me news

lots of stuff

the ‘collection a day’ blog is filling up nicely, the idea of ‘lots of found things on a white wall’ seems to be becoming a bit of a trend also in the design world

m / 22-01-2010 12:05

bigger

nice old letterhead that isn’t afraid to ‘make the logo bigger’

m / 22-01-2010 11:35

shampoo

off topic post: the interview i mentionned yesterday with beats-magpie ‘four tet’ over on the excellent pitchfork site is worth a read, the man himself on the subject of ‘drum’n’bass’:

…nobody could have imagined it. It sounded so crazy when you first heard it. How can it be this fast and this noisy? But everyone was dancing to it and going crazy. And then six months later, it was the music you heard on shampoo adverts. It infiltrated everything in this huge way…

m / 20-01-2010 19:30

under occupation

some compelling old colour negatives from photographer ‘robert bothner’ taken in paris (street scenes and the ‘folies bergère’ shows) in 1940 during the second world war…

fascinating stuff, see them all here, what is that makes them look so much cooler with the whole negative strip in view?

m / 20-01-2010 14:03

fashion condensed

designer yvette yang has committed to remake this ‘fashion font’ every year to comply with the latest changes in fashion, nice… more background info via: design.nl and dezeen, looking at the comments left on that last one reminds me why i decided to skip the ‘comments’ option on my own blog…

m / 20-01-2010 13:58