Friday 6 July 2012
Friday 29 June 2012
Thursday 14 June 2012
as seen on tv
catagories: America, graphic design, health and medicine, lifestyle
Sunday 3 June 2012
swatches
I suppose I am not organized or disciplined enough to be a proper curator—or stick with an intelligible theme—and such things do matter among miscellany and easy-of-access considering what goes forgotten and neglected, but I was looking for a specific kind of pattern and all these diverse textile designs did strike me as having some sort of association, in a Jungian common-fate sort of way. The first is a very mod pattern from 1960, British I think. The second is from an artist working in the 1920s named Maria Likarz and suggests a hail of unread emails. The third is a 1950s Eames Era inspired print that looks like something viral, a transmission. The fish pattern is by Wiener Werkstätte compatriot Hans Carl Perleberg and I think is brilliant for the hues and direction. The blackboard abstraction is by Orphian movement founder Sonia Delaunay. And the narrow stack of arches are also from the workshops of Vienna and prefigure one of the standards of Art Dèco architecture, whose successor style—like all these other periods—hold a timeless that maybe groups them together.
catagories: antiques, graphic design
Tuesday 8 May 2012
kαταναλωτισμός or conspicuous consumption
catagories: 🇪🇺, 🇬🇷, 🇮🇪, 🇮🇸, 🇮🇹, economic policy, graphic design, labour
Wednesday 21 March 2012
Tuesday 20 March 2012
revival
catagories: graphic design, networking and blogging, technology and innovation
Saturday 17 March 2012
pepperland
catagories: graphic design
Thursday 1 March 2012
thesaurus or go ahead, NARC yourselves out
catagories: 🥸, graphic design, networking and blogging
Sunday 12 February 2012
tag or bridges and islands
catagories: graphic design, language
Sunday 5 February 2012
docking bay 94 or suitable for framing
catagories: graphic design, Star Wars
Saturday 4 February 2012
retracta and rokovania
catagories: 🇪🇺, 🥸, foreign policy, graphic design, networking and blogging
Sunday 15 January 2012
blackout warden
catagories: 🥸, graphic design, lifestyle, networking and blogging, Wikipedia
Saturday 7 January 2012
typebox
catagories: graphic design, language, networking and blogging
Tuesday 3 January 2012
tiki lounge or the long now
catagories: 🧠, graphic design, religion, Wikipedia
Wednesday 30 November 2011
holly, jolly and echo base
catagories: graphic design, holidays and observances, Star Wars
Sunday 13 November 2011
hippocrates
catagories: graphic design, health and medicine, lifestyle
Sunday 23 October 2011
inked or plastisol billboards
catagories: graphic design, lifestyle
artistic license or don’t mess with the jesus
The tablet to the side reads "Death has no more power." A lot of variations on a theme are out there, displaying craftsmanship and commissions for public art in good faith but there is something a bit disconcerting in such a departure from the traditional, whose symbolism is inscrutable and yet no parody and only piety and memento mori is intended. The image and the wonder haunted me the whole way home.
catagories: graphic design, religion
Friday 26 August 2011
link round-up: sonnenblume and phases of the moon
Here's a smattering of some of the more interesting items I stumbled upon or was clued on to over the past week:
After the Feast of the Assumption (Maria Himmelfahrt) last week, earlier this week was the celebration of the coronation of the Queen of Heaven, which Wikipedia explained brilliantly, and though true to form in scholarship, sweetly, I thought. I am really enamoured with that website and its dedicated band of contributors, and not just for all the new things that one can learn every day, but also how individual entries are galloping towards completion and perfection, and how challenging certain topics and aspects can be to define, like the meticulous and continuous revisions that go into the gloss of Lolita.
And here was a very cool and inventive gallery of photographs of people posing with the Moon. I want to do this next time we're camping.
catagories: 🧠, environment, graphic design, holidays and observances, religion, technology and innovation, Wikipedia