- ARCHIVE / Art
- Bea Arthur Mountains Pizza
Stunning collage tumblr, excellent reality relief.
Above: From the excellent Bea Arthur Mountains Pizza, collage.
- Papergirl No. 5
Random art distribution project in Berlin.
Above: Papergirl No. 4 poster by Florian Lamm und Lisa von Billerbeck. In a hot tip from our friend Verena Gerlach, the very cool Papergirl project announces it’s May 19, 2010 deadline for new submissions. Check out the sweet video of Papergirl No. 4 in action. In more [...]
- Every Drop Counts
Chicago artists reach out to Haiti.
Above: Every Drop Counts, a recent artist action in Chicago to raise funds
for Haiti and World Water Relief. Our friend Anthony Esquivel has just
produced a documentary on the effort and kindly shares that link here.
(See more on the Cool Kids from an older post.)
Please view the Vimeo, Haiti Benefit/Every Drop [...] - Yossi Lemel / Holocaust Memories
Our hero interviewed by Leadel.
Above: Yossi Lemel via Leadel, discussing his deeply moving work on his family
and the Holocaust. Bravo, Yossi, bravo. - 19th Century French Board Games
Chromolitho prints from Phil’s collection.
Above: A 19th Century French board game from our friend Phil’s amazing collection (rem his Hendrix story?). These will become a part of his lectures on Animation History, as examples of 19th century visual pop culture. Magnifique, Phil!
- Elisabeth Workman / The Women of Flarf
Flarf reading in Brooklyn, New York.
Above: Past Geotypografika Site Q contributor Elisabeth Workman (center), performing an improvisation at the Zinc Bar with Mel Nichols (left), and Nada Gordon (right) on November 22, 2009. Mabrouk, liebe Bettina!
Above: Promotional image from the Flarf announcement at Ululate.
- Dave Schroeder / iPhone photographs.
Masterful creations via Pilotvibe.
Above: Pilotvibe proprietor and Flashbelt founder Dave Schroeder’s inspired tile sequence. Danke Schön, Dave! And in the news, Flashbelt 2010 dates have been finalized, June 13-16, 2010.
- Annie Yiling Wang / A Secondary Education
Political graphics.
She writes: A couple of summers ago I interned at the Center for the Study of Political Graphics out in Los Angeles. This was before I knew that I would someday become involved in graphic design and visual culture. I was an archival intern so I was lucky enough to have been exposed to [...]
- Samantha Aburime / Process video.
Tone poem of color.
Above: MCAD student Samantha, a lovely little process piece she made during class today as a warm-up to her final project. Much inspiration in here for our wee 2D grupetto. More here and on Geotypografika Flickr.
- Alex Roche / AES+F
Travel Agency of the Future, Islamic Project.
Above: AES+F, New Liberty (2006).
She writes: AES+F is a group of four artists from Moscow, working with the juxtaposition of East and West, as well as identity and folklore. Their Islamic Project (1996-2003) is self-described on their website as “a kind of social psychoanalysis – visualization of fears of [...] - New tone poems of color.
Final work now on Geotypografika Flickr.
Above: The final stages in MCAD student Lisa’s NYTimes color study. Please see more work from this foundation level grupetto on Geotypografika Flickr. I am very grateful to this group for their hard work. Avanti!
Above: More from Lisa’s process and final vision.
More on Geotypografika Flickr. - John Malinoski / Electroacoustic Poster
Music festival in Richmond, Virginia.
Above: John Malinoski, new poster for the Modlin Center of the Arts,
University of Richmond. Sugoi desu-ne, John-san?! Bravissimo! - Cybernetic Parrot Sausage
Tout simplement incroyable.
Above: Via Matt, simply beyond belief and most excellent.
Cherry garcia, Mateo! - Shirin Neshat / Women Without Men
Speaking out on and analyzing the Green Revolution.
Above: Via FLYP Media, Shirin Neshat, director of the film, Women Without Men,
see trailer below. A invaluable resource to help gain a more balanced historical
perspective during these times. Simply amazing. Mamnoon am, Shahram! - Yüksel Doğru / Istanbul
Faces on the Wall.
Above: Yüksel Doğru, Faces On the Wall, illustrations, 2009. Really striking
new visions from Istanbul, Turkey. Teşekkürler, Yuksel!Above: Yüksel Doğru, Faces On the Wall, illustrations, 2009.
Above: Yüksel Doğru, Faces On the Wall, illustrations, 2009.
Above: Yüksel Doğru, Faces On the Wall, illustrations, 2009.
Above: Yüksel Doğru, Faces On the Wall, illustrations, 2009.
- Greg Chadwick / For Neda.
A California artist manifests the world’s collective mourning.
Above: Greg Chadwick, The Call - ندا - Neda, 2009. See also his blog, Speed of Life.
Mamnoon am, for sharing this work here, Greg. - Reza Abedini / Iranian
New profile online from a master.
Above: Reza Abedini, Iranian.
- Guardian / Jinoos Taghizadeh
Ian Black’s recent article on the controversial Iranian artist.
Above: From Ian Black’s Guardian article in March, 2009,
compelling images from this artist’s beautiful and controversial
work. Read the full article from the Guardian. - Elisabeth Workman / West Wind Review 2009
New poems included in the latest edition.
Above: This just in, Elisabeth’s poems (Populist Granulation, Brooklyn Coptics, Eliminating the Hairy Obstruction) were included in the most recent West Wind Review, hurra! Edited by Lacey Hunter, the publication is available here.
In a continuing series of especially pleasing cover designs, Elisabeth’s inspiring Flarf colleague K. Silem Mohammad provides [...] - Love Vigilantes
For memorial day.
Above: New Order, Love Vigilantes (Japan, 1985).
- Derrick Buisch / Studio Move
News from Wisconsin.
Above: Derrick Buisch, new studio wall.
Above: Derrick Buisch, low res img 8647.
Also recommended, the work of Joseph Heeg, an American artist living
and working in Germany.
Many thanks for sharing these updates, DB. - Austin Baker / O la ciencia
Inspired.
Above: Austin Baker, Handwriting Deletion And Abstraction
Performance 02, 2009.Above: Austin Baker, Handwriting Deletion And Abstraction
Performance 03, 2009.
Austin’s performed work was inspired by his discussions with Marieke and Danny
of Experimental Jetset during their recent workshop at MCAD. His live performance
from that event translated into these simply edited versions, preserving some of
Austin’s inimitable humor.
Bravo, Austin. Mach weiter! - Dan Sinclair / Papyrus
Challenge and proposition.
Above: I’ll Eat Your Sould, 2009. MCAD gung-fu student Dan Sinclair’s experiments with the dreaded font, Papyrus. His challenge? To solve the problem in an appropriate way. Well on your way, Dan!
Above: Dan Sinclair, 2000 Years Ago, 2009.
Dan Sinclair writes:
Project Papyrus is an effort to bring the typeface Papyrus under analysis.
I want to [...] - MPLS / May Day Parade
Sunburns are awesome.
Above: New images available on Geotypografika Flickr from today’s May Day Parade in Minneapolis, Minnesota (concluding in Powderhorn Park). This is how it feels to be outside after a long winter in the great white north. ¡Olé!
- Rumors
Sight unseen, no puedo esperar.
Above: Dylan C. Lathrop’s latest poster sketch from our GRD-5010 effort,
and in the latest news, it should be up in MPLS in wheatpasted form soon. - GRD_5010 / Posters
Four from beyond, plus deux.
Above: MCAD student Austin Baker’s final posters from his typographic fiction.
Later this week we can hopefully enjoy a complimentary book and short film on the
making of one of these posters.Above: Austin Baker. Along with his colleagues in GRD-5010, we near the
end of a productive and expansive search. See below for a [...] - Mehdi Saeedi / Paroles Sacrees
Dubai exhibition April 23 through May 23, 2009.
