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i think this is a weird, but nice collage book jacket

one of the foremost designers from the ‘utrecht scene’ has his own random image repository, a sharp eye for the unusual and a great sense of humour

see more of his striking images on the tegelijkertijd blog from mister ‘herman van bostelen’, enjoy…

this coming monday there is a lecture evening/party in honour of anton beeke’s 70th birthday, with many designers talking about the man himself, sadly there are no more seats left… happy birthday anton

two stories with a similar theme this week: the CR blog shows a series of hijacked billboards and ‘fontanel’ has a piece on these colourful anti-ads another similarity both are french…

i’d never heard of this fella before: miroslav tichy (sorry i can’t find the alt-key for a letter ‘y’ with an accent on top, in fact i didn’t even know there was one) and what a great camera… the story reminds me a bit about the dutch photographer (and recluse) ‘firet’ who also recently gained acclaim shortly before his death, with very similar work…

…reclusive and mysterious Czech photographer Miroslav Tichý. Now over eighty years old, Tichý is a stubbornly eccentric artist, known as much for his makeshift cardboard cameras as for his haunting and distorted images of women and landscapes, many of them taken surreptitiously.

Tichý began photographing in the 1950s, in part as a political response to the social repressions of Czech communism. However, it is only in the past five years that his intensely private work has gained public attention…