As part of the Wim Crouwel exhibition (which we’ve mentioned before), the Design Museum commissioned the Crouwelclock App.
The App is a graphic alarm clock that also features three personal messages from the designer. So you can wake up to the sound of Crouwel wishing you ‘a nice and well designed day’, reminding you to ‘keep your grid straight today’ or that ‘a grid today keeps the doctor away’.
It costs 59p from the i-tunes store.
East End prints is offering a range of Vintage by Hemingway designs: typography-based designs, taken from Wayne Hemingway's Land of Lost Content archive.
There are 21 different designs to select from ranging across styles and decades (with a small overlap with the designs offered by the Surface View collection we featured a while back). Each design is available as a print or on canvas and as a variety of sizes.
Prices start at £25 for a 30cm x 40cm fine art print.
See the range online
Images of Marilyn Monroe are so recognisable that they have gone beyond iconic and become rather clichéd. However, More than Words has given a new twist to the familiar by recreating the image using typography.
The limited edition Marilyn print is made up of one of her famous quotations, “"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes. I'm out of control and at times hard to handle, but if you can't handle me at my worst then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.” The print is limited to 250 copies, but is available in a choice of sizes (30cm, 40cm or 70cm square). Prices start from £85 for the smallest framed print.
Buy online from More than Words.
The Boat of Life Print is another charming piece by Aardvark, this time taking a classic piece of literature as its starting point.
The words on the print come from Jerome K Jerome’s comic classic Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog), but even if you aren’t a fan of the book, you can appreciate the sentiments about enjoying the simple things in life or at least the wonderful use of typography. The print costs £20 unframed or £45 framed.
Buy it online from Colloco.
Vintage-styled homewares from an unlikely source: this Pharmacy towel comes from H&M.
The towel is designed as if it shows the signage of an old American pharmacy: a look that would fit in well with the Three Potato Four products that we featured yesterday. If you like the look, H&M have plenty more products with a similar style to invest in, including a bath mat and a hand towel.
This towel costs £12.99.
Order it online
We’ve featured so many tea towels over the years that I expect all our readers dry their dishes with something interesting or stylish, but until I saw these Tube Tea Towels I still wasn’t convinced I would buy a tea towel as a gift.
There is a choice of three tea towel, each with a classic work of vintage typography; Practically Perfect in Everywhere (a quote from Mary Poppins), Votes for Women (the iconic Suffragette poster) and the classic eye test chart. The towels are interesting in their own right, but selling them in a cardboard tubes confers work of art status on them and I think makes them much more acceptable as a present.
Present Provider has all three designs, priced £7.95 each.
