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klas herbert (allsorts part 2)

i went back through the folio of the designer who made those funky ‘liquorice allsorts’ posters (see yesterday) and it was worth it, for example the ‘wet paint and fabrics’ series shown above… have a look around (also in the archive)

m / 08-09-2010 12:38 - tags: , ,  

fashion statement

…as a part of her investigation of veiling and the responses to this clothing style (series Look at you 01, 02 etc), Sara wore a niqaab in week 27 of this summer. The niqaab is an all concealing veil, including gloves and wire netting to conceal the eyes. She visited the foodmarket in The Hague, walked through the new housing estate Ypenburg, made her way to the library and used the public transport. Whilst doing so she tried to capture the looks people gave her with a miniture camera, hidden in her veil and a photographer who was following her…

some really interesting work from young dutch fashion designer sara vrugt

m / 07-09-2010 08:57 - tags: , ,  

wim klerkx

…with the control obtained from years of research it is fairly easy to breed a fruit fly with curled wings. It can live a normal life when it is fed. Researchers use it as a marker-fly. It can tell them if a certain chromosome has passed on to offspring. And conveniently it cannot fly. It may be bought at pet-shops for feeding reptiles or fish…

a series of anatomical close-ups by wim klerkx

m / 07-09-2010 08:37 - tags: ,  

non-posters in amsterdam

mister jarr geerligs is steadily building on his impressive flickr set of posters (and non-posters) that he likes (and dislikes) in and around amsterdam, now all accessible via a handy homepage

m / 06-09-2010 13:31 - tags: , ,  

dutch national ballet, recent posters (late summer 2010)

the top two were shot by ‘ruud baan’ the lower one by ‘ingrid baars’, the set for the first one (made from string was designed and built by me… for more info and images visit here and also here, i am currently working on three new ones also

m / 03-09-2010 17:15 - tags: ,