Con el objeto de concienciar a la gente de la necesidad del ahorro de papel,
desde La Casa Encendida nos encargaron el diseño de una pieza que pudiera
hacerse llegar a los usuarios del Centro de manera sencilla.
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Have you been to basedesign.com yet? For your sake, I sure hope so.
Caligo from BaseDesign on Vimeo.
Late autumn in Spain’s Alt Penedes, in the hills outside of Barcelona. The annual harvest that yields the area’s dry red and white wines has past weeks before. Yet there are still white grapes on the vine. They’re beyond ripe. Morning mists blow in off the sea. A fungus forms on the grapes. It begins to suck the moisture out of the fruit. The grapes appear to be decaying. For the DG Viticultors vineyard and winery, everything is going exactly as they’d hoped. … more
Ocasión única para los amantes de Miquel Barceló. La ciudad de Barcelona acoge estos días dos retrospectivas a toda la trayectoria de este artista de Felanitx con ojos de niño pillo. … more
Saturday saw the conclusion of the second annual Typo Week, hosted by Barcelona’s Bau school of design. No, this wasn’t a week dedicated to typing mistakes. Over six days, this Typo Week included exhibits, conferences, and workshops around typography, editorial design, and typography in motion. Speaking on Saturday was our very own Jean-Marc, creative director of Base’s studio in Barcelona and head of our audiovisual department. … more
Steve Rogenstein, Director of the Base studio in New York, periodically throws underground dj gigs in his Brooklyn loft. On July 10, he had the privilege of hosting Jeremy Greenspan of Junior Boys, a two-year dream come true. Prior to the gig, he got a chance to interview Jeremy, at the behest of Justin Carter and Eamon Harkin of Mister Saturday Night, the party’s organizers. … more
We at Base have become exhausted by the exhaustive coverage that many of our preferred fashion titles give to underachieving high-society types. In fact let this be a formal plea: Editors of Vogue and W, if you are presented with the idea of doing a story on a socialite whose biggest attribute is his or her name, no matter how tempting the story may seem, instead please write about someone meaningful. Someone with substance. Someone as stylish as John Jacob Astor.
Despite John Jacob’s PETA and DEA-friendly origins as a trader of fur and opium, the Astors were the real deal. New Yorkers can’t help but be entranced by their story, their elegance, their cultural contributions.
New York Social Diary gives us a Cliff’s Notes summary of the Astors. A fun and interesting read.
On June 24 some of us Basers (Jirka, Olga, and Edgar) traveled to Paris to attend OFFF , the International Festival for the Post-Digital Creation Culture.
La Grande Halle de la Villette was the place to see industry insiders like Universal Everything, Hillman Curtis, Neville Brody, Non Format, and Project Inc., talk about design, interactivity, and audiovisuals, among other things. … more
