…1. Make for the basement, and take in creative studio Wieden + Kennedy’s now-famous office. They’ve commandeered a part of this complex and created something right out of Office and Garden magazine (no, there isn’t such a mag). The lobby has a ‘Work is Worship’ installation, made of several thousand pencils, and lives out the creative ad agency office fantasy. Be blown away. But the best part is an in-house public gallery, with the stellar aim of making ‘art accessible to everyone’. Recover. Go in…
…Typographica reminds us that typography is an industrial art, a product or a service. It’s about men, materials and money. See the spread on the design of manhole covers; and another on the devices used by newspapers to get you to notice the latest, most final, and final final edition. Say out loud the seven-year-old’s favourite riddle: what’s black and white and re(a)d all over? A newspaper…
What’s Your Type?
openthemagazine.com FEBRUARY 27, 2010
Itu reviews for OPEN magazine
