During the month of April, Colette in Paris will be featuring Pottok products in their store. If you want to buy some go check it out. They will be taking orders for the entire month and then shipping directly to the store at the end of April. Pottok wallpapers are proudly offering artist prints and patterns to fans and designers. These are hand silk-screened in Los Angeles and use only recyclable paper and water-based inks, no varsols are used in any part of the printing process.
Typographica’s fourth annual review showcases the best in new typeface design. Twenty-five of the world’s brightest graphic and type designers selected their favorite font releases of the year. They welcome to our regular cast of contributors: David Berlow, Ellen Lupton, and Erik Spiekermann, among others.
typographica.org
All ye lovers of SciFi, vintage illustration and design and all things scientificadelic, do check out Flicker’s ”Vintage Science” illustration group.
It’s packed with lots of really cool illustrations, from deliciously outdated science manuals
covers to those ultra-pop USSR space exploration propaganda posters.
Rainfall.com also find some cool vintage scifi covers :
And if you still want more, GetConfused warmly recommends “Future Perfect” in Taschen’s hyper kawai Icons series.
Seventh Tree’ is the third collaboration with Goldfrapp and Big active, after ‘Black Cherry’ and ‘Supernature’. This time, they created a sensual counterpoint to the previous record, taking on a much more pastural and psychedelic sound.
The stylist Cathy Edwards and photographer Serge Leblon create a set of images reflecting this new direction to be utilised across all aspects of the campaign from sleeves to press to multi-media.
The album is designed in three formats including a deluxe CD version featuring postcards, CD/DVD, fold-out poster and hand drawn lyric book - all housed inside a bespoke box made of woven paper.
Art Direction: Alison Goldfrapp, Mat Maitland & Cathy Edwards, Design: Mat Maitland,
Photography: Serge Leblon
Hedi Slimane has shot a series of black-and-white portraits of Kate Moss for Libération ( the French daily ) for International Women’s Day.
Tradeshow for the creative community, April 3&4 at the Jeu de Paume, in Paris.
Le book is an international reference for the advertising, fashion and photography industries. Le Book has built a global network for the creative community, and it is the network’s strength that has allowed Connections to exist as the live version of renowned publication.
If you want to assist at this event, you need to be register. - www.lebook.com
Take a look at the new TFL (Transport For London) ad showing the importance of awareness of cyclists.
More information about the ad here.
Also if you want to listen something different, go to Stereogum website, it’s free download-only tribute album to Björk’s Post, featuring Liars, Dirty Projectors, No Age, and more.
Flux and the Hammer Museum present a new quarterly screening series featuring innovative short films, music videos, features, filmmaker retrospectives and the most interesting visual work from around the globe. This unique evening will feature an exclusive West Coast big screen presentation of Björk’s “Wanderlust” video presented by the filmmakers Encyclopedia Pictura.
‘Wanderlust’ have hit the web and people are getting all hot and bothered. The vid looks to be a monster and with a production credit list the size a feature film, the budget was probably off the charts too.
I wish I were in NYC.
Cai Guo-Qiang is internationally acclaimed as an artist whose creative transgressions and cultural provocations have literally exploded the accepted parameters of art making in our time.
This is especially true of Inopportune: Stage One, Cai’s largest installation to date, which presents nine real cars in a cinematic progression that simulates a car bombing, occupying the central atrium of the Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda.
First shown in 2004, the exhibition copy installed at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2008, from February 22 until May 28.
edit: I could have read coco’s post, who is talking about the same 
