Trapped in Suburbia

 

Beautiful happy posters for beautiful happy festival, designed by Trapped in Suburbia, a design studio based in the Netherlands.

Face

By Eamonn Harnett.

The white rabbit

I was reading PAN-DAN, a very nice blog about contemporary design, and I found this rabbit, designed by Studio-Re-Creation.


"'The White (Jack) Rabbit ' is not 'cute', it is all knowing naughty, courageous and tricky. The enlarged hare represents an alternative Alice in Wonderland 'follow the white rabbit' journey. Materials: Pieces of old wooden furniture connected together by screws (baby beds and chairs)."

Studio-Re-Creation, run by Nikola Nikolov in the Netherlands, is a studio that does more than re-cycle or re-use materials, but it helps to preserve belongings and memories that would otherwise be neglected or thrown away.

Cultured Graphic Hygiene

Jason Grant questions the role of the designer on museums' and galleries' communication material. "The poster above, by Jan van Toorn for the Van Abbemuseum, is a museum exhibition promotion but it is also a bold critique. It manages to disclose the banalities of both the art market and of accepted visual communication processes. [...] Is there any reason why graphic design for museums and galleries shouldn’t be the measure of their exhibits? Can’t a poster, in its own way, be as good as what it’s promoting? Not the direct equivalent of a Picasso exactly, but at least as ambitious within its own field? How hard can it be to outshine a lot of contemporary art?"

Read the article at Design Observer.

BUXEY.COM

BUXEY.COM are Warner Damen, a filmmaker and Geert Jan Bijlstra, an Art Director from Amsterdam. Their website has not been updated since 2007, but it contains a collection of images of everyday men in California that is worth checking. Buxey are interested in "male aesthetics" but without the glossy models. As they say "It's purpose is to show a broader range of feelings than just libido."