Above: Mehdi Saeedi, announcement for his new new show, Paroles Sacrees, at the
Heritage House Gallery in Dubai, U.A.E. - Jason Ruhl
Madison, Wisconsin based artist.
Above: Jason Ruhl, Cut & Paste #9, 2009, 9.5″ x 9.5″, mixed media.
Above: Jason Ruhl, Untitled (orange), 2008, 16″ x 12″, oil on linen.
Really intriguing and wide ranging work found via DB, cherry garcia.
Buena suerte, Jason! - Manar Al-Muftah / Almarkhiya Gallery
Group show in Doha, Qatar.
Above: Manar Al-Muftah, mabrouk! This just in via Doha, Qatar, Manar sends
along some photos of her work being exhibited as part of a group show at the
Almarkhiya Gallery. (Click images for a larger view.)Above: Manar Al-Muftah (earlier post here).
- Barbara Campbell Thomas / Paintings
More than a fair trade.
Above: Barbara Campbell Thomas, Untitled, 2009.
The above and below are kind gifts from Barbara from our recent barter initiative.
These beautiful paintings are the reward for help in developing the invitation for
the upcoming UNCG Conflunece Symposium.
An inspiring Spring greeting, and treasure enough. Shokran, Barb.Above: Barbara Campbell Thomas, Untitled (Pink), 2009.
Above: Barbara Campbell [...]
- 14:00 MPLS Time, 61ºF.
Mongo feel human.
Above: 26th and 3rd Ave., Whittier neighborhood. Approximately 08:45 AM.
Minneapolis, MN. March 16, 2009.Above: 25th and Stevens, Whittier neighborhood. Approximately 11:30 AM.
Minneapolis, MN. March 16, 2009.
Perfect timing for a new tag, just as we notice the odd sensation of warmth
upon our cheeks. - Lindley Warren / Expanded Dictionary
The Photographic Dictionary
Above: Leo Postma, Assassin. Via Lindley Warren’s The Photographic Dictionary
project. Perfect for a Sunday, there is always The Ones We Love. - Omid Hamooni / One, three, and eight
Logotype for an exhibition.
Above: Omid Hamooni, logotype for an exhibition titled, Solar Year of the Cow, 1388/2009. Omid employs essential elements of the numbers one, three, and eight (1388). Below are two process pages that help explain his thinking in developing both the form and movement required to achieve this subtly zoomorphic form.
Above: Omid Hamooni, [...]
- Verena Gerlach / New Book Design
Chambers Sans to the rescue.
Above: Verena Gerlach, cover for the Hatje Cantz Verlag’s, Art of Projection.
Typonauten: You must read this recent Soili Semkina’s interview with Verena
in Cafe Babel, which features some broad themes, from rescuing GDR type
specimens to contemporary observations like these: “In general, the uniqueness
of each country in the design is disappearing, since [...] - New York Times / Ruth Gwily
‘Islamic Revolution Barbie’
Above: Via The New York Times, Ruth Gwily.
- Bolivian Rug
Update aus dem Hause Brandt.
Above: Detail of a Bolivian rug from Mutti, how apropos.
Más información en breve. - Dadabase
Vancouver, Canada
Above: Sameh Habeeb, Victim’s Victims, 2009. Via the incredible online
gallery Dadabase, a new acquaintance, Mohammed Salemy, has generously
encouraged this post. Visit Dadabase now, a truly diverse collection of artists
from around the world.Also, please visit the inspirational I heart Gaza project,
started by Dadabase in 2007.
Salaam Dadabase! - Ryan Hageman / Pubblico Project
Artwork that deserves to be torn apart.
Above: Pubblico by the artist Eltono, seen on NeuBlack.
Ryan Hageman writes: The Pubblico project seems to represent a blended graphic language, combining the visual styles of the Iranian vernacular with the structure of Japanese Kanji. Acting as an interface which encourages the participation of the local community, the Pubblico [...] - Elisabeth Workman
2009 SASE/Jerome Award Recipient
Above: An unbelievable daytime photo by Elisabeth at the nearby MIA. Somehow perfect, this delayed announcement of her poetry award deserves this enlightened visitation. Mabrouk, liebe Bettina!
Elisabeth shares the 2009 SASE/Jerome recognition with Heather Bouwman,
Paula Cisewski, Michelle Matthees, Scott Muskin, and Ethan Rutherford.
Congratulations to all. (Announcement via the vital Intermedia Arts.) See [...] - Austin Baker / Ficciones Typografika
New sketches from a path of questions, not answers.
Above: MCAD student Austin Baker’s inspired examination and deconstruction
of his own handwritten notes. A part of our continuing effort to develop ficciones
typografika, Austin’s frenetic and free form ’scrawl’ provides the perfect landscape
for analyzing and detailing the essence of form and content.Above: More selections from Austin’s process. If [...]
- The Kennedy Center / Arabesque
February 23 through March 15, 2009
Above: Via The Kennedy Center, a three week celebration of arts and
performances from the Middle East. This just in: Khatt Foundation
director Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès is there to represent her
amazing network. Hup, Huda!
Follow the link here for an AP story on the event (one of precious
few that I could find?). - Natural Salvage
Rescued materials find new form.
Above: Via Natural Salvage, a timely and inspired card collection by MPLS artist,
Jamie Angell. Her husband, Craig, from Graphic Decline, recently designed some
identity materials for the project (see below).
From the Natural Salvage mission statement: “Discarded print media is transformed
into note card designs and envelopes. Single-sided note cards use half the amount [...] - One Night Lexicon
Facebook Page, yo!
Above: Brouse + Derobertis. In most excellent news, One Night Lexicon
has a page. No, seriously. On FB, yo. - Kirsten Peterson
MPLS painter and educator.
Above: Kirsten Peterson, Untitled (Yukon), 4′ x 4′, Oil on Panel 2006
Above: Kirsten Peterson, White Trash, 4′ x 8′, Oil on Panel 2006
A thousand thanks to Kirsten for sending these timely pieces, she also reminded
of the opening this weekend at The Soap Factory, featuring a new installation by
Clive Murphy. Grazie, Kirsten! - Stop Motion Candles
Wait for it!
Above: Via Mona in Dubai, a lovely little ditty with candles.
Stop-motion by Alejandro Sánchez. - SPACE RACE
Red Rocket Gallery
Above: Derrick Buisch, pinkhornetson white=Hornets Nest, 2009. Red Rocket Gallery. Armagedion Time, a collaboration with Damon Locks, Tracy portrait, below.
- Lizardman
Opening at SSCA
Above: Matt Wells, AKA Lizardman, Citizen/Terrorist. From an invitation
to the opening here in MPLS at the Stevens Square Center for the Arts (SSCA)
on February 28, 2009. - Complexity
Owen Jones
Above: Owen Jones, via the spectacular but does it float collection. Thanks to
Dylan for sharing this and mabrouk to Atley of but does it float and FFFFound,
amazing collections and somehow perfectly apropos.
In the same breath, make sure to check in with kindra is here,
some stunning recent additions. - Tagged
Late night, contemporary forms.
Above: A tag that appeared on our access stairwell late last night. Translation?
Reminds me of this one. - POPYÖUDESIGN
Sandra Chui Huynh
Above: popyöudesign: Check, check, one two…
- Fann 3arabi
Lamia Ziadé
Above: Red Shoes, Blue Song. Painting and collage, 2004. Via Fann3arabi,
work by brilliant Paris-based artist Lamia Ziadé. Below, Hotel’s Wars, 2008. - Geotypografika on Flickr
Recent additions to the online collection.
Above: Photo by Janice Brandt, part of the new Geotypografika Flickr collection
just up today. These photos were taken in Kenya, Cameroon, and Malawi during
the late 1960’s and early 70’s. Je ne parle français dans les jours.
Un grand merci pour l’inspiration Mère! - Posterpage / Mehdi Saeedi in London
Rene Wanner points the way, thank goodness.
