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speaking of culture here’s the blurb for a new magazine ‘file’ tha has just been launched:

FILE A MAGAZINE FOCUSING ON GRAPHIC DESIGN, ART AND VISUAL COMMUNICATION. A MAGAZINE TO WATCH & READ. WITH ITS ACCOMPANYING DVD, FEATURING OVER
TWO HOURS OF SHORT FILMS, MUSIC VIDEOS AND INTERVIEWS, AND A COMMISSIONED LIMITED PRINT FOR EACH ISSUE – FILE IS A SURVEY OF THE CURRENT VISUAL CULTURE.

orders or more info here (sorry about all the capitals above, i couldn’t be bothered to retype the lot…

this interesting document (a seven meter long fold-out book) arrived in the post today, entitled ‘datascape cultuur’ it analyses and tries to explain the facts and the myths about the cultural landscape in the netherlands, with some very suprising facts and figures to underline the problems and the opportunities there are, more (dutch only) info can be found here (thanks to ‘ingeborg’ for the tip)

looks fun, the expo is opening this evening (thanks to ‘harm’ for the tip)

two interesting font foundries i came across recently: here and here

photographer alexandra brand mailed me some new images she shot for ‘hollands diep’ magazine