Need a new font?

For the first time in the world you can walk in from the street and get yourself a nice, new font at the new concept store, Playtype, at Værnedamsvej 6 in Copenhagen. Behind Playtype is strategic brand and design agency, e-Types, well known for their strong corporate identities and typefaces. They will be releasing over 100 new fonts by e-Types as well as longtime friends and partners. Grand opening december 1st. See the film here.

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Think you're special?

Photographer Ari Versluis and profiler Ellie Uyttenbroek have worked together since October 1994. Inspired by a shared interest in the striking dress codes of various social groups, they have systematically documented numerous identities over the last 16 years. They call their series Exactitudes: a contraction of exact and attitude. By registering their subjects in an identical framework, with similar poses and a strictly observed dress code, Versluis and Uyttenbroek provide an almost scientific, anthropological record of people’s attempts to distinguish themselves from others by assuming a group identity.

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Peculiar Postcards

Like the effect and the new stories beeing told in the old postcards. Work by Vlad Smolkil. Have a nice, peculiar weekend!

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Winter is fun...

... if you have one of these warm, beardcaps! Check out them and other products from Icelandic Vik Prjónsdóttir at the exhibition in This Issue in Blågårdsgade 14, Copenhagen, from now until Christmas. Via Selekkt.

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Textured Typography

Love the work Andrew Townsend does for Nottingham Trent University. He works as Senior Designer/Art Director at the creative agency Un.titled in the UK, where he specialises in graphic design and art direction for print.

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Sleep Elevations

We love the poetic and surreal pictures from French photographer, Maia Flore. Via Ignant.

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Lost a glove?

Surplus Wonder, a creative design studio based in Copenhagen, takes design further in this self-initiated project "One second Hand" – a pop-up shop selling lonely gloves! In collaboration with the Danish Red Cross they focus on being lonely and lost in the society today. The shop opens on Thursday 25th of November at Gl. Kongevej 82, Copenhagen.

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Meringue Rings

We like these quirky rings by German designer Tanja Hartmann made of silicone. Buy them here.

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Public Furniture

Rainer Spehl and Martino Gamper made this awesome seating outside a café in Berlin out of timber and objects found in the streets.

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Handwoven Snapshots

Inspired by the internet generation and the images presented by its people, artist Erin M Riley makes these fantastic handwoven tapestries. She works with imagery from Google image search and Facebook, blowing them up into cartoons for her tapestries and weaving them on a Macomber floor loom with wool. These pieces are presented as traditional tapestries of snapshots which depict a generation of excess and confusion. Be careful with your snapshots and have a nice weekend!

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Incredibile Illustrations

Beautiful, detailed illustrations from Milan based illustrator, Lorenzo Petrantoni. Love the website too.

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Keep it simple, keep it fun

We like the illustrations by Wasted Rita, a young designer and illustrator from Porto, Portugal, who is all about do-it-your-self, counterculture, punk-rock, making mistakes and passion.

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The Carpenters

The Havana-based collective Los Carpinteros has created some of the most important work to emerge from Cuba in the past decade. Their carefully crafted works use humor to exploit a visual syntax that sets up contradictions among object and function 
as well as practicality and uselessness.

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Wild Hats

from label Yang Du by surrealist fashion designer, Du Yang. She blurs the lines between art and fashion creating relaxed, humorous and sexy clothes inspired by life and love.

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Wild Thing

Sydney based artist, Troy Emery, works with polyurethane, glue and pom poms to create these fabulous creatures. By Basic Sounds.

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Egg tempera and walnut ink...

... and other natural ingredients are some of the stuff American artist, Allyson Mellberg, uses in her drawings of beautifully deformed and yet playful characters who carry a proud demeanor in their abnormalities. A striking color palette that is wholly her own. And edible...? For sale at Cinders Gallery. That's all for this week – have a nice weekend!

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