- ARCHIVE / Photography
- Arnhem Centraal
Thanks to OK Parking and Arnhem, a quick snap is picked up today.
Above: A photo just after a very pleasant visit with OK Parking in Arnhem recently. I just added some photos to Geotypografika Amsterdam 2010 today and was asked by a Flickr group called Central Station Arnhem to have it included in their photos. [...]
- Berlin / Kreuzberg
New images added to Geotypografika Flickr.
Above: Somewhere in Kreuzberg, Berlin. See the full set of graphic and typographic images on Geotypografika Berlin, where I have also updated the Geotypografika Amsterdam 2010 set with new images from the second leg of my recent trip.
Above: Turkish words gracing a building in Kreuzberg, one of my [...]
- OBX 2010
A few days at the beach.
Above: Sunset with dolphins. Roanoke Sound, NC. Geotypografika OBX is now uploaded to Flickr, hope you enjoy a few images from this recent trip.
More images here, Geotypografika OBX.
- Tom Garrett / China
Some lovely images from our traveling colleague.
Above: Via MCAD Professor Tom Garrett, currently traveling and researching in China. Tom was kind enough to send in some images from his travels in Shanghai, Beijing, Xian, and Guilin. Xie xie, Tom, and we look forward to the slide show on your return!
Above: All photos via MCAD Professor [...]
- A thousand thanks, Saki.
Lasting image from an inspiring visit.
Above: Saki Mafundikwa, Bernard Canniffe, and myself. Special thanks to Dan (who took this photo), Michael, and Jonathan of Aesthetic Apparatus for allowing us to come by their studio while Saki was here. This concluded an emotional visit by Saki, who graced our community with his film, Shungu.
Bern is smiling [...] - Osloposters (dot) net
Amazing poster archive from Norway.
Above: On a John Malinoski tip, here is an excellent poster resource, Osloposters. Showcasing a vibrant poster scene, the site is run by Stig Anderson, whose own website (see splash page below), offers it’s own fascination. Stig explains that he was inspired by Jarr Geerligs set, often referenced here. He also [...]
- Fabio Filippi / El picaflor
Wonderfully simple, endless beauty.
Above: Fabio Filippi, still from El picaflor (2010, 3:59). See this stunning short film on Fabio’s Vimeo page and enjoy more work on his site.
Shot in November, 2009 in Bolivia and Peru, I happened to be there the day some of these shots were taken. Our group had wandered ahead and everyone [...] - 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. - Final NYT Grid Shorts
MCAD_FDN_1111_SEC_06, Fall 2009
Above: Sheila’s final short, FDN 1111 Sec 06, Fall 2009. Our semester long investigation of color included some time devoted to our New York Times grid studies and subsequent color ‘”machines”(see our Geotypografika Flickr set). The problem concluded with a challenge to create a one minute stop-motion film using their final hand-painted [...]
- Naz / Final MA Work
Recent work from Iran.
Above: Naz Moosavi, 2009, three images from her final master’s thesis work in Iran.
Mamnoon am, Naz! A thousand congratulations, hoping to see more.Above: Naz Moosavi, 2009.
Above: Naz Moosavi, 2009.
Above: Naz Moosavi, 2009.
Above: Naz Moosavi, 2009.
Above: Naz Moosavi, 2009.
Updated Oct. 27, 2009 with these three last posters.
Thanks again for sharing these with us, [...] - MPLS / October Surprise
A study in contrasts.
Above: Minneapolis, MN. October 12, 2009, approximately 8AM.
(Photo: Brandt Powderhorn)Above: Dubai, U.A.E. October 12, 2009, approximately 8AM.
(Photo: Brandt Dubai) - 2D in 4D / New student work.
Foundation level experiment with time-based media.
Above: Mallory, ‘No More Running’ (Music: Animal Collective). These experimental short films are an extension of an introductory photography and booklet assignment from my foundation level class here at MCAD. It’s always a delight to work with first year students and this Fall has proved to be no exception. The [...]
- Tabriz Type
Now this is a type workshop!
Above: Via Rang Magazine, type workshop at the Art University of Tabriz, Iran, led by
Mr. Isapour. The post is entirely in Farsi, but the images speak volumes for what was
clearly a brilliant workshop. The pulse-raising scale of the type seems to lead naturally
to some stunning work. Special thanks to Mohammad [...] - Jean-Benoît Lévy / Concert Poster
Diverse approach yields rich process.
Above: Jean-Benoît Lévy, new poster from Studio And. Fresh from a friendly
morning email (Ciao, JBL!), see the link here to the Posterpage overview of the
designer’s process and his work with photographer Daniel Furon.
