UDK BOOKSHOP 2011 A group of students from different departments at UdK Berlin initiated a temporary bookshop to be installed at the 2011 UdK summer show. After 2 successful years, all publications released at UdK Berlin as well as a large selection of student publications will again be made available...
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Broken Dimanche Press is in a way similar to Sleeperhold publications. Every edition comes in a new form, a form which fits the content. I received some issues just a couple of days ago and from what I have read I really liked their selection. You can read all about them...
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The integrated lecture series is coming up, thursday 13 & friday 14th of October 2011 at deSingel in Antwerp. We are very proud to be in the program as well and will be there to give a talk!
A couple of weeks back I discovered Sleeperhold, it is a publication platform which will have a limited edition of 10 issues, so it is set to die. Every number is an experiment in approach / collaboration / distribution / media. There is no recurring theme, no recurring format, no recurring audience. An...
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The work of German Photographer Thomas Struth. A new exhibition opens tomorrow at the Whitechappel gallery in London and runs till the 16th of september. More images at read more/
Melvin The Magical Mixed Media Machine from HEYHEYHEY on Vimeo. A mixed media installation by Heyheyhey which records it audience, tweets, blogs makes his own merchandise and much more. Check out Melvin’s website here
Intertextuality a work from Ghazaal Vojdani, Alex Prior & Houman Momtazian. Representing three inter-related subjects (Time, Space & Fiction) through both private (Book spreads) and public (Typographical posters) formats. The private format is depicted through HTML, a language which cannot be understood by the general public but only those with the ability to understand code. Once the code...
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Markus Kayser – Sun Cutter Project from Markus Kayser on Vimeo. The Sun Cutter Project explores the potential of harnessing sunlight directly to produce objects. The machine is a low-tech, low energy version of a laser cutter. It uses pure sunlight, focused by a ball lens, to repeatedly cut programmed shapes...
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Yesterday I went to check out the Portable book fair – Berlin. A long black cloth draped on the grass in Tempelhof (the former airport) marked the vitrine. The past few weeks the organizers had launched an open call to independent publishers and editors to come and set up a...
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The Pop-Up Café is a temporary exhibition that took place last year from June 6 until August 2 at Meneer de Wit Gallery in Amsterdam. It was a place that looks and functions as a café. A place where you could socialize, drink coffee, experience art, read books & attend...
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DESMOS is a set of stackable stools made of bent stainless steel rod designed to question the idea of bonding. The manufacturing process is spot welding, which blends both parts to fuse both sections of the material. This has been crucial to define the identity and the formal language of...
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Helmo, the graphic design studio of Thomas Couderc Clément Vauchez.
The Portable Book Fair is an open call for independent publishers, artistic collectives, writers and the like to bring their own publications (books, fanzines, publications, object books, cartoons, etc.) to a certain public place where, all of a sudden, a book fair will emerge. The idea is simple: once a...
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Wonderful series by American photographer William Hundley. More images at read more.
Behind the Zines introduces a cutting-edge selection of international zines and examines their role as a catalyst in the evolution of media and graphic design today. The book presents the broad range of existing zines that combine thought-provoking content with compelling design : from project-oriented portfolios and (pseudo) scientific treatises to...
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Design office Overtreders W focuses on spacial design. I saw their project “Roof which goes up in smoke” on the DMY festival a couple of weeks back here in Berlin. It is an outdoor hang out, pick-nick or barbecue area and can host up to 40 people. A wood stove,...
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Nicole Wermers isolates the sources of visual fascination in the surfaces of modern design and architecture. Dissociated from their primary context of use and consumption, these visual aspects are presented as source of fascination and purpose-free desire. As their original function, however, is still tangible as a more or less...
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Just discovered Raf Vancampenhoudt, he is a Belgian graphic designer with a contemporary approach to graphic design. His work mainly consist of poster and book design for cultural events, lots more on his website.