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really interesting article on the future (or demise) of interactivity in technology and in our lives…

…pictures Under Glass is an interaction paradigm of permanent numbness. It’s a Novocaine drip to the wrist. It denies our hands what they do best. And yet, it’s the star player in every Vision Of The Future…

…the next time you make a sandwich, pay attention to your hands. Seriously! Notice the myriad little tricks your fingers have for manipulating the ingredients and the utensils and all the other objects involved in this enterprise. Then compare your experience to sliding around Pictures Under Glass…

m / 10-11-2011 09:32 - tags: , , ,  

beethoven 1967

i was approximately six months old when the above image was taken, in the ‘summer of of love’: beethovenstraat 1967, three young hipsters crossing the street looking towards the camera, this well-known and quite famous image was shot by ‘ed van der elsken’ who often engaged his subjects whilst shooting around amsterdam, trying to capture the atmosphere on the streets…

now, local journalist and filmmaker ‘bahram sadeghi’ is looking to find the three girls in the image to help him make a film, the photo museum in rotterdam has recently discovered several unknown images from the same afternoon… if anybody knows who they are, he would love to hear from you…

m / 08-11-2011 09:11 - tags: , , ,  

logo+

i already posted this poster last week, this is a reprint with some ‘make the logo bigger cream’ applied… not something i often get asked to do

m / 08-11-2011 08:42 - tags: ,  

stile industria


arguably one of the most important (if perhaps less recognised) nations when it comes to the ‘modernism’ movement in graphic design during the 20th century is italy, better known examples are probably, the work of ‘max huber’ for such clients as ‘pirelli’ and ‘borsalino’ amongst others

another less well-known example is the short-lived late 50s/early 60s design magazine ‘stile industria’ whose covers bear an unmistakeably modernist, eclectic style from such names as ‘max huber’, ‘bruno munari’, (dutchman) ‘bob noorda’ and ‘enzo mari’… see this great collection of the resulting covers…

translated from an original post i wrote for ‘fontanel’ this week…

m / 01-11-2011 13:57 - tags: , , , ,  

if you win

congratulations to my client (dutch national ballet) and my colleagues (fabrique) who have just picked up a prestigious IF award for the recently restyled ballet website, which we worked on together earlier this year…

m / 01-11-2011 13:53 - tags: , ,  
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