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WHOSE IS THIS SONG?

Friday, February 24, 2012

Whoever travelled the balkan region with backpack and sleeping bag might very well have met the locals and encountered the people’s love for traditional songs. Making music and singing is still very common in this region and even the cool teenagers don’t find it embarrassing to sit outside with their families and singing along to [...]

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TIME IS OUT OF JOINT

Thursday, February 23, 2012

The exhibition of  Boris Mikhailov is opening today at the Berlinische Galerie. The Ukranian artist’s works document the social disintegration, poverty, harshness of everyday life and the absurdity that comes with these situations, mostly in Soviet Union times. The exhibition shows a selection of works from earlier periods till now, including the works produced [...]

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SLOW COAST

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

I never understood why graphic designers don’t do more of their own projects, as the results tend to be great at times. For instance, when they decide to cycle around the entire coast of Great Britain or Ireland and document the weird and the wonderful along the way, with a slight faible for tradition and [...]

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NANO ORIGAMI

Monday, August 29, 2011

What is there to say about someone who will spend 10 hours on creating a 9mm flower out of paper? Someone like Anja Markiewicz, who has obviously taken the virtues of the Japanese Origami very close to her heart. It’s not for nothing her Flickr Page is called ‘Faltsucht’ – or ‘Folding Addiction’, where she [...]

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THE NEW TESTAMENT

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Wait, there is a new garlic testament?

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THE IMPOSSIBLE RETURN OF POLAROID

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

When in 2008, Polaroid announced that they would finally end production of their legendary instant film, they not only rendered 300,000,000 functioning cameras obsolete, it also felt like the final blow to analogue photography, in times when Agfa had gone bankrupt and most film and camera manufacturers settled on digital photography. But it’s sometimes hard [...]

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Schlagwortgewandtheit

Monday, January 17, 2011

Long before the word google was used as a verb, common-place was. Also, on a somewhat related note: There’s a fine “Für-lau-Gig” coming up in Berlin tonight.

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THE YEAR IN PRINT

Thursday, December 30, 2010

In case you happen to be a magazine addict like us, there is a nice little round-up of the year over at magCulture, one of our favourite print blogs, with an accurate reflection on this much-loved medium experiencing its own digital revolution, once again. And even more looking back from a slightly more American perspective [...]

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LUX ET VERITAS

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Says Hal Incandenza: “I do things like get in a taxi and say, ‘The library, and step on it.’”

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A PAEAN TO BOOKS

Saturday, November 13, 2010

If you are a book lover or any other print ephemera collector or you simply like to admire pretty stuff from early days, you probably already know about ‘A Journey Around my Skull’. This blog offers the best book covers’ art selection I’ve seen online so far, as well as a very rich documentation of [...]

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