although i have posted about this lady already last year, her work is certainly worth a new post: designer catherine zask
my thanks to ‘uwe’ for reminding me…
me news
the long-awaited demise of an extraordinary winter
i just discovered this post which has been hiding in the ‘me blog’ drafts folder for 2 months… better late than never…
fun ‘lo-tech’ film entitled spring city by ‘jeff scher’ ‘…photographed entirely by exploiting a neat quirk of the camera on my two-year-old iPhone. Shaking the phone vigorously while taking pictures in bright light will produce wonderfully rubbery, fun-house-mirror effects. Turning these still images into a movie required taking over 4,000 of them, wiggling the camera each time. The jiggling, jello-like movement is the sum of the differences between the the distortions…’
bland
opinions seem to be fairly evenly divided between ‘love or hate’ regarding the newly refreshed aiga website, personally i don’t feel either… at best it’s average i would say and i suspect it will date very quickly… the idea of making a kind of editorial spread with articles isn’t new but has certainly been done much better before, take my friends from fontanel for example
obamarama
one of our projects from a few years back: the typographical interpretation of the ‘obama inauguration speech’ has been featured in a new (information graphics) book: diagraphics just released this month by harper collins publishers
bean machine
if you find starbucks a little bit too ‘regular’ then maybe the latest project from ‘mister boonstra’ is more your cup of tea… a new coffee hang-out for the arty crowd in amsterdam city centre: screaming beans, caffeine plus a twist of david lynch…