Above: Via Posterpage and on to Iran Heritage, a link to a London exhibition
of calligraphic paintings by Mehdi Saeedi. - UNCG / Confluence Symposium
March 29-31, 2009
Above: Some new work from Tÿpøgrafika, a 7×10 inch card for some old friends
from Bellefonte days. If you live close by, please consider attending the symposium
events featuring Dr. James Elkins and the artists themselves.
Special thanks to Barbara Campbell Thomas for this opportunity. - Let’s walk it out.
Low-fi in Hi-Fi.
Above: Highly recommended by the irrepressible Kelly English, and linked by
Chris Burns in a recent comment here. Let’s walk it out, yo. - Verena Gerlach / 20 Jahre Mauerfall
The Wall: Twenty years later after the fall.
Above: Verena Gerlach, Nie Gegeben, 2009. Detail from a recent photo
from Berlin (see below). “The DDR never existed.”Verena Gerlach, Nie Gegeben, 2009. Verena captures the ‘Loch” by the Palace of the Republic. Click for a larger view and typographic greeting to the left. Note the splash of light [...]
- Boston Globe / Shepard Fairey Arrested
ICA Guest DJ goes down.
Above: The man himself in a dated photograph from 2008, via a a tiny city.
The Boston Globe reports that Fairey was arrested on two outstanding warrants
while arriving at the ICA in Boston last night as a guest DJ.
Story link on The Huffington Post. - Posterpage / In memory of Shigeo Fukuda
Rene Wanner’s moving collection of tributes.
Above: Yasser Lamei, Iran. Via Posterpage.
- Jared Tarbell / QR Invaders
Code variants generate fascinating images.
Above: Jared Tarbell, Invader.Fractal, found via All About Mobile Life. Shokran!
Image built using a random mix of invaders possible within QR Code. As Mobile Life
recommends, run the Flash generator (look for ‘Huge/Launch Flash’).Above: Jared Tarbell. Endlich, ficciones typografika.
Above: Geotypografika QR code, generated for free via Wolfgang Hafenscher’s excellent resource.
Above: An antique [...]
- Modernizing Propaganda
はがき
Above: Via Dylan and found via butdoesitfloat, this amazing collection of historical Japanese postcards from Modernizing Propaganda: Avant Garde Postcards.
Part of a larger MIT project, Visualizing Cultures. - The Printed Blog
Second Issue Released
Above: Front page spread from The Printed Blog’s Second Issue.
Free download available. Free download available!
There is a song in this: Let’s talk about line length, baby, let’s talk about you and me, let’s talk about…column width, baby… and mmm something something mm mmmm
all the good things and the bad things there can be. [...] - NYTimes / Poster Boy Arrested
NYC Street Artist goes down at opening.
Above: Video of Poster Boy’s activities. Read the NYTimes article by
Randy Kennedy for more information. Happarently, an event flyer
was the tip-off to authorities. Somehow poetic? Free Poster Boy Now!
(Flickr sets abound.) - This just in, c’est moi?
Caricature via Tehran, Iran.
Above: Amin Ojaghloo. In a remarkable post/email overlap, this just in via Amin in Tehran. Thanks for the teeth, and a really good laugh! Mamnoon am, Amin!
- Ulana Zahajkewycz / More City Pages
MCAD colleague illustrates the season, con yeti!
Above: From the December 24, 2008 issue of the City Pages, illustration by
Ulana Zahajkewycz. A detail view (see below), reveals a hidden reference?Above: Detail. Zahajkewycz! How you vex me…
More fun at Ulanaland. - Site M 009
miracle, magic is
Above: Visual notation by John Malinoski, 2009.
Pen, marker. - Looking = Listening
More from a morning with Khatt.
Above: Majid Abbasi, from last springs exhibition at York University, CA.
Via Khatt, where both new and old contacts are ever expanding! Abbasi is part
of the Iranian design group, The 5th Color, endlessly interesting.Above: Via a friendly hello from Hanieh Banan on Khatt. Servus, Hanieh!
Above: On another Khatt tip, a sentimental [...]
- Poodle Excercise with Humans
DJ Bead rules the internets.
Above: Fresh from the mysterious DJ Bead, somehow perfect is.
- Studio 360 / Hassan Elahi
Tracking Science
Above: Via die liebe Bettina, a live feed from Hasan Elahi’s Tracking Transience. Listen to the compelling report via Studio 360, We See Your Every Move.
From the intro: “After someone reported Hasan Elahi as a terrorist, the artist began using the internet to clear his name. He posts every detail of his life, from [...] - Mato Atom / Champions
Remembering the New World Order
Above: Spotted on Computerlove™, watch Mato Atom’s remarkable short film
from last Spring, Champions: Remembering the New World Order.
A controversial perspective even then, the sometime slow yet carefully woven
football metaphor reveals excruciating accuracy.
All dressed up and nowhere to go, goodbye W and Co. - Tania Mourad / e-artnow
Nieuwe Vide Gallery, NL
Above: Tania Mourad, I have a Dream, 1990. Via e-artnow
and Nieuwe Vide. Hoping to find more, a quick search yielded
another interesting piece by the same artist.Above: Tania Mouraud, HCYS?, 2007.
Image found on Previous 2007. - Praise song for every hand-lettered sign…
Elizabeth Alexander, Inaugural Poem
January 20, 2009Praise song for the day.
Each day we go about our business, walking past each other, catching each others’ eyes or not, about to speak or speaking. All about us is noise. All about us is noise and bramble, thorn and din, each one of our ancestors on our tongues. Someone [...] - Harmen Liemburg / Ultralight
Traveling show celebrates ten years of graphic work.
Above: Via Liemburg’s own site, have a look at this self-contained collection of work, now beginning it’s journey around the world.
Gute Reise, Ultralight! Bonne chance, Harmen! - de Volkskrant / Max Kisman
Editorial animations from the graphic master.
Above: On the Malinoski tip, animated Max Kisman editorials in de Volkskrant.
Enjoy many more there including the below, Jouw President. - Information Aesthetics / Chris Jordan
Jordan’s June 2008 TED Talk
Above: Via the ever expanding reach of the excellent Information Aesthetics blog, this TED lecture provides new insight on Jordan’s remarkable work. All the more compelling since the recycling market has recently been upended. Ja, jetzt beginnt das Ernst des Lebens. Apropos recent talks, TED is featuring Paula Scher in their [...]
- Shigeo Fukuda
1932-2009
Above: Shigeo Fukuda (1974) via Posterpage (with respect).
In sad news, Posterpage and AGI announce the passing of the
great master on January 11, 2009.
The image above will speak forever to the best in us, despite the
worst in us. Bonne chance, Fukuda-sama.
Peace for the world. - Shell Chairs
Eames chairs from start to finish.
Above: On the Malinoski tip, a really beautiful film, via robust flavor.
- Höpöhöpö Böks
Posted by Eiríkur Örn on January 15th, 2009.
Above: Böks! From Iceland to Finland, just watch. Hup Eiríkur Örn!
Öl! Köld! Gvöds! - Poets Protest War in Gaza
From January 8th, 2009
Above: Israeli President Shimon Peres. Via die liebe Bettina, an Israeli poet group stages a moving protest outside of an event celebrating national poet Hayyim Bialik. They read from his poem, “On the Slaughter,” from 1903, a despairing voice.
The first stanza via old poetry:
Heaven, beg mercy for me! If there is
a God [...] - Masoud Aghaie
New Year Work
Above: A lovely typographic greeting from Masoud Aghaie via Khatt,
looking forward to seeing more! Hup Masoud!
Interested in Arabic calligraphy and typography? Join the Khatt Foundation,
especially now! What an amazing way to begin international graphic
and typographic relationships.
Hup Huda! - Walker Art Center / Multiples Mall
Donnerwetter!
