some beautiful tactile photo-illustration work from chillean artist maria aparicio puentes
(via the ‘boss’ jay-denis)
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rhyming lessons in the phone shop
many thanks to my ex-intern pollie for the copy of her graduation book, her idea was to choose a small area of amsterdam with a large number of small shops, she interviewed the owners and tried to ascertain their hidden skills i.e. any talents they had or services they offer that are not related to their line of business
in this way she documented an invisible network of skills and stories from the neighbourhood which was then compiled into an unofficial yellow pages of the residents
l’an deux mille
a series of whimsical french cigarette cards dating from 1899-1910, depicting the world as it would look in 100 years time, in fact they are not even so whimsical: police helicopters, caravans, mass food-production and young people sat in front of machines working with headphones on… pretty accurate stuff
(via ‘franklin de bekker’)
ja
a selection of images from the wonderful john alcorn, whom i posted about earlier this week
he worked extensively in editorial an d publishing plus several commissions such as stamps etc. though much of the work has undoubtedly dated, a great deal of it has a timeless quality and could have been made yesterday, enjoy…
