http://www.sortby.org/ sort by proposes a selection of autonomous and self-initiated material by designers. en-us Sat, 10 Jul 2010 08:00:00 EST Sat, 10 Jul 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.sortby.org/rss.xml francesca@sortby.org francesca@sortby.org http://sortby.org/project.php?id=63 Karl Nawrot

2008…added July 2010


The Designer wanted initially to use a brush script typeface for a project, but couldn't find any which would answer the needs of the design (the visual effect of the point of an old marker making visible all the lines of the ink). So he decided to design one. The first version of the typeface “PEN”, was originaly designed for the identity of a records label. The project took finally an another direction. The set was redesigned and called “MARQ”.

]]> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST http://sortby.org/project.php?id=63 http://sortby.org/project.php?id=60 Guillaume Mojon and Jesse LeCavalier and John Harwood

2009…added January 2010
150 x 230 mm, 72 pages
http://www.thiswill-this.net


Architect Jesse LeCavalier, architectural historian John Harwood, and graphic designer Guillaume Mojon investigate with their analysis of bar codes and related encryptions the thresholds and overlaps between material and immaterial media. Of special interest is the display of information in a nonlinear interplay of different media. By means of a historical and spatial analysis of the ambivalent nature between built space and information space, the authors explore the organizational complex of the built environment, propagating encrypted architecture and urbanism as models to speculate for the future of our surroundings. “This Will — This” is the first issue of Standpunkte Magazine, which features collaborative projects by emerging architects, writers, and graphic designers.

]]> Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:00:00 EST http://sortby.org/project.php?id=60 http://sortby.org/project.php?id=58 Bastien Aubry (Flag)

2002…added November 2009
50 x 70 cm


“Woodcuts” is a project realised by the zurich based designer Bastien Aubry. The designer started this serie of Posters in 2002 using the technic of printing wood surfaces. This project was awarded in 2003 in the Swiss Federal Design Competition. Each poster are 50 x 70 cm and printed in 2 color. Printed with Urs Jost at “Druckwerkstatt Olten, Switzerland”.

]]> Sun, 05 Jul 2009 08:00:00 EST http://sortby.org/project.php?id=58 http://sortby.org/project.php?id=56 David Bennewith

2009…added June 2009
297 x 210 mm, 278 pages, dustjacket + photograph insert


Samoan-born New Zealand-based alphabet and advertising designer Joseph Churchward (b. 1932) is simply and absolutely the best-kept secret in New Zealand graphic design. The alphabets of this inveterate hand-lettering hold-out, over 600 of them, are only just being rediscovered and redeployed by a new generation of graphic designers who are fascinated by the intense aliveness of his designs, forming, as they do, the spine of a 60s-80s New Zealand vernacular. David Bennewith, the composer of this volume, first at the Werkplaats Typografie then to the post-academic Jan van Eyck Academie in the Netherlands, undertook sustained research into Churchward’s work, and assembled this spirited analyses of his cult oeuvre. Bennewith’s emphasis was on making as a form of research, so the book tracks the usage of Churchward’s work and is structured as an on-going, open conversation between users. This small-edition publication presents an overview of the work of Churchward, compiling archive material, correspondence, realised and un-realised designwork, and alphabet designs. Visual material is interspersed with essays on aspects of Churchward’s practice by New Zealand and overseas writers and designers. Joseph Churchward attempts to tell the story-in-process of New Zealand’s most prolific designer of letters to date. It comprehensively details Churchward’s myriad type designs – a total resource for type geeks of all ages. It includes a dustjacket that is also a typeface ready-reckoner poster.

]]> Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:00:00 EST http://sortby.org/project.php?id=56 http://sortby.org/project.php?id=51 Hans-Rudolf Lutz

1980…added April 2009
208 x 294 mm, 2 volums, 312 pages each


For every workday of the year, one page of a daily newspaper in Zurich has been reproduced. That makes up the first volume. A 10 x 15 mm section has been cut out of each of these pages and enlarged to fill the book format of 208 x 294 mm. The clipping have not been selected at random. The outcome is volume two and also a history of the year 1979: a story in signs and pictures.

]]> Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:00:00 EST http://sortby.org/project.php?id=51 http://sortby.org/project.php?id=49 Hans-Rudolf Lutz

1979…added September 2008
841 x 1189 mm (A0), Ed.10


Homage and reminder to Muhamed Ali.

]]> Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:00:00 EST http://sortby.org/project.php?id=49 http://sortby.org/project.php?id=48 Zak Kyes

2007…added November 2009
http://formsofinquiry.com


Forms of Inquiry: The Architecture of Critical Graphic Design presents a compelling selection of graphic designers whose work explores the mutual exchange and shared lineage between graphic design and architecture. This work is united by a shared impulse to re-frame the circumstances surrounding contemporary graphic practice, using intuitive modes of investigation to probe the boundaries of the discipline. For this exhibition nineteen international graphic designers have provided three contributions: a representative example of past work, and an “inquiry” into architectural subjects serving as the foundation for a series of newly commissioned prints. This new work aims to re-examine the increasingly overlapping practices of graphic design and architecture and in so doing hopes to compile a selective genealogy of the architectural canon as seen through the field of contemporary graphic design.

]]> Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:00:00 EST http://sortby.org/project.php?id=48 http://sortby.org/project.php?id=46 Corita Kent a.k.a. Sister Mary Corita

1968…added May 2009
431.8 x 571.5 mm, Ed. unknown (most editions were 100 before 1970, after that they were mostly at 200, sometimes as high as 500)
http://www.corita.org


The signal codes were the original method of communication between ships. Flags would be run up a ship's mast to send visual messages – each flag stood for a particular letter. Corita created her Signal Code Alphabet series by adding whimsical graphics to the designs that signify each letter. A is for astrology B is for be-ins C is for clowns etc ... D is for digging it E is for everyone F is for frog prince G is for game I is for eye J is for jesus K is for knight L is for ladybug M is for magic N is for caution O is for god P is for Palm Q is for cutie pie R is for rabbit S is for saint T is for two U is for us V is for vibrations W is for white stone X marks the spot Y is for why not Z is for zorba

]]> Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:00:00 EST http://sortby.org/project.php?id=46 http://sortby.org/project.php?id=44 Radim Peško

2003…added June 2008
1000 x 700 mm, Ed. 20


Desinformative notice board of (co)incidental arrangements.

]]> Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:00:00 EST http://sortby.org/project.php?id=44 http://sortby.org/project.php?id=43 Guillaume Mojon

2007…added June 2008
150 x 200 mm, 256 pages, Ed. 10


This typeface was made in 2005 based on a digital form. All letters are constructed by the same modul. 140 signs make “Kleber”.

]]> Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:00:00 EST http://sortby.org/project.php?id=43