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

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Join Cachetejack and Dropbox for a collaborative workshop at OFFF Barcelona

Barcelona-based illustrator Nicolás Valencia’s intimate depictions of voluptuous forms

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

Tasty record sleeves from Barcelona's own Arnau Pi

Smart, cute GIFs from Barcelona-based illustrator Luis Mazón

Beautiful record sleeve design from Belgian designer Jelle Martens

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

Etnia Barcelona's new eyewear range inspired by the floral world

There's a great line-up for the Internet Age Media Weekend in Barcelona

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

The brilliant Barcelona studio Forma & Co in our first ABSOLUT Network showcase

Project Projects: Building for Brussels

A neat, malleable identity by Barcelona-based designer Gerard Marin

Gold Chaika Pocket Watch made in the USSR

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

Barcelona Business of Design Week bcn design low (23747693075)

Blood and Sand 1922 film poster USSR

Folch and Bráulio Amado's identity for Barcelona Design Week sheds light on issues of consumption

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

Barcelona studio Nice Shit animates Interpol’s Daniel Kessler’s music memories in this short

Photographs taken inside the Soviet cosmonaut training centre, Star City

The Soviet placard

Introducing: Barcelona-based studio Querida tell us about their working day

Super colourful new furniture set from Barcelona's lagranja design

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

Soviet Poster 4

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

A tribute to the repurposed churches of the Soviet Union

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

Wonderfully melodramatic flash stunt fun for TNT Belgium launch

Marc Morro swaps Barcelona for London as part of Timberland campaign

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

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

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

Julia Autz documents Transnistria, a country steeped in Soviet nostalgia

Barcelona Business of Design Week independent design low (23747708705)

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

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)

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

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

Polish born, Barcelona-based photographer Asia Chmielewska is a real talent

Beautifully printed letterpress dice from Belgian designers Stoëmp

Geometric loveliness from Belgian artist Jelle Martens

Soviet bus stops captured by worldly photographer Christopher Herwig

Woo! Pencil mountains! Crisp graphic design here by Barcelona's very own Roseta y Oihana

Meet friendly Belgian illustration collective, Tieten Met Haar

Beautifully tessellated stools from Spanish designers Alvaro Catalan de Ocon

Barcelona-based P.A.R studio create neat identity for academic institution

Verena Michelitsch's stylish identity for Barcelona-based bag brand

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

Soviet feminism

Check out these cheeky plaster hands grifting on the streets of Barcelona

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

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

Poster denoting Jewish-owned business from occupied Belgium

Photographer Frieke Janssens turns actors into busts for Belgian theatre company

Photography: Jose Porroche finds undiscovered gems on the beaches and streets of Barcelona

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

Atlas creates beautiful identity for new Barcelona Design Museum

Beautiful and cleanly designed pamphlets from Barcelona-based studio Hey

Jorge León's impressively coherent identity for a Barcelona skate shop

New publication chronicles Soviet anti-alcohol posters throughout the ages

Soviet May day 1929

Hunting in the USSR (Travel poster)

“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

Miscellaneous: We explored Barcelona's creative scene and it was bloody brilliant

Polish-Soviet War- 1920 Polish recuritment poster

Minimalist record sleeves by Belgian graphic designer Jelle Martens

A charming portrait of Barcelona's 77-year-old matchday announcer

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

Victims of Soviet Imperialism - NARA - 5730130

Belgium’s Post Loses Horn, Caps