Sunday 30 December 2012
katzenjammer
catagories: ๐บ, antiques, graphic design, lifestyle, networking and blogging
Friday 14 December 2012
Thursday 13 December 2012
making spirits blithe
I suppose (though I am the first to admit to being not among the it-getters when it comes to skiing) it’s like the thrill of being outside of one’s comfort-zone that comes with winter-sports and being able to take to the slopes and to push oneself to enjoy the elements. Jingle, jangle, jolly.
catagories: environment, graphic design, holidays and observances
Sunday 11 November 2012
tie-in campaign
My real sponsorship, from my perspective at least, seems to tend towards the tedious. It’s not really intended for me, however, and I suppose involves not just a reading of what’s on my blog but also a good pry at my browsing habits as well. I guess further it’s a bit too much of a marketing challenge (at least in this league) to find well-matched backers. Where ever they are, I am sure most people grow weary (or immune) over the same old cash of flyers. What fake, sacastic ads would you like to see?
catagories: graphic design, networking and blogging
Sunday 4 November 2012
Saturday 3 November 2012
Friday 26 October 2012
gestalt
catagories: America, economic policy, foreign policy, graphic design
Friday 19 October 2012
native mark-up language or cadence and marshalling
catagories: ๐ฌ, ๐, graphic design, technology and innovation
Wednesday 10 October 2012
swimlanes
catagories: America, graphic design, language, philosophy, technology and innovation
Wednesday 26 September 2012
run-off or terrestrial sunsets
These incredible images are created by volcanic ash, vibrant and chthonic minerals that the Earth gives up on a fairly regular basis there, being scuttled away by rivers and streams.
The photographer’s eye and technical acumen, I think, are really able to capture in this series what photography was intended for and distinguished from the other visual arts by—being able to distill and communicate a sort of landslide never seen before nor will ever be seen again, like being able to capture the roiling shadows of a cloud or the play of colours in a sunset.
Be sure to check out some of the other photographs featured on these communities. These smoky, spyrograph moments are outstandingly beautiful and makes me hopeful that I might be able to also frame such compositions as they flow downstream.
catagories: ๐ฎ๐ธ, graphic design
Sunday 23 September 2012
libelle
catagories: ๐ฅธ, environment, graphic design
amber waves or marie, marie quite contrary
amber waves or field-studies
France, the bread-basket of Europe, has elected to extend a moratorium on the single genetically-modified crop, a brand of corn (maize) patented by a US firm, to make it past the European agricultural gate-keepers and into limited markets and into the food supply, pending further studies.
catagories: ๐ซ๐ท, ๐, ๐งฌ, environment, food and drink, graphic design
Wednesday 12 September 2012
johnny appleseed or be you and I behind an arras then
catagories: ⚕, ๐, ๐ฅธ, economic policy, graphic design
Friday 7 September 2012
gabriel blow your horn
catagories: ๐, Europe, graphic design, religion
Tuesday 28 August 2012
brica-braca or the long now
Photographer David Johnson, via the astounding Colossal,
the blog of Art and Visual Ingenuity, had a chance to experiment with
new techniques and captured some blooming, long-exposure images of fireworks, during the International Firework Show held in Ottawa in early August.
catagories: graphic design
tv tray or serialization
catagories: ๐ฅฃ, environment, graphic design, networking and blogging
Tuesday 21 August 2012
frรผhstรผcken oder morgen post
I really liked this tableau by Danish artist Laurits Andersen Ring, recently featured on the English Wikipedia home-page as a featured image.
Productive from the fin d’siรจcle until the 1930s, Ring’s style and subject matter helped define the Socio-Realism movement, which embraces such iconographic works as Grant Wood’s American Gothic, the anonymous and evocative profiles of the Great Depression in America (like the photograph of Migrant Mother [DE]) and the cavalcades of propaganda art from different confessions and persuasions yet all with common ways of portraying, lensing society. Focusing on the craftsmanship of the furnishings and small details really complete the scene, which is also pregnant with symbolism that slowly emerges. The allegorical is a subtle thing and can tell stories that are inexhaustible, noting the way the way shadows dapple, the copy of the page, the halo of greenery at the woman’s head, the intention of the palette and so on. Taking a moment to appreciate the unfolding reminds one that links do not allegory make.
catagories: antiques, graphic design, Wikipedia
Friday 17 August 2012
wordmark
catagories: ๐ง , graphic design
Saturday 11 August 2012
eurotrashing or the columbian union
catagories: ๐ช๐บ, America, foreign policy, graphic design, transportation
Tuesday 7 August 2012
citius, altius, fortius
catagories: graphic design, language