel at Galerie Anatome, Paris, February 2007. Via TypeDesk.
- Retell:
- "Design is not making beauty. Beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love." Louis Kahn.
- Appreciate:
- We are pleased and humbled that This Studio's David Bennett recognized Pinch. A Design Office. at Visuelle.