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a short history of production

…a book printed through a printing chain made of four desktop printers using four different colors and technologies dated from 1880 to 1976. A production process that brings together small scale and large scale production, two sides of the same history…

great little project just in time from french artist ‘xavier antin’ using a stencil duplicator, spirit duplicator, laser printer and an inkjet printer to create a custom ‘cmyk’ printing device (via ‘jarr’)

m / 25-07-2011 08:43 - tags: , , ,  

exploding paint

a fascinating typeface experiment made with ‘virtual’ paint that appears to be frozen in mid-air

m / 25-07-2011 08:42 - tags: ,  

crowd control

…commissioned as a crowd study during the Celebration of Light Fireworks show in Vancouver to illustrate how the crowd forms and disperses over the course of the day… (via ‘thijs van exel’)

m / 25-07-2011 08:42 - tags: , , ,  

[you are (t)here]

i came across this amusing looking project on facebook called ‘opera #8’ which recently took place at the ‘kröller müller’ museum near arnhem, involving peepholes in newspapers and audio effects (or perhaps opera music?) it is from local artist ‘willum geerts’: the same guy who made that hilarious dutch national flag, his website doesn’t yet mention the project so i can’t provide any proper information other than the images shown here…

m / 25-07-2011 08:41 - tags: , , ,  

f***

an opinionated poster for the ‘rietveld academy graduation show’ this year via mister jarr, no comment…

m / 25-07-2011 08:40 - tags: ,