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accidental aesthetics

…it was an economic bargain that significantly defined the aesthetic terms of comic books: cheap paper, cheap printing, and four-color separations that could not hide their limitations. These accidental aesthetics governed the experience of comics for generations, were appropriated for fine art in the 1960s, and today fall into the “retro” category of graphic design…

why didn’t i think of this: i really love this blog which takes a close up look at old comics, in fact i even once designed an identity that looked like this…

m / 18-01-2011 15:59 - tags: , , ,  

edits

nice series of minimalistic graphic posters depicting the range of musical genres…

pictured are a few of my favourites…(thanks to our ‘german correspondent’ uwe for the tip)

m / 17-01-2011 14:14 - tags: , ,  

now & then

what a great idea, (tip via mister ‘jochem leegstra’)

m / 16-01-2011 09:58 - tags:  

it’s a hoax

one of the teams who are also doing a talk at the HKU seminar on ‘self confidence’ i have been invited to on monday is ‘hoax’ a young start-up by three students from the art-school whom i taught barely a year ago… they have created a pretty smart-looking portfolio in a very short space of time, taking an apparent focus on typography-based work with a really nice ornamental/graphic touch to it, like this poster (shown above) which i really like

talk about self-confidence… i would never have had the guts to start for myself straight out of art school, students take note: it can be done… looking forward to hearing their experiences so far

m / 16-01-2011 09:58 - tags:  

clap clap

nice little print ad from ‘euro/rscg’ paris, to celebrate the medals won by athletes in 2010
the text reads: ‘to applaud the 22 athletes of Team EDF for their performance in 2010, close and reopen these two pages several times very quickly’

…which seems a shame to me, surely it is obvious what the idea is and explaining it only weakens the effect?

i made a similar idea with hands back in 2008, on the cover of this brandbook for new recruiter maandag, at least it kind of reminds me of it a bit, the book had two covers: positive & negative (thumbs up & down)

m / 16-01-2011 09:58 - tags: , ,  
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