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best of ’12

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a subjective list (or a list of lists) of the best book cover designs of 2012, many ‘usual suspects’ featured of course…

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the revamped ‘1984’ cover in particular is fabulous, i think…

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m / 17-01-2013 08:22 - tags: , , ,  

pantone 98-8 C

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a portrait project or “chromatic inventory” with a difference: humanae looks at skin colours and gives them a pantone colour matching reference based on an 11 x 11 pixel skin colour sample

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(via ‘sherida kuffour’)

m / 16-01-2013 09:11 - tags: , ,  

paste n cut

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i got an email last week from italian artist claudio parentela who creates some seriously anarchic collages

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see his website for plenty more…

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m / 16-01-2013 08:22 - tags: , , ,  

and beyond

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the official website for my next ‘gig’ in april: beyonderground is now online, some interesting speakers like eike könig from hort who is always good to hear talk, more news and info should follow soon… the event also gets a mention from slanted

m / 16-01-2013 08:11 - tags: , ,  

endangered sounds

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it doesn’t get much geekier than this: the tamagotchi, pacman, a nokia ringtone or a 56k modem… welcome to the museum of endangered sounds

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(via mister ‘uwe’)

m / 15-01-2013 08:44 - tags: , ,