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private parts

two nice print ideas from a canadian ad agency i hadn’t heard of before: cossette
cervical cancer ads that work particularly well when viewed as thumbnails (which is how i discovered them online) and some clever image cropping to turn a daily newspaper into a burritos wrap for junk food retailer McDonald’s

m / 27-11-2012 08:56 - tags: , , ,  

ordinary things in a new way

some amusing ‘idea doodles’ from art-director david brock, the guy who also created the ‘make something cool every day’ series back in 2009

(link via mister ‘mart boudestein’)

m / 27-11-2012 08:50 - tags: , , , ,  

ten holt

nice portrait of celebrated dutch classical composer ‘simeon ten holt’ who passed away this weekend, by photographer ‘friso keuris’

m / 26-11-2012 16:34 - tags: , ,  

join the movement

some beautiful monumental (kinetic) imagery from japanese artist shinichi maruyama, for example these two series called respectively ‘nude’ and ‘water sculpture’

(many thanks to pepijn for the tip)

m / 26-11-2012 08:58 - tags: , ,  

high way way

an utterly bizarre story from the china daily about a couple who refused to move house or government compensation following a redevelopment plan for a new motorway due to run straight through the location of their home, with the following result…

(via de volkskrant yesterday)

m / 23-11-2012 12:24 - tags: , ,