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

“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

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

Michael Cina is an internationally recognized Creative Director who is currently leading a multi-disciplinary design studio, Cina Associates. Michael is known globally for originating YouWorkForThem, a graphic design boutique, and its' sister company, WeWorkForThem, an award-winning design studio.

Read questionnaire with Michael Cina here.
Qompendium is in love with Cina's art projects and collages.

The French photographer Jeanloup Sieff (1933–2000) began photographing in the early 1950s. In the course of his long career he engaged in reportage, landscape, fashion, commercial and portrait photography, working for magazines such as Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Paris-Match, Esquire, Glamour and Jardin des Modes. He published several books, including J’aime la danse (1962) and Faites comme si je n’étais pas là (2000). This exhibition features a selection from Sieff’s photographic oeuvre, with a special focus on his images portraying dance.

More on the exhibition here.

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.

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.

RoboThespian is a robot actor, created to intrigue, entertain and reveal. The concept was created by artist engineer Will Jackson in 2005. Meet RoboThespian at "phaeno" in Wolfsgburg, an initiative to promote popular science, innovation and design residing in probably the largest walk-through sculpture in Germany by Zaha Hadid.

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.

Samuel Bonnet and Mael Fournier-Comte have recently founded the studio sa|m|ael, mainly working on books as thinking, experimenting, exhibition spaces. Both are also involved in the Parallel school of art, a virtual and international school where people interested in self-education can share their current projects and ideas, as well as their learning methods. Here is the first Qompendium Questionnaire Session, both interviewees recommended by Pierre Vanni.

Karl Nawrot and Walter Warton founded their studio Voidwreck in Amsterdam with Karl a graduate of the Werkplaats Typografie, a school considered as quite influencial in the realm of typography. Both graphic designers like to explore different mediums in order to develop shape and pattern within the borders of typography. Check out their site and make sure to reload often in order to see more.