Courtship is the traditional dating period before engagement and marriage. During a courtship, a couple dates to get to know each other and decide if there will be an engagement. Usually courtship is a public affair, done in public and with family approval.

The science of love or the whole art of courtship as seen on the frontispiece and title page of the book from the year 1792.

The digital world is evolving fast with its various forms – electronic mails, e-cards, telephone calls, chats and instant-publishing platforms. With this Qompendium Stationery Set 08/09 our mission is to bring traditional print culture back into our daily lives while introducing emerging newcomers and international artists to a wider audience using the best canvas ever: Arjowiggins.

Special Enhancement Faber-Castell

The Qompendium Stationery Set is enhanced with a Pitt Artist Pen ›brush‹  by Faber-Castell. This writing device is especially developed for handwritten stationery, available in 48 colors.

A selective journey through the multiverse of intentional and unintentional time capsules. Fifty five artists selected by Manystuff submitted their time capsule for the Qompendium Time Capsule Series Exhibition.

www.manystuff.org

Limitation
400 pieces worldwide

Anna Wegelin is greatly inspired by Pocahontas, who was a Virginia Indian princess notable for having assisted colonial settlers at Jamestown in present-day Virginia. Her accessory line is handcrafted, reminding us of indian jewellery with a blend of contemporary swedish fashion. We met Anna Wegelin in Berlin and hopefully soon again on the catwalks of the fashion world.

www.annawegelin.com

“My work is non-narrative, actually; there aren’t any stories there. There are a lot of symbols and a lot of images, and the images have multiple meanings.” Alex Katz, 1990

The Museum Kurhaus Kleve is showcasing 40 pieces, a retrospective of Alex Katz represeting his work from the years 1957 to 2008. Exbihition ends on the 21.02.2010.

Museum Kurhaus Kleve
Tiergartenstraße 41
47533 Kleve

www.museumkurhaus.de
www.alexkatz.com

Paul Smith has designed a collection of soft furnishing fabrics with the American fabric company called Maharam.

This photo shows the Oxford Chair, designed by Arne Jacobsen.

British illustrator Brett Wilkinson combines vivid, flowing forms with linear and geometric shapes influenced from a background in graphic design. Wilkinson’s illustrations can often be found in commercial advertising campaigns, used on products and featured on packaging in addition to appearing in international art publications and exhibitions around the world ranging from London to Tokyo.

www.onesidezero.co.uk

An interview with the fashion & beauty director and lifestyle editor and founding member of the Financial Times Deutschland's luxury magazine "How to Spend it", Siems Luckwaldt.

Siems Luckwald′s Blog

Immediate intelligence for the wannabe philosopher or the geek-chic style hunter; simple frames to fall in love with – meet Wolfgang created by Han Kjøbenhavn based in Denmark, the only country with a single European Parliament Constituency. Don´t know what that is? Get yourself the frame. It will boost your knowledge too.

www.hankjobenhavn.com

Frost Birgens takes a classic, familiar blazer with slit and elbow patches and designs it in knitwear of the highest quality.

www.frostbirgens.dk

Das Museum Kurhaus Kleve zeigt in der Ausstellung „Alex Katz – An American Way of Seeing“,  über 40 Arbeiten von Alex Katz aus dem Zeitraum 1957 bis 2008.

Für die Ausstellung ist ein Katalog erschienen, der einen umfassenden Überblick über das Werk von Alex Katz liefert. Im Anhang werden die ausgestellten Werke und eine ausführliche Biographie aufgeführt.

Zur Alex Katz Ausstellung

www.museumkurhaus.de
www.alexkatz.com

For Spring Summer 2010, Lee Jeans revisits the 1950s, an era which is well known for creating demin as uniform for millions of teenagers. Also those worshipping and almost broken hearted by James Dean in the movie Giant alongside Elizabeth Taylor.

Check out the new coup from the Lee Originals: The Archives.

A friend suggested to Wayne Levin he should photograph the dolphins in Kealakekua Bay, which led to a re-immersion into underwater photography. During the following years Levin received magazine assignments to photograph throughout the Pacific and Caribbean and further developed his reputation as a black and white underwater photographer. The outcome is amazingly poetic.

www.waynelevinimages.com

Another young gun who struck our sight.

www.rasmusemanuelsvensson.com

Display is a curated collection of important graphic design books, periodicals, advertisements and ephemera. Established in 2009, Display intends to build a digital graphic collection (from original materials) which generates inspiration and awareness about modern, mid 20th century graphic design history and some of its pioneers.

And the best part of it, all items are purchasable.

www.thisisdisplay.org

Artist and author, Kay Rosen was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, and who lives now in Gary, Indiana. Rosen lectures at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her exhibitions take place on an international scale and are of typographical nature.

www.kayrosen.com

This fourth Qompendium Questionnaire Session is with Thibaut Robin and Martin Cole. Thibaut Robin studied graphic design at École Supérieure d’Arts Appliqués de Bourgogne Nevers France and began as an assistant for the french-Swiss graphic designer Mathias Schweizer and later he worked for the Atelier de Création graphique, Pierre Bernard. Currently Thibaut Robin is commissioned for different projects allowing him to experiment with exhibitions, v-jaying, lecturing and exploring the presentation forms of images and their their mythological significance.

Inspired by a match that moved the world, a tribute to the 1998 Brazilian National Team. From the medal stands to the street, here comes the brand new Nike collection.