dutch newspaper ‘het parool’ published a spread about the ‘dutch national ballet’ amateur photography competition today; showing the ten winners, i will post some more images of the accompanying poster campaign we made, later this week (currently all around amsterdam)
…the available size of a iPhone screen is width 320 × height 460 pixels at portrait orientation after excluding the status bar, or points if we are talking about the Retina display. If you divide 460 by 44 you get a remainder of 20. Divide by 11 and you get a remainder of 9. 460 cannot be divided into equal parts of 11 nor 44. The vertical rhythm is corrupt…
interesting article from print/online designer ‘aentan’ who finds the grid system used for the iPhone iOS flawed…
(link via ‘jean-louis denis strijbosch’)
…he calls them “Pen Blow” paintings, and not by accident. His method–developed after countless material experiments with everything from coffee to Elmers glue–goes like this: He opens ballpoint pen cartridges, yanks off the tips, then, with his mouth, blows ink through the tubes onto 12-inch-by-12 inch or 24-by-24-inch panels. When the ink flows out, it’s saturated with color and so viscous that, “Instead of turning to a mist, it blows out into sticky interconnected strings,” …that gives the paintings a spider web-like quality…
some beautiful ballpoint pen art from brooklyn-based artist ‘shane mcadams’ (text above quoted from a ‘fastco’article)
if you happen to be in amsterdam during the coming week i would recommend a short visit to the enormous public library next to central station, they are currently exhibiting a satellite show from the ‘graphic design museum’ well worth a quick trip (till the 17th) and free…
