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)
i promised several people that i would post a list of the stuff i mentioned last week at the ‘papier hier’ talk and here it is, probably a meaningless list of websites unless you were there, the topic was ‘tactile’ and these are some of the people and projects i spoke about in that context…
‘boven kamers’ book by moon brouwer
‘happy faces’ by dennis van gaalen
posters from sergio alves
the wonderful toaster project by thomas thwaites
the austria solar annual report
underwater images by alberto seveso
fictional film sets by daniel agdag
tactile photography dan tobin smith
tactile photography bela borsodi
swiss artist ‘bernard voïta’ (hard to find, google him…)
swiss artist felice varini
human trees by jody xiong
string art from gabriel dawe
toilet roll art from junior fritz jacquet
tactile typography by marian bantjes
intricate layouts and paper objects from peter nencini
nail art chen chun hao (or google him)
nail art goshka macuga
‘balancing blocks’ short by part & parcel
‘bag charms’ by christian borstlap
‘frictions’ short by steven briand
and here above is me together with mister ian wright whom i certainly would have mentioned in my talk, except that he was already invited as a guest speaker that day…
(image above courtesy of ‘willie kerkhof’)
i promised several people that i would post a list of the stuff i mentioned last week at the ‘papier hier’ talk and here it is, probably a meaningless list of websites unless you were there, the topic was ‘tactile’ and these are some of the people and projects i spoke about in that context…
‘boven kamers’ book by moon brouwer
‘happy faces’ by dennis van gaalen
posters from sergio alves
the wonderful toaster project by thomas thwaites
the austria solar annual report
underwater images by alberto seveso
fictional film sets by daniel agdag
tactile photography dan tobin smith
tactile photography bela borsodi
swiss artist ‘bernard voïta’ (hard to find, google him…)
swiss artist felice varini
human trees by jody xiong
string art from gabriel dawe
toilet roll art from junior fritz jacquet
tactile typography by marian bantjes
intricate layouts and paper objects from peter nencini
nail art chen chun hao (or google him)
nail art goshka macuga
‘balancing blocks’ short by part & parcel
‘bag charms’ by christian borstlap
‘frictions’ short by steven briand
and here above is me together with mister ian wright whom i certainly would have mentioned in my talk, except that he was already invited as a guest speaker that day…
(image above courtesy of ‘willie kerkhof’)
a brief update: i’m working on some new identity stuff for the ‘sugar factory’ this week
plus the latest (waterproof) edition of the ‘dingen’ book series: ‘natte dingen’ (wet things) is heading off to print too
