The stationary Jacques Pense designed for Germany’s most famous crime and horror channel, 13th Street, is enough to send most conservative studio execs dry heaving into their coffee — which is precisely why it is so rad. Not only is it graphically raw and biologically accurate, which anyone with an illustrator’s pen, rabid imagination and healthy Iron Maiden fascination could conjure, but it’s also incredibly creative, such as its use of binder rings to create medical guide-worthy exit wounds. The Stuttgart-based designer certainly seems to have a welcomed morbid sense of humor (as do his clients), I just don’t see this flying in the morality-queasy USA…

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