Twitter Roundup: Week of 19 January.
Pinch. A Design Office. produces a daily Twitter stream we call @Pinch_Bespoke. The premise is simple: six tweets a day on issues related to brand, design, and sustainability. We were pleased to provide another glimpse of PUMA City, one of our favorite examples of shipping container architecture, as well as announce the upcoming opening of the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart. We share contemporary work from Post Typography and Piece Studio, both from Baltimore. Mike Dempsey looks back on Raymond Hawkey, we remind you about Hille Furniture contributors Robin Day and Fred Scott, and DesignWorkPlan reminds us about the words of Eric Gill. As always, we thank you for allowing us to share our work and our incessant ramblings.
- Connect:
- The deal is one Pinch post a day, that's all. But let's open it up a bit. Join us at the Pinch Facebook group.
- Pull:
- Founded by artist James Lavadour, Crow's Shadow Institute provides technology, instruction and cultural exchange.
- Present:
- The Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA) calls for submissions for TypeCon2009 Atlanta. Via Typophile.
- Regard:
- Nolen Strais' and Bruce Willen's Post Typography. Design, conceptual type, lettering. Check the firm monograph.
- Tell:
- Simon Heys' typographic Word Clock. Linear and rotary modes display fixed list of words. Via Hip. Young. Thing.
- Share:
- "There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools." Eric Gill.
- Consume:
- Rather than feeding you a single project, we thought we'd give you the Pinch smorgasbord. So how was it?
- Assist:
- Baltimore's Piece Studio is a socially-based collaborative design studio working to create positive change.
- Appreciate:
- Illustrator Keri Smith's How to Be an Explorer of the World (Portable Art Life Museum) and so many others.
- Participate:
- Aaron Draplin, Dave Maddocks, and Kat Topaz judge this year's installment of Cut & Paste Portland. March 7.
- Shift:
- From the Type 356 to the Panamera, Porsche Museum in Stuttgart opens this month. From Vienna's Delugan Meissl.
- Point:
- Garr Reynolds' first impressions on Keynote Remote. iPhone becomes remote for Keynote '09. Via Presentation Zen.
- Comment:
- Holgaroids, designers get to work, and our review of Man on Wire at Bespoke. Let us know what you think.
- Snatch:
- We're liking Veer's merchandise update. New tees, portfolios, Helvetica mug, coasters (and we even spy a Diana).
- Reuse:
- "If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair (via DesignWorkPlan)
- Relax:
- Hille Furniture, due in part to Robin Day, Fred Scott and the Polychair, still delivers modern design classics.
- Leer:
- Taschen's Latin American Graphic Design. Comunicación visual. The best work from Argentina to Mexico to Brazil.
- Rethink:
- Mike Dempsey returns to his 2001 interview with designer Raymond Hawkey for Design Week. Graphic Journey Blog.
- Survey:
- Andrew Sloat's film inspired by the Winterhouse Polling Place Photo Project. Voters' personal election images.
- Define:
- Design for Democracy seeks clarification as the aim for all government communications. Citizen's Briefing Book.
- Illustrate:
- Among his other stellar work for the NY Times, Oliver Munday on Bush Bashing economy when W leaves office.
- Plead:
- A Letter to Obama from a Young Designer. Nicole Peterson for Under Consideration (and American designers).
- Celebrate:
- Pinch wants to get to work. And with Obama, the work is only beginning for designers. What now? See Bespoke.
- Lease:
- Philip Kendicott on The Power of Brand-Old Message Art. Borrowing from Kennedy, Che and the works of Warhol.
- Document:
- A system of patterns reflects a process for business. The Fios capabilities package in red, black and gray.
- Opine:
- Ten Things That Need to be Redesigned. The Hearse, Kennedy Airport, Jersey. Jessica Helfand for Design Observer.
- Reset:
- Inconspicuous Vertical Metrics. Alec Julien for iLT on (more than) five vertical measures of note in type design.
- Assemble:
- LOT-EK (http://lot-ek.com/) reimagines the shipping container to construct a transportable PUMA City. Fab.
- Capture:
- The Lomo Lubitel 166+ is a mid-century classic from Soviet-era Leningrad. Shoot medium format and 35 mm film.
- Quote:
- "Writing is not a series of strokes, but space, divided into characteristic shapes by strokes." Gerrit Noordzij.
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