Merci beaucoup, JBL! - Tipo de local: ATOMC
The ‘atomc’ punk.
Above: More MPLS tipo de local, large volume trash receptacle.
- K Line
Local container stop, happarently.
Above: A “K,” from a local container hauler that parks on our back street.
More recently… - Peanut Butter Hot Dog Cookie
Dan Ibarra is blogging. ¡Si!
Above: Via Dan Ibarra’s Peanut Butter Hot Dog Cookie, a post on the
Misplaced Groceries project now available on Dan’s Flickr as well! A truly
welcome new way to see into the world of Aesthetic Apparatus. Don’t miss
his inspired Black Forest White Castle sketch. - Majid Abbasi / Literary Images
Online exhibition of the Iranian master’s book cover designs.
Above: Tehran based designer Majid Abbasi’s web exhibition, Literary Images. Discovered via the omnipresent Rene Wanner, a stunning new online exhibition of book cover designs by the Iraninan master. The web exhibition includes English and Farsi background material and insightful remarks from Uwe Loesch. Mabrouk, Majid!
- Adria Chilcote / Hrvatska Croatia
Website updated with new work.
Above: Via Adria Chilcote, a typographic treatment, 2009. See also Adria’s work
from a recent show here in Minneapolis, as well as her new book animations
from her Berlin experiments. Gambade, Adria! - 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. - Cold
No heat last night.
Above: Photo by MCAD student Joe Hrabbe. Our building lost heat last night so this morning the Geotypografika cubby hole feels much like this open air oasis, sans tacos. Thanks for sharing the photo, Joe!
Send lawyers, guns… and heat technicians! - Geotypografika Twitter
Um abraço, Twitterati!
From Geotypografika Flickr: Photo by Erik Brandt, 2006. Posters somewhere in
Lisbon, Portugal. Anunciando: You can now follow updates for Geotypografika
via Twitter here.
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
Above: Gumball, 1992 cover of The Damned classic, New Rose.
Coming to you in both of your eyes, yo. Um abraço! - 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! - Expanded: Geotypografika on Flickr
Fotografías del mundo, para el mundo.
Above: Geotypografika Amsterdam.
Update: I realized recently that I had uploaded relatively small files to the
Geotypografika Flickr account and have updated and reorganized the sets.
I hope these images, various and many, become a useful part of the greater
dialogue occurring here. The images themselves are amateur at best, and
represent a general catalog [...] - GRD_2000_P004
We move forward, always.
Above: MCAD student Charlie Hunter. Today, our introductory level graphic design
class meets to critique the culmination of a series of exercises that combined
hand-drawn, photographic, and typographic elements. I am sure you will agree
that these few examples (all I have from an early deadline), show much promise
and real passion.
See more of our grupetto’s [...] - 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?). - Ivel Rose Workman
1923-2009
Above: Ivel Rose Workman, who left our world on February 17, 2009. Ivel was Elisabeth’s grandmother, and originally from New Orleans, Louisiana. As you can see from this photograph (the lovely message from then six-year-old Aunt Lynne), she was and is beloved by all who knew her. The service is today in Lansdale, Pennsylvania.
Une chanson [...]
- 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! - TO | YO | TA
Good morning from Doha.
Above: More truck type via K in Doha, many thanks!
- 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 [...]
- K / Qatar
New truck type from Doha.
Above: Via the mysterious K in Doha, Qatar, a welcome surprise from the inbox
this morning. Shokran, K! Below, some of K’s work from the past, if only we had
Fontstruct then, eh, K? These sketches still resonate, 300dpi mechanical pencil! - Spaghetti Mag
Cairo, Egypt
Above: Ahmed Foula via Spaghetti Mag. The intrepid Mona Makhlouf writes from Dubai with some fascinating links. Her former art director in Cairo, Sherif Samy,
helped build Spaghetti Mag, and has his own fascinating way of sharing his work.
More from Ahmed Foula below and make sure to read the interview.
Shokran, Mona! - GRD_2000_P001/P002
Discovering visual communication.
Above: MCAD student, Jenny, from our introduction to graphic design gruppo.
Here are three examples from the initial problem (P001), a challenge to answer seven questions using only hand drawn indicators. A perfect resource for examining visual language and issues of idiosyncratic vocabulary.Above: MCAD student, Samm. These approaches yield surprisingly open critiques, aesthetics are [...]
- Guten Morgen!
Dire moods but Casper saves the day.
