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can i take your coat sir?
…installation of 200 stolen coats and jackets, taken over a 10 year period from London pubs and clubs.
Each coat and it’s contents were numbered and catalogued. Displayed for reclamation to anyone who could give the correct details of the theft / pocket contents. Each coat was tagged with it’s catalogue number and a personal diary entry made on the night the items were stolen…
amusing / provocative project Whose Coat is That Jacket you’re wearing? from UK artist ‘mike ballard’ which is part of the current ‘pièce de resistance’ exhibition showing at my neighbours office downstairs: mediamatic
professionalism / personal development
…people begin to get better when they fail…
if anyone knows what really matters in my profession and why, it is probably milton glaser… worth a watch (via ‘michiel schuurman’)
p.s. also check wally olins and the ‘sag’, basically they all say the same albeit in their own way and of course wer all knew it to be true even though we instinctively don’t accept it…
dreamweaver
…on five pages there are illustrations made out of thread. Their shape and colour relies on the key words on the opposite page. This way an abstract image of the dream about dreaming is generated. In addition there are five pages where a significant excerpt from a text of the opposite page is stitched into the paper. It is not legible because the type’s actual surface is inside the folded page. This expresses the mysteriousness of dreams and the aspect of dream interpretation…
beautiful book project ‘traumgedanken’ on dreams and consciousness with elaborate ‘tactile’ threads connecting and hyperlinking information across the pages, a final year design school project made by german student maria fischer
(thanks to ‘eierkoeken-thijs’ for the tip)
100 pixellated camera illustrations
… a collection of 100 pixelated camera illustrations for anybody to download and use in whatever way they see fit… you can do absolutely anything with them but you gotta give me (Billy Brown) credit somewhere…
ok thanks, well there you go: a credit for billy
