me studio

many thanks to the linefeed blog for reminding me about this classic logo from the 70’s, made by tony hart for the kid’s television programme vision on

…is enthralled by the scuzzy fringes of pre-Giuliani Manhattan but offers a genuinely fresh and compelling approach. Its Dutch director Klaas Bense, whose first film this is, came across an intriguing journal on eBay, a scrapbook-confession of flophouse life in the 80s by a failed would-be writer with a voice somewhere between William S Burroughs and Travis Bickle. Coming to New York, Bense tracks down some of those mentioned in the diary as he tries to find its author. The thoughts and memories he collects are various, touching, insightful and beautifully presented. The overall mood is one of generosity, humility and acceptance ? a tone more in keeping, perhaps with the film’s backers, the Buddhist Film Foundation, than its location. It’s not often you hear a New Yorker say the words spoken by the final interviewee: "If I were to romanticise my story, er ? I won’t."

this wonderful little film by dutch director ‘klaas bense’ recently aired on TV here and is currently doing the rounds at a few small art film festivals, see it if you can

we shot some new images for the ‘suikerdepot’ last week, i will be uploading them to ‘me work’ soon

a new website is also ‘under construction’

one of the best ways to find internet artist ‘evan roth’ is by googling the above term…

amongst the many strange and interesting projects are his grafitti taxonomy and the very weird ‘white glove tracking‘ no idea what i am talking about? have a look around for yourself…

…the designer of this letterhead, felt so strongly as to include it at the bottom, emphasizing the bauhaus philosophy in such a simple way. after reading kinross? article, i grabbed the herbert bayer monograph he published in 1967 and rediscovered he designed the whole book in lower case. even better, he states on the title page ?footnote, this book has been set in one alphabet only, according to the theories presented in the articles on pages 26 and 78.? both articles, one published in 1925 and the other in 1960, state bayer?s beliefs in a universal alphabet and legibility. so, roughly 40 years later, he is sticking to his principles. in honor of ?saving time,? i have decided to use lower case for my blog. i hope you approve.

i just came across this excellent (recently started) design blog called ‘amassblog’ which has some very interesting content… and great to see i’m not the only one carrying the flag for the ‘lowercase’ world…