an interesting looking series of political covers for the dutch ‘vpro’ magazine, which is running with 11 separate covers for this one occasion… all from different designers/illustrators
the only problem is i haven’t seen them for real yet (due to my holiday) and they are virtually impossible to view properly on their site… so apologies for the incomplete post, i’m sure a few of them are pretty good ;)
as the dutch approach a national election campaign that could prove as futile as the recent british one… recent graduate & provocateur ‘yuri veerman’ has produced a version of the dutch national anthem (the wilhelmus) as interpreted by a morroccan singer ‘teema’, to add to the debate about nationality and immigration, should get some publicity this one… at the very least it provides a welcome contrast to the frankly ridiculous publicity campaigns from some of the right wing parties plus it’s the first time i’ve ever heard a national anthem (any of them) sound remotely worth listening to… the official website is here
…the Bay Area presents a unique blend of residential living that sits between urban and suburban in a way that never quite reconciles one with the other. In investigating this landscape I photographed thousands of homes throughout the area and then digitally assembled these images together to create new and illogical structures and streets. At first these images look plausible, however, closer inspection reveals their fabrication. The reconstructed homes and neighborhoods appear skewed, revealing their underlying and sometimes unconscious intentions…
some unusual (imagined) urban landscapes from american photographer leigh merrill (via ‘design observer’)
a ‘new york times’ journalist who published a less than flattering article on performer ‘mia’ ended up getting her personal phone number published on mia’s twitter, not someone you’d want to get in a fight with, it seems…
hansje van halem is hosting the third of her living-room gallery events schrank 8 this time featuring the fabulous work of ‘michiel schuurman’, opening on friday the 11th of june