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A working library of design, type, and visual culture.

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Anagrama's identity for Mexican sweet and tea shop Bonnard is all sorts of excellent

Tyler Woodford photographs scenes on the streets of Mexico City in his latest series

More cycling from top photographer Emily Maye in this thrilling series of the Belgian Cyclocross maelstrom

Clever graphic design that adds order to ideas from young Belgian Jelle Maréchal

Let Mark Alor Powell give you a tour of the weirder side of Mexico...

Beautiful record sleeve design from Belgian designer Jelle Martens

Post-Soviet Visions: image and identity in the new Eastern Europe

Lauren Grusenmeyer leads us through her stellar design for Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels

Project Projects: Building for Brussels

Gold Chaika Pocket Watch made in the USSR

Liberale verkiezingsaffiche, 1958 - Campaign poster, Belgian Liberal Party, National elections 1958 (30199375283)

Blood and Sand 1922 film poster USSR

This Is Antwerp commissions animated portraits of the city’s young creatives

The other side: AGI Open Mexico explores what it means “to live on opposite sides of an imaginary wall”

Nina Manandhar photographs Mexico City's newspaper sellers

Photographs taken inside the Soviet cosmonaut training centre, Star City

The Soviet placard

Woman and Man in 1930s Soviet Propaganda Poster - Regional History Museum - Zaporozhye - Ukraine (42302404620)

Soviet Poster 4

Carpooling the Mexican way – photographer Alejandro Cartagena documents it beautifully

Yakov Guminer. The USSR. Workers of the world, unite! poster (1926)

A tribute to the repurposed churches of the Soviet Union

Shiny, slick work from Mexico's Savvy Studio

Zoran Lucić’s posters for Lucha Libre visualise the stars of Mexican wrestling

Illustration: Owen Davey's latest book is about Laika the Soviet Spacedog

Wonderfully melodramatic flash stunt fun for TNT Belgium launch

Photography: Mexico, India and Morocco through the eyes of photographer Mowgli

This is Antwerp: why you'll want to visit Europe's most atypical city

Design studio Anagrama's solid identity for a Mexican restaurant

We Will Not Allow War - Soviet-Era Propaganda Poster - Museum of Occupations - Tallinn - Estonia (35225645514)

Soviet Poster 6

Joseph Stalin and child student art, from- Soviet Communism Threatens Education - NARA - 5730072 (cropped)

Polish poster of the Polish-Soviet War

Photographer Cécile Baudier explores Costa Chica's Afro-Mexican community

Antwerp-based designer Ward Heirwegh’s experimental portfolio of projects for the arts

You will want to spend all your time at bar and restaurant Gomez in Mexico

Julia Autz documents Transnistria, a country steeped in Soviet nostalgia

Liberale verkiezingsaffiche, 1936 - Campaign poster, Belgian Liberal Party, National elections 1936 (30616509502)

Mexican illustrator Elena Boils’s luscious floral prints for YCN

Jeppe Hein's Modified Social Benches are on show at Belgium's Beaufort04

Let's speed up industrialization in the USSR with deposits to state labour savings offices (3274390010)

Event: Vice team up with el Jimador for a Mexican-themed event!

Russian photographer Turkina Faso on the “post-Soviet aesthetic”

Experience the joy of the Congolese Belgian community in Rebecca Fertinel's photographs

Beautifully printed letterpress dice from Belgian designers Stoëmp

Geometric loveliness from Belgian artist Jelle Martens

Soviet bus stops captured by worldly photographer Christopher Herwig

Meet friendly Belgian illustration collective, Tieten Met Haar

Miscellaneous: Point and laugh in disbelief with blog Ugly Belgian Houses

Soviet feminism

Max Litvinov’s avant-garde work is inspired by Soviet animations

A photographic series documenting the Korean communities of Mexico and Cuba

The history of the hotel Venets: a 22-storey metaphor for Soviet utopia

Kevin Serna explores familial relationships by capturing his dad’s Mexican hometown

Liliana Ovalle's seating pieces inspired by improvisation in Mexico City

Poster denoting Jewish-owned business from occupied Belgium

Photographer Frieke Janssens turns actors into busts for Belgian theatre company

Logo Ars Vocalis Mexico

Lee Mawdsley shoots Qatar for CBQ and make us want to emigrate, fast.

Public forum commemorating Mexican Independence Day In defense of undocumented workers. LCCN2016648064

Thomas Prior captures a Mexican festival involving exploding sledgehammers

Sweet Dreams: Tripod City’s latest adventure focuses its lens on Mexico

New publication chronicles Soviet anti-alcohol posters throughout the ages

Soviet May day 1929

Hunting in the USSR (Travel poster)

Benoit Paillé captures holiday-makers in Mexico in all their beach finery

“A desire for the forbidden would be equal to treason”: Photographer Nikolay Bakharev on life in the USSR (NSFW)

A huge broken plate is thought-provoking addition to Belgian town

Photography: Andrew Miksys' photographs of the discos in Soviet era buildings

Polish-Soviet War- 1920 Polish recuritment poster

Holiday homes and abstract spaces in Mexican illustrator Elena Boils’ illustrations

Minimalist record sleeves by Belgian graphic designer Jelle Martens

Fantastically kitsch Mexican pulp paperback covers

The Best Illustrator You’ve Never Heard Of: An in-depth interview with Belgian illustrator Jan Van Der Veken

Soviet Poster 3

Malmsteen USSR Leningrad Poster 1989

Poster - Mexican Spitfire

Victims of Soviet Imperialism - NARA - 5730130

Liberale verkiezingsaffiche, 1929 - Campaign poster, Belgian Liberal Party, National elections 1929 (30432767730)

A Soviet vision of the future: the legacy and influence of Tekhikia – Molodezhi magazine

New Logo for Macayo’s Mexican Restaurants by Nocturnal

Mexico’s New Airport Logo Contest

Panchero’s Mexican Grill

Belgium’s Post Loses Horn, Caps

Mexico’s Vernacular Branding