This post may be a little outdated, but I haven´t seen this page before, so I´m gonna post it, because perhaps some of you haven´t seen it also, and i think the quality is well worth it.
Here are the best 100 posters from 2006, according to [please insert name here, I don´t know german].
Here is also the link to the homepages of the winners, where you can further explore each individual participant.
Enjoy!
And talking about Typeradio:
TypeSHED11 is set to explore the notions and voices of typography – no matter how small or vocal, how grand or local – across the disciplines, in graphic design and advertising, photography, film, literature, architecture, music, the visual arts – and beam it back out to the rest of the world via Typeradio.
A full programme constructed from lectures, workshops, exhibitions and experimental installations will create the possibility for social and intellectual exchange with passionate typographers and designers from about the world – Europe, the Americas, Asia, Pacific, Australia and New Zealand.
Five exceptional guest speakers (to be announced) will punctuate three days of presentations, followed by two days of workshops – all under the one roof at Shed 11 – encircled by satellite events, forums and panels for discussion and debate, evening projections and entertainment. Refreshments each day, a picnic on the wharf, and a cocktail evening will offer the prospect to learn, mix and meet at New Zealand’s first ever TypeSHED11.
Download the Call for papers PDF here.
Frida, from Fernando de Mello Vargas, is one of the 14 faces resultant of the work from the MA Typeface Design class of 2007 at the University of Reading.
The Musalman is possibly the last handwritten newspaper in the world. Four professional calligraphers spend three hours on each page every single day to put out this daily paper.
Source: Wired
Thanks Valdemar!
From Buenos Aires, Argentina, comes a great multi-disciplinary magazine:
Acido Surtido is a publication on art and design distributed for free in the whole country (Argentina). The first issue of Acido Surtido was published in 2001, as an answer to the lack of action and the downhearted feelings that was threatening the national cultural production in those days. Trying to take over collective construction common places, Acido Surtido opens itself to other voices, getting together in order to share. A kind of generosity is underlying: those who offer the place, those who give their work, those who receive it and make its sense. There are some other principles. Avoiding commercialization and production paraphernalia that could make its cooperation spirit strange and move towards massive circulation. Betting on the quality of its contents secretly hoping to achieve fulfillment. In a nut shell: find the difficult balance between a high level publication and a self-produced fanzine.
Our collaborators come from different disciplines, but they are mostly linked to visual arts: designers, photographers, illustrators, fine arts artists. However, throughout our issues there has been a heterogeneous universe which also includes writers and poets together with other collaborators who could have hardly had the opportunity to develop project-like experiences.
Source: Slanted
Ok, this may be a little off-theme, but…it´s important.
From France, “L’ Alliance pour la Planete” (”Alliance for the Earth”), an association of environmental and social justice groups has a simple message for everyone: sacrifice 5 minutes for the planet. You’re asked to join others to switch off all electrical appliances between 19:55 and 20:00 CET on Thursday the 1st of February. (Please do the adjustment for your timezone).
It’s not just about saving 5 minutes’ worth of electricity, but a symbolic gesture to draw attention to our vast consumption of energy and the urgent need to reduce, reuse and recycle.
Why this date you may ask? Well, because tomorrow the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is due to release what is expected will be the strongest and most grave assessment to date of global warming by the world’s experts.
If the Eiffel Tower can do it…so can we!
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