K In 2008 HappyCentro was invited to take part in a collective project around the concept of the 'Travelling.' The project was spearheaded by Scalacolore, a design community based in Verona, Italy. The challenge: Design a series of posters by taking a letter of an alphabet, looking for a selection of 10 cities in the world that starts with this letter, say which languages are spoken in these places, say where are you from and which is your language. The result: A handful of really cool posters. O V H F h/t The Logo Smith
After years of military rule books and hope are returning to Myanmar
After decades of repression and censorship the people of Myanmar are getting their books and libraries back! Since the military leadership lost power in 2011, the country has developed a network of mobile libraries to compensate for the vast network of public libraries that are in various states of disarray. Through the non-profit Daw Khin Kyi Foundation foundation, created by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and new leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, resources are being harnessed "to promote health, education and living standards". As you can imagine, little energy went to the development or care of the library system during military rule. The libraries were...
First Editions / Second Thoughts: A Book Collectors Dream Auction to Benefit Pen America
Outlined in ink and filled with a deep crimson oil paint, the words “PAST STUFF” have been hand-painted on the front cover of the third volume of Ed Ruscha’s Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings by Ruscha. Underscoring this work’s unique quality, traces of the brushstroke are visible in the paint, and the hand-painted letters have wavering borders. A red censor-like block has also been painted over Ruscha’s name on the text’s spine. The goal of the Pen American Center is simple and to be supported at all cost: To defend freedom of expression and to celebrate the literature that such freedom...
chromapoems: Text Visualized
The latest technology to touch the textual world is Chromapoems. Utilizing the software program, Processing, which "promotes software literacy within the visual arts and visual literacy within technology," Lola Migas translates the text from some well known works into radial graphs. Each word is represented as a block within each ring. A group of blocks in a similar hue all belong in the same sentence. The more frequently an uncommon letter is used, the more saturated a block becomes, which in turn affects the hue of the sentence. A new ring signifies a line break. [vimeo width="640" height="300"]http://vimeo.com/111263365[/vimeo] I can't wait for the...
Isabel Barbuzza’s Bookworks
Color Reading Color Reading detail Isabel Barbuzza was born and raised in Argentina and is currently an associate professor at the School of Art and Art History in the University of Iowa. Her interest lies "in the relationships between space, place, objects and materials in contemporary society and how through perception, thought and language we facilitate engaging with the physical world." Her work runs the gamut from artists books to sculpture to installation. Enjoy! Disasters of War based on Goya's "Disaster of War" - love poem blackened out with white numbers indicated disasters of war since Goya's time. The binding...