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Enjoy a collection of musings, deep thoughts and good times from our crew here at Foerstel.
Product design student Ari Jónsson has combined red algae powder with water to create a biodegradable bottle. Jónsson – who studies at the Iceland Academy of the Arts – exhibited the project during this year’s Reykjavik design festival DesignMarch from 10 to 13 March 2016. After reading about the amount
From the sticky to the greasy, Martin Parr’s new book Real Food published by Phaidon is a glorious collection of everyday meals and snacks. Taken in fast food restaurants, greasy spoons, street stalls and barbecues from across the world, the book serves as a best of Parr’s iconic food shots.
When UK photographer Garrod Kirkwood travelled to America recently to shoot Samuel L. Jackson for a brand campaign, he took the opportunity to travel around California, documenting his experience and the people he met. The resulting series, aptly named Americana, follows his quintessential style – all soft muted colours, simplicity
The first trailer for the documentary film Graphic Means: A History of Graphic Design Production has just been released. Directed by Briar Levit, the film explores the huge changes that took place in graphic design from the 1950s through the 1990s – from linecaster to photocomposition and paste-up to PDF.
Michigan illustrator David Zinn (previously) has brightened the streets of Ann Arbor with his off-the-wall (or technically on-the-wall) chalk drawings since 1987. The artist works with chalk or charcoal to create site-specific artworks that usually incorporate surrounding features like cracks, street infrastructure, or found objects. Over the years he’s developed
Bernie Mitchell is a drywall contractor that puts his creativity to work designing, constructing, sculpting and finishing specialty features in shoreline homes and cottages. Bernie started a simple form of relief in the early 1990s. In his profession as a drywall finisher, he was experimenting with raised panels on wall
Using scraps leftover thread from her family’s carpet factory in Buenos Aires, artist Alexandra Kehayoglou embarks on a laborious hand-tufting process to fabricate wool carpets and rugs that mimic natural textures like moss, water, trees, and pastures. The carpets balance form and function and can powerfully transform an entire room
After a few weeks of checking labels for any added sugar, here’s a little mid-month update on those of us at Foerstel who are participating in the office-wide No Added Sugar January. LINDA: First, I don’t eat much processed food to start with but this has really made me have
January is a time for fresh starts, and this goal-setting office loves a fresh start. In addition to starting fresh with the calendar year, the Foerstel office is making a major change this January. We’re going sugar free!
It’s that time again! Food and family and finding the perfect presents. Whether you’re trying to win the heart of a graphic designer in your life, or just browsing the web for gifts to give yourself, we’ve got you covered. *Drumroll* It’s the annual List of Gifts for Graphic Designers.
In mid-October, florists from across the country filled every nook and cranny of an abandoned house in Detroit with American-grown fresh flowers and living plants for a weekend-long installation that attracted over three thousand visitors.
Ana Teresa Barboza produces embroidered landscapes with wandering streams that break the fourth wall, jumping off their 2D structures and cascading to the floor in waterfalls of blues and greens. The remaining landscape Barboza keeps in black and white, focusing the viewer’s eye on the vibrant colors that compose the
