Tapestry Asteroid is a site experimenting with the latest in AI technology to generate album titles, artwork and music samples inspired by the musician Sun Ra.

In the heart of Lassithi mountains, Chronakis Home suggests the ideal accommodation for travelers who want to discover the beauty of the Cretan landscape and the pure tradition of the island’s villages. Built in stone and surrounded by walnut, pear and cherry trees, the house offers the cosy hospitality of Chronakis family, as well as a memorable experience for the enthusiasts of alternative tourism.

Chronakis Home’s design is based on the unique characteristics of the accommodation’s hospitality qualities; agrotourism, family hospitality, mythology, and more. The symbol – using the brand name’s initials (C/CH for Chronakis, H for home) – signifies the delicacy of home hospitality, while following the overall discreet character of the identity. The earthy colour palette, the nostalgic feeling of photography and the friendliness of voice and typography, reveal the all-embracing experience that the house, as well as the Lassithi Plateau, promise to the visitors.

The primary typeface in the identity is Munken Sans. The stamp-like seal combines another sans serif, ITC Franklin Gothic, with the script Lakeside. In the guide book, the palette is widened to include Nocturne Serif for titles.

This live double album is the first vinyl release of Sun Ra Arkestra’s concert in Kalisz, Poland, which took place on 7 December 1986 as part of the 13th edition of the International Jazz Piano festival. It was released by Lanquidity Records under special license from Sun Ra LLC.

Cover designer Jacek Walesiak of UVMW used Ouroboros for the title and the track listing. The liner notes are set in Nocturne Serif. The Lanquidity logo uses ITC Lubalin Graph.

Back cover with liner notes by Rafał Księżyk.

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Żoliborz by Marian Misiak / threedotstype

MAMSAM mugs —

are associated, first of all, with an aesthetics of PRL (People’s Republic of Poland), although they were also inspired from the German design of 1960s. The first patterns referred directly to the Polish applied graphic design of 1970s. However, with time the designers cooperating with us started to treat them as a medium of comments towards the present days and to make reference to the current events or texts of the culture.

MANSAM Mugs, are first and foremost good Polish design as well as the gallery presenting the works of Polish graphic artists and designers distinguishing themselves.

They are formed as limited series, not exceeding 100 pieces (there are mostly 30 pieces of them of one pattern). Each series is an unrepeated collection of logotypes, which are not produced more by us in case if they have beeen already sold.

The MAMSAM shop currently lists 979 different designs submitted by 173 designers, sorted in 12 categories like cities, sport, animals, objects, words. This post shows a selection of mugs with typographic designs. Unless otherwise noted, all depicted mugs were designed by Janek Bersz, one of the most prolific contributors. The selection also includes mugs by Polish type designers who have used the MAMSAM mugs as a platform to showcase their typefaces.

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אהבה by Mixcolour

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Śląsk by Marian Misiak / threedotstype

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Singiel by Tomasz Tkaczyk

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Służew by Szymon Sznajder

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Bielany by Joanna Angulska

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Żoliborz by Zuzanna Rogatty

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Ursynów by Rafał Buchner

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Bemowo by Mateusz Machalski

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Śródmieście by Mateusz Machalski

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Saska Kępa by Ludka Niezgoda

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Wilanów by Anna Wieluńska

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Mokotów by Robert Jarzec

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Żerań by Maciej Połczyński

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Praga by Maciej Włoczewski

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Białołęka by Beata Kurek

Book cover design box set for Editora Nova Fronteira’s edition of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron (in Portuguese: O Decamerão).

Our friends from Rōnin Recordings (see also this post) are ready for their second release: RR002 / Hysteresis by Rodolfo Cruz, a Mexican producer and audio engineer based in Los Angeles, California. They want to keep the visual language from the last release, but this time with an ethic mexican touch. We got inspired by the intro of one of the most classic movies in history: Psycho, and also by the meaning of the word “Hysteresis” (the dependence of the state of a system on its history). Using a graphic as the principal element of the art, we also took the magnetic force concept from the Hysteresis effect to complete the visual elements used in the rest of the identity.

The typography combines Monument Grotesk Regular by ABC Dinamo, with Nocturne Serif by Mateusz Machalski. The name of the recording studio is set in Benoît Bodhuin's Elastik.