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leo fitzmaurice

a series of football shirts cleverly made (during the past 10 years) from reappropriated cigarette packs (more than 800 of them) found all over the world by british artist ‘leo fitzmaurice’ with the brands and graphic forms & now representing the heraldry and national colours of the soccer world…

his work often makes use of reappropriation of branding and packaging from commercial products, he doesn’t appear to have a website but i found several articles which give a better picture of the man and his work, see here, or here, plus here and finally here

m / 26-06-2011 15:30 - tags: , , ,  

strangely boring and mesmerising…

…at the same time…

…a well worded reaction to this work by taylor holland, from ‘kk outlet’ on twitter, see more of his ‘vector fields’ series here

m / 26-06-2011 15:29 - tags: , ,  

under our feet

british photographer ‘stephen wragg’ spends a lot of time pointing his camera at his own feet, or rather what is beneath his feet… walking men

he is gradually building a wonderful image archive of the unintentional character traits that appear in the official ‘walking man’ icon, when left to the interpretation of the human hand instead of a standard template, very nice… there are some fascinating odd-ball figures walking around all over the place in the united kingdom, but i already knew that…

(via CR on twitter)

m / 24-06-2011 09:22 - tags: , ,  

dd day

we had a long day session yesterday in not-so-sunny-eindhoven (with the whole jury for the DDA 2011 communication category) trying (and succeeding) to get our initial selection, made last month, shortened down to a finite list of nominees for this years ‘dutch design awards’

it was an inspiring and fun day and we left with an overall feeling that we had made the right choices and found the work that stood out the most in quality, innovation and idea… whether everyone else agrees is doubtful… fickle bunch designers, we shall see when the finalists are announced in the near future, until then i must keep my mouth shut, tough gig…

a new chairman (antoine achten) and a more demographically varied panel of jury members sitting around the table has definitely improved (and highered) the standards and provided a broader base of collective ‘design’ experience, good news for those who entered their work this year i feel… good luck to you all, fingers crossed

m / 23-06-2011 18:53 - tags: , ,  

switcheroo

amusing idea for a project from vancouver-based photographer hana pesut and a great opportunity for a bit of cross-dressing

thanks to ‘uwe’ for the ‘smile of the day’ tip

m / 23-06-2011 16:09 - tags: , ,  
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