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Cover for the 1991 single “The Wave of the Future” by Dutch/Belgian duo Quadrophonia. The design is credited to Image Building.

The group’s name is in Variex, while Modula Sans is used for the title and the text on the back cover. The large Q is from ITC Benguiat.

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Back cover (with the ARS logo in Stop)

Front

From Our Minds to Yours Vol. 1 is a compilation of techno music by various artists, released as double LP by Plus 8 Records in June 1991. The design is credited to “Stereotype-G. Arnett”, i.e. Gary Arnett of Acme Digital Design Labs.

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Tsitsi is an independent brand that uses fabrics from stock inventories. Each garment is designed, printed and hand-stitched by Costanza and Fabiana, two young Italian designers.

Theirs is a nomadic atelier full of color and vitality, and precisely this mood, already evident in their products, has been brought back in the design of their new identity, through the choice of a color palette that smells of spring and typefaces based on the inspiration of playful and irregular shapes.

Photos: Viola Carboni, Francesco De Luca

Cover for Can you keep a straight face, with a modified ‘g’ in the title, and a question mark, repurposed as nose. Illustrated by Élisa Géhin. Published january 2017.

Bernard Duisit is a renowned paper engineer who has worked on dozens of pop-up and interactive books. Thames & Hudson published a series of wimsy pop-up books by Duisit with different illustrators, in which Duisit surprises and entertains kids and grown-ups. Three books of the series are shown here. The narrative is simple and effective: the question on the book cover is repeated in different variations on the left page, and answered with an illustration on the right hand page.

In the English editions, all typography follows the same design, with titles set in Emigre’s Variex regular weight, with glyphs in different sizes to enhance the rhythm, and some modified glyphs to improve the legibility. All text inside the book is in Meredith Mandel’s succesful freebie Chunk.

From Can you keep a straight face?

From Can you keep a straight face?

From Can you keep a straight face?

Cover for What’s up? Illustrations by Olivia Cosneau, published January 2017.

From: What's up?

This or that? Illustrated by Delphine Chedru, published January 2017.

From This or that?

From This or that?

From This or that?