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modern food

seattle-based photographer ryan matthew smith has been creating some ‘modern cuisine’, i particularily like the exploding eggs shown above…

although when it comes to this kind of work, you definitely shouldn’t miss the very talented mister dominic davies from london… whio has a much more ‘authentic’ and analogue feel to his work

m / 27-12-2010 11:19 - tags: ,  

the happy few

here is a reinterpreted version of the facebook ‘connections’ graphic i posted last week, this time with an extra layer of data added: population density

m / 27-12-2010 11:17 - tags: ,  

meta logo

design observer have picked up on metahaven’s ‘wikileaks’ presentation last week in amsterdam, the obvious reaction seems to be how ugly the proposals were which is, although undeniably true, missing the point somehow… their proposals had many interesting angles like the fascinating brand architecture and ‘image economy’ he discussed at some length

m / 27-12-2010 11:13 - tags: , ,  

wild animals

an illustrated childrens book entitled ‘wild animals’ from graphic designer ‘rop van mierlo’, most of them look a bit more cuddly than ‘wild’ though…

he has made clever use of the ‘smearing’ technique of paint or ink & water on paper, which works really well to describe the structure of fur or feathers it seems…

many thanks to ‘thijs’ for the tip…

m / 26-12-2010 18:12 - tags: , ,  

there was never a photographer very far away…

in 2010, what a year… things went up, things fell down, people died or triumphed and so on…

the anuual ‘boston globe’ roundup in pictures is here again, here’s my personal ‘mash-up’

m / 25-12-2010 09:22 - tags: ,