What’s Up #2: Erwan Frotin
Erwan Frotin [bigactive.com/photography/erwan-frotin] is a French-born photographer who specialises in still lifes. Some of his best work has appearred in Carine Roitfeld’s [wikipedia.org] current dark and dishy version of Paris Vogue [vogue.fr]. He has recently photographed Rachel Thomas’s [bigactive.com] set creations for a Tsumori Chisato [surface2airparis.com] campaign. Shown above are a few less recent grabs from his portfolio for Paris Vogue.
What’s Up #1: Banker Wessel
Having never got the hang of del.icio.us, I now have a massive list of bookmarks and no where to share them… apart from this here blog. So as an intermittent series, I’m going to drop in on them every once in a while and see what they’re up to. First batter up is Banker Wessel [bankerwessel.com], Graphic Illustrators from Stockholm. They’ve recently been asked to add some decoration to the HTF Studios in Chicago, some of which you can see below…
Digest Vintage Gardens
Further to our recent post which was a type of ‘call to shovels’, here are some images from the Readers Digest Practical Guide to Home Landscaping 1973 including some pretty ace suburban architecture from the era.
Secret Typography #3
More unreleased type design we wish we could own. This time it’s from graphic design duo Megi Zumstein and Claudio Barandun under their studio moniker, Hi [hi-web.ch]. There’s also a truck load of examples of lush book design.
Secret Typography #2
Custom Typography is rife. ‘Modern technology’ means it’s become relatively easy to commission your own custom made typeface (it’s still takes a lot of time and dedication to build a decent one though), which puts designers in a weird situation where there are many attractive and rigorously developed typefaces that will only be available to a very select few. A2/SW/HK [a2swhk.co.uk] are kings of custom typography, often creating beautifully crafted typefaces that live for a one-off application, such as a book or an exhibition, before being relegated to design history. Like Textaxis [textaxis.com] these typefaces may never be available for commercial use which seems to make them even more covetable.
