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archive for sale

as the cuts in the arts sector become a reality these kinds of commercial partnerships could well become more widespread: pushing the car to save petrol seems like an apt metaphor to me, or is it merely a logical and bona fide collaboration? hard to say… the dutch photography museum in rotterdam has offered a selection of it’s archive to dutch household goods chain hema, for sale as ‘wall decoration’

m / 04-10-2011 08:52 - tags: , ,  

realism challenge

m / 04-10-2011 08:38 - tags: , , ,  

(he)art for japan

beautiful poster designed by herman van bostelen for a charity art auction for japan…

m / 04-10-2011 08:36 - tags: , ,  

in praise of prizes

amusing project from ‘lernert & sander’: a public competition to vote for the best prize… prize

the website invites you to drag the nine remaining losers to the bin, leaving the clear winner over… it is also quite a useful visual archive of the dazzling array of prizes in the arts & culture sector, do we really need them all and which are truly worthy? discuss…

m / 03-10-2011 15:06 - tags: , , ,  

stolen space

this series of 10 silk-screend posters are part of an exhibition currently running in london, a group of designers (including several of our local ones) were asked to reinterpret song lyrics

…the 10 new pieces provide new visual interpretations of well-loved lyrics from some of the most famous songs ever written including Led Zeppelin’s ‘Stairway to Heaven’, Radiohead’s ‘Karma Police’, New Order’s ‘True Faith’ and Morrissey’s ‘There is a Light That Never Goes Out’…

m / 03-10-2011 13:38 - tags: ,