i just discovered this slightly disturbing & ‘way ahead of it’s time’ arty title sequence for the 1969 film ‘a quiet place in the country’ by elio petri, the actual film (which i haven’t seen) is also apparently less than ordinary…
(tip via ‘moon in the gutter’)
…every year, in the last week of June, more than three million people from 70 countries visit the biggest summer festival in northern Europe. Over ten days, Kiel puts its best foot forward with a unique mix of cultural, musical, political and social highlights…
interesting archive of all of the posters for the ‘kieler woche’ event since 1948, showing a chronological history of some of the predominant (typo)graphic styles from then to the present… from graphic/geometric and understated to the over-indulgent
here is a transcript (dutch only) of the speech given by journalist and photographer ‘hans aarsman’ at the launch of the new book by photographer ‘andré thijssen’ two weeks ago in rotterdam, the book was designed by the talented ‘sabine verschueren’ in two separate bound volumes and is now for sale
…his design looks like a normal bike when in riding mode, but a simple level on the frame triggers the frame to go from rigid to pliable. a ratchet system built into the frame enables the bike to simple be bent around a pole fitting one side of the handle bar into a closure under the seat, locking the bike in place…
interesting idea this one, the principle of making something rigid, flexible like this could probably be implemented in many more products and other appliances too…
one of the most popular (and overused) fonts around has just been released in a rounded version, i wonder how long it takes before DIN round also becomes one of the most overused rounded fonts a-round?