error101/graphic design

Core77 2008 Gift Guide is a real eye candy even if i've exhausted my new year's budget some time ago.) nevertheless, maybe i'll squeeze in one or two of these items anyway.

"While some may not be aware of this inspiring three-dimensional memorial to typography, many are familiar with its creator, Lou Dorfsman. The CBS cafeteria wall is as legendary as its visionary designer and art director. Conceived in the mid-1960s and ultimately completed in 1966, the expansive wall, spanning over 35-feet wide and 8-feet tall, is a national design treasure. In producing the wall Dorfsman enlisted support from life-long friend and design legend Herb Lubalin. Lubalin, along with Tom Carnase, masterfully crafted the typography for the aptly dubbed "Gastrotypographicalassemblage."

"Scenes from the Bible have been imagined by countless artists over the centuries, but never quite like this. God's Eye View portrays four key Biblical events as if captured by Google Earth."

"Regenerative Graffiti is an experimental project, it is all about create new shapes of Graffiti from previous Graffiti artworks.
This mutant process starts with the idea to keep alive the previous Artist's soul, otherwise completely deleted, and it would like experimenting new figures from recycling and reinterpreting Graffiti."

"when architects use fragrance in spatial designs, they tend to do so merely for branding purposes or for suggestive advertising (e.g. pumping the smell of coffee out onto a street to attract people into a store). Such designs fail to pick up on the potentials for developing evocative and memorable experiences using the sense of smell. This project demonstrates how smell can be used spatially to create fragrance collages that form soft zones and boundaries that are configurable on-the-fly."

very neat PingMag interview with Oded Ezer, an Israeli experimental typographer.







A letter is something that came up from culture, it is an artificial sign for something which has a meaning and long history behind it. What I'm trying to do is to understand this process of creating and re-shaping this cultural element.

In the last 20 years, and especially in the early 90s when the internet became so important in our lives, English became so strong! Strong to such an extend that speakers of other languages often feel that their own language is not enough. I believe in the contrary, though! I think English is boring and other languages and writing systems are utterly important for the mainstream - which is English now - because they bring some fresh air!

Keeping and experimenting in Hebrew, my own language, is one of the most important things I can bring into the mainstream. But of course there are parts where English is unavoidable.