great spatial/typographic ‘ambigram’ from markus raetz
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china life
based on a ‘life magazine’ cover image from 1938 portraying a chinese soldier (by robert capa): mister joe black has created this incredible tactile illustration with spray-painted plastic (chinese made) toy soldiers… impressive stuff
welcome home
visited yesterday with the family: the revamped and revitalised stedelijk museum
finally back (on the original site) after 10 years absence; it’s been too long… but it looks amazing and if you ask me now that the new (& much criticised) identity by mevis en van deursen has been implemented and started to come to life around the museum i think that it actually works really well (i had decided to not join the flood of negative comment on the logo until seeing the whole story)
two
two interesting ‘tactile’ projects i came across this week: a poster for ‘public bikes’ made with 4,000+ bike chain links by sagmeister & walsh
and an amazing piece entitled technological mandala no. 2 constructed from soldered components and microchips from leonardo ulian, shown below…
(link via pam ‘the motor’ asselbergs)
