I recently discovered Abelardo Morell, a phenomenal photographer, and currently a professor at Boston’s own Mass Art. While all of his photos are beautiful I was particularly amazed by his Camera Obscura work. The way he blends landscapes into local settings, cities into hotel rooms and oceans into bedrooms is really unbelievable. Some of his other more modern work he uses this same approach to create photographs, which composite sculpture and painting.

Morell was born in Cuba, in 1948. While I couldn’t find an artist statement on his page, which you can see here, I found his approach to photography very fresh. See more photos after the break, and please let me know what you think of his work!

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Exemplar is a beautiful new face designed by Göran Söderström and his firm PSY/OPS. Check out their site for more info. There is also a really great PDF specimen available here. Cheers to iLoveTypography.

I just found out about a great opportunity to browse and purchase great local art in Boston. The South End Open Market allows you to browse different works of artists from all over the local area and even meet the artists themselves. The admission is free and it just began and continues through October. The Market goes on every Sunday (excluding holidays) from 10am-4pm at 540 Harrison Ave in the South End.

You can get more information about the SoWa Open Market at their website.

So apparently my laziness caused us to miss the first post on this, but our good friend Kyle Kabel wrote a post a while ago about Fontshop’s new application Fontstruct, and even though slate magazine beat us to the punch, the article is still interesting and relevant, so here it is.

FontStruct by FontShop

A little over two months ago, FontShop released a revolutionary new program called FontStruct, a web application for creating and sharing modular typefaces. Based on a basic square grid, users can build and edit their own typefaces from scratch using nothing more than a few blocks of various shape and size—all for the low price of $0! Users can post and share their ‘FontStructions’ with other members, while protecting their creations by picking from a range of Creative Commons licenses. [Or, if you were never one for sharing, you can bypass uploading to the gallery and keep your fonts to yourself.]

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Alright everyone, so it’s been a ridiculously long time since we last posted. There are a few reasons for that, involving California, but none of which are that interesting so we are going to skip over the details. Anyway, I just found out about this great new exhibit at the ICA in Boston featuring various forms of street art in all different mediums. Really cool stuff. I have included a few after the break.

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An interesting data visualization by Canadian design student, Alan Woo. Using Processing, Woo has taken visualized “an incredibly simple and concise baseline comparison of films through one particular trait: color.” The posters are quite stunning and its really interesting to see how series that maintain the same director and cinematographer (like the Godfather series) have incredible consistency in color. Check them all out here.

Robert Knight, a photographer, and professor at Emerson College is going to be part of the Photographic Resource Center’s (PRC) Annual Juried Exhibition. I have had Rob for a class and he is a great teacher and a phenomenal photographer. You can see his work at his website. The exhibition has it’s opening reception on Thursday May 22nd from 5:30-7:30pm and is open from May 23rd to July 2nd at the PRC on Commonwealth Ave.

This should be a very interesting exhibition, and if you are around and have time you should definitely go see the work that is being professionally curated by Lesley A. Martin, Publisher, for the Aperature Foundation Book Program.

I have been plagued by the thought of Mechanical Placebo’s lately; after reading this article where Michael Luo discovers that the majority of ‘Push Here for Walk Signal’ buttons in New York have been deactivated. You know I have always had the sneaking suspicion that these buttons didn’t do anything, but I still pushed them anyway, as Lou states, “out of habit, or in the off chance they might bring a walk sign more quickly.” But I must say I was a bit surprised to find out that they were deactivated. I fell like I have been lied to. All of those wasted movements; times I could have kept my hand in my pocket. Fuck.

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Segd is running a contest right now where you can win a laser engraved nameplate just by naming the above typeface. They are even giving out a tip: “This sans-serif type was designed by one of Dutch leading type designers who was born in Arnhem, the Netherlands.”