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VIVIAN GIRLS OUT SCOUTING

Sunday, September 30, 2012

The world of Henry Darger is worth examining. The secretly written 15.143 pages long fantasy fiction masterpiece entitled The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What Is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion is about a war between children-like characters with mixed genders. [...]

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SAVE THE DATE: MISS READ 2012

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

MISS READ, Berlin’s independent publishing fair, is in town again for the fourth time – this year hosted by abc. MISS READ has invited international publishers and artists to show their artist books at the abc premises. Presenting a selection of about 50 of the most active contributors in this field – including mono.kultur, of [...]

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SYRIAN DRAWINGS

Friday, August 17, 2012

It’s a rare and special thing these days for an illustrator to engage with political subjects, and looking at the amazing George Butler’s drawings from a recent trip to Syria, it makes you wonder why most illustrators even bother with drawing cars and cats when you could actually be doing something, well, amazing. It’s also [...]

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OBSERVING WITHOUT PERSPECTIVE

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Miniatures create a new world by abandoning perspective. Various spaces positioned side by side tell several stories in one plane. Levni, one of the most famous Ottoman miniature artists who lived in 18th century, was known for his humorous way of depicting women figures or the intrigued life in the Ottoman Palace with its festivals [...]

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HACK THE COVER

Thursday, July 12, 2012

The covers are dead!
Dead!
Dead like the record jacket!
Dead like the laser disc sleeve!
Dead like the 8-track cartridge sticker!
Dead like the squishy Disney VHS container!
Dead like the cassette tape insert!
Dead like those damned CD jewel cases and their booklets!
Dead like DVD and Blu-ray box art!
Put ‘em all in a box, burn ‘em, and sprinkle their ashes [...]

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SHOULD I?

Monday, July 2, 2012

Can’t stop checking your e-mails in every 5 minutes? Does something remind you a mail that may be sent from the office, while enjoying a beer? Here is a guide for you. Thanks to Metronomy who shared this illustration by Wendy Macnaughton on their facebook page. Maybe another version for facebook stalkers is a must!

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ANATOMY LESSONS

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Vienna-based sociologist Christina Lammer initiates an unusual experiment in a lecture hall at Charité hospital:
The auditorium is transformed into a theater space and plastic surgeon Manfred Frey, internist Michael Häfner, abdominal surgeon Peter Moeschl, and pediatric neurosurgeon Ulrich Thomale give lessons in the form of lecture performances and painting actions and thus provide insights into the [...]

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MOVIES REIMAGINED FOR ANOTHER TIME AND PLACE

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

What if movies we were all familiar with were made in a different slice of time? Who would be in it? Who would direct it? So here we are…

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NEW ILLUSTRATION

Thursday, May 3, 2012

This autumn will see the opening of a new and ambitious school called AID Berlin for illustration and image-making which in fact has been pretty much ignored by Berlin design schools as a field of study in its own right. As a little teaser, the school will run a series of exhibitions on illustration on [...]

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DODO

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

The first ever presentation and long-overdue rediscovery of Dodo’s graphic work provides a broad insight into an artistic life that was shaped by constant upheaval. Dodo, born in 1907 in Berlin as Dörte Clara Wolff, enjoyed a care-free upbringing in a wealthy Jewish milieu. Even as a young woman, she possessed an allure over those [...]

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