Type Navigator - The Independent Foundries Handbook

A new tool for designers and clients presented by German publishing house Gestalten

Type Navigator features inspirational visual examples of fonts in use. A free digital collection of 100 typeface variations from 20 choice foundries accompanies the book. Is a valuable reference for agencies, designers, consultants, and customers who are looking for an overview of the modern typefaces currently available and the innovative people and companies behind them. The selection criteria were the quality of work, the originality, diversity and crucial role played by how interesting it was the business of each company according to the introductory note by Jan Middendorp. The book was presented at a special event held in Berlin, where among other things, spoke several of the area of typography as Lucas de Groot, Tim Ahrens and Shoko Mugikura.

Features of the book
320 pages, full color, hardcover, incl. CD-ROM with 100 typefaces from 20 foundries

Fast Fashion

Alfie
In Manhattan, the British limousine driver Alfie is surrounded by beautiful women, most of them clients, and he lives as a Don Juan, having one night stands with all of them and without any sort of commitment. His girl-friend and single-mother Julie is quite upset with the situation and his best friends are his colleague Marlon and his girl-friend Lonette. Alfie has a brief affair with Lonette, and the consequences of his act forces Alfie to reflect and wonder about his life style

Disney Villains

Graham & Brown, the UK's leading wallpaper company, collaborates once again with renowned Biba founder Barbara Hulanicki to create a capsule collection of flock wallpaper celebrating the dastardly delights of the dark side of Disney.
Inspired by the Disney classic Sleeping Beauty with a touch of Graham & Brown magic, Hulanicki brings to life the magnificent Maleficent and her cunning feathered sidekick, Diablo. Depicting the most powerful and sinister characters of all Disney Villains, the new wallpaper collection is deliciously wicked, perfect for a Halloween makeover.
This limited edition collection is exclusively available only for Europe as sold online from Graham & Brown UK site.

About Barbara

Born in Poland , but raised in England, Barbara Hulanicki began her career in Fashion in the early 1960′s working as a freelance fashion illustrator covering all the important fashion collections for the major publications of the day, including Women’s Wear Daily, British Vogue, the Times, the Observer and the Sunday Times. In 1964 she founded, with her late husband, Stephen Fitz-Simon, the famous boutique BIBA. Since then, her bio does not stop filling with new pages from the wealth of activity in the area of design.

THE KNITTED SCULPTURES OF SANDRA BACKLUND

SANDRA BACKLUND is a fashion designer graduated from Beckmans college of design in Stockholm. From 2004, year of her graduation, founded her own label. Winner of the french prize at the "1997 Festival International de la Mode et de la Photographie de Hyeres"  known as the European festival dedicated to the alternative fashion and photography. Backlund's clothes looks more like sculptures than fashion items. Forms are the characteristic feature of her work. Until recently oversized knitted clothes belonged to the cocooning trend almost exclusively. Labels like the one of Sandra Backlund's dare to break the fashion frontier reminds at the same time that we need to return back to the natural materials.

* 1) Photo : Kristian Loveborg
   2) Photo: Peter Gehrke

Athens Museum of Modern Arts

In October 2013,  23 months from now delivered in Athens the new Museum of Modern Arts in the building that for decades housed the brewery FIX.
Contractor is ultimately the construction company Aktor, that brought out and construction of the new Acropolis Museum. The architectural design of the new museum made by 3SK Stilianidis.
The modern art museum founded in 1997 but started its operation in 2000 with the founding Director Mrs. Anna Kafetsi. The foundation came to fill a huge gap left by decades of a similar institution for contemporary Greek and international art in Athens.

As a permanent home of the museum selected the abandoned for decades malting Fix at Syngrou avenue.
The EMST immediately began intense exhibition activity. From 2000 to 2003 housed in the basement of the Fix factory, and since 2003 has presented exhibitions in many different places in Athens such as the Athens Concert Hall and the School of Fine Arts.
From September 30, 2008 temporarily established in the building of the Athens Conservatory until completion of the reconstruction of the former building FIX.

The museum's collections, set up from scratch, including an important nucleus of works by Greek and foreign artists such as Ilya and Emilia Kampakof, Yannis Kounellis, Bill Viola, Kostas Tsoklis, Mona Chatoum, Nick Kessanlis, etc., and constantly enriched.


What is the notorious BUILDING FIX?

In 1863 John Fix build the first  beer factory in Greece  in Kolonaki a neighborhood in central Athens. After his death his son Charles Fix, expanding his business, makes the 1893 a new and great for the era factory in the same place where now stands the existing building on the west bank of Ilissos and south, a short distance, pillar of the Olympian Zeus. At that time the region was unstructured. The neighborhoods south of the Acropolis, which includes this area began to grow after 1900 to 1910.

The success of the firm of Charles Fix during the first decades of the 20th century resulted in the continued expansion of the plant by 1920 in any one position.

By the mid 1950's, the residential fabric of the city gradually spread and covered the area around the factory. However the area still retains low densities with  two-storey houses, just before the mass of the system of compensation, which decades has changed completely the character of the area.

In the mid 1950's era industrial reconstruction, decided to major renovation - restoration works and the planning of this project entrusted by the family Fix to the architect Takis Zenetos (1926-1977), the leading representative of postwar modernism in Greece. The design of Zenetos emphasized the horizontal dimension of Fix building along the  Avenue Sygrou and Avenue Kallirois glazed with horizontal lines. Furthermore, it sought merely to house an industrial unit but within the overall philosophy interested in the future operation of the building under different conditions in subsequent seasons.

In late 1970, the Brewery moved out of Athens and the whole building, but then in excellent condition, was evacuated.

Over the years became obvious signs of neglect and deterioration of aesthetics, by posting billboards in facades and visible damage to the inner and outer shell of the building.

Vintage Is The Trend

Amazing back to the future illustrations under the name "Alt/1977: We Are Not Time Travellers" . A collection of posters created  by Alex [Michael] Varanese a designer who loves red more than you do.  

Hel Looks

Hel Looks is a street (art)  style blog from Helsinki. Documents individual, unique looks and styles from a pure gothic nation. The blog was started in July 2005 and it's created by Liisa Jokinen and Sampo Karjalainen. DF365 found it extremely interesting almost inspiring. Explore the outfits!

www.hel-looks.com