although i’ve posted about talented artist/designer ‘noma bar’
before on the blog, he certainly merits another post: as part of the london design festival he has created a special installation, more images of which can be seen via the CR blog
me news
cut it out
read it sideways
wired magazine has an article on mister ‘scott e fahlman’ who sent the following email way back on the 19th of september 1982 and thereby invented the smiley emoticon…
19-Sep-82 11:44, From: Scott E Fahlman :-)
I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers: :-)
Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use: :-(
new order
austrian artist ursus wehrli has an obsession with tidying things up, often with hilarious results…
his own website is a bit cryptic but you can see more images via the dutch newspaper nrc (dutch only)
the sleeping arm
…this unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones…
this quote by desmond morris adorns the pages of a book which i received this week from recent KABK photography graduate ‘marlous van der sloot’, the book entitled ‘de slapende arm’ is a large (A3) sized publication featuring macro shots of skin
i advised marlous whilst she made the book but if photographers can make their own books like this, then designers may become an extinct species, very nice… the print-run is limited to 100 copies which can be ordered directly via marlous…
at a theater near you
the public (online) voting for this years dutch ‘cinema poster awards’ is open till late september; it is however, a pretty ‘average’ selection this year in my opinion… the link to the voting page is the red word ‘gestemd’ lower down, if you can find one you like… the above one was my choice
