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Oliver Sacks
Posted in Things I love, October 25 2011
Beautiful covers designed by Cardon Philip Webb.
Matthias Heiderich
Posted in Things I love, October 25 2011
I’d fill every inch of my house with his photographs.
In the mood for data
Posted in Things I love, September 8 2011
Following on from my last post, my obsession with information graphics continues… I particularly love these visuals that strip the actual data away and leave you with just a beautiful abstraction of the original idea. This is a mood board I created at work for a client last week, including images by Hvass & Hannibal, Chad Hagen, Erik Nitsche, Marius Roosendaal and Metric72.
Measuring happiness
Posted in Things I love, August 23 2011
The other day I came accross this rather beautiful visualisation of happiness by Ben Willers, mapping his mood against various other activites and events happening in his life at the time. I wonder what mine would look like? It would definitely be worth the experiment to find out how much I’m actually affected by things like weather, income, sexual activity, what country or city I’m living in and who I’m living or working with. Of course, happiness is bloody difficult to measure, and god knows we’ve tried. But maybe we can take a hint from the nine-year-old protagonist of one of my favourite novels:
Jason Hindley at theprintspace
Posted in Things I love, Things I see, May 23 2011
This is a slightly belated post, having been to the private view last Thursday (May 19). Jason Hindley is a photographer based in London who is showing a lovely collection of photos taken in Japan over the last 13 years. He captures moments that we might normally dismiss as being mundane, but that recall a certain feeling of stillness, calm, warmth and familiarity (for anyone who has spent some time in Japan, at least). His photographs almost invite you to imagine yourself there, waiting at the amber light bathed in sunset, or listening to the distant dry crack of a baseball bat, the call of a crow, a truck rumbling past. Here there is a rusty old bicycle under a light blanket of fresh snow. There, a sheer pastel-coloured dress hangs in front of a window in anticipation. The 100 images on show at Familiar and Distant are available for purchase, with all proceeds going to the British Red Cross Japan Tsunami Appeal. The exhibition runs until the 3rd of June.
Joe Wilson
Posted in Things I love, December 7 2010
I went to the Blisters Blackout show near Print Club on the weekend and acquired a brand new screen print. In line with the theme of the show it has a secret glow-in-the-dark world that appears in the night-time. Thanks Joe!
Bad Things That Could Happen
Posted in Things I love, Things I see, November 6 2010
Tom McCaughan and This Is It have put on a great show at Jaguar Shoes a few weeks back and it’s taken me this long to put it up. If you missed the showing of their short film you can still watch it on Vimeo. The place was so packed that we had to watch it through the glass from outside. Well done guys!