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Category Archives: Berlin

Embroidered Type

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Evelin Kasikov uses hand-embroidery to render simulated halftone screens with CMYK thread.

Hand embroidery on paper based on Gil Sans Light, 594×841 mm

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Fashion from the East

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Images have surfaced from an underground fashion scene in East Germany in the early 80’s. Considered a lifeless, drab and highly policed country at the time, the photos of the period show a different style of life.

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Jordan Wolfson

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Congrats to Jordan on picking up the 09 Frieze Cartier Award.

Jordan Wolfson, Untitled, 2007

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Kazuko Miyamoto (+ Sol LeWitt)

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

A retrospective of the little-known Japanese artist just ended at the Exile Gallery in Berlin. From the press release:

Kazuko Miyamoto (born 1942) left Japan for New York in 1964. In 1969, she met the artist Sol LeWitt, with whom she engaged in a life-long creative and conceptual dialogue. The exhibition String and Thread begins with [...]

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Reviving a Radio

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Kelly Tivnan is a Portland transplant now living in Berlin. Her latest work involves taking found radios and turning them into furniture pieces. Contact her directly if interested in one of her pieces.

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Colors and the Kids

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Our favorite motion graphics designers in Berlin, Colors and the Kids, have a new site up.

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Drinking and Driving

Monday, March 16, 2009

1979 animation of Kraftwerk’s Autobahn by Roger Mainwood.

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New to neoliberalism

Monday, March 9, 2009

Stanley Fish offers up a rather cogent framing of the term “neoliberalism” in his latest NY Times column. It is fascinating how certain memes or watch-words gain currency in particular regions, but are neglected in others—”neoliberal” being a prime example. While littering academic journals in Europe and South America for the past two decades, the [...]

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Aleatoric Design

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

I’m a fan of what Andrew Blauvelt calls “relational design.” Not such a fan of the term, however. I’d prefer aleatoric design. There’s a nice example of the sort of work that I think this term describes well in Marc Alcock’s portfolio.

Photos © Marc Alcock

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Coraline

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

I’m pretty excited about the soon-to-be-released Coraline. Written by Neil Gaiman. Directed by Henry Selick. Animated by Portland’s LAIKA. The world premiere is tomorrow at the Portland International Film Festival. Oh and if you stay for the credits, there’s a code you can use to win some sneakers.

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