In Kolkata, Kwazi photographs the signs before designing anything
Type Around Town documents Kolkata’s signs, buses, graffiti and shopfronts before turning the collection into a publication and objects.
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Sixteen years of changing labels became its consistency
Almost every Honest Toil label has been designed by women artists. The brand stays coherent through collaboration rather than one fixed image.
Party Cannon built a metal identity from cardboard, foam and a bad joke
Their rainbow logo became a metal-branding case study. The useful part is how little of it was planned: Party Cannon stacked jokes, cheap props and budget constraints until the audience learned the language too.
These photographs are printed to be broken by hand
Kennedy shoots with the second life of the image already in mind: printing, painting, cutting and rebuilding it by hand. Collage changes the photograph before the scissors even arrive.
She left architecture. AutoCAD followed her into illustration
Moscoso left architecture but kept its lines, structures and even AutoCAD. She now uses them to build editorial images that begin in ordinary rooms before drifting somewhere stranger.
Jennifer Latour grafts flowers with the same skills she used to build movie monsters
Bound Species is not a photomontage. Jennifer Latour pierces, joins and balances real stems using skills learned in special-effects makeup, then photographs the temporary species before they wilt.
Discarded plush toys return as uneasy guardians
For Apotropaia, Sungho Bae retrieves plush toys from waste sites, opens them up and rebuilds them around armatures with leather, clay, feathers and ritual objects. Waste comes back as an uneasy guardian.
What if our devices improved by doing less?
Good Screens gathers quieter, narrower and more physical devices. Its useful idea: put “fewer functions” back into the designer’s toolbox.
Packing foam stands upright like a Renaissance bonnet
Packing foam, fruit mesh and plastic become bonnets, collars and drapery. Suzanne Jongmans does not hide these materials: she sculpts them, then photographs them like old textiles.
A two-metre book sorts memories that refuse to stay sorted
Find The Earth turns personal objects into a printed archive: a two-metre Riso book sorted between things remembered, fading and forgotten.