features 01.10.09 Metropolis M
Graphic designer David Bennewith has produced an amazing book about cult typeface designer Joseph Churchward (New Zealand). In this interview he tells about his 4-years research, which started at the Jan van Eyck Academy.
features 23.07.08 Clare Butcher
The youngest generation from "The School of Cool" let themselves be heard (and seen).
Design And Big Money
18/06/08 Louise Schouwenberg
Now that the market is in charge, there seems little left of the critical awareness of Dutch designers. No one still talks about the modernist ideals of affordable, good products or the postmodern investigation of the limits of design. Designers are diving en masse into producing one-of-a-kinds and small editions that find eager buyers among wealthy collectors.
Read more..Crypto Logo Jihad Black Metal and the Aesthetics of Evil
01/07/07 Daniël van der Velden
Death metal shrouds itself in the darkest of blacks. Deeply unintelligible guttural sounds, illegible logos – it is as though the bands are doing everything they can not to be understood. Yet death metal’s flirtation with absolute darkness in no way hampers its increasing acceptance in the realm of visibility, the visual arts. At this rate, the head bangers can look forward to a perfectly legible future in spotless white cubes.
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