possibly the world’s smallest stop-motion animation film, shot on a cellphone (no i’m not going to promote the brand) using cellscope technology (no i’m not sure what that is either…)
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leeds playbills
some beautiful old typographical ‘playbills’ (small posters or flyers, if you like) from old theaters in leeds (UK)
see the whole set right here
more with less
…high pitch sounds, orbit meters and ticking clocks, punch cards of giant size and endless white noise. In August and September MU provides the London artist/designer Stephen Smith, better known as the Neasden Control Centre. Under the heading “More with Less,” a playful variation on the familiar modernist principle of ‘less is more “, he builds an overwhelming visual world in the essence of the fully automated communications to investigate and expose…
i discovered this one a bit late but there are still a few weeks left of the show in eindhoven (thanks to ‘edson’ in london for the tip via FB)
the second industrial (type) revolution
i posted the americana photo blog ‘shorpy’ back in april ’09 but typographer (and ornamental type collector) ‘nick sherman’ went through the whole blog again with a different aim: selecting random bits of old type and vintage signage in the street scenes he found
you can see and read about his ‘type’ finds here, the ‘woodtyper’ blog itself is also worth a look…
synchronicity
this image from the growing archive of random observations by graphic designer herman van bostelen made me smile