Iman Cosmetics Gets a Makeover

We've maintained the Iman Cosmetics website for a while now, and it was time for a makeover of its own. The site now has a new homepage and we've improved the navigation of the site.

Camera Obtrusa: The Action Documentaries of Hara Kazuo

We were asked by Kaya Press to design this amazing book by legendary documentary filmmaker Hara Kazuo. It is the first English-language book on Kazuo's life and method, by the master himself. Hara Kazuo will be on tour promoting Camera Obtrusa.

Shanghai Dancing

Kaya also approached us to design the outside and inside covers of Shanghai Dancing by Brian Castro. Combining photographs and written images, author Brian Castro's fictional autobiography asks if life’s meaning is to be found in the moment or the memory. Brian Castro is currently on a U.S. Tour promoting his book. The book's guts is designed by Purple Gate Design.

New York Loves Design

Between ICFF, Meatpacking District Design and Brooklyn Designs, New York is the place to be in May if you're a designer.

Spoon+Fork recently arranged for artist Yoshitomo Nara, Graf art director Hideki Toyoshima and Mogu Village Project collaborate on a limited series of rugs hand made by Afghani craftsman to be displayed at the Lammfromm Tokyo Gallery. They will be on display April 29 - May 13.

On view at the Guggenheim from May 15 through August 23, 2009, the 50th anniversary exhibition brings together sixty-four projects designed by one of the most influential architects of the 20th century, including privately commissioned residences, civic and government buildings, religious and performance spaces, as well as unrealized urban mega-structures.