interesting research project which has been dubbed spam: ‘steganography by printed arrays of microbes’, that uses fluorescing bacteria to convey messages, a kind of living typography as it were…
…scientists have developed fluorescent bacteria that encode secret messages, creating a living invisible ink. Simple messages can be encoded by genetically engineering bacteria to produce fluorescent coloured proteins, then printing them in a grid…
the fella behind the awesome ‘posters in amsterdam’ blog, my mate ‘jarr geerligs’ also makes posters himself, like these ones with custom drawn type
spotted around town this week, made by studio dumbar…
..as a joke-teller, I might miss them a little due to their uniqueness. As a human being who likes cool new tech gadgets, screw ‘em…
a graphic novel artist points the finger at steve jobs for making his work more complicated…
some posters i have just completed this week, the brief was to say something about the process of how you work, how you feel about your work or contrasting aspects of your work…
i chose two quotes to work with, the first one made (surprisingly) by none other than walt disney:
‘you reach a point where you don’t work for money’ which works for me on many levels
the second is a series of two posters that visualise a quote from sigmund freud which also resonates well for me:
‘love and work, work and love, that’s all there is…’
one or more of these posters will be part of an exhibition in the hague next month, more news soon