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the amateur ‘look’

the continuing revival of the weathered or old, lo tech, amateur photography ‘look’ can be witnessed through the popularity of ‘lo-mob’ and ‘polaroid’ effect apps for the iphone, this article analyses the whole phenomenon again, as it applies to album cover art…

…a lot of indie artists lately have felt something similar, it seems. Artists who sound about as different from each other as Vampire Weekend and the Dum Dum Girls– have embraced the look and feel of old, amateur photography, often featuring images of childhood and family. Stuart McLamb of the Love Language found this great image of his mother– literally beaming in the unintended glare of a too-hot flash at night, and thought it the perfect album cover…

m / 14-09-2010 09:22 - tags: , ,  

the second industrial (type) revolution

i posted the americana photo blog ‘shorpy’ back in april ’09 but typographer (and ornamental type collector) ‘nick sherman’ went through the whole blog again with a different aim: selecting random bits of old type and vintage signage in the street scenes he found

you can see and read about his ‘type’ finds here, the ‘woodtyper’ blog itself is also worth a look…

m / 14-09-2010 09:02 - tags: , ,  

specimenism

a small but highly eclectic collection of fonts from the politically correct to the whacky and weird

m / 14-09-2010 08:22 - tags:  

magnetic curtains & audible carpets

thanks to fontanel for the tip: an unusual collection of industrial design projects from young designer florian krautli

m / 14-09-2010 07:22 - tags: ,  

cut & paste and cut & paste and cut…

earlier this afternoon i visited a workshop with my clients ‘nathalie & claartje’ to discuss the process of re-using the billboards created earlier this year by various designers and artists as part of the ‘façade’ exhibition, such as the one above by ‘martijn engelbregt’

the materials will all be cut up and reused in a series of products from the ‘re:frame’ design competition and also as covers for the ‘façade’ book i am currently working on

fortunately for us the test today proved that we can actually sew the stuff together, gluing the books may be a bit more difficult to achieve… although part of the charm of this project is however, that fact that we are making decisions as we go along, nothing is really set in stone at this stage…

several new additions to the advertising billboard section of the project will probably be added last minute (the very last minute) before the book goes to print later this month, i’ll keep you posted… see also this post

m / 13-09-2010 19:09 - tags: , ,  
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