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the guy who runs ‘one minute portraits’ (see earlier this week) also posts his own collection of weird doodles and stuff online, check mister benjamin hammond’s odd-ball ‘drawings and findings’ right here

m / 29-07-2010 17:12 - tags: ,  

new style


the dutch broadcaster ‘VPRO’ is currently undergoing an identity revamp by ‘thonik’ and although the new look isn’t due to be launched until the end of august, i got hold of a ‘sneak preview’ of the new logo today… which i wanted to share, not so much revolution as evolution, i have switched the ‘comments’ field on for anyone who has thoughts to share…

m / 29-07-2010 17:06 - 3 comments so far - tags: ,  

kilo jewels

the publishing wing of communication agency kesselskramer are due to release several new titles, including an update to the 5 year old brick-red ‘kilo’ book, this time in a bright green cover and full of new work covering the period between the two publications…

other interesting titles are ‘use me abuse me’ shown above and the intriguing looking ‘ink’, full of tattoo-related short stories and some powerful illustration work from ‘happy pets’ (see earlier post today) more info on all of the titles can be found under the heading ‘new’ right here

m / 29-07-2010 15:44 - tags: , , ,  

he kept them under a pooltable at his home…

here’s one of those ‘i found a rembrandt in the attic’ stories: a fella who had an original set of glass negatives from legendary landscape photgrapher ‘ansel adams’… fancy buying a print?

…rick norsigian thought he had a bargain when he managed to haggle down to £30. Just imagine his joy, then, when he had them valued ten years later and was told that their true worth was £128.5million…

(tip via ‘mc de waal’)

m / 29-07-2010 14:32 - tags: ,  

satisfied cats & dogs

some anarchic design work (posters, flyers, books etc.) from swiss studio happy pets, who were also featured in the latest issue of ‘eye’ magazine…

m / 29-07-2010 14:25 - tags: , , , ,