Absolute Sellout is a collaborative art and design project between Joshua Robin Kaplanand Benjamin Niznik that resulted in these beautifully packaged generic consumer goods that are now for sale online as limited editions. Absolute Sellout displays a collection of consumer goods and mundane human artifacts in a minimalist gallery context. Each collection is composed of unique and often overlooked objects from the past, present, and future. Their graphic style is the intersection of ‘nostalgic futurism’ and ‘truckstop modernism’. It is the pasts idea of the future. It is both familiar and abstract. […] The re-branded items were designed as part of an exhibit entitled “Class Projects” at Partners & Spade in NYC in September of 2010. The appeal of generically branded items is that they are simultaneously modest and presumptuous. There is a charming impression of innocent idealism in the concept of a ‘Soap’ branded bar of soap. I wish we lived in a world where all goods could be packaged as simply as this.

Absolute Sellout is a collaborative art and design project between Joshua Robin Kaplanand Benjamin Niznik that resulted in these beautifully packaged generic consumer goods that are now for sale online as limited editions.

Absolute Sellout displays a collection of consumer goods and mundane human artifacts in a minimalist gallery context. Each collection is composed of unique and often overlooked objects from the past, present, and future. Their graphic style is the intersection of ‘nostalgic futurism’ and ‘truckstop modernism’. It is the pasts idea of the future. It is both familiar and abstract. […] The re-branded items were designed as part of an exhibit entitled “Class Projects” at Partners & Spade in NYC in September of 2010. The appeal of generically branded items is that they are simultaneously modest and presumptuous. There is a charming impression of innocent idealism in the concept of a ‘Soap’ branded bar of soap.

I wish we lived in a world where all goods could be packaged as simply as this.

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Designer Viktor Hertz’s minimalist movie posters. Says Hertz: What I do, is that I make a quite simple movie poster, including one or a few pictograms, displaying the theme of the film. Either original pictograms combined, or modified ones, to fit with the film. As the title poster says, I try to bring a twist to it, and not get too simple. (via peculiar bliss)

Designer Viktor Hertz’s minimalist movie posters. Says Hertz:

What I do, is that I make a quite simple movie poster, including one or a few pictograms, displaying the theme of the film. Either original pictograms combined, or modified ones, to fit with the film. As the title poster says, I try to bring a twist to it, and not get too simple.

(via peculiar bliss)

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Designers for Japan is a collective of imagemakers from around the world who were spurred on by the catastrophe of March 11th to do something, anything to help and to express our love for our friends and colleagues in Japan. Thanks to Print-Process & Creative Review, prints are for sale at £30 for A2, £60 for A1 with all proceeds after print, paper and postage going to the The Red Cross/ Shelterbox. In addition, there are plans for an upcoming charity auction. If you would like to contribute or help in anyway, please contact them atinfo@designersforjapan.com. You can purchase prints here. (via grainedit)

Designers for Japan is a collective of imagemakers from around the world who were spurred on by the catastrophe of March 11th to do something, anything to help and to express our love for our friends and colleagues in Japan. Thanks to Print-Process & Creative Review, prints are for sale at £30 for A2, £60 for A1 with all proceeds after print, paper and postage going to the The Red Cross/ Shelterbox. In addition, there are plans for an upcoming charity auction. If you would like to contribute or help in anyway, please contact them atinfo@designersforjapan.com.

You can purchase prints here.

(via grainedit)

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On the evening of Tuesday, March 8, The Architectural League gave its President’s Medal to Lella and Massimo Vignelli. The award was given to the Vignellis “in recognition of a body of work so influential in its breadth that it has shaped the very way we see the world.” The five different covers featured a quote from Vignelli printed in PMS Super Warm Red and set in Helvetica of course. Says ISO50 “So why are these five Vignelli-isms important? When I first came across this I immediately saw five lessons to live by rather than just five miscellaneous quotes. They appear self explanatory but read each and give it a moment alone in your mind” (via ISO50)

On the evening of Tuesday, March 8, The Architectural League gave its President’s Medal to Lella and Massimo Vignelli. The award was given to the Vignellis “in recognition of a body of work so influential in its breadth that it has shaped the very way we see the world.” The five different covers featured a quote from Vignelli printed in PMS Super Warm Red and set in Helvetica of course. Says ISO50 “So why are these five Vignelli-isms important? When I first came across this I immediately saw five lessons to live by rather than just five miscellaneous quotes. They appear self explanatory but read each and give it a moment alone in your mind”

(via ISO50)

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Set against monochrome backgrounds, painter Edward del Rosario’s fairytale-like scenes depict people counterposed with nature in charmingly unsettling ways. The Brooklyn-based artist has been exploring the subject for the past eight years, each piece adding to a larger meta-narrative that explores the “aftermath of a post-colonial world.” His latest installment of curious paintings will show at L.A.’s Richard Heller gallery in the upcoming exhibition simply titled “Fable.” (via coolhunting)

Set against monochrome backgrounds, painter Edward del Rosario’s fairytale-like scenes depict people counterposed with nature in charmingly unsettling ways. The Brooklyn-based artist has been exploring the subject for the past eight years, each piece adding to a larger meta-narrative that explores the “aftermath of a post-colonial world.” His latest installment of curious paintings will show at L.A.’s Richard Heller gallery in the upcoming exhibition simply titled “Fable.”

(via coolhunting)

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Weinstein A|U designed the new 12,000 sqf building for Gregg’s Cycles to be a pure neutral container that highlights the bicycle. It was conceived as an elevated steel box that is supported structurally and programmatically by a CMU perimeter zone. The small site and its limited access challenged the ability to have street level retail and parking, which led to the solution of lifting the primary retail spaces above the street level, thereby creating covered vehicle parking below the store. Additionally, the building features an integrated bicycle display and facade system — the bikewall — that allows the bicycles themselves to define the image and character of the building from the interior and exterior. The steel box is cantilevered out toward the street, pushing the bikewall toward Bellevue Way to further emphasize the articulation of the steel box and CMU, while also establishing the primacy of the bicycle in the facility. (via archdaily)

Weinstein A|U designed the new 12,000 sqf building for Gregg’s Cycles to be a pure neutral container that highlights the bicycle. It was conceived as an elevated steel box that is supported structurally and programmatically by a CMU perimeter zone.

The small site and its limited access challenged the ability to have street level retail and parking, which led to the solution of lifting the primary retail spaces above the street level, thereby creating covered vehicle parking below the store.

Additionally, the building features an integrated bicycle display and facade system — the bikewall — that allows the bicycles themselves to define the image and character of the building from the interior and exterior. The steel box is cantilevered out toward the street, pushing the bikewall toward Bellevue Way to further emphasize the articulation of the steel box and CMU, while also establishing the primacy of the bicycle in the facility.

(via archdaily)

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