cool beans

i somehow (most likely through manystuff) managed to stumble across the incredible work of swiss design studio glashaus. Their site is a little jarring, but there is something charming in the kind of amateur multi-layer aesthetic that it has. In a way, it's like if someone threw photos one on top of the other on a table or something. It's just a virtual translation.

To me, their work is simple, funny, smart, and cool in that amateur/ lowbrow kind of way.  I've written breifly about this before, but I like the aesthetics of non-design. The defaults, the economic printing methods, the disregard for the unspoken "rules of graphic design. It's an interesting conundrum when a design chooses to design something so as to appear undesigned. It seems like a very meta, post modern type of idea. Something about the way they look. For me, they're beautiful because they're imperfect, human, ugly.

also, check this publication they designed for Roten Fabrik