the title is pretty self-explanatory: maddie standing on all kinds of things
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an encyclopedia of kitsch
graphic designer sara cwynar combines her day job (at the ‘new york times magazine’) with a second, separate career as a designer/artist making rather more autonomous and eclectic work… see also the article about her on it’s nice that
here lives my house
a very touching project and soon-to-be-released book from photographer eddo hartmann, although he is a friend i wasn’t aware of this aspect of his life
…after twenty-one years, he stepped inside the rooms of his childhood once again and saw that, as he did so, everything and nothing had changed. Everything – because a thick layer of papers, folders, letters and books covered the floors, tables, sofas and chairs. Nothing – because under that layer everything was still intact, everything was standing or lying exactly as it did when his brother, his mother and he had left the place in haste on 17 October 1987… …what effect does the confrontation with the rooms, objects and interiors of your childhood have on your memories? And what if those memories are of traumatic events?Hartmann confronts the house and registers in this impressive work in minute detail what he discovers in each room…
a beautiful tapestry of things that had been
a really nice series of old archive images of londons east-end in the late 50’s-early 60’s from british photographer john claridge taken when he was just getting started in his career, a time when ‘his eyes were opened’
the site also has a series of links to many other beautiful series by john too… along the thames, salvation army etc… all worth a look
hack the cover
…if digital covers as we know them are so ‘dead,’ why do we hold them so gingerly? Treat them like print covers? We can’t hurt them. They’re dead. So let’s start hacking. Pull them apart, cut them into bits and see what we come up with… …an essay for book lovers and designers curious about where the cover has been, where it’s going, and what the ethos of covers means for digital book design…
interesting article on book cover design in the digital age