Above: Walker Art Center, mailer for the exhibition Text/Messages:
Books by Artists. (Dec. 18 to April 19, 2009)
UPDATE: Via MN Stories, a short about the exhibition sponsored by
the Walker, and produced by MPLS videographer Chuck Olsen.
It’s official! Elisabeth and I are thrilled beyond belief (a thousand thanks!) to be included in the Multiples Mall: A Bookish [...] - Yossi Lemel
Haunting images.
Above: Via the incomparable Israeli designer Yossi Lemel, a stunning image from
an older new years greeting. His work is more relevant than ever.
Make art not war. - Elisabeth Workman / fourW 19 arrive enfin!
Things to do in the Green Zone
Above: Fresh in the mail, my wife Elisabeth holding the new publication fourW nineteen, published by the Booranga Writers’ Centre in Waga Waga, New South Wales, Australia! Her recent poem, Things to do in the Green Zone, is included within this ambitious collection of contemporary international writing. Mabrouk!
Above: The [...]
- Self Destructing Sticker
Via EROSIE
Above: Super-cool sequence from EROSIE, thanks to Lindley from
The Ones We Love for sharing this. Don’t forget her excellent
new project, The Photographic Dictionary.
Fightoh, Lindley! - Omid Hamooni / Flags and feathers.
Thulth and Roosters.
Above: Omid Hamooni has generously sent along some images from the Shahriyar Mosque in Tehran, a public memorial and a place for shared worship for Shiite Muslims all over the world. Omid points out that the fascinating crafts featured here, calligraphy, carving, and intricate metal work, have a four-hundred year old history.
The Thulth [...]
- Site M 008
Extreme Hair Hate
Above: Visual notation postkarte by John Malinoski, 2009. Pen, marker,
debate on contemporary hair issues with Lulu. - Choli Ke Peche
Khal Nayak
Above: Well beyond contemporary tolerance levels at 8:41min, yet,
one must see this. - Barack O’Bollywood
Aja Aja Ah.
Above: You’ll see. It’s amazing.
- Make Art not War
An appeal for sanity, an opposite example.
Above: Via the Khatt Network, a welcome new year’s greetings from Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès, founder and director. It’s clear especially now, what a compelling alternative this foundation, and others like it, represents. In related news
from the region, things are as they ever were, tragic.
The Guardian reports on blogging from [...] - World of Winter
When I was seven.
Above: Seasons greetings from Geotypografika! Here is an old watercolor I made when I was seven in Buxtehude, Deutschland! Die liebe Bettina and I wish everyone the best of health in the new year, five billion good wishes for the world!
- Typo de Virginia
How the state was won, one honk at a time.
Above: Via the fearless Obama team from Williamsburg, VA, a collection of signs from the pivotal yet little known Honk-for-Obama campaign that took the state by storm. These signs of change now rest in a garage, but still resonate with purity of purpose.
Above: Many converts amongst [...]
- Box
Boîte de Mystère.
Above: Aus dem Hause Malinoski, a mysterious gift with instructions. Though we were instructed not to open it until Christmas Day, DJ Wuwu already told us what was inside. DJ Wuwu always wants people to know what is going on.
That’s on the Accomack Pack tip, y’all. - Typo de Poconos
My hero and yours, Dave.
Above: Live from the Poconos Mountains (north of Philly, yo!), from a business card rack at a local gas station con mini-mart. Note the contact numbers.
- Zeina Maasri
Beirut, Lebanon
Above: Another update via the invaluable Khatt Network, a recent poster by Zeina Maasri, designer and professor of graphic design at the American University of Beirut. Worlds away from the limitations Iranian designers face, quite literally, Maasri is part of a different visual culture, where human faces are permitted. This has a direct impact [...]
- Kees Boeke
Cosmic View (1957)
Above: Via Artsmonitor, Kees Boeke’s Cosmic View: The Universe in 40 Jumps.
Published in 1957.Boeke also explored the opposite direction.
Powers of Ten, the Eames’ presentation of this same concept,
was released in 1977. - Guerrilla Innovation
Most Excellent Site
Above: Via Guerrilla Innovation (and on the Bettina tip) ‘How To Keep
Motherfu#%ers From Putting Their Seats Back’. Video demonstration
of a simple ‘hack’. Below: Piercing example of most excellent
product available. - Posterpage / Web Exhibition
Iranian students commemorate Ardeshir Mohasses
Above: Apropos posters, Rene Wanner’s most recent Web Exhibition features the work of another group of Iranian students commemorating the life of the exiled cartoonist. Fascinating work amid incredible street scenes.
Thank goodness for Posterpage.
- Piotr Szyhalski / Labor Camp
Seasons Greetings
Above: In the mailboxes at MCAD today from Piotr Szyhalski, Labor Camp leaflet, front and back. For more, go to Szyhalski’s excellent Labor Camp.
Gracias, compañero! - Tone Poems of Color
2D Foundation Fall 08 Sec 001 Brandt
Above: As promised earlier, a full assemblage of the color experiments based on a self-discovered NYT grid. These initial forays into color are from a MCAD foundation studies group, and each exposes varying level of care and innovation. Fantastico!
Above: My inspiration for this problem, an old Saul Bass [...]
- Der Spiegel / Berlin
‘How Advertising Ate Graffiti’
Above: Via Der Spiegel (English), a compelling article on contemporary advertising in Berlin. The above ‘graffiti’ is actually advertising for a mobile phone company. Many of Berlin’s street artists are campaigning against this appropriation of popular culture.
- Yugop
More fun than should be allowed.
Above: Yugop, screenshot from semi-automatic mode, where you control the size of the circles, yet once “released,” they assume a life of their own. Relaxing and intriguing, there are many more modules to enjoy.
- Tokolo
‘Logo(s), patterns, and more.’
Above: Via Tokolo, Respect for Compass. A huge array of patterns, many for download as well. Fascinating in scope, one can spend a long time with this site. Domo!
Below: A calendar from 2005. - Walking Home
Looking up.
Above: Elisabeth Workman, On my darker block, 2008.
- For Sale
USD $3.5 Million
Above: Via Wired Online, an Aerocar. Qué gran milagro.
For sale by Marilyn Felling.
UPDATE:Above: Don’t believe it can fly? See above.
- New York Times / Recycling programs threatened?
Apropos volumes of trash.
Above: Artist Chris Jordan, Plastic Bottles (detail), from an earlier post.
From yesterday’s New York Times, ‘Back at Junk Value, Recyclables Are Piling Up.’ Matt Richtel and Kate Galbraith report on how the global economic crises has reached the American recycling sector. In their words, “Trash has crashed.”
From the article: “One reason prices [...] - O Sighting
Madrid, Spain
Above: Público. O! Public investment leads the theme in Obama’s
remarkable Meet the Press appearance today as well (Dec. 8, 08).
Quoted from the Huffington Post: ‘The president-elect said his administration is interested in “elevating science once again, and having lectures in the White House where people are talking about traveling to the stars or breaking [...] - Delirious Hem
Advent Calendar of Poems
Above: Elisabeth Workman (remember Site Q?) has a new poem,
ABRAMOVIC ABRAMOVICH, included in the December 7 spot on an
advent calendar approach featured on delirious hem. Make sure to visit
for the other entries, a collaborative effort, the project has connections
with several other contemporary poetry initiatives. - Site M 007
Tolerance
Above: Visual notation by John Malinoski, 2008.
Pen, marker. - Wall Street Journal / Felton 07-08
‘The New Examined Life’
Above: Feltron 2007. Via The Wall Street Journal, subtitled, ‘Why more people are spilling the statistics of their lives on the Web’. Jamin-Brophy Warren reports on NYC graphic designer Nicholas Felton’s past, present, and future.
Feltron 2007 is a graphic and typographic tour-de-force, and according to Warren, Felton’s 2008 version is due for [...] - Apropos grids… tone poems of color.
Coming soon.
