art-design

Saskia Haex

Editors note: Saskia Haex and I first met in Paris... more

10 Questions : Stefan Fürtbauer

A couple of months ago, WRG? came across Stefan Fürtbauers... more

Get Nailed

We recently stumbled upon the picture above and instantly needed... more

2011 Art and Design Recap

2011 has been a pretty interesting year at WRG?, especially... more

Videos & Galleries


Processing Paris 2012

Wednesday 18.2012

day 1 - 9 am bright and early at La Fondrie de l'image   I was finally able to get my hands a little dirty with some coding this weekend. While I'd briefly attempted to teach myself Processing when I started The Thesis last year, I only got as far as making ...

Author: Eliza Struthers Jobin
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Get up and Move : Manifart

Wednesday 11.2012

Every month or so, the Manifart crew convene somewhere in Paris for a very long night of creating, dancing, and all the debaucherous behaviour that goes along with soirées at secret otherwise abandoned locations. Members come from all over France, and get together for the sole purpose of making things. ...

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Elephant Magazine issue 10

Wednesday 11.2012

If you pick up one arts & visual culture quarterly in your life, do yourself a favour and make it Elephant. Content-wise, it's hard to do better. Add a great layout and colorful illustrations to boot and you've got yourself a purchase that will stand the test of time. Issue 10 ...

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100 Best Typefaces

Wednesday 11.2012

Fans of typography and font design will enjoy FontSHop's list of the top 100 fonts of all time. Each font is accompanied with a short bio and design description. While it's no surprise that Helvetica (designed by Max Miedinger back in 1957) heads the list, a few others did surprise ...

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The edding 850

Thursday 5.2012

Peak behind the scenes at Bern and Buro Destruct, a Swiss design collective headed out of Bern. The video is a great look into how the collective stays so creative, but even better, it chronicles the construction of a digital typeface for the edding 850 pen, a fat tipped felt ...

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City DNA

Tuesday 3.2012

Chinese artist Lu Xinjian has taken ariel views from google earth and abstracted them, turning them into colorful pattern-like renderings. With this series titled City DNA, It's hard not to draw parallels between Lu and Keith Haring. That is, until you look into the artist's process. Lu will first sketch out the designs he ...

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Puma Hoodies Bag

Monday 26.2012

  We knew something was up when we came across this backpack recently. The structure, the style and the added touch of a hood... Normally such an added accessory would make us cringe, but not today. Upon closer inspection, we all realized why we couldn't help but love this bag: it's ...

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Cue music: Movin On Up …. To A Deluxe Apartment In the Sky

Wednesday 14.2012

Ok, well maybe not quite so deluxe, but an apartment in the sky nonetheless. As promised, a few snapshots from my new place of residence! Welcome to the little apartment in the sky as I've named it (it seemed more fitting... this is Paris people, space don't come cheap.) I'm more ...

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Handmade Type

Wednesday 14.2012

For all the typography nerds out there, here's a fun one for you. Tienmin Liao is student at the Prat Institute with no shortage of interesting ideas, the most recent one being Handmade Type. Drawing shapes onto one or both of her hands (that can't have been an easy task) she then ...

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The Peanut Butter Solution

Wednesday 14.2012

Casey Neistat was in our good books as soon as we saw his piece on bike theft go live on the NYTimes website. What we didn't know at the time was that during shooting for the bike theft documentary, Casey dropped his camera. Never a good thing to do, ...

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