Lim Siang Ching | Lim Siang Ching dynamic paper constructed calendar created for Pattern Matter is a fascinating piece. The clever constructions are created from beautiful patterns with lovely color combinations, making each month a surprising treat. Lim Siang Ching is graphic designer and illustrator based in Singapore. She holds a diploama in Visual Communication from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and a BA in Design Communication from LASALLE College of the Arts.
Pattern Matters is a graphic design-based project inquiring on possible ways to augment the role of pattern by looking into the design process and tactile exploration through pattern making.
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Studio Hinrichs | Studio Hinrichs is a design studio founded by Kit Hinrichs based in San Francisco, CA. The studio specializes in corporate communications, brand identity, promotion, publishing (books and magazines), packaging, interactive and environmental systems. Their impressive client list includes the California Academy of Sciences, USC, AIGA, Zagat, Stanford Law School and NapaStyle. The images above are from the 365 Typography Calendar. Each edition features 12 unique typefaces, with brief descriptive text about what makes the font distinctive, and a biography of each type designer. I love the concept of this calendar and typography here as expected is beautiful featuring lovely unique fonts.
Now celebrating its 11th year, the 2012 edition features a combination of original, not commercially available typefaces, and quirky fonts designed to reflect technological changes, pop culture, famous landmarks and famous people. All were drawn by well-known contemporary typographers, designers and artists, such as Michael Schwab, René Knip, Zuzana Licko and Ward Schumaker.
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MAGMA | MAGMA is a design agency specializing in corporate and brand design based in Karlsruhe, Germany. The studio is run by Lars Harmsen, Uli Weiß and Flo Gaertner. Their client list includes Linotype, Gestalten, b_books, Slanted, Sportswear and the Vitra Design Museum. The images above are from a a 2012 calendar titled POLADARIUM. I really love the concept of this calendar from the old times reference of the format of a daily rip-out calendar to the use of Polaroid photographs.
POLADARIUM 2012 is 1 a tear-off calendar, just like the one our grandma used to hang in the kitchen. But this calendar unveils a new image/polaroid photography and it´s story every day. We can therefore have, a whole year long, the chance to discover photographers, to possess a piece of jewellery that is new everyday. On the front, the picture will be prominently displayed, and on the back it will tell a story. How it originated, from what or who came the inspiration and who´s the photographer.
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Typodarium 2012 | Typodarium 2012 is a typographic calendar coming out for the third year. This year’s collection was edited by Lars Harmsen and Raban Ruddigkeit and is published by published by Verlag Hermann Schmidt Mainz. The calendar features a different typeface daily and includes further details on the back. I love the variety here different typefaces from all over the world in so many styles not to mention the learning opportunity- educating yourself about typefaces daily.
Typodarium 2012 is the daily typography dose. A tear-off calendar, just like the one our grandma used to hang in the kitchen. But this calendar unveils a new font every day. We can therefore have, a whole year long, the chance to broaden our knowledge, to discover the font’s history and development, to possess a piece of jewelry that is new every day. On the front, the font will be prominently displayed, and on the back it will be described in details. How it originated, from what or who came the inspiration and where we can obtain the font. We really want a story about your typeface!
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Irina Vinnik | Stunning work by Irina Vinnik an extremely talented illustrator based in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The photo above is from Irina’s recent calendar project - “Saurions Renaissance”. The calendar sizes to 40 by 70 centimeters consisting of 12 sheets and covers all marvelously illustrated by Irina. The calendar is devoted to lizards and pangolins as Irina likes their ability to regenerate and re-grow new tails, after they lost the old one. The appear ion each one of the illustrations each time in a surprising and wonderfully graphic way.
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Source: vinnik.net
