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ice age

this fascinating project in detroit has it’s own blog, where you can see plenty of images and read the whole background story, basically the idea was to freeze an entire (abandoned) house in a derelict neighbourhood of town to draw attention to the situation… the CR blog also has a short piece on the project

m / 26-04-2010 07:32

bacon takedown

some fun illustration/typography pieces from designer allan peters

m / 26-04-2010 07:28

l’abécédaire

interesting urban alphabet from loutsider, i actually made a corporate identity several years ago using this technique (even with polaroids) there are some nice subtle ones hidden in amongst this lot…

m / 26-04-2010 07:25

it took him years to figure out what to do with the…

this very symbolic set of images by stills photographer francois robert called ‘stop the violence’ is notable for a few reasons, but especially for the fact that each one is built entirely out of a whole human skeleton

spotted via this article by ‘michael beirut’ on the DO blog…

m / 23-04-2010 11:30

a functional, effective and crafted system

some interesting design projects from (erm… it does what it says on the box) agency design project, that is an unusual, if accurate name somehow i find…

they are UK-based but have a pretty strong ‘swiss’ aesthetic to my mind…

m / 23-04-2010 11:25