Most Beautiful Swiss Books

25th – 29th October: Cafe Oto are showing the winners of the long established annual competition, of the most beautiful swiss books.
The competition has been running since 1943, when a jury of 5 experts selected the 25 most beautiful or best executed books. This year, a jury selected 32 “Most Beautiful Swiss Books” from 2008 [...]

Typographica

Exhibition showing the graphic design journal, Typographica (1949-1967).
Curated by Rick Poyner.
11 September – 31 October
Kemistry Gallery, London

Biografiktion

Some quirky illustrations from Biografiktion, a Berlin based collaboration of 3 (consisting of Ana Albero, Till Hafenbrak und Paul Paetzel).
As a relatively new collective, they are starting out by producing a series of fanzines, based around the true (and not so true) stories of figures in the public eye.

Information, Visualisation, Communication

The Guardian have a potentially very interesting blog, Data Blog, consisting of information graphics of selected sections their vast data store.
I say potentially, as not all posts yet have graphics for the supplied data; and the blog is on the lookout for graphic contributions; so if you feel like having a go at some delicious info [...]

Sebastian Lemm

My penchant for disjointed, abstract letterforms finds a friend in the work of Sebastian Lemm, from the ‘Ecole de Recherche Graphique‘ in Bruxelles.