Fantastic intime and almost fragile pictures by Lina Scheynius

Via The Style Press

Beautiful images by Yann Mingard

Beautiful photographs and an interesting and inspiring talk whit Adam Bartos at Conscientious

“…I think that in one way the internet and electronic photography are making people more sophisticated about image making because they are doing so much more of it, and there’s no technical challenge to making a picture that “looks good”. But then, as PL di Corcia said, even more “people think photography is a foreign language they can speak” and so there’s a kind of emphasis, also enabled by electronics, on making pictures that are heavy on production value, size, weirdness, etc. etc. to distinguish themselves in the ever growing art market. What worries me is that the audience for photography may lose the capacity to make distinctions about what was formerly appreciated as a circumspect medium – although, to be honest, I’m not sure that’s happening…”

There’s nobody quite like you.
You’re one in seven billion.
So make your own flag.

We are multicolored

via information aesthetics

…we are all just waiting for the Leopard. A little warming up.

Beautiful images by Wouter Stelwagen.

Beautiful works by Lenneke van der Groot! impressive live-size paintings and sketches, illustrations that resembles the struggle of being unique vs. going with the mass.

During the Tokyo Design Week, held in Japan from 31st October – 4th November, 19 designers from Eindhoven, Amsterdam and Rotterdam will be presenting work that illustrates the strength of Dutch design. The exhibition ‘No Windmills, Cheese or Tulips’ will be presented as a still life, like those familiar to us from the ‘old masters’, putting contemporary design from the Netherlands on display in a classically Dutch way.
More info:NWCOT.
Tokyo Design Week Japan – 31st October – 4th November

“The Nation Magazine Cover Archive (NMCA) is a non-commercial ‘hobbysite’ devoted to helping keep inspirational magazine design alive. These are dark days for magazine design with homogenisation and closure of many well known (and loved) titles. Have you noticed how bland, safe and banal our newsstands have been looking lately? Is this what you want? Hey consumers, vote with your feet! Don’t let quality magazines die.” — NMCA Editor

Thank you Luis for sharing!

Object “Chanel” cocaine, sugar, polyster resine by Comenius Roethlisberger

Steen Ipsen is exploring ‘the relation between methodical and chaotic, simple and complex.’ His ceramics, tied up with leather strings, looks like DNA string sculptures. Beautiful!

A nice new city guide for ‘Internet users, who are susceptible to cultural information such as art, design and music, can swiftly reach the latest information, which is happning in the city they are living in and being provided by alternative movements and information senders.’

A New City Guide

Gummbah and Chantal Rens created this funny and lovely sweaters. Now at Wetering Galerie, Amsterdam. Enjoy :-)

A visual representation of IPv6 addresses per meter square of the Earth’s surface by Ordigami. Strange but cool project…

via infosthetics

A very inspiring collection at 100-beste-plakate.de

Sorry for the lack of posts these days… I’m heading to a deadline for a magazine and another one for an European campaign (later more on that). But be sure you keep on visiting this blog and my portfolio site for updates… And keep me posted on yours as-well.

Above, one of my recent finished jobs for a private club in Belgium.

Yesterday I’ve met Mark Niedermann, a fantastic photographer based in Switzerland. Be sure you check the birds-, the nightclub- and the landscape series!

A cool movie by The Rumpus Room for the Pet Shop Boys.

The video has over 100 QR Codes that are subliminal when watched in real time, but accessible to interact with if you navigate through the film using time controllers. The QR Codes are organised into sections that relate to specific issues of civil liberties.

thanks to Martijn.

I’m off to the book fair in Frankfurt.

Beautiful tunes, sensitive music, just great!
Visit Tom McKean & The Emperors at Myspace and check their demo’s (downloadable).