Above: Tami, hand-painted New York Times grid. More soon, this is just one
example from a group of my current foundation students, from their continuing
saga of exploring some issues color.Above: Michael, New York Times grid, pencil tracing,
from the same foundation group.Above: Michael, grid with applied color.
More soon. Gambade, estudiantes!
Fighto–Ipatz! - Make Art Not War
New US cultural initiatives tied to video contest.
Above: Cristoph Niemann. Spotted via Design Observer, a free download via ReadyMade, from the article, Poster Children, highlighting a series of five prints by five designers echoing the vernacular of the 30’s and 40’s.
Apropos posters and culture, the US Department of State have announced a new initiative, My [...] - Allan Brewer / Family Farm Nirvana
Umber Studios
Above: Allan Brewer, Long Underwear Deity. Fresh in the mail, Family Farm Nirvana will open in MPLS on December 13, 2008, at umber studios.
Apropos family farm, puppies are being born at A Tiny City! - Duo ohne Rolf
And you though Schprrrockets was witzig.
Above: German language humor. Ja.
On the Verena tip, klasse! - Verena Gerlach / New Book
Erwin Blumenfeld, lost dadaist.
Above: Via Verena’s own site, a new book she has designed for Hatje Cantz Verlag. Verena takes the time to give some fascinating background on the subject, as well an interesting overview of the typefaces she used (including Viceroy, a typeface she designed with Andrea Tiennes).
Mabrouk, Verena! - News from Doha / Mumbai
NYTimes slideshow features new Museum of Islamic Art.
Above: Via the New York Times, I.M. Pei’s new Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar.
A lovely thanksgiving wish came in via an old friend still teaching there, so many
happy returns and good wishes to all.
Certainly this new museum is something to be grateful for, but we must [...] - Akim / New Forms
Berlin, Germany
Above: Via Streetart Berlin Blog, an exciting new alphabet by Akim, who grew up
in Vietnam but has been living and making art in Germany since 1989. The system is ingeniously based on a single paint roller stroke and limited by the basic height of scaffolding units.
It is tempting to see new forms like these [...] - Sinbad
Too cold for sticker glue.
Above: Sticker found across the street from MCAD in MPLS. Why? Because ze extrem cold simply destroys the glue. No disrespect intended, sticker person!
It’s a lovely flower to find, and got me thinking… where had I seen this before?Above: Sinbad vie! It was over a year ago, in a photo by [...]
- Dime cuándo, cuándo, cuándo?
Student voices on the election.
Above: Tami, Why Me?
Here are a few samples of an attempt to respond to the recent election by a first year class of 2D art foundation students at MCAD (Gung Fu Sec 016 ). We gathered on the week following the MOST BEAUTIFUL DAY OF ALL TIME and tried to talk [...] - Saudi women rrrock.
What will the great Albini say?
Above: From the other day, paper airplane unfolded. Check, check, one, two… curious about the history of the tic mark? A guilty quick wiki reveals that in Japan and Korea, they use this, ◯, as a symbol for yes. Some suggest the tic has Roman origins, but it’s history is [...]
- Jim Merkel / Radical Simplicity
Engineering a sustainable life.
Above: Via the Times Argus (Vermont, USA), Jim Merkel, a former military engineer, has literally designed a life that only costs USD $5,000 per year.
Part of his Global Living Project, as well as the subject of his new book,
Radical Simplicity: Small Footprints on a Finite Earth.
From the web introduction:”Imagine you are [...] - MPLS / MCAD Art Sale
Tonight and tomorrow.
Above: Some wee things available from BJ for tonight’s Annual Art Sale at MCAD (including mini versions of the one night lexicon collaboration!). The school is filled to the brim with work by both current students and alumni. A massive event here in MPLS, lines are long but spirits are high!
- Faile
London, UK
Above: Faile, from their recent exhibition, Lost in Glimmering Shadows.
- Apropos ah-ru-ba-i-toh.
kindraishere.
Above: A test pattern. Detail of work in progress by Kindra Murphy.
- Holiday in Tangiers
Work in progress.
Above: MCAD Gung Fu student George Folz. Good things are happening
with ace master, Barbara Schulz.
Sugoi! Fight-oh, Jorge! - Eric Wrenn / High-end lows.
Just in time for the holidays.
Above: Eric Wrenn, via Artsmonitor bookmarks. Typo-porn in a positive sense,
these two examples are irreverent and decadent at the same time.Above: Eric Wrenn, inspired satire.
- Your hero and mine…
Vivienne Westwood.
Above: From a Guardian article by Emine Saner, “Please don’t write that
I’m eccentric,… It’s always, ‘aah, this eccentric woman’. I’ve heard that story
so many times.” - Leo Divendal
Fotograf
Above: Leo Divendal, untitled work from his Foto’s section. A lovely way
to see much of this Dutch master’s work. Servus, Leo! - The Photographic Dictionary
Lindley Warren (Holland)
Above: Pair, by Nicole Chang from The Photographic Dictionary,
Lindley’s new site (rem The Ones We Love).
Mabrouk, Lindley! - NYT SE Plus / DJ Wuwu
Art, fake news, camouflage, penguins.
Above: Joshua Callaghan, public art.
Above: Fresh from the Yes Men, a fake NYTimes plus website, all in SE mode.
Above: Público, from Madrid, Spain. Via Newseum.
Above: Via the New School, Ours.
Above: Pingu goes Fishing, via DJ Wuwu.
- Mu / Neubau
Eindhoven, NL
Above: Via the excellent YDN Design Guide, screenshot from a brief video on the recent Neubau exhibition at Mu gallery in Eindhoven. Below, Neubau screenshot.
- Vive le dessin graphique.
Vote
Above: Let your voice be heard, vote at isgraphicdesignart (dot) com.
- Erik T. Johnson / Lobrow
Minneapolis, Minnesota
(Ice Station Zebra)Above: From Lobrow Comics, Erik Johnson. Apropos cold, which has finally arrived here in MPLS, many of you will remember the voice of Weatherman from the recent Nozone lecture at MCAD. Here are many more examples of this inspiring work,
und ich wünsche ihnen viel genuss!Above: From Nozone X, Weatherman by Erik [...]
- London Underground Map
Excellent BBC Documentary
Above: Detail of the contemporary map, available free via Transport for London. Noted on the incomparable Information Aesthetics, watch this detailed BBC documentary available via GUBA here. Much, much more on IA, below a screenshot from an emoticon short story by poet Rives, presented during his TED lecture.
- Chicago
Above: The Chicago Sun Times.
- Mutti wins Virgina
The Virginia Gazette
Above: Mutti with a copy of today’s Virginia Gazette, November 5, 2008.
First, only her left nostril and forehead were visible, now, it’s enough for the back of her head on the front page. Well, here ist die liebe Mutti, a tireless Obama volunteer in Virginia. Thanks for helping to win it!
OBAMANOS A LA [...] - Votar
Los Estados Unidos: November 4th, 2008
Above: Alyson Coward, Watching and Waiting. From a first-year assignment in 2007, an amazingly prophetic placement that is still extant! Bravissimo, Alyson!
Today, we are, all of us together, watching, and waiting.
Votar! - Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Benthem Crouwel Architects
Above: From a previous post, but worth revisiting, the new building by Bentham Crouwel Architects for the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, Holland.
- MPLS City Pages / Ulana Zahajkewycz
MCAD colleague illustrates the vote.
Above: From the October 29, 2008 issue of the City Pages, illustration by
Ulana Zahajkewycz. Love the pink elephant disguise.
More fun at Ulanaland. Mabrouk, Ulana! - George Folz / Jedi in Training
Strong is the force with this one.
Above: George Folz, MCAD Gung Fu student, shared the above recently.
Scare vache. Gracias, Jorge! - Cairo Today
Mona Makhlouf, Graphic Designer
Above and Below: Exciting new shots from a new wall pattern by Cairo based graphic designer Mona Makhlouf for the American University. Mabrouk, Mona!
