if you live in amsterdam you may often have seen ‘street’ photographer vincent van de wijngaard (who’s just moved to a new agent) wandering around town with his camera tucked away in his hand, vincent spends his time out and about capturing the magical moments most people miss… he’s one of holland’s best kept photography secrets and definitely worth checking out…
nice little piece (borrowed from the it’s nice that blog) which was made by accept and proceed for the loops festival 2009 in brighton UK, a bit of a peter saville homage which was shot (as shown) upside down to make it work, it really is nice that…
the third year graphic design students at ravensbourne college of design, london are putting together a website to promote their work and upcoming degree show
the site also includes a section called inspirations in which they are asking designers whose work they admire to list some of their own inspirations… that’s about the closest i will ever get to ‘milton glaser’ i reckon, thanks for asking me guys and good luck with the show…
…so then fellini said to me… yeah…well fuck it… you know… and people lived in that world of typograpgiy gone mad!… but i mean what could you do? …a style that came out of necessity… so then they took out the black guy… we all thought we would become, you know… famous… i got to be… very close… to muhammed ali… i met the most beautiful woman in the world!… and then i got a phone call from alexander lieberman… i painted on the photograph…yeah… so this is putin, chirac, they’re so full of shit… ha ha… i hated the fashion world… i hated everybody… for me… it was… like… an epiphany, you know…
william klein the ‘sound bite machine’ talking about his life in the great little documentary i came across online yesterday…
…and here’s one last quote from him:
I didn?t relate to European photography. It was too poetic and anecdodtal for me…. The kinetic quality of New York, the kids, dirt, madness–I tried to find a photographic style that would come close to it. So I would be grainy and contrasted and black. I?d crop, blur, play with the negatives. I didn?t see clean technique being right for New York. I could imagine my pictures lying in the gutter like the New York Daily News.
yet another ‘crowdsourcing’ design competition, only this time it’s for ‘students only’ and the client is the european union, now don’t get me wrong… i think it’s great that students get a chance to make a real ‘live’ project and the winner does get paid ?6.000 but… surely the european union should be encouraging and helping people to get real jobs and earn real money for their labour instead of jumping on the ‘get designers to work for free and promise them it’s great fun to be able to show their talent to the world’ bandwagon…