GopherIllustrated / more than a magazine – a collectible in motion.

_being a TED Fellow has been without a doubt one of the most important experiences we have ever had here at the Gopher. Applications are now open, so fill the application and lets meet up in Edinburgh in the Spring!

_ as you gear up for turkey gobbling, consider the lovely printed matter. The FPO Awards Book is available for pre-order now!

_it was done over a decade ago, but we’re still completely in love with the Mended Spiderweb project by Nina Katchadourian. “In the forest and around the house where I was living, I searched for broken spiderwebs which I repaired using red sewing thread.” Beautiful.

_as simple as possible: Larissa Kasper lives in Zurich and studies visual communication. She’s also a good friend of Rosario Floro‘s.

_we’re digging [ no pun intended ] Jae Rhim Lee’s TED Talk on her Infinity Burial Project, an alternative for the postmortem body. In other news, a sky burial sounds beautiful, but the images prove otherwise.

_we’re late to this funeral but mourning none the less: Colophon is officially over.

_last week at the TXContemporary we met the lovely folks behind Cosmocosa‘s art space in Buenos Aires.

_before you go to sleep: Joan Saló.

_busy week for Mario Wagner: yesterday he published a new website and on Monday announced a couple of exhibitions featuring his work.

_our dear Nathan Rothstein sends word of his latest project, in which “people raise money for the cause they care about by selling their used clothing.” Interested? Contact them at buymyne@gmail.com

_artist Hidenori Mitsue shows who’s boss.

_today we met some fine folks from Austin Beerworks. Be sure to check out their rad website and overall stunning image, created by Helms Workshop.

_magazines worth taking home: Lucky Peach, by Momofuku‘s David Chang.

_as the week starts we wonder what Rivane Neuenschwander is up to.

_you know you’re a fffound nerd, when you start talking about images as if they were household names. Sarah Illenberger, you have made us err more than once.

_we WANT: Lufthansa + Graphic Design by Jens Müller and Karen Weiland (via Grain Edit).

_spending time in Europe this fall? The Curators Network might be an interesting resource for you.

_trust us, you’re going to love this song / video: Max Romeo‘s Protest to M1, remixed by Pacheko, video by GIB.

_it has been a while since our last free typography Friday, but we’re back with the amazing Kirimomi Swash, developed in a collaboration by Néojaponisme (Fontspring) and Onitsuka Tiger.

_”this is my website, there are many like it, but this one is mine” Yes, we really like Curtins Jinkins‘ portfolio (and he’s in Austin!)

_word of the day at the Gopher HQ: rigmarole! Wonder what is NOT a rigmarole? Michael Bojkowski‘s Lineread magazine!

_we’re sure you have seen it already, but in case you haven’t: Stephen Tillmans‘ Leuchtpunktordnungen series show cathode-ray-tube televisions being switched off.

_”the Isolated Building Studies are the visual confluence of my interests in urban dynamism, socioeconomic inequality and photography. By using uniform composition in photographs of buildings with no neighboring structures, I hope to draw attention to new ways of seeing the common impact of divergent investment processes on urban communities”  -David Schalliol.

_Libya! Monday and Islam Zawawi.

_obsessions we share: Mohican, Tomsk, Ruwe, Conté, Pyramid and 141 other pencils, listed and photographed here.

_there’s not a lot of information on Si-Chan Park out there: he was a student of Peter Bialobrzeski and has worked with the Lothar Albrecht gallery at Domstraße in Frankfurt. That’s pretty much it.

_one of our favorite typefaces of the year: YWFT S3 by Norrasak Ramasute, from Thailand.

_the impenetrable mind (and website) of Joshua Kolbo.

_the RE-tooling program “considers the most relevant methods for supporting knowledge development” with an emphasis in residencies. Collab programs include CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Akademie Schloss Solitude, FUTURA Centre for Contemporary Art, Gasworks and Botkyrka Konsthall [ via e-flux ].

_today we bumped into an article titled “Matthias Hoch – To the Beat of the Techno-Systems“,  after reading it we wanted more and more of Mr. Hoch.

_together, hard at work: Richard Perez [ a.k.a. Skinny Ships ] made this beautiful artwork for the second installement of Jez Burrows‘ In Radiolab We Trust series.

_today a post for the Spanish-speaking crowd: Blanca Haddad is not only one of our dearest friends, she’s also the creator of the Caribe Contracorriente poetry series.

_what’s up with Glasgow this week? Sandy Smith lives in NYC now but G-city is all over his portfolio.

_even if we couldn’t even begin to imagine how Genadii Berёzkin‘s name is pronounced, we like his work.

_we like Freytag‘s photography, but we adore Berg Design‘s brochures. Is this how Glasgow looks like?

_the new edition of Ácido Surtido [ featuring a Gopher collab ] is out now, the theme is “pair” and is their 22nd issue!

_”how can we avoid fictionalising this reality?” This and other uncomfortable questions, present in the work of portuguese photographer André Cepeda.

_sad news for the design world: Alex Steinweiss died today.

_last year the Association of Illustrators and Transport for London had a poster competition that was a major success [ just look at the sheer number of entries available on the interwebs ]. One of our favorites entries was by our buddy Thom Lambert in London.

_today we had a lovely chat with Devon Dikeou, founder of the mammoth-size Zing Magazine.

_illustrator Karan Singh runs the beautiful Pig Bimpin’ blog from his homebase in Melbourne, Australia [ on the image, Matt W. Moore ].

_today we had a blast watching Shohei Shigematsu‘s architecture talk at TED Global, also in the news today: problems at Zaha Hadid’s Guangzhou Opera House project [ image vía World Architecture News ].

_Amilcar sent word about this VBS vid shot in Caracas, which is the perfect way to kick off the weekend.

_designer Adam Parks [ a.k.a. Gigawatt Design ] have been making Illuminated Mixtapes for four years now, each one with an original illustrated cover.

_in Mexico we trust: Javier García has some great work.

_we just found out about Wrap Magazine, a quarterly designed to be used as wrapping paper for gifts! In related news: today is the birthday of our lovely co-editor Michu Benaim!

_”[ this work ] examines humans’ relationship to land formations of cultural construction, namely that of the ‘border’ and/or ‘wall’[ ... ] the project is a series of public performances, assembled into video works, and a series of landscape paintings – paintings of paintings on walls” On the Rock, In the Land by Danielle Adair.

_aaand we’re back! After a crazy week working on the release party of our second volume, we’re finally back at the studio. Wednesdays are the new Mondays, and Torbjørn Rødland still looks cool.

_”…when he painted The Kiss Klimt was 45 and still lived at home with his mother and two unmarried sisters – but behind the respectable facade he was a man with a ferocious sexual appetite.” Another take on Der Kuss: The Bite, by Simon Noynay.

_if planning to delve into the Texas art scene, look no further than Might Be Good [ pictured: the non-Texan Setareh Shahbazi ].