- Amin Ghadimi / The Globalization of Language
The Columbia Spectator
Above: Illustration by Sonja Ticko, for the Columbia Spectator article,
The Globalization of Language, by Amin Ghadimi.
From the article: “Our global economic recession reminds us that we are all interconnected on this planet, and it is detrimental to seek to sustain anachronistic and artificial linguistic barriers merely for the sake of the antiquated concept [...] - Anthony Esquivel / Chicago Talent
Set volume to eleven.
Above: Still from Movelmo’s latest effort to document a Chicago scene featuring, Shala Esquire, Mic Terror, Drea & Million Dollar Mano, Chris Ho, GL-Joe, Nick B,
Chris Napalatano, “The Movement.” How can one forget Cool Kids. - Site M 006
Choice
Above: Visual notation by John Malinoski, 2008.
Pen, marker. - Manar Al-Muftah / Texas
Artist’s work featured in Houston exhibition.
Above: Mabrouk, Manar! This just in via Doha, Qatar, a clipping from the Gulf Times. Some of Manar’s recent work is featured along with several other Qatari artists.
Let’s hope we can see some images soon. (Click image for a larger view.)
Interestingly, the BBC’s Doha Debates (one of the regions most [...] - Yes We Carve (dot) com
Starlight, star bright…
Above: From Yes We Carve. Sacre Vache and holy typographic pumpkins, Batman! Danke Schön, Marissa, for this joyous link!
- MCAD / Nicholas Blechman
The forecast for tonight…
Above: Prepare to meet your maker, Christian Northeast.
From Nozone X, Forecast. - New from the Left Coast
Pink. Oh?
Above: Pink Factory, Derrick Buisch, editor. 7″x7″, 09.08, saddle stitched booklet. Calder Buisch, cover.
New in the mailbox, a collection of thirty-nine images. Most welcome news, arigato DB. A few more quick scans below.Above: Damon Locks, Pink Factory.
Above: John Hitchcock, Pink Factory.
Above: Ryan Nygard, Pink Factory.
Above: Derrick Buisch, Pink Factory.
- MPLS / Booksmart
A good day at the used book store.
Above: Yes! Bad scan of Bat Boy Lives! Sterling Publishing, 2005.
Finally, my own copy.
Of course, they have a website. - Our United States / Nuestros Estados Unidos
Above: Rep. Bachmann of Minnesota and her shocking perspective via
the Chris Matthews Hardball show, Oct. 17, 2008. It must be seen to be believed,
and these rogue and dangerous words must be answered!Above: The Nation Editor Katrina Vanden Heuvel’s impassioned and resonant response. Brave soul, you inspire us all!
GEOTYPOGRAFIKA CALLS ON ALL MINNESOTANS! ON ALL AMERICANS!
TO [...] - 51 15 25 05 97
Blanka + Farrow
Above: Via Blanka in London, UK, a seminal Factory Records (FAC)
poster by Mark Farrow finds new life.
Quoting designer Farrow in the Blanka announcement: “We designed this poster to celebrate the 15th birthday of the Hacienda.” Farrow explains, “We had no idea at the time that it would be the club’s last. [...] - Super Tuesday
Enter the Dread Noun
Above: At last, the word! Screen shot from this morning’s Huffington Post entry page, 8:25 AM CST, Oct. 14, 2008. Also from yesterday’s New York Times, Nationalization Has Happened Before in U.S.. The title was the featured link yesterday, but leads to a story sub-titled, Intervention Is Bold, but Has a [...]
- To all Running Dogs of Capitalism
Above: O Povo, from Fortaleza, Brazil. Via Newseum.
Geotypografika: To all Running Dogs of Capitalism
Respected global members of the greater capitalist infrastructure, your theme for the week: Think positive and remember us little people you effing’ bastardos!
Oye, mira! A happy market place equals a school yard.
Basta!Above: Via Der Spiegel, Reuters/Philippe Wojazer. The heavies weigh [...]
- Manar Al-Mutah / New Website Launch
Doha, Qatar
Above: Exciting news from Doha, Manar has launched a new site. Mabrouk!
She has included much of her work from Talisman, enjoy. - Site M 005
Jumpsuit
Above: Visual notation by John Malinoski, 2008.
Pen, marker. - Waltz with Bashir
Festival de Cannes 2008 Official Selection
Above: Waltz with Bashir (official site), the haunting trailer for this highly acclaimed film by Ari Folman. Review by Wendy Ide for TimesOnline here.
Synopsis from the offical site: “One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari Folman about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by [...] - MIA / India
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Above: Invitation in the mail today from the MIA to the new exhibition, India: Public Places Private Spaces. October 26, 2008 through January 18, 2009.
Let’s go to this show. - Liemburg / Black Current
Harmen shares some images from his latest show.
Above: Harmen Liemburg, standing in front of his work and some source material from
his time with the collection of La bibliothèque Smith-Lesouëf in Nogent-sur-Marne, France. Black Current is open through October 26, 2008 at the Maison d’art Bernard Anthonioz (also in Nogent-sur Marne), and features new screen prints [...] - Apropo Moose
Milan, Italia
Above: Cover of Mousse Magazine, published in Milan, Italy. Free PDF
download of Issue 15 available via their website.
Bilingual text, italiano con l’inglese. - Reunification in Miniature
Hamburg, Germany
Above: Miniature of Checkpoint Charlie, West Berlin, November 9, 1989. From Stern,
a slide-show featuring details of the show now on display at the Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg GmbH that examines pivotal moments in recent German history. October 3, 2008 marks 19 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall.Above: From Stern, detail of Checkpoint Charlie, [...]
- Chris Burns finds Jeeyun Michaella Chung
Aeroplane Typeface
Above: Aeroplane Typeface. Jeeyun Michaella Chung, 2008.
Chris Burns writes: Greetings from the portfolio-scouring wetlands. Today I’ve found quite a fun gem from Graphic Design graduate*, Jeeyun Michaella Chung, who presents this excellent flying collection of letters!
Words from JMC herself: “Three-dimensional aeroplane typeface is created for Virgin Galactic to promote the event on the launching [...] - Talisman / New Details
Manar Al-Muftah, Artist
Above: Manar Al-Muftah, Ayn. 2008.
Above: Manar Al-Muftah, Faa. 2008.
Above: Manar Al-Muftah, Kaff. 2008.
Above: Manar Al-Muftah, T’aa. 2008.
Honto ni, shokran, Manar! - Doug Velenchenko / RNC 08
MPLS photographer shares his images.
Above: Doug Velenchenko. Mickeys, 2008.
Yes, that is a peace officer with a loaded grenade launcher positioned on top of St. Paul’s famous diner. I wonder if we’ll soon see these types positioned outside of American banks and other afflicted financial institutions, rounding up the rogue financiers who have brought us [...] - Frank Nijhof
Sad news from Amsterdam.
Above: Frank Nijhof. In a sad note via Warren Lee, we learn of the passing of his partner Frank. Anyone who has ever visited the incomparable Nijhof & Lee bookstore in Amsterdam, Holland, will know how sad this truly is.
Thank you for all of the books. - Seattle / Tehran
Poster Collaboration
Above: Johann Gomez (left) and Iman Raad (right), from The Seattle-Tehran Poster Show. Just two examples from a voluminous collaboration between designers from two seemingly disparate cities.
Co-curated by Daniel R. Smith and Iman Raad, high profile Iranian designers like Reza Abedini and members of the 5th Color grace this collection.
Based on the brilliant Seattle-Havana [...] - NYTimes / John Ashbery Collages
Famed poet shows collage work.
Above: John Ashbery collage, from the NYTimes Slideshow, The Collages of John Ashbery. The works were largely generated in the 1970’s. (Also see the related NYT article by Holland Cotter.)
- Democracy Now!
