berlin-based duo a nice idea every day are primarily filmmakers but their photography sketch work is what really caught my attention (via ‘monodot’)
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he photographed each of them… and then he ate them
unusual idea for a book on a narrow theme, or is it rather data visualisation in book form?
…all of the apples in this little hardcover book were printed at actual size. Every apple is a different variety (47 kinds total) and are labeled as such. On the left of every spread is the apple whole, on the right page, it’s the apple sliced in half. The author of this book, Jonathan Gerken, gathered all of these apples during the fall of a single year from local farmer’s markets, orchards and neighbors…
does it really matter?
typography and a discussion about it’s importance or relevance with the general public is always a difficult match, it i is think by definition an in-crowd subject, which is once again proven by this amusing BBC article
…these people remind me of wine snobs – they can detect all these subtle notes and flavours but the average person probably won’t notice all these tiny flourishes on a font. When you’re reading an article you’re not thinking about the font. You have to be looking at fonts all day before you start getting emotional about them…”
pleasure and sorrow
all summed up neatly in this amusing book cover