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Buildings, And The Graphic Designers That Love Them
March 29, 2011
Toyo Ito typeface, by Christopher Labrooy.
The affair between graphic design and architecture continues. Click through for the three of our recent favorite graphic projects, fished out of the never-ending stream of graphic design blog-bait we wade through every day.
Scottish designer Christopher Labrooy takes the work of contemporary stars like Tadao Ando and Zaha Hadid and transforms them, using a combination of rendering and illustration, into typefaces:
[via Christopher Labrooy]
Below is a set of six posters depicting modernist greats, by Roosterization.
[via Flavorwire, Roosterization]
Then there’s this literalist version from blog The Allnighter:
[via The Allnighter]
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Two French designers mix and match Axor's Bouroullec collection to create beautifully minimal bathroom designs. -
Construction is finally compete on the already iconic tower. -
A tale of architectural suspense. -
The 2012 Monumenta installation in Paris's Grand Palais is a disorienting blast of color.
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Developers are planning an underwater hotel in Dubai that will take the cake for the emirate's most ridiculous architecture.
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A modern museum displaying an extensive collection of traditional Japanese woodcuts: http://t.co/52YWIGyg
09:41 PM May 16th
The Axor Bouroullec collection: endless variation, one color. http://t.co/mmRIHgfR
08:46 PM May 16th
We are SO jealous of this rooftop lap pool: http://t.co/m7JGFWFy
07:16 PM May 16th
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