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PROTESTER 2.0

Sunday, January 8, 2012

2011 was the year of resistance. After revolutionary movements and occupy waves, it is the protester the Time magazine declares as the person of the year. The accompanying essay by Kurt Anderson gives an interesting insight.

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IRANIAN ROSES

Thursday, January 5, 2012

We mentioned Port magazine before, and with its last three issues, it has matured into one of the best titles on style and life that combines writing of the highest quality with a great and sophisitcated design. So we were all the happier when they got excited about a reportage we did years ago in [...]

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AI WEIWEI ON AI WEIWEI

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Ai Weiwei gave a recent interview in the current issue of Der Spiegel, which you find here (alas, in German), talking about the accusations of tax evasion, his time in prison and the effects on his life. It is a moving conversation, and also an encouraging one, since it proves: In spite of everything that [...]

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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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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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BIRTH OF A NATION

Saturday, July 9, 2011

Today marks the birth of a new country: South Sudan which, after decades of civil war and atrocities that are hard to imagine, is finally becoming independent. Normally, this wouldn’t have meant all that much to me, but now it does, having recently finished Dave Eggers‘ What is the What, a fictionalized autobiography of Valentino [...]

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INCENDIES

Sunday, June 26, 2011

This week saw the German release of Canadian masterpiece Incéndies (in Germany released as Die Frau die Singt) which was nominated for Best Foreign Film at this year’s Oscars Awards. Set in the turmoil of the Middle Eastern conflict, it’s one of the most relentlessly crushing and impressive films I’ve seen in a long time. [...]

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FREE ON BAIL

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

China has released artist Ai Weiwei after more than two-and-a-half months of detention, state media announced.

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PORTUGAL TURNS RIGHT

Monday, June 6, 2011

After the election with the biggest vote abstention (4 million people in a country of 10 million) in the whole country’s history, Portugal elected a new right wing social democrat government.
The rain persists in staying lately, tourists are not as many as before, and the people seem generally lost and tired. EU winds of calm [...]

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protest kit

Saturday, May 28, 2011

In his just published Protest Stencil Toolkit Patrick Thomas supplies you with 46 die-cut stencils, plus a bespoke typeface, setting up a perfect toolkit for the graphics of protest. Any plans for the weekend?

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