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…is a Sandberg Instituut design department exhibition featuring eleven students’ graduation projects along with other exceptional designs by students from the department. All the projects make statements that are utterly personal, what binds them is their speculative character. Each project acts like a magnifying glass turned on significant developments in our society. The projects together demonstrate how the profession of (graphic) design enables one to operate on the cutting edge and reformulate what engages people…

16 – 19 sept

m / 01-09-2010 10:38 - tags: ,  

tunnel vision

a beautiful ‘analogue’ video for TWR72, i particularily like the ‘eyes’ that appear around 01:30 (tip via ‘fontanel’)

m / 31-08-2010 09:37 - tags: ,  

blackboard

german publisher ‘gestalten’ has an open community page or blackboard where young talent can upload their latest work, worth a visit now and then… like this beautiful image by ‘valentin fischer’

m / 31-08-2010 09:25 - tags:  

we missed the earthquake only by a miracle…

sixty six year old photographer marrigje de maar has an enduring love affair with the forgotten regions of china and has just returned from a trip to the tibetan plateaus

she will be holding several exhibitions of her new work in the coming year, including a large show at huis marseille in amsterdam in early 2011

m / 31-08-2010 09:19 - tags: ,  

we know

…each portrait consist of more than fifty different images. The various expressions blend in to perhaps one true self. What they know is what you know, by looking at them….

an interesting new series of multiple portraits by local photographer katrien franken, the effect is very similar to a series shot by german photographer michael wesely when shooting a whole class of school children using multiple exposures on one sheet of film, the heads in his shots also tended to morph into one generic face… much like this but then composed of something like 30 different children (see below)

m / 31-08-2010 09:12 - tags: ,