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Twoninedotsix is a colobrative photography project and photographic documentary of Efe Mert Kaya and Maurizio Braggiotti. Efe is a visual communication design student in Istanbul Bilgi University and Maurizio is a photography and video student in the same school.(left to right : Efe , Maurizio)

twoninedotsix.com is a free photo archive project of my two former students from Istanbul. They have quite good amount of photos that has taken in different places by different cameras. Colors, compositions, content, everything looks very nice! By the way what the hell is 29.6?

I just came across with the beautiful typographic designs of Mouneer al Shaarani. He is a Syrian calligrapher and his works are splendid and quite impressive. Maybe we should be looking for much more on different cultures other than western countries and popularized far-east. Thanks to all skillful calligraphers who are still trying to make it alive.

via ywft blog.

Here is another talented designer, Can Usta, from Istanbul. He is one of my former students and colleague when I was working for VCD. He has updated his website and the new version looks quite good in terms of usability and work organization. He has very unique design pieces and well edited photos. It is absolutely worth to visit. I hope more good work will come out from my former department.

There is a new project from MW2MW called Gothamberg. MW2MW is a collaboration between Marek Walczak and Martin Wattenberg. Started in 1997, both artists work independently but come together on long term projects such as Apartment, Wonderwalker, Thinking Machine and Noplace. Regarding the project of Gothamberg:

Everyone who has lived in an apartment has a story to tell. Gothamberg is a place to read, interact and exchange stories of lives in apartment buildings. Together, these tales of sounds and smells, lobbies and bathrooms, laundry room gossip and unexpected favors form a single collective building, Gothamberg. Their experiences form the elliptical threads of inhabitation, a mnemonic quality expressing something of the shared nature of dwelling.

Other than this one, for my personal taste their history flow was one of the greatest projects in information visualization area.

There is a job offer called by Reto Wettach who is a teacher at FH Postdam.

Now, we are looking for interaction designers with an experience in physical computing/programming as well as user-centered design processes. Experience in designing and implementing interactive exhibits or in designing interactions for consumer electronics would be useful.

you may find the original info in here. His blog is also very well done, thumbs up!

One of my colleagues from Istanbul, Onur Sönmez, has updated his website. It is a massive update with tons of new photos and videos. The site also includes a special web application dedicated to the famous director David Lynch. If you also want to see the commercial works he has participated, you are welcome to visit the b-11!

A virtual curio cabinet where I can collect a number of miscellaneous works in areas that interest me. Those areas tend to be quite varied, so you’ll find math, art, computers and programming, music, electronics tinkering, geography, games and puzzles, et cetera.

Dave Bollinger is a digital artist and programmer. You may see his works at his website and flickr. Especially, one of his latest works, “Storm” is quite impressive in terms of aesthetics. It is also recommended to visit complexification.net where the artist mostly inspired from.

«schmid today» is a research project about the designer and typographer Helmut Schmid by the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf’s Design Department. Helmut Schmid is an austrian graphic designer who studied in Switzerland at the Basel School of Design under Emil Ruder, Kurt Hauert and Robert Buchler. (The gurus of Swiss typography!).

The research team of 55 students around them collected, researched and cataloged designs by Helmut Schmid for the course of three years. The Archive documents Schmid’s complete works, including originals from the past 40 years. The results of the research are published now in an international exhibition, a book, a project documentary and in the digital realm for the first time.

The archive on the website is very rich and organized. I hope to visit the exhibition if it comes to Vienna/Munich one day :)
Found at Slanted.

YWFT -the famous shop for designers- just announced a new article, Forecast: cloudy, by Willi Kunz is online for their Profile Magazine. Willi Kunz is the author of Typography: Macro- and Microaesthetics (1998) and Typography: Formation and Transformation (2003) and obviously this is a good article o read.

You may also reach the other articles & interviews of Profile Magazine here.

This is one of the cover images of Metrópoli, a weekly supplement of the Spanish newspaper, El Mundo. Designed by Spanish designer, Rodrigo Sanchez. You may see the whole collection located here.

Also there is a nice interview with the designer at Speak-up and here is an important excerpt from the interview:

The idea is more important than the execution. I can spend more time thinking about the solution to a problem than in the execution proper.

True words! Via typeforyou.