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100 pixellated camera illustrations

… a collection of 100 pixelated camera illustrations for anybody to download and use in whatever way they see fit… you can do absolutely anything with them but you gotta give me (Billy Brown) credit somewhere…

ok thanks, well there you go: a credit for billy

m / 10-07-2011 16:08 - tags: , , ,  

washing instructions

…this pocket-sized book offers all there is to know when disaster strikes and how to live comfortably during climate change…

designer ruben pater sent me this little project he has recently completed: in a country such as the netherlands people have more than a passing interest in global warming and water levels, a large part of the nation is actually below sea level and although the government has compiled instructions as to what to do should large-scale flooding occur they have surprisingly never been implemented or published…

he decided to correct this omission and has produced a pocket sized cute ‘official’ manual explaining what to do before your knees get wet… (see english summary)

m / 08-07-2011 13:59 - tags: , ,  

the scale of fish

like most facts you hear about our global consumption patterns these days, here are some worrying ones regarding fish…

m / 07-07-2011 08:06 - tags: , ,  

ceremony

probably only really of interest to ‘new order’ geeks like me this one: a really great design by former saville assistant ‘howard wakefield’ for a magazine cover, all of the new order LP designs reduced down to 9×9 pixel thumbnails, a smart and very apt tribute to peter saville’s work…

m / 06-07-2011 08:06 - tags: , , ,  

under our feet

british photographer ‘stephen wragg’ spends a lot of time pointing his camera at his own feet, or rather what is beneath his feet… walking men

he is gradually building a wonderful image archive of the unintentional character traits that appear in the official ‘walking man’ icon, when left to the interpretation of the human hand instead of a standard template, very nice… there are some fascinating odd-ball figures walking around all over the place in the united kingdom, but i already knew that…

(via CR on twitter)

m / 24-06-2011 09:22 - tags: , ,