design

"Petite Mort, little death, total
release; beyond a scent, more like a convulsion of the senses"

Mr Marc Atlan is launching his very first fragrance and "Petite Mort" , from its name to its imagery and inevitably, the actual fragrance, is unabashed in its expression of perfume as art.

Thesis abstracts by RISD graphic design MFA 2009. Critics: Andrew Blauvelt, Rob Giampietro, Lucille Tenazas

To hunt for signs of advanced graphic design life.

Design firm Trebleseven concocts a 2011 calendar to love.

TI does not adore calendars because they remind us too much about deadlines.

Early twenty-first century aesthetes have no choice but to venerate the industrial and the machine made

Exactly...our cup of post-industrial design tea.

Tyler Brule's air travel wet dream just got a bit damper.

Dear Dedicated Design Fiend,

Moss: The very ideal of prismic thinking in retail

I live for the quality of thinking displayed at Moss.

The stroke flow of katakana is like painting marks
Just the word "glyph" is the lure of poetry.

»Future Shopping«. Exhibition Concept, Exhibition Graphic Design by Ritator

I got a lovely heads-up via email this morning from Swedish design and advertising agency Ritator

Nabbed a copy at OFR

The "Foresta" in its playfulness and wit perpetuated Sottsass' signature dialogue all the way into the last decade

The Showstopper? The Bureau "Foresta" , (2002) designed by Ettore Sottsass