a beautiful tactile illustration from peter crawley
(thanks to mister thijs ‘eierkoek’ van exel for the tip)
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accidental aesthetics
…it was an economic bargain that significantly defined the aesthetic terms of comic books: cheap paper, cheap printing, and four-color separations that could not hide their limitations. These accidental aesthetics governed the experience of comics for generations, were appropriated for fine art in the 1960s, and today fall into the “retro” category of graphic design…
why didn’t i think of this: i really love this blog which takes a close up look at old comics, in fact i even once designed an identity that looked like this…
edits
nice series of minimalistic graphic posters depicting the range of musical genres…
pictured are a few of my favourites…(thanks to our ‘german correspondent’ uwe for the tip)
daily things
here’s another interesting ‘make something everyday’ project:
i received mail from utrecht-based illustrator ‘joost stokhof’ (aka the things we are) who is going to make a collage six days a week, for the coming year, using only images culled from that days’ edition of the dutch newspaper ‘de volkskrant’, nice…
s-t-e-r-e-o
thanks to ‘mike demspey’ for pointing me to these beautiful old jazz album covers by ‘rudolf de harank’ and ‘sam sulliman’ (both new names to me)
