hedi slimane

Just stumbled across this photograph by Hedi Slimane and it stopped me in my tracks. And if you don't already, know about him.

buddhist tendencies

My friend Robert is an architect and teaches architecture. He recently set his students the task of designing a structure for 'a buddhist with modern tendencies' - an assignment that kind of caught my fancy. Being more of a decorator than a designer, I'd be up for taking a shot at the interior/exterior, even though it's oh so difficult to avoid some of the cliches that are often associated with the practise. Needless to say, the materials would be eco-friendly and the home self-sustainable, incorporating recycled surfaces.

1. Corrugated apartment block 2. Suspended fireplace 3. Tiled hole in the wall 4. Girl cave 5. Outdoor bath tub 6. Bare plaster walls 7. Maui chairs by Terry Dwan for Riva 1920 8. Indoor shower with mosaic Bisazza tiles 9. Outdoor bath tub 10. Lamper Head in South Devon 11. Padded couch 12. Grass tiling 13. Stockholm Kallbadhus* 14. Love Changes Everything 15. Shaker weave & joints

*Stockholm Kallbadhus is a proposal for a public outdoor bath which is completely passive, iconic and sustainable (and located in the central harbour of the city).

Gocco art print by Orange Beautiful on Etsy.

1. Found sketch 2. Necklace by Elva Fields 3. YSL cuff

4. Brigitte Bardot & Jane Birkin

“Do not ask yourself what the world needs;

ask yourself what makes you come alive.

And then go and do that.

Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
~ Howard Thurman

A Woman's appetite is twice that of a man's;

her sexual desire, four times;

her intelligence, eight times."

~ Sanskrit Proverb

when the night comes

matchbook art

diving alongside

Polaroid art by Meghan Colson, currently studying studio art and advertising at Michigan State University.

look closer

Keri Smith's How To Be An Explorer Of The World

ka-boom

Never give a pretty girl a hand grenade...

Posted on For The Love Of Type ~ work for the Print Matters exhibition. A little bit of Hoefler Text Italic, ten illustrations and 3 hours worth of hand-sewn binding, it folds into a neat 150mm x 150mm book.

rark!

From Mrs Eaves' blog For The Love Of Type...

we the people

I love the letterpress print States United by Gregory at beauchamping on Etsy, who says: "Originally this project was titled Heartland. Then States United. Then Heartland. States United. Heartland. States United. Heartland. And finally...States United. Although i suppose it could also be called 'We The People,' because when I look at it now, I see faces in Alabama, Illinois, Wisconsin and a few other states."

Ray Nichols at Lead Graffiti in Delaware printed them from a
copperplate on his Vandercook flatbed press.

and i walked

Am coveting Rob Ryan's And I Walked tape on etsy.

the impossible project

T H E B A D N E W S

Production of analog Instant Film stopped in June 2008, closing the factories in Mexico (Instant Packfilm production) and the Netherlands (Instant Integral production). Next month, the last batch of Polaroid film will pass its use-by date and the era of instant Polaroid photography, one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century, will draw to a close. To mark the film’s final use-by, or expiration, date, Polaroid: Exp 09.10.09 at the Atlas Gallery in London brings together artists as diverse as the Hungarian-born fashion photographer and photojournalist André Kertész and the provocative Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki, as well as a number of contemporary British artists, including Marc Quinn, commissioned specially for the show (October 9 to November 28, at the Atlas Gallery, 49 Dorset Street, London W1).

T H E G O O D N E W S

The Impossible Project has been founded with the concrete aim to re-invent and re-start production of analog integral film for vintage Polaroid cameras. It has acquired the complete film production equipment in Enschede (NL) from Polaroid, has signed a 10-year lease agreement on the factory building (see above), and has engaged the most experienced team of Integral Film experts worldwide. The Impossible mission is to develop a new product with new characteristics, consisting of new optimised components, produced with a streamlined modern setup. An innovative and fresh analog material, sold under a new brand name that perfectly will match the global re-positioning of Integral Films.

altered text

Twice a year students from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) exhibit their final projects. Student Alex Kauffman chose a passage from All the King's Men and then systematically cut out all but one letter from the printed page, leaving it behind wherever it appeared. He then repeated this with the same passage across many more pages for each letter and symbol. The full story behind the process can be read here.

different strokes...

Letter Cult have posted their Best of 2009... so far... including some incredible work by Adam Garcia, Andy Smith & Will Bryant, and Enkeling.

the romanticist

I have eaten beef stew with silent, shabby men in cheap eateries and fingered the last two pennies in my pocket with anger and irony … I have dined most sumptuously in a spacious Park Avenue home, duck brought forth in silver dishes by a butler … I have seen $.10 movies on Times Square, seated in the first row of the balcony in shirtsleeves, smoking and laughing … under a lashing rain and gale, I have gazed at the angry mid-Atlantic for a moment, pausing in my labours … I have stood on a Liverpool street corner in the middle of a drowsy afternoon and cursed the cobbles because the pubs had closed … I have made love to women in Canada, Washington, D.C., Nova Scotia, England, Greenland, New York City, Maryland and New England … I have lain drunk in the gutter of a street … I climbed a mountain in Greenland and gazed down on the slim ribbon of Ikatek Fjord … I have toiled in the sun on construction jobs from Portsmouth, New Hampshire to Alexandria, Virginia … I have attended cocktail parties in New York City penthouses … I have worked in mills … I have worked in garages … I have sold door to door … I have worked as a reporter on a newspaper … I have starved in a cheap urine-smelling room in Hartford, CT … I have dated actresses, models and social workers … I have brawled in streets, in bar entrances and in cafeterias … I have heard great symphonies and been transported … I have walked the streets, a lonely U.S. Navy gob and sought women … I have languished in hospitals and shuffled cards in melancholy abstraction … I have written reams and reams of writings … and through it all, I have always been restless, unhappy and seeking new horizons. What shall I do?

~ Jack Kerouac, The Romanticist, September 1943 (photograph Harry Benson, Berlin Kiss)

typos

Opening this Thursday at the Electrik Sheep Gallery (which is a brilliant gallery, by the way), in the cold northern city of Newcastle, is a show by typographer Seb Lester. If you like raw talent then you’ll love his work. Prints also available online at Seb's website.