Yesterday, Bobby posted architecture-inspired type from Chris Labrooy, and to follow up I thought I’d post a type-inspired building from a project called Granite City by Paul Mullen. The project turns a helvetica “A” into a kind of a-frame rendered to match the urban fabric of Aberdeen, Scotland. The broken windows, boarded doorways and scorched cars [...]
It’s been a while since I checked out what the guys at Lab Partners have been working on and so the other day I gave their blog a little visit. The San Francisco based husband and wife team certainly have been busy and they’ve created a whole host of wonderful new thing in the last [...]
Yesterday morning, Kyle informed me that Pitchfork, the music site that everyone has an opinion on, had launched a brand new redesign and that I should check it out. As a lot fo you know I’m a sucker for a well executed redesign, so I was curious to see how it turned out. Overall I’d [...]
Created for this years 54th Venice Biennale, Argentinian artist Adrián Villar Rojas has created a monolithic exhibit in the Artigliere in the Arsenale. Adrián, along with a team of builders, created the installation on site using clay over a framework of cement, burlap and wood. The effect created is stunning, like you’re walking amongst ancient [...]
While wandering around Behance this weekend, I came across these symmetrical photos from Diego Guevara. The photo series is a personal project of Diego’s that combines his love of photography, architecture and design. I don’t think we can really call them abstract (because they’re literally concrete) but they aren’t entirely real, either. Cut, copied, corrected [...]
Inspiration comes in many forms, and for UK designer/illustrator Chris Labrooy his came quite literally. Drawing from the works of some of the most famous architects out there, Chris has created these beautiful, 3D typefaces which spell out the architects name using some of their most famous creations as the foundations. What you see above [...]
