Posts from — March 2011

Radiohead’s ‘sixth member’, the artist Stanley Donwood, wants to revive newsprint as an artform. Here he tells Jon Severs at The Independant why…

Vimeo announced the winners of their 2010 Awards last October. We have only checked them out this week. Nothing like having one’s finger on the pulse! Anyway, ‘Last minutes with Oden’ made us cry. One dog and a lot of love – and beautifully shot.

Chris Mullin and Daisy Goodwin battle out Kindle vs paper…

Class of 808 celebrates that golden age of Acid House. More drum machines than you can shake a shitty stick at. Check out the Centreforce mixes.

Sometimes you miss the obvious. This exhibition has ended – and we missed it. Fat use blogging about it then. Well, you’re right. But it’s one way that we can ease the guilt of not having visited a rare chance to see a graphic design genius’s work on show (and another gallery, or Kemistry, might, by some tiny, remote, outside chance, see this blog and decide that it’s worth taking this show on tour to a few cities including Bristol).

Two graduates, who quit finance and put job satisfaction before cash, have set up this rather interesting web site to help other high flyers come down to earth and keep it real by finding jobs that have purpose and meaning. Right on brothers and sisters.

Charts and graphs are a very useful way of displaying complex information in a digestible and engaging way. This diagram shows clearly that if you spend peanuts, you get monkeys, and, unless you are a zoo keeper or Michael Jackson, then what use is a monkey.

We stumbled upon Ibraheem Youssef, a Toronto based designer, when trying to track down some new (reasonably priced) stuff to go on the studio walls, (looking at framed examples of your own work seems a bit odd). Youssef has produced a series of lovely looking pieces; all ‘remakes’ of posters from classic films.

We quite enjoyed this random ‘tag’ right under a classic logo. Not sure if this was deliberate or not. Either way, it’s kinda nice.