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The image of post-industrial decline looks pretty much the same wherever you go. Franck Bohbot charts the demise of railway infrastructure in the 10 miles between Nanterre and Ivry-sur-seine, west Paris. Franck’s work perhaps represents the first bit of love this particular area has seen in some time.
BBC World Service and documentaries: that’s what’s cracking in my world. But having overdosed on the realities of this planet, it’s time for music to aid with the come down. When I’m not been amazed by the latest intriciacies of The Insomniax’s Love She Wants EP in its pre-release form, I’m revelling in the synth-laden nirvana of upstate New Yorker Seth Haley; otherwise known as Com Truise.
This renaissance man has enough “mid-fi synth-wave, slow-motion funk” to keep any beat junky busy for days. Throw in his Komputer Cast mixtapes and you’ve got plenty of analogue love for a digital age. Definitely makes the world I’ve been reading about feel like a slightly better place.
The answers to the Eurozone’s ills, all contained within the ill verses of Euro Neuro by
Eurovision 2012 Montenegrin entry Rambo Amadeus. Yes, I said ‘ill’. Yes I said I’m voting.
Let’s get this straight – I’ve never voted for any song in the Eurovision Song Contest in all my years of existence. This year though, is the exception.
Rambo Amadeus has been a cult figure in the music scene of the Western Balkans for more than 20 years. For late-comers like myself, the cult-like admiration starts now. Sorry Engelbert, you’ve had your day. It’s Rambo time.
If you’re a young designer looking to market yourself, find new ways to market others. Dave Spengeler does just that as he holds up a mirror to the artsy community with this exercise in rebranding irony.
Whilst having a ‘wish I was there’ moment after reading a stream of tweets from various bods at the South by South West conference, I saw a useful tweet about a blog based on the conferences’ various seminars.
Ok it’s not quite the same as being there, but the Ogilvy’s Notes blog employs RSA style infographics on the events key lectures. The infographics are produced by Imagethink, a graphic facilitation company who bring some vava voom to lectures and meetings by visually recording the content. Great idea for all visual learners and let’s face it probably would perk up any boardroom meeting.
What the set of a similarly named TV series could have looked like, without the protracted storyline. This collaborative project between photographer Katja Mayer & design guru / very nice chap Peter Chadwick deserves similar viewing figures, having yielded a stunning body of work both eerie and surreal in equal measure.
These images could be from a computer game but is in fact an exhibition which began last Friday 9 March and runs until Thursday 19 April.
Pure dogged determination captured by photographer Seth Casteel, who spent hours underwater in Los Angeles taking pictures of dogs chasing balls.
The shoot included labradors, a border collie, a dachshund, a bulldog, a Belgian tervuren and a King Charles spaniel. I have no idea which dog is which, but I find all of them rather fetching.
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via The Guardian
Drum roll please… introducing product designer and London Metropolitan University graduate, Yinka. You may not of heard of him as yet, but pull out your pencil and take note.
Working with old and unloved furniture, Yinka recycles and reworks each piece to produce a brand new creation. We’re pleased to say that twenty%extra will be working with Yinka to help build his brand.
We popped down to the British Library’s Spring Festival this week where Yinka won a competition for one of the fair’s limited stands. Yinka’s pieces caught the eye of the spring fair goers and his mailing list happily grew too. The future looks as bright as an orange lacquer finish.
If you really want a job doing, you need to grab the bull by the horns, or in studio-mate Oli’s case, jump on a plane to Egypt. Olivier Kugler’s Cairo is a rich illustrative tapestry based on first hand experience, research and personal insight.
The prolific use of viewer generated content in news media has seen the idea of ‘on the ground’ reporting become a bit of a branded exercise in recent times. That is to say broadcasters either announce their exclusion from a situation or their direct access to unfettered information.
The Guardian picked up on this goldmine of alternative content to run a middle page spread worth every minute of time it takes to read and absorb. The content makes the broadsheet seem innovative and insightful, because, well, Olivier Kugler is innovative and insightful.
To all the clotheslining, piledriving, DDTing, four-leg-locking greats of the past; a graphic tribute by I Love Dust. Can ya dig it?
