Take a look at this poster. What would you recon; does it look like Dutch design to you? If you think it is, you’re half right—it’s by Sulki and Min Choi, two designers from South Korea who were employed at the Jan van Eyck Academie in the Netherlands when they made it.

This particular work was made for the Modafe dance festival in 2005. I found it on their blog, which apparently contains more recent work than their site.

They worked in the Netherlands for only a short while, from 2003 until 2005, and both went back to Korea afterwards. Sulki is currently working at an art book publishing company called Specter Press and Min became a full-time lecturer at the University of Seoul. Hope you guys come back someday.

Global warming is a big issue these days. Since graphic designers make pretty things that people are willing to look at, some feel it’s their duty to inform the public on how we can save energy and contribute to a healthier future.

Here’s another one of those independent green campaigns. This one’s by Wire & Twine, a designers clothing brand, and it’s called 50 Ways to Help the Planet. They also made some nice shirts to go along with it.

Spread the word. It’s easy being green!

There’s an interesting article up on AIGA about a massive artwork called Gastrotypographicalassemblage, created by typography guru Lou Dorfsman. After it was apparently discarded from its original location, the CBS building, the Center for Design Study has been trying to restore it to its original form.

EDIT: the Center for Design Study has a Flickr account with more photos.

From insect54’s Flickr photostream:

This book, originally published in 1976, contains the full corporate identity manuals of thirteen companies.

This amazing, almost robotically concise cutout was done by iLK, a Paris-based graphic designer.

His paintings are worth checking out, too.

Dave from Grain Edit.com uploaded some photos from a very nice Dutch typography book from the early 1960s.

A digitized version of this font, Annonce, is also available.

Go check out the work of Boris Schandert, a.k.a. Boodas, who combines graphic design with custom typefaces.

Uploaded to Flickr by iam_mint_condition.

Published by the Novosti Press Agency Publishing House (Moscow) in 1985.