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pink mercedes

the ‘pink ribbon’ breast cancer organisation in the netherlands asked ‘shoe’ to pimp a car, so he did…

m / 23-09-2010 12:12 - tags:  

mechanical drawing methods

two interesting drawing installations i came across today online: ‘rosemarie fiore’ (whom i’ve blogged before with her ‘firework paintings’) has put a pinball machine to work in creating pinball paintings and ‘joseph griffiths’ who puts a home trainer to good use making circular drawings

m / 23-09-2010 11:34 - tags: , ,  

mit vielen zufällig gestalteten momenten

anarchic german graphic design collective ‘hort’ often use collage in their album sleeves and other artwork, i really love this magazine piece they have produced for a show entitled (funnily enough) ‘collage’ in NY

…through the removal and deconstruction of the existing layout, new images appear while flipping through the magazine allowing the viewer to redefine their way of seeing and creating…

m / 14-09-2010 10:02 - tags: , , ,  

temporary

amongst the exhibitions being hosted at the newly reopened temporary stedelijk is an overview of their very own stedelijk poster collection from 1911 to the present including: jan bons, wim crouwel and willem sandberg amongst others…

m / 07-09-2010 08:53 - tags: , ,  

open type

i just came across these incredible spatial typography sculptures from catalan artist jaume plensa, see also here and here

m / 25-08-2010 14:49 - tags: ,