After last week’s hiatus, M. Kingsley quips with a vengeance in this edition of Quipsologies.
Bilkent University, Typography II. Workshop 9, “Snow Letter”, 13.02.2006. Dare I say coolest workshop ever? [Via the equally cool Manic Snog Blog in Singapore]
Cue Mr. H. Simpson: Mmmmm… Earth Erotica… [Via Isopixel]
Knoll introduces the Grammar Collection, a line of textiles designed by Pentagram’s Abbott Miller. In three flavors: Filter, Switch and Merge.
The inaugural European Logo Design Annual (Eulda) is now accepting entries to be judged by a three-tier jury: Designers, Clients and People! [Via Dexigner Design Portal]
What costs five bucks and is everywhere?
At the service of Mr. Cheney
In Four Weekends you will receive dozens of INSIGHTS including:
— Ten Things Art Colleges Don’t Want You to Know.
— The phrase that will get every art dealer to return your phone call.
— The four highest-impact career decisions every artist will make.
— Understanding how Anyone in the Art World will work for you!
Don’t you wish they had one for design school?
Peter Saville sneaker. (via core77)
“You need to wear the costume, the costume shouldn’t wear you.”
Sometimes a piece of music can be the logo — Olympic edition
Annals of plagerism — Dr. Pepper edition
China Bans Animation Blended With Actors
Perhaps these would be banned in China, too. NSFW
The Anti-Phonetic Alphabet (via Plep)
I’m surprised Marian didn’t do this one first: Spiderman reviews Crayons. (also via Plep)
Those interested in the strategy of appropriation — a recent topic on Speak Up — may be interested in these works by artist Christopher Williams. Those interested in the blurry line between Art and Design may be interested in his 2003 annual report for the Swiss information and entertainment company Ringier AG (PDF file). His current show at David Zwirner in New York closes this week.
Kenny G is uncreative. No, not necessarily THAT Kenny G.
Arnold Schoenberg’s — no slouch in the visual arts department — take on research vs. discovery.
Benjamin took a much different approach, instructive for us in our post 9/11 crisis culture wherein homogeneity is circulated by reducing the world to a Manichean struggle between democracy and terror. He argued that, rather than taking a position that merely reacts to the media, intellectuals should imitate it and use its strengths in the name of revolution and heterogeneity. For this reason, he argued that criticism should incorporate aspects of film and, strangely enough, the most open media expression of capitalism: the advertisement. — from Menachem Feuer’s essay “If this Space is For Rent, Who Will Move In?”
But there’s a significant difference between the technophile’s ideal of what the Internet can be and the tools in place to traverse what it is. The Internet may be rhizomatic — but search engines are not. They’re selectively hierarchical. That poets are employing these hierarchies as poetic tools without questioning the implications of doing so (whether in pre- or post-production) exposes a lack of rigor in their process, as well as a tacit disregard for their own cultural complicity as something maybe worth exploring, or at least being aware of. And that many of them go on to talk in venerating tones about search engine collage (often referred to as �flarf’ or �Google-sculpting’) as a catalyst for poetic enlightenment as well as a revolution in poetic technique suggests a quotidian misreading of recent artopoetic history, most prominently embodied in John Cage and the various members of Oulipo. — from Dan Hoy’s essay “The Virtual Dependency of the Post-Avant and the Problematics of Flarf: What Happens when Poets Spend Too Much Time Fucking Around on the Internet”
John Welch reminisces about the IBM Composer and it’s role in self-published poetry.
The Confederate Flag in East Montreal
Depictions of Mohammed throughout history
A propos last month’s discussion on recent Coke bottles, here are some promotional cans from 1985 — recently seen on eBay.
The Spiderman review of Crayola crayons was too funny not to send out to a few friends of mine. Good find.
On Feb.27.2006 at 09:57 AM