Well, I never thought I would make it here today. I would make a great class president because I promise to put two new pop machines in the cafeteria, and I’m also gonna get a glitter Bonne Bell dispenser for all the girls’ bathrooms. Oh, and we’re gonna get new cheerleading uniforms. Anyway, I think I’d be a great class president. So, who wants to eat chimichangas next year? Not me. See, with me it will be summer all year long. Vote for Summer.

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I got an award in the Visual Communication category at the “Merke for god design” (design excellence awards) by the norwegian design council.

Here’s some info about the project:

Norway Pelagic aims to be the leading global company in sales and production of pelagic fish for consumption. This is a B2B-company, mainly focused on export. Target audience is importers and traders of pelagic fish, all across China, Japan, Russia, Ukraina, Europe and Scandinavia, and the processing industry. The arctic sea and its pure products is what the industry wants, in their products.

www.norwaypelagic.no

i just went on a lovely snowboard weekend with my girlfriend, and damn i’m getting good. a little abuse of confidence + (brilliant) powder snow = a damaged knee… now i have to take it easy for the rest of the season! crap… well here’s an image of my knee from the MR exam ( pretty nice visualization thou)

“What could be more delightful—and unsettling—than turning loose a group of contemporary surrealists, disguised as vagabonds and artists, in the ripe fields of the hyper-real? Experimental Geography isn’t about space; it is about terminal strangeness.”

— Mike Davis, author of Ecology of Fear and City of Quartz

New book on the way i guess it’s the first book i buy this year… times have been hard and i had a lot (really a lot) of unread stuff from last year. and magazines don’t count… i’ve been following some regularly. I might do a post of my current  favorite mags. soon!

Anyway you can find/buy the book here at Melville House Publishing and if you’re lucky enough to live in NYC, there is also a lecture “Experimental Geography Panel Discussion: An Aesthetic Investigation of Space“at the New Museum theater with Creative Time curator Nato Thompson, Lize Mogel and Damon Rich

RIP  The Designers Republic™ (1986 – 2009)

i sadly  read on CR today:

All week, rumours have been flying around the internet that DR had gone out of business. CR can confirm that it is true. On Tuesday this week, the business was closed with nine staff being made redundant. According to its founder, Ian Anderson, the studio became insolvent due to a combination of factors: “We’d lost a couple of clients, didn’t win a couple of pitches, got a tax bill which should have been sorted out and wasn’t and a major client who didn’t pay the money they owed us – in themselves any of those things would have been fine but when they come all at once there’s not much you can do.”

tDR had a strong influence on me and specially on me becoming graphic designer.. all good things come to an end – and that’s good! My respect for their career.

Paula Scher looks back at a life in design and pinpoints the moment when she started really having fun. She distinguishes clearly true design is, she calls it “Serious”. Please don’t miss this video!

“There are many women designers who deserve to be recognised for their immense contributions to the field of graphic design, but few so deserving as Jacqueline Casey (1927-91). ”

this link was ripped from the new eye´s blog

Similar Diversity is an information graphic which opens up a new perspective at the topics religion and faith by visualizing the Holy Books of five world religions. Communalities and differences of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism are shown up in this datavisualization.
The visual’s basis is an objective text analysis of the Holy Scriptures, and works without any interpretations from the creators’ side. Despite – or even because of this abstraction, the artworks are not only working on an informal but also on an emotional level. The viewers should be inspired to think about own prejudices and current religious conflicts.
Realised with Processing and VVVV.

Similar Diversity was exhibited at the Hangar-7, Salzburg: Is it possible to touch someone’s heart with design? by Multimediaart and Stefan Sagmeister.

I was reading one of my favorite blogs and i saw a post about the Ellen Luptons, Free Font Manifesto which i couldn’t resist to post here as well. Unfortunately Reactor-Reactor Blog is mostly written in portuguese and understandably hard to follow for non portuguese speakers…

Here’s the 5 reasons,”Why would a typeface designer want to give a font away?

1. To make a selfless gift to humanity.
2. To raise global awareness of typographic excellence.
3. To create a visual resource that will be used by students, citizens, amateurs, and professionals all over the world.
4. To contribute to a global design vocabulary.
5. To seed the world with a visual idea that could be built on and enriched by other designers serving smaller linguistic communities.”

Cette publication ambitionne d’être un espace d’échange, de partage, de confrontation et offrir ainsi une approche plurielle du design graphique, à la fois visuelle et théorique.

Elle veut parler du design graphique comme d’un champ de création et de recherche. Elle veut faire parler les acteurs du design graphique – professionnel, étudiants, théoriciens, journalistes, etc. – de leurs pratiques et de leurs réflexions ; créer.

NODE is a Berlin and Oslo based graphic design studio, founded in 2003 by Anders Hofgaard (NO) and Serge Rompza (DE). Vladimir Llovet Casademont (DE/ES) joined the collaboration 2006. All three studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam. The studio works for international clients and on self initiated projects across various media: books, magazines, posters, typefaces, identities, exhibition design, signage and websites.

The Fabrica Features collection has been enriched by a new series of ceramic mugs, each of them customized by a Fabrica artist who, monthly basis, will express on it his own view and interpretation of the morning time. The cup thus becomes a sort of notebook where to write down our personal concerns or to organize the working week… FABRICA

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http://fabricafeatureslisboa.blogspot.com/

Brilliant work by Rosemarie Fiore. Here’s one image from the firework drawing series (above). “These large works on paper are made by exploding and containing live fireworks, resulting in bursts of saturated color that are overlaped and collaged into abstract compositions.”

There is at least 2 things I’m afraid I’m too geeky about.
1st: always to have a nice email signature! and change very often with an even greater one!
2nd: always have nice desktop image! change very often with an even greater one!

So, here is my current desktop (luckily it wasn’t a mess like it use to be : )

These are the cruel results of (of a slightly nerd i must say) “Which File Extension Are You?” quiz and “Which Website are you?” quiz that i took at bbspot.com I found out that if i’d be a file extension it was a .mpg and if i’d be a website i was Wikipedia.org (eheheh)

Here’s the verdict for each one:

- You are .mpg You live life like it was a movie. Constantly in motion, you bring pleasure to many, but are often hidden away.

- You are wikipedia.org You are a know-it-all. You are trustworthy, most of the time. You are versatile and useful. You like volunteering. You are free.”

US 1969, R+B: Milton Moses Ginsberg, D: Rip Torn, Sally Kirkland, Viveca Lindfors. 110min.

A few weeks ago i was talking with a friend about how much i had appreciated watching Mutual Appreciation and hwow fresh it felt to me. From the beautiful storytelling to the way the movie was shot and edited, etc. A few days later i was surprised by my friend with a copy of Coming Apart, a truly fascinating film from 1969, certainly way before it’s time and unfortunately ignored.

It is a Milton Moses Ginsberg film where he explores in a dark eroticism a psychiatrist secretly filming his own mental breakdown. The entire film is shot into a mirror from a single camera in a one-room apartment. Psychoanalyst Joe Glazer, aka Glassman, rents a studio apartment in a towering, glass-walled skyscraper, away from his office and his pregnant wife, where he has a variety of sexual encounters with a series of women – all of which he films with a hidden camera. As the movie goes and the caracther tension grows, Joe becomes more and more into a voyeur of his own life, until finally encased in his own reflection, he ends up filming his own disintegration.

Although entirely scripted, this fierce, frank and explicit film seems improvised. The acting is so explosive it seems uncontrolled and the sex scenes have been described as real and pornographic. Truly ahead of its time, Coming Apart remains a visionary and transformative piece of independent American cinema.