A lot people ask about this strange item, the "Cachet Crampon" ! I invit you to travel in time, a time where people write letters by hands and need to be sent in envelops ! This is a tool to, as it states "Making absolutely inviolable envelopes". It comes with small metal pieces that you can push with the strange tool to close your envelop... Images talk more than my words here :

 

 

 

 

 

 

The set is complete and now available in the found section on the shop.

I really like the way Tobias Van Schneider presents his work and my favorit project is this one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Back in april... During our last trip in Singapore in april (before going back to France after 7 months in Bali and 1 years and half without home !), Yah-Leng Yu & Arthur Chin, of Foreign Policy Design group (read "Nice to meet you" article here) invite us to see their city ! After visiting nice art galleries, they bring us to Haji Lane street, a nice street full of independant stores and coffee shops... The funny thing is that it was the street behind our hotel but we will not have seen it without them ! Some pictures took in this nice walking street far away from the craziness of the usual Singapore mall.





























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On june 1st, 1983 was release the 5th and last album of The Police. The album reached #1 quickly, and stole the legendary place to Michael Jackson "Thriller" album. To celebrate this anniversary, I will repost an article I have done some years ago and focus on the design of this album sleeve. Beside my passion to graphic design, I also have one for Sting and The Police, I know everything by them and so on have a special interest in the sleeves design... When you follow a band (and artist) that start in 1977, it show you a graphic design evolution over the last 36 years... You can see that some things designed in the early 80's are much better than thing design in 2010's ;)

It is the case of this amazing album sleeve. You probably all know it, because these 3 colors stripes are as famous as the band... But you may not know how crazy it can be... This sleeve is compose of 3 photos stripes, one for Sting, one for Andy Summers, and one for Stewart Copeland... and above each black and white images, you have a red, blue and yellow stripe... on both sides of the cover... That's simple...

 And in the 80's, you can make nice picture disc ! Funny to said the Sting one was issued at 8000 copies, while the 2 others at 1000 only ;)

 


Most images comes from my collector's friend web site followtheleaders.fr