Charles’ Give Me 5!
5+3 essential recommendations from a Mucho Designer. He is from Gibraltar, and is a mix of British and Andaluz. Cliché as it may be, the only “colour” in his wardrobe are the few white t-shirts he owns.
Dais
Graffiti
Artist making graffiti pieces that are on another level – a crazy mix of lettering and stop-motion.
Instagram: @dais_dk
Shape Grammars Lock
Book
by Jannis Maroscheck.
Ed. Slanted
An incredible insight into the power of technology and production systems, as well as an amazing source of inspiration for graphic forms.
The work of Nigel Cottier, Principal Designer at Accept & Proceed
Type
By Nigel Cottier.His book Letterform Variations is a crazy collection of over 19,000 letters based on grids and shape-based systems.
Website: https://process-pattern.com/
Instagram: @process.pattern
Studio GdB
Ceramic
Design studio from the Netherlands that’s making beautiful ceramic tiles. Their interpretation of the format gives a contemporary and graphic take on a traditional format – and that’s really interesting.
Website: www.studiogdb.biz
Instagram: @studio.gdb
Pixo (Pixação)
Graffiti
Graffiti style born out of protest in Brasil. From a visual perspective, Pixo stylistically takes letterforms past legibility to a universe of interesting abstract forms.
Documentary website: www.youtube.com/watch?v=skGyFowTzew
@Freelingwaters
Design
By Gijs Frieling & Job Wouters
Like their bio reads: they paint cabinets. Crazy, beautiful cabinets.
Instagram: @freelingwaters
MacGuffin
Magazine
Biannual design magazine featuring fabulous stories about the life of ordinary things.”An abstract in-depth look into an object and things related to it. A great read for someone like myself who struggles to read actual books.
Website: www.macguffinmagazine.com
