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Monthly Archives: June 2013

CURIOUS ICONIC CRAFT

Friday, June 14, 2013

Browse through any ‘Best Magazine Cover’ lists of the past five years, chances are you will find our favourite film magazine Little White Lies somewhere near the top. With its curious illustrative approach, it struck out from any magazine shelf and ‘inspired’ a whole range of offbeat printed matter. So it was somewhat sad news [...]

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FRESH FROM THE OVEN

Friday, June 14, 2013

‘Let them eat pepper gas’
Recep Tayyip Antoinette
‘Welcome the the gas festival’, ‘There is a beach under the stones’, ‘There is a revolution going on here, Signorita’,‘I could not find a slogan’ were some of the slogans written on the walls of beauteous cities of Turkey, the land of pepper. All you have been seeing in the news was a [...]

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SOCIAL VALUES FIRST

Thursday, June 13, 2013

Fairphone started in 2010 as an awareness project about conflict minerals in electronics and the wars that the sourcing of these minerals is fuelling in the DR Congo. 14 hours left to order the limited first edition of the Fairphone – made of conflict-free, fair resources.

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YOU MADE THAT

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

An abstract-expressionist web drawing app for the New York Times Magazine by Christoph Niemann and Jon Huang – try it and enjoy!!!

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JENNY JENNY

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Berlin based artist Tobias Zielony (born in 1973 in Wuppertal) is one of the most discussed German photographers of his generation. In a major one-man show, the Berlinische Galerie will exhibit his latest project Jenny Jenny (2011–13) and the series Trona (2008).
About the exhibition (from the website of Berlinische Galerie): For more than ten years [...]

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MONO.PUNKT #20: I NEVER READ / BASEL

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

‘I never read, I only look at the pictures,’ goes the famous saying by Andy Warhol, which we probably all can relate to at some time or other. I Never Read is the name of the splendid art book fair opening tomorrow which no art fair worth its name can do without these days, especially [...]

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SUMMER OF UNREST

Monday, June 10, 2013

These images speak for themselves. Vice Magazine was on site the day it all kicked off.

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MONDAY MUSIC: THE XX

Monday, June 10, 2013

It certainly won’t do harm to start the week with a little Fiction, so why not…

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2001

Monday, June 10, 2013

2001 is a really pretty number. Of course, it makes us think of one thing and one thing only. So why should we be thinking about 2001 in the first place? Well, with 2000 other random thoughts that we have been sharing here with you before this one, it’s just as well now or never.

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WE THINK ALONE

Monday, June 10, 2013

We Think Alone is a new project by the fabulous Miranda July of mono.kultur #16 fame and you can sign up here!

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