a new design magazine from asia ‘touch’, issue nr. 3 featuring some of our projects, due for release later this month…
me news
flash on the beach
beautiful title sequence from 2010, made with magnetic ‘things’ by nando costa (via emilio de haan)
cult of personality
…gaddafi had already ruled Libya for 15 years in June 1984 and he had a fearsome reputation for brutality towards his enemies. But the grim scene that unfolded in the eastern city of Benghazi was a spectacular first even for him. It was blazing hot day. Thousands of schoolchildren and students were bussed into Benghazi’s basketball stadium, where they saw a frightened young man with curly hair and beard, kneeling with his hands bound behind his back, pleading for his life before people’s prosecutors. Sadiq Hamid Shwehdi, 30, was accused of plotting to assassinate the leader of the revolution. The court described him as “a terrorist from the Muslim Brotherhood, an agent of America”…
human rights watch researcher ‘peter bouckaert’ talks about a gruesome archive of film & photo footage he unearthed in libya, the images show a less well-known side of gadaffi and also tell the story of a horrific public execution…
boom chicago
an exhibition of the ‘2nd chicago poster biennial’ winners is currently taking place at the harrington school of design, during july, featuring one of our posters which was chosen last year, there is also a short (related) article on the design observer this week
plus the chunky size competition catalogue has (finally a year later) been published and is available from the official shop for poster lovers everywhere… my own copy should be on it’s way soon hopefully
film + design
for the second consecutive year the dutch design week will again be hosting the film and design festival in sunny eindhoven in late october, i’d never heard of it before but it looks interesting…
personal note:
i’m finally ‘back to mac’ a bit later than planned… due to a slightly unusual weekend involving missed ferryboats, towed cars, lots of fines and wasted money, lots of mud and even more rain, sprained ankles, hospitals, customs searches, alcohol, music and a lot of laughs… anyway back to business