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a little article about stock photography
don’t worry if you can’t read dutch, it’s
not going to change your life :)

erik’s been on holiday for a few weeks and so I’m busy finishing a project for an exhibition about ‘mobile phone art’ in amsterdam, the show starts on july the 10th and my posters will be around town next week
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remember when music went digital? album cover design
took longer to evolve but when the surface area went from
30 x 30 cm down to 12 x12 cm for a cd cover, music artwork
gradually adapted to the smaller format and the onset of computer design took it in a whole new direction, a similar thing seems to be happening once again, take this cover for the new hot chip album, great artwork which fits the whacky art-school dance funk music well

however when it gets reduced down to the 60 x 60 pixels
used by most online music stores, things start to go fuzzy at the edges, the alex smoke cover below likewise, fits the
minimal-techno it aims to illustrates very well and…

it stands up much better to being scaled down so greatly, I guess that simple, iconic covers like this one are likely to become more frequent as buyers (or borrowers) move from shops to internet… a sign of the times… both good & bad

our friendly nextdoor neighbours have just made a little
pink baby girl so we gave them a bottle of bubbles for
making such a nice little design…congratulations
have a drink on me…