This is a new interеsting product – a comic book created and published by the bulgarian-based artists Sibila Koritareva and Ivan Koritarev. The book is available in three languages: Bulgarian, English and French. Learn more at their facebook page: Grozen Entertainment.
Iris Van Herpen is a dutch fashion designer who combines fine handwork techniques with futuristic digital technology. Her motto is: “Normal rules don’t apply”. People like Lady Gaga and Bjork often dress in her avant-garde clothes. Looking at Iris ven Herpen’s designs you’ll find a truly architectural approach:
“By bringing form, structure and materials together in a new manner, I try to suggest and realize optimal tension and movement.”
For the “Escapism Couture” collection, where most of the models are 3d prints, she collaborated with
More about Iris Van Herpen you can learn from the video:
Business Cards 3: Designs on Saying Hello 
Identity is the strive of every designer…architects are no exception. We carefully chose several visual examples from the architecture segment. The focus is on graphic designers, however it is encouraging that architects pay specific attention to their graphic and visual identity. Good architecture requires sound knowledge in graphic and visual presentation, as mentioned in one of our previous articles good architectural studios have developed a highly recognizable and diverse graphic identity.
WORK ac’s logo is different every time:
Latvian graphic designers + latvian architects =
an example from Norway:
A few good examples from Bulgaria :
visual identity of a residential building:
The collection list is not exhaustive; one could think of other good examples …maybe in the following articles:)
As I’m always looking for good books on architecture, I found an interesting list of books, posted at Amazon:
10 best architecture books but not your usual suspects
Be sure to check out this list, too:
Architecture & Design
One more list, that seems interesting:
Ten Books Every Architecture Student Should Own
Me, personally I would recommend to anyone “Pattern language”, “Timeless way of building” of Christopher Alexander. I’m planning a nice book-shopping over the next weeks 
Graphic design and architecture share a lot of similar characteristics. Especially when looking for solution of compositional problems( spatial or planar)
We are posting few quotes from the book Design Elements: A Graphic Style Manual
by Timothy Samara
“Take a look at everything, from the big picture down to the tiniest detail, and ask yourself: “Does everything relate harmoniously to everything else?”"
“Being universal is the domain of the designer. A very large audience not a few people who are “in the know” has to know what you mean with those shapes, that color, and that image you chose.”
“Create contrasts in density and rhythm by pulling some material closer together and pushing other material further apart. Be rhytmic about it. Give the spaces between things a pulse by making some tighter and some looser unless, of course, you’re trying to make something dull, lifeless, and uninteresting.”
“Controlling the eye’s movement through, and creating harmonic relationships among, form elements….might be facilitated by creating a system of recognizable, repeated intervals to which both positive and negative elements adhere.”
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