DesignMarketo will be at the Clerkenwell design Week 2011, in collaboration with the Barbican Art Center. We will present a selection of products taken from various collection, including the super beautiful products created for Seeds & Sprouts, a dinner we organised as part of the current Pioneers exhibition at Barbican. For the Clerkenwell Design Week, we’ve organised a couple of workshops on the theme of Animation…

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We are on the first floor of the Farmiloe Building on 34 St John street. The closest tube stations are Farringdon or Barbican. Bus routes 19, 341, 38, N19, N38, N41, 55, 48.

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Head Written with Amandine Alessandra.

It will be based on stop motion and animation. We will ask a few participants to move within the iconic building space while wearing a special colour garment, to create a set of letters or signs that will then be animated into a short film. Wednesday 25.05.11 from 2-4pm

Animated Words with Alexandre Bettler

It will be inviting participants to choose a word, to cut out cards letters and to make the word into a mobile. We will then stop motion photograph the mobile during a short time until the specific point when all the letters match to form the word again. Thursday 26.05.11 from 5-pm

We will be featuring the Cactus Shelf, a beautiful and practical shelving system designed by Lars Frideen. The ‘cactus’ is constructed of a chosen number of elements that fit together very simply. This allows for the shelf to evolve and grow in slow motion… 24-26.05.11 – All day

The workshops are free and open to all. They are limited to about 10-15 people and booking by email is essential. Bookings are based on a first booked/first served basis. To register: info@designmarketo.com.

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There’s a good lot going on today with books, earlier with the St Bride book we worked on – i just received an email from Amandine about the availability of the book featuring some of her recent typographic work.

You can buy the book directly from Mark Batty Publisher or from Amazon.

Amandine’s Booksetting Poster is available through DesignMarketo.

3D Typography
By Jeanette Abbink & Emily CM Anderson
Page Count: 224 pages
Size: 8.7 x 11 inches
Format: Casebound
Publication Date: June 2010
Price: $45
ISBN: 978-0-9841906-2-1

The authors
Jeanette Abbink opened the design studio Rational Beauty in 2008. Prior to opening Rational Beauty, Abbink was the founding creative director of Dwell magazine. She has also served as a designer and art director for numerous magazines, including The New York Times sports magazine Play, as well as American Craft and Martha Stewart Living.

Graphic designer Emily CM Anderson was selected as an Art Directors Club Young Gun 6 in 2008. She has worked for magazines such as Dwell and American Craft, and co-designed the book Brooklyn Modern for Rizzoli.

From type crafted of steel and neon, to carefully-cut live moss, everyday items like buttons and sugar cubes, to giant installments of polythene and paper, the work in 3D Typography serves as a bold reaction to the fact that so much of today’s typography is conceived via screens.

“If you’re anything like us, you may never look at letters in quite the same way – and may even be inspired to undertake a project of your own,” said Abbink and Anderson. “As we learned, potential letterforms are everywhere, just waiting to be cut, carved, knitted, grown, spun, melted, molded, hammered, flown – and otherwise reclaimed.”

Along with a fascinating introduction by renown architecture and design critic Karrie Jacobs and interviews with artists, contributors include Amandine Alessandra, Thorbjørn Ankerstjerne, asa~ama, Autobahn, Huda Abdul Aziz, Andrew Byrom, Rhett Dashwood, Keetra Dean Dixon, Oded Ezer, Hikaru Furuhashi, Anna Garforth, Keith Hancox, HandMadeFont, Fons Hickmann, Karrie Jacobs, Gyöngy Laky, Amitis Pahlevan, Mike Perry, Clotilde Olyff, Miguel Ramirez, Camilo Rojas, Stefan Sagmeister, Dan Tobin Smith, Typeworkshop, Thijs Verbeek, Thomas Voorn and many, many more. For the full list of contributors and to learn more about the book visit the official website, http://3DTypographyBook.com.

* bravo Amandine! :)

FoodMarketo – Online shop now open! Allowing you go back to Milan in a click – or in case you missed our popup shop there with Apartamento Magazine.

It gives you a chance to see the amazing objects we received from All Cats Are Grey, Amandine Alessandra, Andrew Haythornthwaite and Shaiesta Akram, Arabeschi Di Latte, At Work, Bannocks & Hill, Bertjan Pot, Officeabc and Laura couto-rosado, Charlotte Coulais, David Weatherhead, Do You Read Me, Realmade, Ferran Lajara, Frank Bruggeman, Harry Thaler, Jackson Lam, Ken Kirton, Lars Friedeen, Loris & Livia, Marco Dessi, Markus & Karin & Kari, Mischer Traxler, Nelly Ben Hayoun, Nicola Enrico Stäubli, OK-RM, Olivia Decaris, Oscar Diaz, Oscar Narud, Peter Marigold, Study O Portable, Tomas Alonso and Sara Ivanyi.

* all pictures have been taken by the good people of Interior-Photography; they came down to Milan with us, they set up the photographic studio and art directed the photoshoot for the online shop.

We are happy to see you in our new popup shop.
From next Tuesday (13th) until Sunday the 18th in our popup shop and workshops.
Details: http://foodmarketo.com/

FoodMarketo is half pop up store, half cooking workshop, selling contemporary design objects commissioned
to over 30 international designers and hosting daily workshops to share recipes and everyday life ingredients.

The store will feature a unique interior designed by London based designers, Max Lamb & Lars Frideen.

* participating designers:
All Cats Are Grey, Amandine Alessandra, Andrew Haythornthwaite and Shaiesta Akram,
Arabeschi Di Latte, At Work, Bannocks & Hill, Bertjan Pot, ByggStudio, Officeabc
and Laura couto-rosado, Charlotte Coulais, David Weatherhead,
Do You Read Me, Realmade, Ferran Lajara, Frank Bruggeman,
Harry Thaler, Jackson Lam, Ken Kirton, Lars Friedeen, Loris & Livia,
Marco Dessi, Markus & Karin & Kari, Mischer Traxler, Nelly Ben Hayoun,
Nicola Enrico Stäubli, OK-RM, Olivia Decaris, Oscar Diaz,
Oscar Narud, Peter Marigold, Study O Portable, TankBoys, Tomas Alonso, Sara Ivanyi.