Topic: Art
I just came home after one week in Italy. Found some nice wine at Cantina Sant' Andrea
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I just came home after one week in Italy. Found some nice wine at Cantina Sant' Andrea
An interesting article on disputes amongst different schools of Arabic calligraphy. (via microsoft typography)
Muji Award, International Design Competition -- "Muji is launching an international design competition. A project calling for entries from all over the world of designs that shake up and stir people. The results will be announced at the Milan Salone. Our first theme is “SUMI”, We're asking you to focus your design, not on the major pieces that are central to a room, rather to observe the extremes of the space, the unexplored areas of consciousness. We invite anyone in the world to propose a new Muji product!"
ABBA -- "This is a reproduction box for the ABBA Dolls that were issued in the 80's. The boxes are the result of a special order for a collector of ABBA memoribilia. This is for the Frida doll." The full set of 4 is available from recovertoy.com
Vinnie Jones -- the Official Vinnie Jones website -- News, Pictures, Film, Football.
Read and study seriously, thoroughly criticize Lin Biao and Confucious. -- "Renzhen kanshu xuexi, shen ru pi Lin pi Kong." -- Chinese propaganda poster from maopost.com, printed in June 1974.
Posture for reading and writing -- "Du shu he xie zi zishi." -- Vintage Chinese propaganda poster from maopost.com, printed in May 1983.
Fountain Pen Cartoons in the CartoonStock directory at cartoonstock.com
Rumours have been circulating recently about the future of popular pen/pencil manufacturer Rotring, and fans of products including the Xonox and the Art Pen are concerned that their favourite products might soon disappear for good. Read more at the drawing club
Kransband - Xandra dekor & text - ribbons for funeral wreaths. Hand lettering by Alexandra Johansson, Hägersten, Sweden.
Wrong Wrong Wrong! by hcazorp for the Worth1000 photoshopping contest Childhood Renaissance 3. "Recently discovered: an early art project by young MC Escher." (via boingboing.net)
Thank You for Smoking -- "As soon as I saw the stellar titles that opened Thank You for Smoking, I had to fight the font freak in me from attempting to identify each typeface Shadowplay Studio used to emulate the look of cigarette packaging." (via typographi.com)
Identity: Best of the Best 2006 -- The results of the international contest of logos, trademarks and corporate identity. "L3, 2-nd place, Written Word Workshop, Unconventional writing program founded by Southern author and University of Louisiana professor Wiley Cash, The Decoder Ring Design Concern (USA)"
BDoubliees.com -- le site qui recherche les BD oubliées dans les albums.
Dave's Mechanical Pencils -- about his mechanical pencil collection and related things, and some thoughts on these.
Coca-Cola Blak -- New coffee drink from Coke.
Buzzcocks Flat-Pack Philosophy -- new album 2006. Listen to the title track at myspace.com (via the cartoonist)
Some say italic is the answer to America's illegibility. Read the story in Rocky Mountain News. (via moleskinerie)
Pelikan M-1000 Fountain Pen Review -- "Let me get this out of the way quickly. There is no justification for a $300 pen. Even if it's a $500 list pen you got from Malaysia for $300, it's still a $300 pen and $300 for a pen in the days where a Sakura Gelly Roll can be had for a buck is pure madness. Yet knowing this, I risked hard earned cash with a moderately risky purchase on Ebay for a Pelikan M-1000 fountain pen. $300 is a lot of money. You can buy an Xbox 360 for $300 or hire a driver in Thailand for a whole year. What would lead a sane man to spend this much money on a pen?" Read the review by Mike Shea at mikeshea.net (via moleskinerie.com)
Russian Nib Poster "All the USSR writes with the furthers", Unknown artist, 1929, from plakaty.ru (via Martin Klasch)
