me news
the sleeping arm
recent photography graduate ‘marlous van der sloot’ whom i recently worked with has an exhibition starting next week at pulchri studio in the hague, i will be away and so will miss it sadly, good luck marlous
symbols of power
very interesting article written by my (fontanel) colleague ‘mirte meeus’ on the identity and logos of moammar gaddafi, the symbols which were partly created by the man himself are even woven into the fabric of his mobile (home) tents… apologies if you don’t understand dutch i haven’t got any spare time to translate it right now, must rush… the blog will be quieter than usual this weekend, see you on monday & have a good one…
archive of the times
…for the building’s opening in 2007, Michael Bierut and team created a customized program of environmental graphics, including a massive landmark sign on the building’s façade and an interior program of wayfinding and identification signage. This interior signage, largely unseen except by staff, visitors and other insiders is unusual: there are over 800 office signs—each different, and each unmistakably part of the Times…
a really pleasing signage system for the new york times made by pentagram with old archive images…
…early in the design process, the designers and their clients at the newspaper decided to reinforce the unique Times culture through as many details as possible. As a result, every bathroom sign, every back-of-house sign, every public room sign bears a different image culled from the paper’s immense photographic archive. Working with Times archivists, the designers selected historic black and white images to create these hundreds of one-of-a-kind signs…
new focus
this new product (or is it a technology?) called lytro claims to make still images dynamic, for example allowing the user to switch the focus at a later date… sounds interesting as an idea but the examples they show look a bit dodgy… and do we need something like this? not sure…
(thanks to ‘thijs’ for the tip)