© Ten Dollar Fonts
"Ten Dollar Fonts" is the name of a group of designers from around the world that does exactly that; sell fonts for ten dollars. What you may not know is that their experimental fonts are absolutely stunning!"WOW!" is right!
http://www.tendollarfonts.com
© Shirotokuro
Shiroi means white in Japanese and kuroi means black, so literally it means white and black not black and white! Here is a very nice curated gallery of different forms of design all in B&W. Although color is an important element of design, I always think that it is best to think first without. If a design is to work it should first work in black and white otherwise if it doesn't, adding color won't help.
http://shirotokuro.com
© Julien Priez
Julien Priez finished his studies at l'Ecole Supérieure Estienne in Paris, with more than deserved honors in june 2010. His resumé is already very impressive, and it's obviously just the beginning. As he says it so well, you had better know the rules before you start breaking them! This is definitely a "must-see" designer.
http://www.julienpriez.com
http://en.etapes.com/julien-priez
© Nelly Charbonneaux
These two pictures were taken somewhere in the Paris flea market porte de Clignancourt. They both look like art work, but actually the left one is a detail of a rusted pillar (not a painting!), and the one the right is a bunch of old stacked radiators (not a sculpture!). They both have someything in common. First the color harmony, and second something random about them. Nature and weather did their work on the first and some employees of the antique dealer must have stacked the radiators as well as possible, not thinking about making a work of art. My point is there is something about random accidents which can be most interesting in art and also design.
Last month there was a very interesting exhibit at "Le Bon Marché", actually 2! The first was on Aristide Boucicaut who created what is considered the first department store 160 years ago. The second exhibit above, showed 160 years of graphic design done for the store, which I would say was characterized by amazing creativity and variety. Click to blow up!
Uh Oh... just checked and saw that the picture above was ridiculously tiny, sorry about that!
You can always drag the document on your desktop then click on cmd and + until it is big enough to see in detail.
