ABOUT TIME

i wanted to share some images from about time: a visual memoir around the clock, a beautiful book by french-armenian graphic designer vahram muratyan.

you might recognize the style from the famous paris vs. new york images he did a couple of years ago.

the book is graphic and beautiful but also really thoughtful and insightful and clever.

muratyan presents minimalist visualizations of routines and cycles and patterns that make up the flow of time in our lives. given how obsessed we all are with time – how little we have, how we spend it, how we take it from others, how we track it – it’s interesting to look at these with a little bit of a sense of humor.

i also kind of love that the style is both modern and a little retro. it feels like even the style is a comment on time!

more here.

MAKING AIRPORT DESIGN FLY

take a look at this very cool rebrand of london luton airport (LLA) from atipo (who i actually wrote about in this post!) and ICO design. as i said in this post, i love when people bring color and thoughtful design into spaces that are typically just focused on utility (read: grey and beige). here's what the design house said about the project:

"rebranding an airport is no easy task. following the approval of a major development at LLA, we were approached to create a brand that would redefine the airport in the london market and inform its future direction as a passenger-focused airport. working closely with the key stakeholders led to four core values that will inform all aspects of the brand. these are expressed in the simplicity and dynamism of the new visual identity which is a clear statement of intent of the airport’s bold ambition for the future. the identity includes a specially commissioned typeface and icon set designed by atipo." 

more about the rebrand here.

more from atipo here.

ART-CHITECTURE

a very cool series by federico babina. he's created a beautiful and playful project called archist, where he imagines artists as architects and reinterprets art as construction.

from babina: "art and architecture are disciplines that talk... the definition and the function of architecture is constantly changing with the evolution of contemporary art... i took pleasure in imagining architecture full of art, designed and built through the interpretation of the language of an artist."

more here.