beautiful poster designed by herman van bostelen for a charity art auction for japan…
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in praise of prizes
amusing project from ‘lernert & sander’: a public competition to vote for the best prize… prize
the website invites you to drag the nine remaining losers to the bin, leaving the clear winner over… it is also quite a useful visual archive of the dazzling array of prizes in the arts & culture sector, do we really need them all and which are truly worthy? discuss…
stolen space
this series of 10 silk-screend posters are part of an exhibition currently running in london, a group of designers (including several of our local ones) were asked to reinterpret song lyrics
…the 10 new pieces provide new visual interpretations of well-loved lyrics from some of the most famous songs ever written including Led Zeppelin’s ‘Stairway to Heaven’, Radiohead’s ‘Karma Police’, New Order’s ‘True Faith’ and Morrissey’s ‘There is a Light That Never Goes Out’…
recurring patterns
i seem to be in a bit of a geometric pattern phase at the moment and just came across this: the new ‘dries van noten’ collection for next year, he is too apparently… i’m not very knowledgable about fashion but a big fan of his stuff and find this really beautiful…
mangelinckx
a new name to me: belgian designer jonathan mangelinckx who specialises mostly in identities for record labels apparently
i really like, for example, his work for the ‘untold’ label… combining still-life photography and geometrical patterns; more work can be seen here
