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e blurb

the online photobook publisher ‘blurb’ is branching out into e-publishing, thany books already uploaded for print will also be available to publish digitally, which opens up some interesting new possibilities for ipad presentations i think..

m / 21-10-2011 09:43 - tags: , , ,  

life is a sweet cabaret

our latest poster for the sugar factory is finished, and those cute (sugar) cake letters i bought in a french supermarket about four years ago finally came to good use…

m / 19-10-2011 14:32 - tags: ,  

van gogh $75, ed ruscha $50, andy warhol $45

the chinese are leading the way when it comes to making fake reproductions of famous art… but europeans are leading the way when it comes to buying the stuff

this strange circle of supply and demand and the multi-million dollar industry it represents is the focus of a new book by photographer michael wolf, the title of which is: real fake art

see also this related post from 2009

m / 13-10-2011 08:52 - tags: , ,  

dae 11

the stone twins (currently heading up the ‘man & communication’ course) shared some of the projects with me from the latest crop of graduates from the design academy eindhoven ‘class of 2011’

as the press release states, under their leadership the curriculum is aiming to change direction and clarify it’s relevance to sociey… or put simply “Less Bubble, More World”

…do we really need another chair?… asks graduate ‘michael kluver’ and in a similar vein ‘suyin tjon a hie’ questions our ever expanding consumption in this animation ‘a plastic life’

‘tessel brühl’ tackles the issue of bereavement in her abstract film called overcoming grief whereas ‘charlotte porskamp’ (shown above) faces up to facebook

the golden record project by NASA gets revisited for the current age by ‘vincent meertens’ and finally some beautiful lo-tech animation by ‘julia veldman’ entitled ‘dear neighbours’ shown below

m / 12-10-2011 13:49 - tags: , , , , , ,  

black swan

hanging around town this week: our latest poster for the ‘dutch national ballet’ image by ‘erwin olaf’

p.s. our webserver and email was down today for most of the time (and still is ‘off air’ intermitently) apologies for the lack of inspiration, abnormal service should return as soon as possible…

m / 10-10-2011 17:50 - tags: ,