Werkplaats Typografie
May 27th, 2008 •
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind.


Aral Sea in Kazakhstan.

Shipbreaking at Gaddani beach, Pakistan (still from amazing Working Man’s Death).




Steven Spielberg.
Yes, maybe an alien will come out of the light-emitting fridge and attack a sleepy little boy going to get milk in the night at his parents little bungalow.
Just a ‘curatorial’ thought.

Beuys, 1966, piano covered with felt and leather, 100 x 152 x 240 cm, Georges Pompidou Center, Paris

Christo, Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin, 1971-95

Hussein Chalayan – Airmail dresses, 2004 – André Morin, Collection Groningen Museum
o32c‘s ugly design has been much debated. i think it’s some of the best design by meiré und meiré. here’s some ugly design from academic journals i’ve always liked, especially the quiet appreciation of its authenticity and not conscious construction.




Swedish style banana from Our Legacy.

American style banana from Andy Warhol.

UK style banana from Wieden + Kennedy.
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Danish style banana from Asbjorn Lonvig.

Nice Adad Hannah show at Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain.
‘Adad Hannah was born in New York in 1971, has lived in the USA, Israel, and England, studied in Vancouver, and currently lives in Montreal, Canada. Primarily using video and photography, Hannah has worked on his Stills (real-time video recorded tableaux vivants) since 2001, producing and exhibiting them in museums and galleries around the world. His official website is www.adadhannah.com.’
Nice Japanese architecture studio. CCA is showing Japanese living stuff too.
Mathematical indexations.

On Kawara‘s One Million Years series.


Comme des Garcons number perfumes.

Martin Creed – Work No. 469 (whole ouevre is numbered)
There was a British graphic designer who took the length of songs and put the number (say 3.32) on t-shirts. I forgot the name. Was featured in Creative Review.
I like the idea of Comme des Garcons making a perfume to smell like a flower that doesn’t exist in relation to the idea of Borges making an encyclopedia of imaginary creatures (culled from world litterature). The parralel is interesting because the flower would probably only grow in a made-up country – a country that encapsulates the cherry blossom of Osaka, the smell of yerba mate and the boredom of a Ukranian steppe all in one – just like a CDG smell would (in terms of eclectic mixing), so there we go, the loop is complete, the implosion of the references becoming itself.
Euan Macdonald, “Untitled, (three falling pianos), 2006.
This work is very funny, too.
‘Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait’, by Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno.

Joergen Leth‘s film on Basque pelota. He also did Michael Laudrup (soccer) and Tour de France (bicycling).
Sam Taylor Wood’s sleeping Beckham.
Need more references. Anyone?