the chinese are leading the way when it comes to making fake reproductions of famous art… but europeans are leading the way when it comes to buying the stuff
this strange circle of supply and demand and the multi-million dollar industry it represents is the focus of a new book by photographer michael wolf, the title of which is: real fake art
see also this related post from 2009
witty solution for a dance track promo using tabletop food shots (via the a’dam adblog)
the stone twins (currently heading up the ‘man & communication’ course) shared some of the projects with me from the latest crop of graduates from the design academy eindhoven ‘class of 2011’
as the press release states, under their leadership the curriculum is aiming to change direction and clarify it’s relevance to sociey… or put simply “Less Bubble, More World”
…do we really need another chair?… asks graduate ‘michael kluver’ and in a similar vein ‘suyin tjon a hie’ questions our ever expanding consumption in this animation ‘a plastic life’
‘tessel brühl’ tackles the issue of bereavement in her abstract film called overcoming grief whereas ‘charlotte porskamp’ (shown above) faces up to facebook
the golden record project by NASA gets revisited for the current age by ‘vincent meertens’ and finally some beautiful lo-tech animation by ‘julia veldman’ entitled ‘dear neighbours’ shown below
and that’s ‘merely’ a graduation project… impressive
beware this is a very geeky link: a set of images related specifically to the typeface akzidenz grotesk and and aimed specifically at those who like to… look at it… ahum
