great fun: this latest project from canadian designer/image maker ‘julien vallée’
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as found
a new website curated by a number of creatives presents an unusual collection of suff exactly as found, also check out the exhibitions
(tip via co-curator ‘ewoudt boonstra’ from ‘sid lee’)
throw ups
for a minute i thought ‘shoe’ had taken up ballet dancing… turns out he’s found a new medium for his calligrafitti
lipstick enigma
…a computer-driven sentence-generator made by Janet Zweig. The sculpture is made of 1200 resin lipsticks powered by 1200 stepper motors, controlled by 60 circuit boards. The software invents and writes a new line of text, using rules and a lexicon written by the artist, and displays it on the sign when triggered by a motion detector…
(via today and tomorrow)
printed matter
karel marten’s seminal book ‘drukwerk/printed matter’ is going into a third reprint with some new material