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amsterdam begins with a….

so it’s a good place to start, ha ha good answer, i like it…

one of my favourite designers ‘henrik vibskov’ has opened a 100 day pop-up store just round the corner, hopefully i can get away early today…

m / 13-12-2010 14:01 - tags: , ,  

the ‘body architect’

… a classically trained ballerina and former architect, the title “fabricated so she could get a job” loosely defines her work exploring the body and how its silhouette can be reshaped (quoted from dazed)

looking around on her own blog at the amazing work i just discovered that australian artist lucy mcrae lives and works just around the corner here in amsterdam, she has a pretty impressive portfolio and working with people like ‘nick knight’ – ‘show studio’ certainly isn’t going to harm her reputation

see also the promo (and making of) for ‘robyn’ but i might recommend turning the sound down quite a lot for that one…

m / 13-12-2010 13:12 - tags: , ,  

modern talking

some minimalist old-school modernism in this campaign for sony ericssson, beats anything the rest of the mobiles are doing purely on clarity and singularity of choice

(via kobayashi)

m / 13-12-2010 13:09 - tags: ,  

50 years of typography in album covers

…in 1938, Alex Steinweiss of Columbia Records invented the concept of album covers and cover art, replacing the plain covers used before…

an incomplete but interesting collection from the 60’s to the present

m / 13-12-2010 13:08 - tags: ,  

flock

some really beautiful work from artist adam neate, it has a similar, weird & unique quality to the work i posted last week by deborah oropallo, could this be a new aesthetic genre of imagery? it is to me…

m / 12-12-2010 16:46 - tags: ,