one of my favourite poster designers; michiel schuurman has just completely revamped his website and has also opened a facebook page for weekly updates
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a visual fingerprint
interesting graduation project cinemetrics by KABK (the hague) student ‘frederic brodbeck’
the project is, in his own words: …about measuring and visualizing movie data, in order to reveal the characteristics of films and to create a visual “fingerprint” for them. Information such as the editing structure, color, speech or motion are extracted, analyzed and transformed into graphic representations so that movies can be seen as a whole and easily interpreted or compared side by side…
video killed the radio star
the music industry in a state of flux: thirty years in thirty seconds (via ‘nrc next’)
something nice
it was a difficult and shameful week to be british, watching scum looting and even killing on the streets of london, as egypt proved social media can be a vehicle for change
however, as london proved, the downside is that they can be used to organise evil… but also be used to help victims, express solidarity and reconcile communities…
symbols of power
very interesting article written by my (fontanel) colleague ‘mirte meeus’ on the identity and logos of moammar gaddafi, the symbols which were partly created by the man himself are even woven into the fabric of his mobile (home) tents… apologies if you don’t understand dutch i haven’t got any spare time to translate it right now, must rush… the blog will be quieter than usual this weekend, see you on monday & have a good one…
