This survey of book design represents perhaps the longest-standing legacy in American graphic design. Beginning in 1923, the Fifty Books of the Year competition was a yearly mainstay of AIGA. As dust jackets became more common, covers were added to the competition. From 2012–2018 Design Observer hosted the competition with AIGA through a joint venture. […]
Got Your Back livens up the working from home environment With online business meetings surging in popularity, Dutch creative agency Staat has gathered a group of established and emerging creatives to create virtual backdrops, available to use for free in a wide range of video conference applications such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams. We’re particularly fond […]
The free platform features artwork donated by the likes of Iwan Baan, Lennard Kok, Timo Kuilder, Hugo & Marie and the Rijksmuseum, ranging from epic to calm, via the slightly creepy. Source: Make your video call background much, much cooler with Got Your Back
Bjarke Ingels Group Completes a Spiraling Museum for Audemars PiguetIn Swiss town Le Brassus, the architect creates a surprising shape for the new Musée Atelier Audemars Piguet, which is tentatively slated to open to the public on June 25 Source: Bjarke Ingels Designs a Spiraling Museum for Luxury Watch Brand Audemars Piguet | Architectural Digest
Mona Fawaz and Cara Aramouny review the first project by Lina Ghotmeh in her home town. The building “embraces the city’s eclectic, layered morphologies and sets its new, elegant yet unassuming presence on them”. Source: Stone Garden, the mixed-use building by Lina Ghotmeh Architecture
Pick up the latest issue of Domus Magazine with Lina Ghotmeh’s beautiful Stone Garden building in Lebanon In this issue: David Chipperfield meets Renzo Piano; Lina Ghotmeh Architecture’s Stone Garden in Lebanon; the work of British artist Rachel Whiteread and more. Browse the gallery and discover the contents of the April issue. Source: Domus 1045 […]
Get your virtual backdrops for use in Zoom here: An ever growing collection of virtual backdrops for use in Zoom & Microsoft Teams. Expressions of optimism and art by the world’s best designers, illustrators, animators, photographers, filmmakers and artists. Source: Got Your Back
In Tilburg a former factory now houses several public functions for the city, including a library and coworking spaces. DOMUS: LocHal library draws on the industrial identity of the city of Tilburg