i’d never heard of him before but he is responsible for a great deal of classic hollywood ‘iconography’ and is regarded by many as the godfather of american movie posters: bill gold
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water bears
these amazing little critters (with a plughole for a face) are known as tardigrades or ‘water bears’ and they are the first living organism known to man that is able to withstand “sub-zero temperatures, unrelenting solar winds and an oxygen-deprived space vacuum” or put simply: walking in space without a big suit and helmet on
well ok not bad, but i bet he doesn’t do very well trying to pick up women in bars with a face like that…
analogue retouching
talking of arab spring…. very strange this one: the annual ‘world press’ exhibition poster features a gruesomely disfigured young arab woman this year, designer ‘franklin de bekker’ discovered that one of the posters hanging in amsterdam had actually been hand-retouched by somebody using paint to replace her missing nose… wow
(image cortesy of eric wie & franklin himself via facebook)
arab spring
our latest poster campaign for the ‘cinéma arabe’ film festival is hanging around town this week, or are burqas in public illegal nowadays? hard to tell what’s acceptable anymore with all of the right-wing political factions in the netherlands these days…
shoe-it-yourself
innovative dutch shoe brand ‘united nude’ have taken a new step in footwear design, or rather they have provided the pieces and your inner child is allowed to put them all together… amusing idea but a ‘quirky’ result… to say the least