Reporters arrested covering RNC will not be charged.
Above: St. Paul, MN, Sept. 4, 2008. A photo I took of some reporters gathered to observe a small crowd that day. The main march was cross from this bridge, and this group occasionally chanted words of support.
In the news, St. Paul has released a statement that they [...] - Emily Reile / Dear President ______.
Something cool and California here in MPLS.
Above: Emily Reile’s submission to the MCAD Dear President _______. Project. Make sure to have a look at her flickr photo collection. Love this one below, bravissimo!
Above: Emily Reile, Eurostile.
Weiter so, Emily! - Site M 004
Designer
Above: Visual notation by John Malinoski, 2008.
Pen, marker, plaka. - Dylan C. Lathrop / Free & Free
Above: Exhibition announcement for Free & Free, the current student exhibition at MCAD, curated and executed by Kevin Wade Shaw.
Dylan C. Lathrop writes: Free & Free opens tonight at MCAD’s Gallery 148, here in Minneapolis, MN. The exhibition features examples of free ephemera and open sourced information that the audience is welcomed and encouraged to [...] - Van Abbemuseum / Heartland
Dutch eye on the American Midwest?
Above: Via e-flux, the Van Abbemuseum’s Heartland exhibit, currently in Eindhoven through January, 2009. Hope to see more soon. A large project involving other Dutch museums, the show also features an info blog, Heartland Research. Of course, the Dutch have an eye for some of our native architecture, see [...]
- Jarr Geerligs / Amsterdam Poster Collection
OMG x 3
Above: A poster from the photo collection of Jarr Geerligs (Amsterdam, Holland)
and on the very latest John Malinoski tip. A long walk through a stunning world
of type and image.Carteles para el pueblo!
- Chris Burns / Alphabets and Gas Stations
Above: Alphabet Truck, Eric Tabuchi. 2008.
Chris Burns writes: Hey y’all, collector of collections here. Today I’ve found three collections. Images A and C are from Artist 1, B is from Artist 2.
Artist 1 is [Eric Tabuchi], an excellent photo collector whose portfolio recently
showed up on the Indexhibit [New Participants] list.
Artist 2 is JK Keller, whose [...] - 10 Second Streets
More from Dan Ibarra
Above: 10 Second Streets #1, 2007.
Above: 10 Second Streets #2, 2007.
Two lovely wee haiku. - UPDATE: Chris Burns’ aunt is a genius.
Perfect?
Above: Visual commentary by Chris Burns of A Tiny City via Unequal Design.
UPDATED SEP17 2008: Chris wrote to explain this was a family collaboration, so the post title now correctly proclaims that his aunt is a genius. Apparently, this was her splendid idea. Chris, you are a good man, Charlie Brown. Original text below:
Chris Burns [...] - Dylan C. Lathrop / Ted Leo & The Pharmacists…
…Help Victims of the RNC.
Above: TL/Rx–Rapid Release digital EP cover.
Dylan C. Lathrop writes: Ted Leo and the Pharmacists got together in a basement in New Jersey on September 5th to record two new original songs and cover two tracks for this digital only EP, Rapid Release. All proceeds from this release are going to Democracy [...] - Swiss Architecture Museum
S AM
Above: Screen grab from the S AM entry page. German/English text.
Above: Announcement for the new show, Balkanology.
Found via the excellent e-flux resource. - Khatt Network / Project Mulsaq
Winners are soon to be announced.
Above: Via the Khatt Network, Kamsa wo Khmeesa, by Bahia Shehab.
Part of Project Mulsaq, a Khatt Design collection of vinyl wall decor. Visit the Khatt Network frequently for new updates by ace director, Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès. - Talisman / New Images
Doha, Qatar
Above: A few snapshots from Manar Al-Muftah’s recent Talisman show in Doha.
Above: Hanging the show.
Above: Guests at the opening on Sept. 3, 2008.
Above: Manar Al-Muftah, 2008.
Above: Manar Al-Muftah, 2008.
Above: Manar Al-Muftah, 2008.
It’s hard to underestimate this show’s importance. Mabrouk Manar, and may your example help lead the way for many new emerging artists.
For more [...] - City Pages / Matt Snyders’ RNC Arrest
St. Paul, MN
Above: A photo I took on the way home on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008. City Pages reporter Matt Snyders has his version of last weeks concluding RNC events online. Mr. Snyders was seated next to me as we waited through the process for several hours, and was arrested himself (his credentials blatantly ignored). [...]
- NYTimes / Martha Rosler
Cut and Paste
Above: Invasion (2008). From the NYTimes article by Carol Kino on the artist Martha Rosler. Make sure to watch the short video interview with her, stunning images.
- Posterpage / Galeira Plakatu Kraków
New Web Exhibition
Above: From Rene Wanner’s latest web exhibition, a poster by Andrzej Krajewski. Interesting data on Polish theater posters from the last twenty years. Wanner also shares an excellent resource through the Galeria Plakatu Kraków, a seemingly exhaustive overview of theater, film, and other cultural posters from Poland’s seminal graphic tradition.
Danke Schön, Rene! - An arresting development.
St. Paul, Minnesota
Above: From the Star Tribune’s photo series from last night (Sept.4, 2008). That’s me on the left with my old black messenger bag. (Thanks to K for finding this.)
As it happens, a friend and I were caught between two opposing sides last night and were arrested while we were trying to return to [...]
- The Uptake / RNC Free Speech Zone
Scenes from September 2nd, St.Paul.
Above: From The Uptake, video by Chuck Tomlinson from the aptly named
RNC Free Speech Zone, complete with metal fences. Beware the terrifying youth dancing to Madonna. Which reminds me, (see second officer from left),
“Aren’t you a little short to be a stormtrooper?”
Surreal. Thank goodness for The Uptake. - Guardian / Rage Against the Machine
St. Paul Performance Cancelled
Above: Come wit it now! Found in the Guardian of all places, some good YouTube links from yesterday’s CANCELLED Rage appearance in St. Paul. YouTube has many more links to an acapella version of wawa tikka wawa tikka tikka tikka wawa tikka wawa… Guess they were too rough around the edges for [...]
- Gulf Times / Talisman opens
Qatar Now Series: Manar Al-Muftah
Above: Fresh newspaper clipping from The Gulf Times in Doha. Shokran, Manar!
Here is another link to The Peninsula, also published in Doha. Arabic and English text can be found on the main VCUQ page. My hero and yours, Leland Hill, helped arrange the work in the gallery. Mabrouk to you both!
Awaiting [...] - Site M 003
The Benefice
Above: Visual notation by John Malinoski, 2008.
Pen and marker. - WIRED / Inside Chrome
Google to launch new web browser.
Above: The browser wars, info-graphic from Wired Online where Steven Levy reports on Google’s new web browser, Chrome, due to be released in beta form soon.
Whoa. - Minneatures / Plasticgod
Soo Visual Arts Center
Above: Invitation from the Soo Visual Arts Center in Minneapolis announcing an upcoming show by Plasticgod. The exhibit is presented in collaboration with ROBOTlove. Opening at Soo September 5th, 2008.
- PO4 / Poster Offensive
St. Paul, MN
Above: Screen grab from The Poster Offensive, detailed info on an upcoming exhibition of posters, PO4. Opening August 29, 2008 at the The Black Dog Cafe, featuring a long list of participants, including the smashing Aesthetic Apparatus,
Dan Ibarra and Micheal Byzewski. - Piotr Szyhalski / Labor Camp
IF/THEN: You Decide Leaflets
Above: Piotr Szyhalski, Ideaology leaflets, front and back. IF/THEN: You Decide is a compelling part of the upcoming Faculty Show at the MCAD Gallery. For more, go to Szyhalski’s excellent Labor Camp. The project is based on propaganda leaflets dropped over Iraq.
- Gabe Hudson / Dear Mr. President
McSweeney’s and Gabe Hudson
Above: Screen grab from Dear Mr. President by Gabe Hudson.
