serial entrepreneur, designer and well-dressed man joachim baan launched his latest project this evening: a gallery, shop and studio in-one where he will be sharing his many obsessions
to kick off the venue he is starting with a modest collection of black objects, art, books & products (some expensive and all for sale) entitled simply ‘noir’, check the site for opening times and more info… and of course, good luck from me
seen in todays newspapers: a great idea to introduce a new wheelchair symbol; which aims to tackle the many stigmas around this subject… the accessible icon project
here’s a bit more type porn to start the day, letterpress and linocutting have always been highly photogenic subject matters for me and the three day course i just did at letterpress amsterdam was no exception…
as the bbc recently reported: …an american academic is creating a searchable database of 12 million historical copyright-free images. kalev leetaru has already uploaded 2.6 million pictures to flickr, which are searchable thanks to tags that have been automatically added. The photos and drawings are sourced from more than 600 million library book pages scanned in by the Internet Archive organisation. The images have been difficult to access until now…
check the internet archive book images here