Above: Fresh from a welcome PDF via Mary at MCAD,
her first sketch for problem deux from our introduction to
graphic design piccolo gruppo.
Avanti! - Posterpage / In memory of Shigeo Fukuda
Rene Wanner’s moving collection of tributes.
Above: Yasser Lamei, Iran. Via Posterpage.
- Tumblr / Journal of Urban Typography
Everyday NYC.
Above: Via Bryan Collins’ Journal of Urban Typography. Dubai bound Mona found this and sent it along, then a quick search reveals everybody and their brother are linking to this, and it’s easy to see why. Everyday blue collar type, just like you like it.
Shokran, Mona! - Boston Globe / 44
Unique inauguration photos.
Above: Via the Boston Globe, a simple message from 43 to 44.
- The New Yorker / A Couple in Chicago
From an interview on May 26, 1996.
Above: From The New Yorker, January 9, 2009 issue. Click for a larger image,
a candid interview with the Obamas from 1996.Above: From The New Yorker.
- Barack Hussein Obama
January 20, 2009.
Above: Diario de Pernambuco, from Recife, Brazil.
Above: Primera Hora, from Guaynabo, Puerto Rico.
Above: de Standaard, from Brussels, Belgium.
Above: The Virgin Island Daily News, from Charlotte Amalie, Virgin Islands.
Above: Nation News, from Bridgetown, Barbados.
Above: Salzburger Nachrichten, from Salzburg, Austria.
Above: Le Soleil, from Québec, Canada. Check in with Newseum daily.
Front pages and links to newspapers [...] - 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 [...]
- 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. - 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! - Interstate 80
Truck type.
Above: Travellers on Interstate 80 will recognize these familiar themes.
Kyotsukite onegaishimasu!Above: Detail from a random moving trailer below.
- Walking Home
Looking up.
Above: Elisabeth Workman, On my darker block, 2008.
- 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! - Sameh / King of the Road
Via Mona Makhlouf, somewhere in the Sinai…
Above: Mona was on her way back from Sharm-el-Sheikh and saw this truck somewhere on the Sinai road. Like all right thinking people, Sameh must like both kinds of music, country and western. Har. (See below.)
Yalla Yalla Sameh!
Shokran Mona!Above: Roger Miller’s classic, King of the Road. A must see, [...]
- 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. - El Norte
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Marchant, toujours marchant? Non, à pied, toujours à pied.
Cara mia, warum müssen wir immer zu Fuss gehen?
Look there! You see, Ton-Ton.
…for there is refuge in the distance, at last!
We were welcomed by kind-hearted people, and led through normal medical examination procedures.
We thought this a customs office at first, but we soon learned it [...]
- Happy Birthday Precious
For our dear friend Precious, Mabrouk!
Precious is our former colleague in Doha, who has just returned form a research trip to Africa herself. I thought she might enjoy this fascinating old photograph taken by my mother, Janice, in Cameroon in 1970. I believe I have seen her hands used as emphatically as in this gesture! [...]
- The Great White North - A Beauty Way to Go
Brilliant and Wonderfully Brilliant Brilliant
Visit the Art Shanty Project, part of an interesting segue to traditional ice fishing in these here northern parts. Minnesota, yaaw.
Update Visit the snapshots blog for the project here. Cheers for the link, Terese! - Old Cairo Photographs
From my flat file… Cairo, Egypt
Above: Cotton Salesman, Cairo market. 1983. Photo by Brett Hanson, my younger brother. A personal favorite for obvious reasons, Brett must have had a good relationship with this moment to capture this amazing character.
This photo was taken around the same time, by Roch Fore (I believe). Equally stunning portrait of [...]
- Die Neue Geotypografika / Erik Brandt
Graphic and Typographic Viruses Lektüre
Minneapolis, MN Estados UnidosDie Neue Geotypografika © Erik Brandt 2008
Shown above for the first time, this is my new poster
for the upcoming lektüre at MCAD.
February 20, 2008.
Update: Die Neue Geotypografika Redux - 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, [...] - Photo Typografika
Some samples from my effort to document global typographic/graphic phenomena (mena, mena)
Above: Dubai shop window, 2006. Here is a temporary link to a page on my static site that has some examples from several cities around the world. I am always trying to extend these, and hope to have a larger post on this topic [...]
- Opolis in Hong Kong
Above: My great friend Sherman Chan Yiu Tong is on the right, and one of the school directors, Mr. Wucius Wong (王無邪) (Principles of Form and Design) is on the left. Sherman had generously invited me to exhibit four photographs from opolis, which were part of an exhibition to benefit CIVA, the Hong Kong Chingying [...]