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Schrank8 – Hansje van Halem

30 Aug, 2011

Schrank8 is a 1930’s showcase cabinet originally from Germany. It’s now part of the living room & studio of Hansje van Halem in Amsterdam. Every two months an artist is invited to fill the cabinet. In the picture above the cabinet was showcasing work from Job Wouters (www.letman.com). The cabinet itself is...

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Eva Kotátková

29 Aug, 2011

(Imitating the Mountains, 2005) Eva Kotátková lives and works in Prague, Czech Republic. At the age of 25 – she became the youngest artist ever to be awarded the Jindrich Chalupecky Award for young artists in the Czech Republic. The basic techniques that Kotátková uses in her work are: drawing...

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Paul Sahre

26 Aug, 2011

Work by NY based graphic designer, Paul Sahre. A selection of 2011 work at read more.


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Chair/ Chair – Eric Hu

25 Aug, 2011

Inspired by the American contemporary artist Joseph Kosuth’s work “One and Three Chair” Eric Hu redefined the concept of a chair by using alphabet. One is able to construct a chair by assembling the redesigned alphabets. (Joseph Kosuth’s “One and Three Chair at read more)


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Tamiya Conspiracies

25 Aug, 2011

  For Tamiya, a producer of plastic and resin kits for modelers,  Ogilvy & Mather Vietnam developed a print campain. Taking conspiracies  about Elvis Presley, Roswell, the Moon Landing, JFK’s assassination, and Marilyn Monroe’s death as a base. The one above features Roswell, the other 4 at read more.


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Marius Lundgard

23 Aug, 2011

A collaboration between Marius Lundgard and Barbara Iwanicka which was commissioned by the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (AHK) through the Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. It mainly discusses the notion that ‘everyone can have something valueable to say about art’ while demonstrating this statement by discussing the selected artworks by three contemporary Netherlands-based artists:...

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Porcelain cleaning bottles

22 Aug, 2011

We all know that you can use empty cleaning bottles as vases, but I didn’t know they also come in ceramics these days. Porcelain cleaning vases by a studio named Middlekingdom porcelain. I’m not such a fan of the matt coated layer, glossy white could’ve been better.  


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Filip Dujardin

19 Aug, 2011

Work from Belgian artist Filip Dujardin. Fiction meets reality with an extreme eye for detail. Check for yourself, a selection from the series ‘Fictions’ at read more.


DEADLINE – The animated Gif exhibition

19 Aug, 2011

With the first Exhibition around the corner (the 10th of November) it is time to release a deadline! The first exhibition will run from the 10th of November till the 31th of December and will feature printed versions of the animated Gif’s. So if you would like to participate in...

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Niko Economids – read-unread bookshelf

19 Aug, 2011

Niko Economids is a product designer based out of New York active in the field of product, furniture, and lighting design. The Read-unread bookshelf is constructed of leather straps hung across supports, Read-unread physically weighs the balance of books that have been read, against those yet to be read.


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Jerome Corgier – Is it still type?

18 Aug, 2011

Jerome Corgier from French office Pariri presents us their new typographical experiment, “Is it still type?”. This series is an alphabet of hybrid letters, a mixing of Arab and Latin alphabets. The forms which come out can make us think of letters , but they are no more letters really ; their meaning and concept...

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Bruce Usher

16 Aug, 2011

Work from Bruce Usher more after the bump!