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.
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.
Search five million artworks by idea, not by name
The Last Museum adds semantic search across collections from thousands of museums. Start with a mood or subject, then return to the institutional source.
The brand tool can come before the brand images
Studio Dial often builds the tool before the outputs. Afghan textiles, cocktail motion and urban growth become rules that can produce an identity.
What happens when an animation frame has thickness?
Wet paper, puzzles and sun printing: in Alèxia Ponce’s work, the physical surface does more than add texture. It becomes a rule for motion.
The font on Apollo panels was designed for routers
Gorton was designed in 1894 for mechanical routers, not screens. More than a century later, open-source revivals are bringing it back to the machines that inspired it.