MOTH and RUST

Moving from the Sciences to the Arts It’s always interesting for me to learn about others who have moved from the Sciences to the Arts, so it was great when Taiwanese illustrator Emma Cheng appeared on one of my design news sites this week. I find her style, and use of pencil crayons, quite unique. She describes her work as “a dram...

MOTHandRUST is 13 years old MOTHandRUST turned 13 years old on November 4th! As the founder, I can't help but wonder if this coming year will be difficult due to this infamous number... I don't wonder too long however, as I am not a particularly suspicious person. Triskaidekaphobia, the fear of the number 13Historically, much....

The first Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology has been awarded "It's a very high honor for me to have been selected for this prize. The research we're being recognized for, people worldwide in almost every biology and biochemistry laboratory use our chemistry in one way or another," said Dr. Caruthers. This autumn, Dr. Marvin H. Caruthers of the University of C...

#FlashbackFriday: Communicating 15 years of science The McGovern Institute for Brain Research is a community of MIT neuroscientists committed to understanding the brain and to applying this knowledge to improve human health and well-being. For the occasion of its 15th anniversary, an ambitious booklet was created to give current and potential support...

A typeface everyone should know → Ed Interlock: The Ed Interlock font uses “Artificial Ed-telligence to arrange letter combos for a more hand-done appearance!” exclaims its creators, House Industries. What is AI up to now you might ask? “Disrupting the type industry,” perhaps? Here is the problem: handwritten digital fonts don’t really ...

The beauty of microscopy “Usually, we shrink images to fit on a postage stamp. In this case, we have enlarged the images to postage-stamp size—that doesn’t happen often,” said Luke Grossmann, senior vice president of finance and strategy for the Postal Service. These stamps are gorgeous! But they are not works of ar...

Tony Awards 2023 Exciting news that our client and friend, Brigitte Reiffenstuel won the prize for Best Costume Design of a Play for Leopoldstadt at the Tony Awards this week. It is an amazing production and her prize is so well deserved! ✨ ✨ ✨...

#FlashbackFriday: Wilton’s Music Hall Site Wilton's is a very special and unique Grade II listed building here in East London. It is one of the few surviving music halls left in the world, with many beautiful original features—anyone who has been there will speak of its atmosphere. It is incredible that after 160 years, this music hall has...

Host an event and have your organisation shine Sometimes, when so much energy is focused on the event, it can be easy to forget events are a great opportunity to showcase your organisation as well. MOTHandRUST find these three questions are useful to ask of any event design project: What event design work do you need exactly? Of course this seem...

Graphic Design for other Art and Design Students Isn't it disappointing when you've got a really great project, but those you share it with don't seem to think it's that great? Isn't it even more disappointing to discover that they don't think it's that great because you didn't communicate it very well? What is the point of calling out the key par...

Five ways of looking at Comic Sans Having gotten to know more about this typeface, I actually appreciate it a bit more—just for what it is! 1) When Microsoft designer Vincent Connare saw a beta version of the cartoon Microsoft Bob that used Times New Roman in the word balloons, he thought: "Comic dogs don't talk in Times New Roman....