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«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.

New illustrations from 521 Design Studio by Chris Ferebee. They look really nice however a bit expensive =)

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.

The image above displays how to print/display the sentence “it is not going to stop” in 43 different programming languages of the last 50 years.

And the poster below shows the road between Arnhem and Nijmegen. The diagram compares average speed in two directions during 24 hours.

I have discovered CATALOGTREE (a design company from holland) via one of the posts at visualcomplexity. They have quite interesting projects on information visualization and typography. It is absolutely worth to check!

Daniel Rozin is an artist, educator and developer, working in the area of interactive digital art. As an interactive artist Rozin creates installations and sculptures that have the unique ability to change and respond to the presence and point of view of the viewer. In many cases the viewer becomes the contents of the piece and in others the viewer is invited to take an active role in the creation of the piece.

The works of Daniel Rozin are quite impressive in all aspect, but for me it is quite exciting to see a mechanical mirror (other than a digital surface) that “literally” shows the real world images. You may check his works. And also, there is another project called aperture (by Frédéric Eyl and Gunnar Green) that I found quite similar in terms of displaying images. Here is the website of aperture and here is the image of ‘An iris diaphragm is an aperture with a variable opening diameter.’

A very unique piece of installation I may say, however it should be quite expensive, eh?

57 spotlights transform the rotunda in the Kunsthalle Schirn into a brilliant, illuminated space visible from afar. On entering the installation, museum visitors and passers-by are exposed to the focussed radiant power from a total of 114 kW lighting energy. Beyond the purely visual impression of brightness, the materiality of the phenomenon of light can be experienced directly and physically.

You may find the other works of artist at http://www.siegrunappelt.com/
Found at VVORK.