January 2012
24 posts
Swissted →
swissted is an ongoing project by graphic designer mike joyce, owner of stereotype design in new york city. drawing from his love of punk rock and swiss modernism, two movements that have absolutely nothing to do with one another, mike has redesigned vintage punk, hardcore, and indie rock show flyers into international typographic style posters. each poster is sized to the standard swiss kiosk...
Yann Gross
Enjoying the range of work from Yann Gross, via NYT article, American Dream in Switzerland?
30 under 30: Women Photographers 2012 →
one by Valerie Chiang
Enjoying this photography collection from photoboite. From the Forward,
What is it like then, to be a female photographer, to be a woman who has seized hold of an instrument of which she traditionally remains in front, and to use her eye to view the world?
…especially after having finished a re-read of Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
December 2011
37 posts
4AD 2011 - nice round-up of good tunes
Slipping into the new year
At year’s end, a wonderful time to browse Letters of Note and Lists of Note, and to reconsider how we value the post office. Perhaps as a proxy for how we have changed the way we have come to regard our relationships in general. (I would say that we don’t value them less, only differently.) One of my favorite books picked up this year, Words in Air, the letters between Elizabeth Bishop...
Wild Beasts walk the streets of Paris