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leo fitzmaurice

a series of football shirts cleverly made (during the past 10 years) from reappropriated cigarette packs (more than 800 of them) found all over the world by british artist ‘leo fitzmaurice’ with the brands and graphic forms & now representing the heraldry and national colours of the soccer world…

his work often makes use of reappropriation of branding and packaging from commercial products, he doesn’t appear to have a website but i found several articles which give a better picture of the man and his work, see here, or here, plus here and finally here

m / 26-06-2011 15:30 - tags: , , ,  

strangely boring and mesmerising…

…at the same time…

…a well worded reaction to this work by taylor holland, from ‘kk outlet’ on twitter, see more of his ‘vector fields’ series here

m / 26-06-2011 15:29 - tags: , ,  

balls + heart

a tongue-in-cheek directors reel… well at least his mum thinks he is special

m / 26-06-2011 10:47 - tags:  

under our feet

british photographer ‘stephen wragg’ spends a lot of time pointing his camera at his own feet, or rather what is beneath his feet… walking men

he is gradually building a wonderful image archive of the unintentional character traits that appear in the official ‘walking man’ icon, when left to the interpretation of the human hand instead of a standard template, very nice… there are some fascinating odd-ball figures walking around all over the place in the united kingdom, but i already knew that…

(via CR on twitter)

m / 24-06-2011 09:22 - tags: , ,  

as little as possible

i must have missed this book amidst all of the the publicity last year after the release of the excellent gestalten publishers ‘braun/dieter rams’ volume and it may seem a bit of overkill, although this book concentrates on rams’ personal archive and the legacy he has left behind, eat your heart out apple… i’ll try and review the book as soon as i can get hold of a copy…

m / 24-06-2011 09:02 - tags: ,