Feel free to write your own letter.
Die liebe Bettina found this recently and it is apropo to a new school-wide problem running at MCAD this fall, “Dear President _____.”
McSweeney’s 28 has the full compendium of letters, filed under Gabe Hudson’s Dear Mr. President [...] - Qatar Now / Talisman
Manar Al-Muftah
Above: Manar Al-Muftah, Zai (2008). The artist celebrates her first exhibition. Mabrouk, Manar. The first of many. Enshallah!
Qatar Now: Manar Al-Muftah: Talisman opens on September 3, 2008
and runs through October 4.
UPDATE: From Manar, her artist’s statement for Talisman. An important window into the mind of an emerging artist.
“Arabic is deeply rooted in my repository [...] - Site M 002
Hunger
Above: Visual notation by John Malinoski, 2008.
Pen and marker. - nuestra heroína
Roqaya Al-Gassra, Bahrain
Above: Out of the blocks in modesty track suit. Al-Gassra is a new hero, missing the final by just 0.1 seconds. Run, Roqaya, run!
Can’t help but recall that a former colleague, Mary McLaughlin, always thought this would be an excellent design problem for the fashion students at VCUQ.
See this story from Bahraini TV [...] - MCAD / Faculty Show
Position and Imposition
Above: Piotr Szyhalski, IF/THEN: You Decide, detail from The Leaflet Project (from the upcoming Faculty Show at the MCAD Gallery). For more, go to Szyhalski’s excellent Labor Camp. The project is based on propaganda leaflets dropped over Iraq.
Above: One of some new digital prints, I have been working on, this is a process [...]
- Site M 001
Horsegirl and Athlete
Above: Visual notation by John Malinoski (2008).
Pen and marker. - A TINY CITY / デザイン
Most excellent mail.
Above: In the mail today, fresh screenprint from Chris Burns,
sole-proprietor of A Tiny City and more.
Muito obrigado, Chris-san! - DJ WuWu / CocoRosie
Representin’ the Accomack pack, y’all.
Above: DJ WuWu says, “That’s not my name.” Check the CocoRosie, en française. On the Malinoski tip.
- No Age / Eraser
From The Smell in LA.
Above: Eraser, from the album Nouns (Sub-Pop, 2008).
- Chris Jordan / We the People
83,000 Abu Ghraib photographs.
Above: Chris Jordan, Constitution (2008). 8 x 25 feet in five panels. Via Crooks and Liars, Jordan’s new work involves the same process (past posting), this time featuring photographs of “…83,000 Abu Ghraib prisoner photographs, equal to the number of people who have been arrested and held at US-run detention facilities with [...]
- Manar Al-Muftah / Doha
September exhibition fast approaching.
Above: Manar Al-Muftah, Jeem, 2008. A sneek peak at one of the prints Manar is preparing for her upcoming exhibition in Doha, Qatar. Let’s hope Manar will share some photos from the exhibition when it opens.
Gambade, Manar! - AIGA / Everyday Design
Fresh link to updated exhibition site.
Above: Outside the gallery in NYC, follow this link to Everyday Design’s fully updated website, which includes the New York opening, following closely on the heels of the LA show. The NYC show will be up and running through August 15 in the AIGA
National Gallery.
I am grateful to Vesna Petrovic [...] - War Rugs
Merchandising the Unthinkable
Above: Rug via warrugs dot com, a fascinating, if melancholy collection of themes and colors, all traditional handmade Baluchi rugs. Most interesting is the descriptive use of the word “pixelated” to describe these traditional rug patterns, no matter how non-traditional the theme.
The practice dates back to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and continues [...] - Bernard Canniffe / USA-UAE
Graphic Design Students Engage in a “Social/Cultural Intervention.”
Above: Process board from an ongoing exchange in Dubai between MICA (Baltimore) and students from Zayed University. The project involves a collaboration between students and faculty led by Bernard Canniffe (MICA), Dr. Nanci Takeyama (GD Instructor from Zayed University) and Peter Chomowicz (Env. Design Chair MICA). Bernard describes [...]
- Murphy / Tozer gather sticks…
I can’t wait for these.
Above: Lucky find via Kindra (kindra is here) and the mysterious Tim, a bundle of sticks that are part of a summer event package for the Walker here in MPLS.
Above: More via kindra is here, see her description of the project. Must have object of the summer. Perhaps they will agree [...]
- Tim Tozer / Heavy Weather Review
Mason Riddle reviews Tozer’s current show.
Above: Tim Tozer, Savage Land. 2008 (via Groveland Gallery)
Follow this link to mnartists (dot org) and Mason Riddle’s comprehensive overview and discussion of Tozer’s current show, Heavy Weather, still on display at the Groveland through July 12.
Ich gratuliere, Moniseur Tozer! - Liemburg / Oje Oranje!
Harmen Liemburg, Hup Holland!
Above: This just in from Amsterdam: Harmen Liemburg and an old friend of his
(see more here). Follow this link for Harmen’s photo review of a poster he made to announce a recent screenprinting class he taught at MCAD, Dutch Flood.
Schade für Holland, Harmen! Now all of those camping trailers have to make [...] - Tiger’s Süper EM Stüdyo 2008
Turkish-German Comedian
Above: The host of Tiger’s Süper EM Stüdyo 2008, (alles auf Deutsch, scusi! ). Brilliant. These lo-fi productions offer hilarious commentary, aside from the fascinating aspect that this perfectly symbolizes today’s epic fixture, Deutschland-Türkiye.
Above: Tiger’s Süper EM Stüdyo 2008 Episode 95, EM Special 19. “Frauenbesuch.”
Known as “Die Kralle from Kreuzberg,” (according to his YouTube [...] - Bouthayna Al-Muftah / VCU Anderson Gallery
Update: VCU 2008 Student Exhibition
Above: Two prints by Bouthayna Al-Muftah, VCUQatar, Spring, 2007. The Anderson Gallery recently sent along some documentation from the VCU 2008 Student Exhibition (posted earlier here).
Bouthayna’s work was featured in the first room at the Anderson, and another actually served as a banner for the exhibition.
Mabrouk, Bouthayna! Many thanks to Don [...] - Tim Tozer / Heavy Weather
New paintings at the Groveland Gallery
Above: Homefront, Tim Tozer, 2008. An artist and educator, Tozer’s new work is being exhibited by the Groveland Gallery here in Minneapolis, MN.
Above: Three Bathers, Tim Tozer, 2008.
From the artist’s statement, “My paintings are based loosely on memories of my home in England; through the process of painting, the specificity [...] - Derrick Buisch / Studio plus Stumpking
Left Coast Aktuell
Above: Studio shot of work in progress via Derrick Buisch.
Above: Stumpking, Derrick Buisch.
Thanks for sharing these, DB. - Para Lelando / What’s Opera Doc
What’s Opera Doc: Looney Tunes classic. Here is Leland’s spear and magic helmet. Our friend is stronger than ever and can once again hunt wabbit.
Viva Lelando! - Chris Jordan / Plastic Bottles
Artist visualizes the true world
Above: Plastic Bottles, 2007. “Depicts two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes.”
See more of Chris Jordan’s photographic work here. - See Colin Walk
Short film by Amalia Nicholson
There is always new reason for hope, and as a teacher, nothing could be more welcome than stumbling across evidence that you really are lucky - I found this little gem and recognized one of my students this semester, the mysterious fashionista “Colin,” apparently from Wisconsin.
Ironically, I think there are interesting [...] - Onomatopee: Featured in Resources
Eindhoven based co-lab, founded by Remco van Bladeland
and Freek LommeIn their own words: “Onomatopee is an Eindhoven and Amsterdam based publishing label for art publications and presentations, specializing in poetry, typography and sound art and dedicated to site specific, contextual projects.”
I can still remember coming across these images for the first time, [...]