You might have seen this already, but I would love to spent a few weeks and visit these. Soviet monuments built by the former Yugoslavian president in the 1970′s to mark WWII sites. They are fascinating. Some standing and some now rubble. Now all I need is a google map to get me to all of them…
You can view more here.
Tags: monuments, sculptures, USSR, Yugoslavia
A great video about Letterpress by Naomie Ross.
Tags: letterpress, Typography, Video
Multi-skilled Danny Willis has an great series of Analogue vs. Digital projects where he blurs the bounties between digital manipulation analogue photography and graphic design.
Tags: analogue, Photography, photos
I am proud to announce that I now have a shop where you can go buy things. At the moment it is only populated by some handmade notebooks but in the next few weeks I hope to fill it up with posters and what I am most looking forward to – my re-designed Lomo New York magazine onto newsprint (with the rest of the series to come in due course).
Click the link on the left in the nav or you can go here — shop.maaku87.co.uk
MSCED or “Make something cool everyday” if you have not come across it before simply put is where you make something cool every day. Made popular by artists such as Mark Weaver it’s a project where you can let your creative juices flow. You can make something amazing, or on your off days perhaps not, or you can be witty and make something that spends the rest of its life going around twitter or ffffound.
David Schwen is one of these types, humorous work but clever and damn good looking. I really enjoyed his series of how to create typographic ligatures.
Check out the rest of David’s MSCED on Behance. You really should!
Tags: Drawing, ligatures, MSCED, t-shirts, Typography
I spent last week visiting Berlin, more specifically visiting “Pictoplasma“, a character design festival where artists and character designers alike showcase their work in galleries around the city and/or give talks about their work to the festival goers. Some of the visiting artists included McBess, Jeremyville, Christoph Niemann, Pic Pic André, Mark Jenkins and Keita Takahashi (view the full list here).
Visiting Berlin has been something I have wanted to do for a while now. Even still after returning home, I feel I need to go back as there is so much more yet to be discovered and explored. Pictoplasma was the initial reason for the trip and was well worth visiting. Even though most of the time we were exhausted we managed to hair ourselves into the theatre for the talks and they were worth it. Inspiring as well as informational each speaker had their own style of talk, either about themselves, their work or even what they have been up to. Each one different from the last.
As a big fan of McBess I was really looking forward to his talk. Although it was short and finished way before the allotted finishing time when all others went way over. It was made up by the fact that he was drawing in person at the Dudes Factory a custom artist T-Shirt and art shop selling artist t-shirts among custom prints and pieces of customised artwork.
McBess live drawing
Party and BBQ at the Dudes Factory where McBess played with his bank ‘The Dead Pirates’ live.
Tags: 2011, berlin, character design, pictoplasma
Dead drops is a project by artist Aram Bartholl where he has created an offline peer-to-peer network where anyone can go up to any of the embedded usb flash drives plug their computer in and share files. Users are invited to share their favourite files and data.
You can even participate and create your own dead drops. The nearest dead drop to me is in Manchester, so will have to check it out (if it is still there!).
Tags: dead drops, file sharing, NYC, peer to peer, usb
Tom Sachs is a sculptor with a passion for recreating modern icons. I came across his work through the myriad of posts on ffffound as many people might have done before. What caught my eye were the low-fi way of recreating things and putting a ‘post apocalyptic’ sort of twist on some of his work, like the NASA shotgun for example. I love the level of detail gone to in his work (see the little notes he places on things) and the absolute bizarreness of some of them too. Really enjoying the recreation of the Leica cameras. He goes even as far as taking a Canon Powershot and re-branding it as a Leica.
These have been floating around the internet for a while, but I keep coming back to them again and again. Simply taken in Berlin in the winter. Wonderful.
Check the full set out on Matthias Heiderich’s Behance portfolio.
Tags: berlin, Photography, winter
A short animated film by the Royal College of Art, London. A dictaphone simply put into a parcel is then posted to Helsinki and the resulting audio is turned into this wonderful animation showing the journey through depots, on trains, lorries with unexpected music and conversations along the way.