a collection of odd-looking types or, putting defunct technology to good use… (via fontanel)
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Is quality a meaningful goal?
it’s quite a lot to take in… like the passage here below, for example, but the article by one of the only real graphic design critics around: rick poynor on the state of ‘art’, offers a genuinely engaging viewpoint on ‘where it’s at’ right now…
…many young artists with visual talent have decided to ignore the art world’s weary, self-serving conceptualist strictures and just go ahead and make the art they feel like making. They want to create optical art experiences of their own. By paying too much attention to the extremes of high or low we run the risk of undervaluing what’s happening in the densely populated middle — graphic novels, graphic design, illustration, low-cost film-making — where the expressive possibilities of the visual are still embraced with conviction. This, rather than art scene-mediated art, is the real center of visual culture in our time. Are we overlooking great work only because we have been instructed for so long to assume that anything presented outside the art world’s walls must be inferior? …
it required several reads to take it all in for me, but it certainly wasn’t wasted energy…
after effects
…a series of architectural scale models with black paper, which he then covered with flour and some small samples of mold. After some time they started to look like this…
really nice idea (and execution) from ‘daniele del nero’ via today & tomorrow