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post-apartheid
…the final design also used a particular orangey shade of red known as chilli red, which is mid-way between the colours of the British and Dutch colonial-era flags but at the same time reminiscent of South Africa’s coral trees, Brownell says, and the flat hats worn by married Zulu women…
the man who designed south africa’s multi-coloured flag fred brownell tells how it happened; the flag was the inspiration behind our banners for the mandela celebrations in amsterdam late last year…
me and my pen
see more work from daren newman (thanks to jean louis for the tip)
amiga warhol
…dozens of never-before-seen Andy Warhol works have been discovered on floppy disks from 1985. A team of new-media artists, computer experts and museum professionals rescued the purely digital images from obscurity after the Carnegie Mellon University Computer Club extracted them from 30-year-old Amiga disks that were in the collection of Pittsburgh’s Andy Warhol Museum…
great story via rolling stone and the beeb
kalle koppen
i came across these fresh illustrated portraits on the vandejong website, made by their ex-employee and talented man kalle mattsson, very nice indeed…