Twitter Roundup: Week of 26 January.
By now you know how Pinch_Bespoke works; six tweets a day on issues related to brand, design, and sustainability. Last week Alltop found us and we found sources Illo and Motionographer, and Carsten Nicolai's upcoming Grid Index, due out soon. We reminded you about designer Hans Gugelot, who lived a way-too-brief forty five years. No big surprises in seeing quotes from Tschichold and Updike. And like we like to do, we felt compelled to post a few samples of our work and reflect on the constant mumble bubbling up from the studio floor.
- Align:
- Carsten Nicolai declares that Grid Index is the first comprehensive visual lexicon of patterns and grid systems.
- Divulge:
- Well, he's done it again. The Feltron 2008 Annual Report from, you guessed it, Nicholas Felton. Cool Hunting.
- Construct:
- Brand is the book. Pinch defines typographic standards for our friends at Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts.
- Capture:
- Urban Transformation explores urban conditions by way of 50 international architects, artists, and planners.
- Survey:
- Daily Type is the work of several Russian type designers, creating and posting typographic results and routines.
- Move:
- Motionographer seeks to be a source of inspiration for filmmakers, animators and designers. We just like it.
- Discover:
- Pinch's initial brand development efforts for Fios, the industry leader in the field of electronic discovery.
- Agree:
- Hans Gugelot believed good design was not merely a means to boost sales but was rather a cultural necessity.
- Fuse:
- The Museum of Arts and Design inaugurated its new Columbus Circle home with Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary.
- Repost:
- Better late than never (especially when it's us who is late). Netdiver Magazine's Best of the Year (BOTY) 2008.
- Quote:
- "Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better." John Updike, writer/critic.
- Opine:
- John L. Walters (for Eye Blog) on Barack, Marvin and John. And Miles. Appearance and bridging the visual divide.
- Record:
- And speaking of tonight's 1000 Journals event, Michael Bierut recalls 26 Years, 85 Notebooks. Via @davidairey.
- Reminisce:
- The Berlin Type Museum (The Buchstabenmuseum) offers respect to the fallen signs of our past. Via Parachute.
- Expound:
- Eric Karjaluoto suggests that the future of the web is getting small(er). Who are we to disagree? ideasonideas.
- Furnish:
- Palette Industries expands upon the function of type. And we admit to being a bit partial to the Dharma Lounge.
- Contribute:
- We're humbled that Pinch's Bespoke has been selected by Alltop as one of their Top Design News feeds.
- Represent:
- Illo is a full-color art magazine devoted to the field of contemporary illustration. Michael Cho cover art.
- Participate:
- Join AIGA Portland tonight (Wednesday) at the Cleaners at the Ace Hotel for 1000 Journals. We'll be there.
- Reflect:
- After apprenticeships with Gio Ponti and Emilio Lancia, designer Franco Albini merged modernism with tradition.
- Shape:
- "Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy." Jan Tschichold.
- Share:
- What is it that makes us tick? A statement of purpose from yours truly, at Pinch. A design office. A desiderata.
- Build:
- A Green Dot Award winner, Randy Brown's Hidden Creek Eco-Village takes the idea of living smart a bit further.
- Observe:
- The Bauhaus School of Architecture and Design studies Scotland's "new town" Cumbernauld, as sole European case.
- Reappraise:
- We revisit a late, lamented Fortune 500 wood products concern, Willamette Industries. Annuals; 1996–1998.
- Foreclose:
- An assault on both resources and responsibility. Popular Mechanics presses IBS Vegas and their green giant.
- Unite:
- The Oregonian's Barry Johnson addresses the design of the "merger" between Museum of Contemporary Craft and PNCA.
- Celebrate:
- Happy Chinese New Year from Pinch. And we welcome the Year of the Ox, which symbolizes calm, hard work, resolve, and tenacity.
- Read:
- Initiation in Typography "arouses curiosity through an elaborate aesthetic, discloses the magic of typography."
- Trust:
- The Designers Republic is Dead; Long Live the Designers Republic. CR on the (temporary) demise of an institution.