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wes

a new book has been released on the amazing ‘wes anderson’, see also this article with some choice favourite anderson moments; let me tell you about my boat…

m / 28-10-2013 08:38 - tags: , ,  

$4,447,847.53

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what a great idea, for sale on craiglist: an ad-free isssue of vogue magazine, the retail price is based on the revenue which all of the advertising would presumably have generated…

(via paul scott)

m / 25-10-2013 12:43 - tags: ,  

soviet erotic

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created in 1931, this russian erotic alphabet was, in fact, created to combat illiteracy; i wonder whether it actually worked…

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thanks to ‘pepijn rooijens’ for the link

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m / 25-10-2013 07:58 - tags: , , ,  

vlisco dessins

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one of my favourite dutch poster designers michiel schuurman, took a job as a textile designer for dutch brand ‘vlisco’ some while ago, since then i’ve been really looking forward to seeing his output

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he finally ‘outed’ himself this week on facebook and showed us what he has been up to with the vlisco 2013 collection… amazing stuff

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m / 24-10-2013 08:06 - tags: , , ,  

b(eek)e

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whilst visiting the dutch design awards last week, i finally got a chance to see the excellent anton beeke exhibition at the piet hein eek gallery, ending this week it is worth the trip if you have time… amongst other things they had the complete set of the rather odd ‘bacchanten’ triptych which he made for the dutch national ballet (his first and last job for them)

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m / 24-10-2013 08:01 - tags: , ,