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Chicago - Five Great Buildings

2013-05-23T16:59:00-04:00

Chicago has many truly great buildings. It sits firmly on the map of global architecture and is the birthplace of the skyscraper. Creating a short video about just five great buildings is doing this city a massive disservice, as there are many and this is simply my thoughts.

Help The Draftery on Kickstarter

2013-05-22T11:06:00-04:00

The Draftery is a curated drawing archive with multiple platforms. We promote graphic works by lesser known architects, artists, students, and other practitioners.

Along with our web-based Archive, we also publish Figures, our printed biannual. It is the only journal that we know of that continuously places contemporary architectural representation at the forefront of discourse. Each issue of Figures showcases a selection of thematically-related architectural drawings.

We are currently working on producing the third issue of Figures, but we need help raising funds to cover production costs. We have launched a Kickstarter campaign that can be found here: http://kck.st/10FAFfE

We've worked hard to keep the conversation alive. With our third issue, our goal is to broaden the journal's audience base as well as offering it at a higher quality. We hope that members of this community will join us in producing this issue by sharing this news to their networks, and if able, pledgin...

Calatrava's Transit Hub adds background to NY's new driver’s licenses

2013-03-18T16:00:00-04:00

While the old-school images might seem odd, the new production method and a barrage of features both seen and unseen will make the licenses, officials say, virtually impossible to forge.

New York has unveiled a new design for their driver’s licenses, showcasing Santiago Calatrava's WTC Transit Hub in the background.

Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Robert A.M. Stern, and Others Design a Collection of Rugs for Arzu Studio Hope

2013-02-12T11:22:00-05:00

Frank Gehry, Michael Graves, Zaha Hadid, Robert A.M. Stern, Margaret McCurry, and Stanley Tigerman have designed rugs for Arzu Studio Hope’s new Masters collection. However, Arzu’s mission is about much more than making beautiful carpets—the Chicago-based not-for-profit organization is dedicated to improving the lives of Afghan women weavers and their families, based on a model of social entrepreneurship.

University of California reveals new logo, public collectively barfs

2012-12-10T18:32:00-05:00

Creators of an online petition opposed to the change say the new logo "loses the prestige and elegance of the current seal." They want the 10-campus system to use the traditional circular medallion that shows an open book, the motto “Let There Be Light” and the 1868 date of UC’s founding. Or find a dignified alternative. The petition had more than 39,000 supporters so far.

UC's brand guidelines can be found here.

Gary Anderson, architect and designer of the recycling logo

2012-05-18T14:31:00-04:00

When I finished my studies, I decided I wanted to go into urban planning and I moved to LA. It seems funny, but I really played down the fact that I’d won this competition. I was afraid it would make me look like a graphics guy, rather than an urban designer. I didn’t even mention it on my résumé. Also, the symbol itself languished for a while. I remember seeing it once on a bank statement, but then it disappeared.

The Financial Times has an interesting story about Gary Anderson, an engineer/architect/urban planner that designed the famous recycling logo in a competition in 1971.

Frank Lloyd Wright's Lesser-Known Contributions to Graphic Design

2012-05-07T14:44:00-04:00

In Frank Lloyd Wright: Graphic Artist (public library), Penny Fowler examines Wright’s ingenious and bold graphic work — his covers for Liberty (some of which were so radical the magazine rejected them), his mural designs for Midway Gardens, his photographic experiments, his hand-drawn typographical studies, the jacket designs for his own publications, including The House Beautiful and An Autobiography, and a wealth more.

Can a Font Help a City Make a Comeback?

2012-03-08T13:26:00-05:00

Around the world, only a few hundred people make a living as fulltime typeface designers. Two of them happen to live in Chattanooga, Tennessee, population 167,000, where they've embarked on an ambitious project to distill the city's artistic and entrepreneurial spirit into a font called Chatype. The goal is to help the city and its businesses forge a distinct and cohesive identity through custom typeface [...].

Airport Runway Screenprints

2012-01-25T11:17:00-05:00

Self-initiated screenprint project featuring runway patterns from airports around the world.

Jerome Daksiewicz is a Chicago based architect / designer who moved onto independent graphic/interactive design work in 2009, after the architecture firm he was working with went under. Check out his very cool airport runway diagram posters, and buy them here.

Architecture student's design selected for £5 Olympic coin

2011-11-13T22:13:20-05:00

Saiman Miah, studying for his Masters degree at Birmingham School of Architecture designed the Olympic coin which features architectural elements of London's skyline and pictograms of athletes around the edge to create a clock face inspired by Big Ben.

Ahead of Its Time | An Icon Goes Digital

2011-09-28T20:14:26-04:00

In 1972, Massimo Vignelli designed a diagrammatic map for the New York City subway. It was a radical departure. He replaced the serpentine maze of geographically accurate train routes with simple, bold bands of color that turned at 45- and 90-degree angles. [...] Its abstract representation of the routes was elegant but flawed. To make the map function effectively, a few geographic liberties were taken, something that didn’t sit well with New Yorkers.

Brilliant Campaign for 3M Noise Cancelling Headphones

2011-06-09T12:41:04-04:00

Beautiful executed ads for 3M Noise Cancelling Headphones. Made by Grey, São Paulo, Brazil.

Advertising Agency: Grey, São Paulo, Brazil
Executive Creative Directors: Guy Costa, Alexandre Scaff
Art Director: Daniel Prado
Copywriter: Alexandre Scaff
Illustrator: Leandro Esparca
Published: April 2011

UNIQUE NEW YORK: THE AUCTION

2011-05-20T15:50:56-04:00

Our auction features a small collection of covetable artwork, collage and constructions from twelve unique talents from our incredible New York creative pool, with whom you are all on a first-name basis: Milton, Seymour, Ivan, Paula, Massimo, Maira, Todd, Christoph, Rodrigo, James, Gary and even Stephen.

Bauhaus Dessau Foundation Posters by HORT

2011-05-18T14:48:41-04:00

Three gorgeous posters that German design studio HORT designed to promote the new corporate identity of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation.