Montreal, Canada

27 April 2013 is Icograda’s 50th birthday, World Communication Design Day… here are a few more graphic iterations to mark this auspicious occasion and global celebration.

—Rumi

Montreal, Canada

27 April 2013 is Icograda’s 50th birthday, World Communication Design Day. To mark this auspicious occasion and global celebration, I’ve composed a few graphic iterations and collages. Icograda invites contributions on a Facebook page set up for international “graphic sharing” here.

The Icograda 50th Anniversary logo was designed by Omar Vulpinari and a creative team at Fabrica.

(expect the unexpected)

French photographer Charles Fréger traveled to eighteen countries, investigating ancient tribal customs, and shooting portraits of ‘Europe’s Wild Men.’ See many more images (with explanatory captions) here.

“It all started by drinking too much “Primitivo” wine during the opening of one of my exhibitions,” says Fréger, “I decided to work on something primitive… seems that wine made the right effect to me.”

Boston, Massachusetts

Chaz Maviyane-Davies, a Zimbabwean expat friend and Professor of Design at the Massachusetts College of Art, creates a new tear-sheet flyer each month with a different quote on it outside his office door in the college… above is this month’s offering.

I’ve frequently posted graphic work by Chaz on this blog, e.g. here…

New York, USA

swissted is an ongoing project by graphic designer Mike Joyce… combining his love of punk rock and Swiss modernism, two movements that have (almost) nothing to do with one another. Mike has redesigned vintage punk, hardcore, new wave, and indie rock show flyers into international typographic style posters — each design is set in lowercase Berthold Akzidenz-Grotesk Medium (not Helvetica).

Thanks to friend Keith Leinweber for the link…

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