Let’s start Monday morning off with a Friday Find (found Friday, Jan. 4): 3 catalogues from the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam) designed by Wim Crouwel and Total Design. Take a minute to appreciate Crouwel’s graphic restraint, his enslavement to the grid and his dedication to Univers. Take another minute to read these excerpts describing how prevalent Crouwel’s design was in the Netherlands: “It was actually…

“Stephanie DeArmond makes ceramic sculpture and installations that combine the honesty of traditional craft and its methods with a sly humor that places her work in a thoroughly contemporary context. Her use of text and illustration betrays an often macabre sense of reality that suggests mundanity may be aggression in disguise.” –Diana Kim. Her current work confuses mediums even further by…