classic americana
2010
0731
http://www.vimeo.com/13709702
The story of the custom motorcycle Harley-Davidson made for Pharrell.
OIL No.1
2010
0729
Oil is the first publication in a series of artist books of the German photographer Peter Tillessen. The rainbow-coloured shimmering oil leaks seem artificially staged. Captured by the photographer during several strolls through the city, they point to a widespread daily phenomenon, which is known to every urban promeneur. Tillessen’s photographs reveal the immanent beauty as well as the fascinating colour palette and abstract formal language of the oil leaks. The photographer transforms a trivial appearance into an artistic associative image.
OIL No.1 by Peter Tillessen
21 X 30 cm, 20 pages, 18 color plates
Kodoji Press, Baden, 2010
FIRST EDITION, 300 COPIES, ISBN 978–3–03747–028–2, 100 COPIES WITH A SIGNED AND NUMBERED C-PRINT, 11 X 15 CM
Italo Disco
2010
0724
Tim Hespen – Italo Disco
Listen to ITALO DISCO – die Geschichte des am meisten unterschätzten Musikgenres der Welt: (Teil 1: 1977-1984), (Teil 2: 1985-2010)
Lookwork
2010
0723
http://www.vimeo.com/13117219
Lookwork Demo
«Lookwork is a visual RSS reader and image-bookmarking service.»
Haroshi
2010
0708
[…] Happy End zur märchenhaften Geschichte eines Skateboardvernarrten Goldschmieds, der auszog, um über Nacht zum gefeierten Star der Kunstzsene zu werden.
Fabian – Behind Haroshis Sk8-Sculptures
Haroshi Artworks
I have never used Helvetica
2010
0706
In my whole career in typography, starting with my apprenticeship, I have never used Helvetica. Being a Swiss typographer, it’s always been Univers.
Vignelli said that Helvetica was a Modernist typeface – No! No! Helvetica is anything but Modernist, Clearly it has its roots in Akzidenz Grotesk and that was designed in 1899, which is Victorian as far as I am concerned. Akzidenz is a fantastic font but it’s not Modernist, it’s got a really antique feel about it, which again shows that Max Miedinger [Helvetica’s designer] didn’t have a clue about type design. He was the salesman at [foundry] Haas’sche Schriftgießerei for Christ’s sake.
People just use Helvetica because they have heard of it, it’s on everyone’s computer and everyone else uses it.
It’s very much like that, a bit like Julia Roberts – pretty enough but…
When people choose a typeface it’s not a rational decision, it’s completely emotional. They home in on details and say ‘I love that, that’s why I’m going to use it’. But then they want a rational explanation to tell their client. We’re hoping with this that people will react positively to it and that it can do everything that Helvetica isn’t doing … and in the process I get very very rich!
Bruno Maag in The Helvetica killer
SpongeBob paintings for Pharrell
2010
0618
But honestly, when I’m painting SpongeBob, I’m not thinking, Oh, I loved this episode. Honestly, I’ve never even watched it.
Spekulanten
2010
0613
Ob sich während einer Superinflation noch irgendwer für Arp oder Bourgeois interessiert, kann hingegen niemand garantieren. Die Spekulanten könnten ihre Skulpturen im Falle des Falles aber einfach einschmelzen. Bronze geht immer, auf dem Markt für Metalle.
Die schönsten Schweizer Bücher 2009
2010
0608
Zwischen iPad und Kindle, Apps und Downloads stellt die Schweiz souverän The Future Issue – die Dokumentation der 30 schönsten Schweizer Bücher 2009. Weil es schöne Bücher mit allen E-Medien aufnehmen und sich einen Platz in Hand und Herz von Lesern sichern – vielleicht im Gegensatz zu lieblos gemachten Druckerzeugnissen. Aber die finden sowieso nicht den Weg ins Finale des Wettbewerbs um die schönsten Schweizer Bücher.
Die schönsten Schweizer Bücher 2009
(«Die schönsten Schweizer Bücher» Ausstellungseröffnung: Samstag, 12. Juni 2010 mit «Die neue Polis» und anderen tollen Büchern)
DON’T LET THE MAN GET YOU DOWN!
2010
0526
«DON’T LET THE MAN GET YOU DOWN!»
Mayer Hawthorne – The Ills 7Inch with a special something.
#presentoftheweek, woo hoo! samo excizzletitting! thnx mate.
(make the picture bigger.)
word-pair combinations
2010
0516
«I’ve began to collect these word-pair combinations that spammers have attempted to add to the email list. I can appreciate combinations […]»
mono.kultur #23: Sissel Tolaas
2010
0416
mono.kultur #22 Sissel Tolaas
«I collected smells instead of writing a diary.»