If you can get around the japanese language barrier, the website design-now.net has an excellent look into the work and studios of contemporary dutch design, ranging from Studio MM&DVDV and Lust to recent work by Karl Martens. Its worth taking a look if you’re interested in learning more about these studios.

Noah enjoy’s a Belgian Waffle.

The “Waffles and Dinges” truck appeared in Cooper Square this afternoon, which inspired a web search for information on the mysterious yellow truck, and NYC Waffle Culture.

From the International Herald Tribune: “Irma Boom’s award-winning tome about the history of the Dutch conglomerate SHV took up five years of Irma Boom’s life, during which she invented her own paper for the project and developed backaches.

Laden with color-coding, mixes of type and page edges that depict a tulip field when seen from left to right, and a Dutch poem from right to left, the book contains found text and images but no page numbers. “It started out as a dream project,” Boom said, “but became a nightmare, because of the time.”

Having decided to compile the book from found text and images, she and Pijnappel scoured SHV’s archives for material and traveled all over the world to find more. When Boom had to cancel the order for her first choice of paper (after being told by the Japanese producer that it would take 14 years to make) she invented her own paper.

The book emerged with 2,136 pages - but no numbers because Boom wanted people to dip in and out, rather than to read it sequentially.”

Via shnl.org.

From Typographic Research:
“This series of posters was for the graduation class from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. It illustrates the mix of international students (32 countries) The each color represents another language which corresponds with the name of the graduate and their nationality.”

Up until now, the bailiwick of design politics was firmly owned by Obama’s camp. However, it appears the Republican’s have caught on to how effective graphic design and use of grassroots media like the internet mobilizied his campaign. Clicking into the site proves they have a long way to go.