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WHAT WE BELIEVE

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

There is a beautiful kind of manifesto in the first pages of the current issue of 032c, summing up their thoughts and ideas from over a decade of magazine-making, in the usual slightly heady style of 032c, of course. But it’s always refreshing when someone takes a stand, and a beautiful one at that.
And not [...]

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THE HEAVY MENTAL

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

The Heavy Mental
Kelly Lamb
The Plant Journal
Makr

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‘The Readymades’

Friday, October 21, 2011

John Holten’s ‘The Readymades’ has been a silent companion during the last 6 weeks and the back-and-forth 6000 kms travelled during that time. Nevertheless, it was not until recently arriving in Paris airport, city where coincidentally the novel begins, that we started a proper and pleasurable conversation.
The novel takes upon the story of John Holten, [...]

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A. Rose Is A. Rose Is A. Rose Is A. Rose

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Aaron Rose is back, touring the globe with his latest book, Collage Culture. Rumor has it he even used the word “Schattenreich” in a recent essay…
October 2011
Oct. 13 – Paris, Colette
Oct. 15 – Berlin, Motto
Oct. 17 – London, Shoreditch House

November 2011
Nov. 4 – Pasadena, Art Center College of Design
Nov. 6 – Los Angeles, Family
Nov. [...]

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MOBILE EVOLUTION

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

I love watching films from the 80’s and seeing the brick-size of the mobile phones. With his clever paper designs Brighton based designer, Kyle Bean has depicted the increasing miniaturisation of the mobile phone in the style of a Russian Doll set (pictured above).  And on another tangent, it kind of reminds me a little [...]

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Keep on mowing on

Saturday, September 3, 2011

The grass is always greener on the bottom side. View the exhaustive mowing study by Greg Stimac here.
Via Moritz.

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BACK TO THE HANDMADE — THE MAKERS

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Few hours ago Erik Spiekermann was ironically praising the great return to the handmade when commenting this news, about the poor woman who bought a wooden iPad for $180… believing it was for real! But despite the irony directed to this specific and unbelievable case, there seems to be something going on regarding handmade products [...]

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DRUCK BERLIN

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Druck Berlin is a screen print festival happening in Berlin on the weekend of 27 and 28th August. Several screen printers, screen print companies and studios came together to organize what will be the 1st event of this kind taking place in the city. Different artists will be showing their work and giving workshops [...]

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THE BLACK BBC

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Two decades ago, the rapper Chuck D (Public Enemy), described rap music as the “the black CNN”. Rappers in London found their own way to describe the political and social background that led to the English riots in the past week. Here’s an excellent and in-depth article about the subject by writer Dan Hancox in [...]

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KILLING THE WINTER MOOD – FRIKK Festival 2011 & ONEBEAT

Thursday, August 4, 2011

From 8th to 17th of August, FrIKK Festival will be happening at the Bethanien, right in the heart of Kreuzberg. The festival is a non-profit project that aims not only to give a platform for artists (working within all sorts of media) to show their work as also to donate all the profit to the [...]

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