FUNDBÜRO: 53rd St. IND NYC Subway Station handmade signage

Thanks to So Much Pile Up Blog i can present here the few pictures of creating process of this amazing handmade signage.
According to the Blog, "in 1977, graphic designer Robert Propper of Propper/Elman Design/Planning (...) was approached by the Public Arts Council of the NYC to redesign subway stations, transforming them from drab underground waiting rooms into vibrant public art spaces. Over the course of two weeks, Propper, aided by a small group of Pratt students and armed with paint, brushes, and masking tape, turned the 53rd St. IND Station into a colorful wonderland."
I am gojng to think about a 'masking tape and paint project' of my own. I kind of forgot how much i used to enjoy using stancils and paint.
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Type Player is coming out!

The book 'Type Player' to which I contribute my type works ('Merry Christmas' and '2009 Oh Yeah!' cards) is coming out.

'Type Player collects the world¡'s latest and creative typographic design and their applications. This book is expected to be an indispensable resource to any designer who looks forward to original and high-quality work.' ------ I feel honoured to be a part of this great publication.

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Introducing: Daily Type

Long time ago I came across a website full of creative type inspirations. Plenty hand lettering, sketches and typefaces can be found on Daily Type

"Daily Type is a creative project run by several Russian type designers. Day by day, they create original typefaces and post their results along with routine."

Queen's Day!

Long live Beatrix of the Netherlands!

The Night of Light

A poster for an event in my home town. Open air presentation of artists of the audio-video scene. Music and VJing night in the small town in Poland! FUN!

'Sign Graphics: Walk This Way'

I was invited by Maomao Publications, a Barcelona-based book packager and publishing house specialized in art & design to feature the signage system I developed for the Rainbow Children Hospital in a new book 'Sign Graphics: Walk This Way'. "The publication will put together innovative signage and wayfinding projects, in an effort to effectively represent a sourcebook for any professional interested in knowing the state of the art in this field." I am looking forward to be part of the book.

The enchanted kindergarden

The project is a result of an architectural competition for 2 kindergartens in Tromso, Norway. 70°N arkitektur "kindergartens have been built to have the possibility of variety in the use of rooms. With very simple moves one can change each room into new rooms of various sizes and functions. There are several options for combinations and joint actions of rooms and spaces.

One of the main ideas is that each base has two adjustable walls (fixed in one end, and wheels on the other) that gives the room a variety of combinations of small and large rooms. The walls are built with various shelves, drawers, blackboards, climbing partitions, puppet show sections and so on."

Fun and functional! What a lovely way to enhance the minds of kids with colours and a lot of imagination.

www.projektydyplomowe.pl

a place to see all of The Best Polish Design Diploma Projects of all editions. www.projektydyplomowe.pl

EASTER'S HERE!

Best Easter Wishes in 1908

How crazy Ester can be? This was some creative man, who art directed this quite surrealistic picture! The saddest thing is that is that the only way to get a chick to stay that still for such a long exposure is to use a stuffed chick... Source


Best Easter Wishes [chick pulling flowers in small wagon]
Rotograph Company of New York, 1908

The New Arrival

Long-awaited Spring finally came. This calls for celebration everybody. Myself, I am glad to have such view outside my window.

Introducing: Origami In the Pursuit of Perfection

Sipho Mabona is an origami artist. Origami, the ancient Japanese art of paper folding, can create stunning video commercials when combined with stop motion recording. This video, created for Asics by Sipho’s company Mabona Origami, is the world wide corperate movie that tells the story of the japanese sports brand ASICS won several international prizes. I think it's simply stunning.

Read more about making of here.

Aston Martin Bulldog [1980] Concept Car

I couldn't resist myself from publishing pictures of this amazing car.

Styled by William Towns, the Aston Martin Bulldog was ultimately built as a one-off testbed. Originally, it had been intended to be a limited run of about 25. It was built in the UK, but is a left-hand-drive car. It has an incredibly low height at 110 cm high, and featured a sharp, distinctive gull-wing door design. The interior uses digital instrumentation (!!!) and the rear view is delivered via a television monitor mounted on the center console (a later addition).

The first test drive of the Aston Martin Bulldog came in late 1979 and was a great success. After the development program was over, Aston Martin sold the only Bulldog to the highest bidder. Source

And this one is Lotus Esprit, one of James Bond vehicles. It's here because it's amazing and Bulldog reminds Lotus a bit and because I find this picture extremely inspiring.

Introducing: SPECTRA and KLIMAX

I would like to Introduce you two typefaces, Spectra and Klimax. Both elaborate on quite similar concept with two different approaches. check it out!

Spectra, is a typeface family presenting a spectrum of nine weights from the lightest to heaviest. Spectra is perfect for text as well as display use. Each style includes small caps, ligatures,stylistic alternates and old style numerals. Spectra was designed by a type designer Kamil Kurzajewski in 2008.

Typotheque's Klimax is a display typeface (meant for use in extremely large sizes) with four styles and OpenType features. It includes two basic styles, Plus and Minus — the heaviest and the lightest possible styles that can be made. Klimax was designed in 2009 by Ondrej Jób.

White Lies Concert

White Lies are an alternative post-punk indie band based in London, England BUT on the 10th of March the will be playing a gig in Melkweg, Amsterdam, where luckily, I will be as well.



You can also take a look at the album cover (good design), which was designed by Big Active, a London based creative agency.

FUNDBÜRO

Those are small treats of quite a big collection of my type and logo findings from different places I have gone to. I will try to show some more in time. Hope you will enjoy!


Prague, CZ, 2006


Poznan, PL, 2006


Enschede, NL, 2007


Enschede, NL, 2007


Kruszwica, PL, 2008


Dublin, IRL, 2007


Mur de Bretagne, FR, 2008

un centime francais

We found it some time back in William grandma's collection of coins. 1962 - as you can see. I love the lettering. Why they don't use such cute types on coins any more?

GOOO...

One of the reasons why I may not be the favourite bar customer.

2 plus 3D is out now!

In the new issue of 2+3D magazine| Polish Design Quarterly you can find the previously mentioned publication of The Children Hospital Wayfinding System, diploma project of mine.

Cover Design by Jan Kallwejt [Polish, Warsaw based illustrator, graphic artist, T-shirts designer, working for both DJs and hip-hop artists; as well as large corporations and major magazines]