A knife-edged baroque serif from Klim, Commercial Type's stone-cut hybrid, a grotesque that warms up the grid and a Dinamo display face sharp enough to be the graphic. Four worth licensing this month.
Also: why Yayoi Kusama made herself impossible to lose, the aesthetic café brief that's easier than it looks, and the poster Spotify wants you to tear up.
The romanticisation of the mundane is not an aesthetic
Why restraint, routine and real product use are replacing polished aspiration — and why the brands that understand the shift are finding their best ideas in the ordinary details they already own.
She died at ninety-seven, still painting. The dots she could not stop making became the most efficient identity system in contemporary art, and the reason no brand will ever manage to copy it.
