Graphic Designer
Tadanori Yokoo
Book
Caps Lock
by Ruben Peter.
Ed. Untold Stories (2021)
This book by Ruben Peter is a deep exploration of the history and relations between graphic design and capitalism.
Capitalism could not exist without the coins, banknotes, documents, information graphics, interfaces, branding, and advertising made by graphic designers. Even strategies such as social design and speculative design are easily appropriated to serve economic growth. It seems design is locked in a cycle of exploitation and extraction, furthering inequality and environmental collapse.
Variable Typeface
Bumpy
Documentary
Barbara Stauffacher–Solomon: Visions Not Previously Seen
By Natalija Vekic, Christian Bruno and Kurt Keppeler (2018).
A portrait of the groundbreaking 89-year old designer who fused Swiss modernism with an iconic and bold California pop aesthetic to create the design phenomena known as Supergraphics.
Website: https://vimeo.com/261873980
AI search engine
beta.flim.ai
Tartagelatina is a brand founded by Paz and Marcel, a couple of designers living in Barcelona. Their dream is to bring joy to your home with thoughtfully designed goods that are consciously made.
Website: beta.flim.ai
Instagram: @flim.ai
Digital experiments
Everyday Experiments
By Space10 & Ikea
Website: www.
Creativity
The Creative Study
By Ask Us for Ideas
The Creative Study is a project by Ask Us for Ideas, a 5 part study asking some of the world’s more creative minds to define the undefinable ‘what creativity is’.
Website: www.thecreative.study/
Instagram: @askusforideas
Magazine
TM Archive
By The Gentlewoman
The Typographische Monatsblätter was one of the most important journals to successfully disseminate the phenomenon of ‘Swiss typography’ to an international audience. This website is derived from exhaustive research on the TM focusing on the issues from 1960 till 1990.
Website: www.tm-research-archive.ch