Environmental multimedia artist Nicole Dextras uses elements of nature to create works that are often also sited in nature or the urban landscape. She’s constructed life size clothing out of flowers and leaves, and fashioned cultural messages from grass and ice. We love the crazy big text creations from her two series Ice Typography and Green Words.
As part of the DMY 2011 Asia Exhibition tour, which presented innovative German design objects and products at seven different fairs and festivals in Asia, Sascha Grewe exhibited his A-Z stools / tables with storage. The A-Z stools are made of MDF and are available in — get this — 250 colors! The stools can be used as seats, side tables, shelves or simply as typographical objects. I don’t think I’m ready to see this alphabet furniture trend go just yet.
Our most popular Art posts this year tend toward the graphic in style, with clever shout outs to the social media realm as well as references to the historical. We’ve also included the crafty, like the insanely intricate cutting of leaves, the kitschy (hello My Little Pony), and some good, old-fashioned mixed media work. More than anything else, we find it’s a sense of humor that binds them.
The Positive Posters
Bisgràfic studio and The Positive Posters collaborated on a series of prints handsomely broadcasting optimistic phrases that can be downloaded from your own computer. There are iPhone and iPad wallpapers too.
I could easily see my house filled with Harold Hollingsworth’s large-scale paintings. The Seattle-based artist creates his abstract, mixed media work on canvas and panels. The mixed and matched layers are thoughtfully laid out, often times with various fonts and typographical elements. Each piece has a pop art feel that is playful and expressive and full of texture.
Artist Stuart Whitton has designed an alphabet created from drawings of wrinkled clothing. Available in two sizes (A2 and A3) in a limited edition of 100.
Designed by London-based designers Goodwin + Goodwin, these Typographic Time Zone Clocks are an interesting alternative to traditional time zone clocks. Currently there’s New York, Paris, and London, but more are planned. Perfect for the type-obsessed.
This Typodarium desktop or wall tear-off calendar is amazing. It features 366 different typefaces from 252 designers that live in 32 different countries. Each page features all of the information about that particular typeface design and where it can be licensed. The calendar can be purchased from Slanted.
We’ve seen furniture in the shape of letters, but never lamps that look like punctuation marks!
TypoDesignClock for iPhone and iPod by Katsushi Nakano is a refreshing twist on the traditional clock. And it’s pretty. You can choose from thirty different coordinated color palettes.
