Common Boston Week 2010 continues this week with Pecha Kucha 18 at Elks Lodge in Cambridge. The fast-paced presentations start tonight at 7 PM and include speakers from Common Boston, Boston Fashion Week, Design Biennial Boston 2010, Design Museum Boston, SHIFTboston, and more. Check out more details on Pecha Kucha Boston.
Poster design by Brandon Bird Design.
Pecha Kucha devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Klein Dytham architecture.
Common Boston Week 2010 kicks off tonight with the dParty at the Artists for Humanity EpiCenter in the Fort Point area of Boston. Connect with Boston’s architecture, design & non-profit community. While you are there, get the scoop on Common Boston Week 2010, mingle with friends and like-minded folks you never knew before. Check out http://commonboston.org/special-events/dparty/ for more details.
The Amsterdam Music Theatre
NHL University of Applied Sciences
OKRA landscape architects
Koeweiden Postma is a design agency based in Amsterdam creating brand identity, packaging, corporate and communication design. Their work is simple and powerful and directly communicates ideas that are based on content and research.
The three identities featured here are all derived from architecture and landscape design.
The Amsterdam Music Theatre logo takes the facade of Holzbauer and Dam’s building and treats it as a grid to create a unique monogram for the theatre. It retains the flexibility to infill it with sub-identities for specific performances.
The NHL University of Applied Sciences project considers the sloped building design by Herman Hertzberger as a basis for the identity. Signage is applied orthogonally to the facade of the building and cropped at the angle of the structural trusses. When the identity is applied to graphic material, it takes the angles as seen in perspective to create a dynamic and structured logotype.
The OKRA identity for a landscape architecture firm is based on topographic lines typically found on a civil drawings that describe the contours of landforms. With a simple logo mark placed centrally on material, the contour lines weave in and out of the letterforms for an infinite number of variations.
Stimulate your senses and check out more beautiful work:
Koeweiden Postma, Amsterdam Music Theatre, New Buildings in the Netherlands, Herman Hertzberger, OKRA.
e-Types is a Copenhagen-based strategic brand and design firm. They are the inevitable go-to agency in Denmark for their leadership in big ideas and their “smash the world” attitude. When Architectural Engineering, a sub-division of the Dutch international consultancy firm, Grontmij Carl Bro, approached e-Types for a new identity, they created a refined image that communicates their platform.
The description of the project mentions that the identity communicates the company’s cross-disciplinary approach. This seems like the parti for the major ribbon graphic, crossing the page from left to right. It’s flexibility allows for a different set of layouts to work based on the background of the material. The typography is strong and structural, connoting the strength of the company.
Check out more from e-Types and watch a video on their innovation business strategy, a case that is studied at the Harvard Business School.
Common Boston Week 2010 will open up the city for its fourth annual event this June 17-27, 2010. The week will feature a rich program of more than forty open buildings, neighborhood tours, exhibits, and events concentrated in six “common points” around the city. This year’s festival will focus on the theme of Where We Connect.
The new brochure is starting to come together and will be sent to the printers in a few days. Keep an eye on Common Boston for a PDF download of the brochure or come to an event and get your hands on a print copy.
Dan Hisel Architect
Ceruzzi and Murphy Projects
William O’Brien Jr.
Schneider Studio
Touloukian Touloukian
Design Biennial Boston opens its inaugural exhibit of Greater Boston’s emerging designers on April 30, 2010 at the Pink Comma Gallery. It intends to showcase innovate design works through an exhibition of creative approaches in contemporary architecture. The design jury chose five participants:
Dan Hisel Architect, winner of the Young Architects Forum by the Architectural League of New York 2005 and current Adjunct Faculty member at Wentworth Institute of Technology;
Ceruzzi and Murphy Projects, the collaboration of Carla Ceruzzi, graduate of the Harvard GSD and studio instructor at Northeastern University, and Ryan Murphy, graduate of MIT School of Architecture and Planning;
William O’Brien Jr., Assistant Professor of Architecture at MIT School of Architecture and Planning and principal of an independent design practice;
Schneider Studio, the practice of Gretchen Schneider, graduate of Harvard GSD;
and Touloukian Touloukian, founded by Theodore Touloukian, an architecture and urban design firm specializing in complex and diverse building types.
Visit http://www.pinkcomma.com/ for more information on the exhibit and Design Biennial Boston.
As an avid New England sports fan, I felt the need to comment on an issue I’m overwhelmed with everyday as I drive around town. With so much recent success, more and more New England Patriots fans are showing their loyalty to the team by wearing the logo on their vehicles. The only thing is, they apply the logo with the edge of the three corner hat lined perfectly vertical. This is wrong! Stop doing it! Replace your stickers as shown above. Thanks.
The International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) is an international biennale focused on urban research and architecture as a public concern. The event that runs every two years, is centered around exhibitions on architecture and urban design and is open to professionals and the public. The identity was designed by Stout/Kramer, a Dutch design agency, who see themselves as “editors and directors of communication.”
The varying logotype features two overlapping layers reminiscent of hatches on architectural drawings, which also seems to refer to the biennale event. While the logotype is successful, it feels like there’s a disconnect between it and the monospace type used in stationery and print materials. Nevertheless, it works well overall.
See more variations of the logo at the Stout/Kramer site, and learn more about the IABR.
Via Visuelle.co.uk
Five partners from KPF’s London office split last year to form their own practice, reports Architectural Record. After failing to buyout the satellite office, partners Lee Polisano, David Leventhal, Fred Pilbrow, Karen Cook, and Ron Bakker, departed to start their own office, PLP Architecture. At KPF, the team was responsible for such projects as the Heron Tower and The Pinnacle (not pictured above due to copyright issues) and already have quite a few projects in the UK with their new firm of over 70.
The news story has had some popularity again due to the recent identity design images posted by Pentagram earlier this month. The new identity couldn’t be more different. Compare the bold, serif KPF logo to the thin, sans-serif stencil logotype of PLP. It really differentiates the new practice from the former and I commend them for hiring a prominent design firm like Pentagram to distinguish the new brand.
Check out more images at Pentagram and keep an eye out for the new PLP Architecture site.
Work Architecture Company
Bernard Tschumi Architects
Steven Holl Architects
Finally… architecture websites that look awesome! Project Projects is a design studio focusing on print, identity, exhibition, and interactive work for clients in arts and architecture. Even though web design is a globally competitive industry, this New York-based studio has worked with local clients, including WORKac, Steven Holl Architects, and Bernard Tschumi Architects.
See more of the work at Project Projects and check out these architecture websites: