http://blog.boico.net Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:51:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "For Londoners, London is obscured. Too thinly spread, too private for anyone to know. Its social life invisible, its government abolished, its institutions at the discretion of either monarchy or state or the City, where at the historic centre there nothing but a civic void, which fills and empties daily ... http://blog.boico.net/866 This is a bit of an experiment, partly inspired by Jeremy Leslie [magculture.com/blog], Mark Porter [markporter.com] and Richard Spencer Powell [monocle.com] presentation at St Bride's last Wednesday, courtesy of YCN Live (Thanks James! It were top.) [ycnonline.com/live].  The big question that seems to be floating about at the moment is ... http://blog.boico.net/859 Charlotte Mann [charlottemann.co.uk] has just completed her latest massive wallscape of a commission for the intriguingly esoteric (and recently launched) shopping experience, The School of Life [theschooloflife.com]. There's no sneaky digital reproduction going on here. Charlotte uses marker pens to draw straight said walls, which makes the resulting pieces all ... http://blog.boico.net/854 Boicozine is participating in a postcard exhibition to be held at the Geoff McFetridge designed Sunshine Cafe in Tokyo. The advantage being that postcards are such a neat size, you can pack loads more contributors in (66 at last count), so something you everyone? Visit [postcard-exhibition.blogspot.com] to spot submissions by ... http://blog.boico.net/848 Alex Ostrowski [www.alexostrowski.com] recently got in touch with boicozine to share some quality linkage and here tis... Chris Clarke's [chris-clarke.co.uk] Type Cube a neat idea that's been doing the rounds on design blogs recently. Chris investigates modular typography and has created a movable typographic toy which you can mess about ... http://blog.boico.net/842 The Notwist have a new album and newly refurbished website to go with it [notwist.com]. Designed and built by giraffentoast [giraffentoast.com] in collaboration with Yokoland [yokoland.com]. It's nice to see a band promoting themselves with a quirky, well designed promosite instead of a useless crap load of marketing gumph ... http://blog.boico.net/835 Dots on Demand Poster Did you get down to the ICA in time to get a free 'Dots on Demand' Poster [ica.org.uk]? Created by Alex Rich [field-trip.org], Jürg Lehni [scratchdisk.com] and you! (If you have any pics of your posters to share, I've just this minute set up a Flickr Group ... http://blog.boico.net/728 Axel Peemöller is an Australian 'Master of Design'. It's official. The qualification was only introduced in Australia a mere 7 years ago and he's got one. Cool. Currently living in Hamburg Germany (I wonder if the MDe means anything to a European audience), qualifications aside, the quality of his work ... http://blog.boico.net/756 Fix up London. You've been a shabby shabbler for too long now. We all found it endearing throughout the 90s and at the turn of the millennium but it's time to shape up or ship out. The Britpop boom (which wasn't really that long ago) celebrated that distinct 'wonkiness' that ... http://blog.boico.net/792 "So typography is basically the study of the design of letterforms. Basically its arranging and choosing font styles, choosing the colour of a font, it's placement, emphasis, etc... its all so easy really, nothing big. It's common sense. At school, they didn't mention anything about typography in my Graphic Design ... http://blog.boico.net/808