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grafik graveyard

the magazine cover archive has posted the series of covers for (the now sadly defunct) grafik magazine

m / 25-06-2010 13:20 - tags: ,  

new tube

here’s a few interesting little film things i came across today:

‘fontanel’ posted this wonderfully quirky reconstruction of the 1982 world cup match between france & germany: refait

…every aspect of the fifteen last minutes of the match was carefully reconstructed : players, positions, gestures, intensity, drama etc. It consists in shifting the traditional game area into the urban environment. Each sequence takes place in one or several locations and then the city temporarily becomes the lab for unsual experiments…

‘fast lane’ a set of three viral films for volkswagen
and below a very zen-like, slow pace, compilation of the final resting place of some of new york’s more famous AIDS victims…

m / 25-06-2010 13:15 - tags: ,  

messages from asia

the posters shown here (from my dutch national ballet series) are being featured in an international poster exhibition and book ‘messages to the world’ organised by the ‘vidak’ (visual information design association of korea) opening in shanghai on the 1st of july, the following website may or may not provide more info for those interested, depending mainly on how many languages you can read…

m / 24-06-2010 08:35 - tags: ,  

d.i.y?

earlier this year i did a talk to students about the differences between working for a company or going solo, i wish i’d read this wonderful piece by michael johnson on the same subject before i did, as usual an entertaining and insightful read…

m / 24-06-2010 08:22 - tags: , ,  

public space

some interesting typographical/editorial based work from belgian/french agency salut public… worth a visit ( i forget which blog i saw this link on)

m / 24-06-2010 08:20 - tags: ,