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This post relates to the previous one. It is another way of visualising the news by Rainer Beihofer. The outcome, in book format is really nice, especially like the graphic shapes.

“VISUALISING THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS OF A NEWSCAST

Ron and I developed a visual system by translating real parameters like responsibility, time, command structure, technics, etc. into graphic parameters. Based on a newly created matrix, we generated a huge amount of abstract graphics which are easy to analyse and miscellaneous to use.

We applied this process analysis tool within our thesis to create and illustrate a book about the development of the Tagesschau, germany’s most important newscast. Beside these graphics of the workflow the book contains all the necessary information about the relationships of the editorial staff and the influence each one has on creating the news of our daily dispatch.”

(via Balla Dora Typo-Grafika)

Nice project by Folch Studio.

“This project is a tribute to the individuals who write the headlines for a newspaper published in England called EVENING STANDARD more than three times each and every single day.

This platform including the typeface named TRIVIAL is created and designed to bring hand written and hand made calligraphy into an entire new context. In its core this is all about SPREADING THE WORD and dedicating trivial.

This project is a collaboration by FOLCH STUDIO and QOMPENDIUM directed by Albert Folch and Kimberly Lloyd for QOMPENDIUM.”

This reminds me of a project by Jonathan Puckey – The Quick Brown.

“The Quick Brown checks Fox News regularely and notes any changes in the headlines.”

(Folch Studio via Many Stuff)

Welcome to the magic flipside world of Norweigan photographer Rune Guneriussen. Here, everyday objects take on a pack mentality. They evolve, animalistic and social, into tribes and herds of living, thinking things. Flocks of phones. Gaggles of globes. Hunting them down and capturing them in their new natural environment, each image is more stunning and revealing than the last…

(via shape+colour)

Beautiful architectural and environmental photographs by Kim Holtermand from Denmark.

(via EnvironMental)

These are some really nice altered photos by Gordon Magnin.

(via today and tomorrow)

Jaw-dropping aerial photography by David Maisel. Taken from his website: “For more than twenty years, David Maisel has chronicled the tensions between nature and culture in his large-scaled photographs of environmentally impacted landscapes.” Enjoy some collisions of natural and man-made beauty abstracted by a master.

(via booooooom!)

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I am truly amazed.

In his new book, “Library of Dust”, photographer David Maisel documents one of the most other-wordly, enigmatic, and heartbreaking photo projects.

The Oregon State Insane Asylum, as it was first named, opened in 1883. While it operated until the early 1970s, some of the patients who died within its walls, unclaimed by their families, were cremated and their remains were sealed inside copper canisters.

With nobody coming to collect them, the canisters were placed in a room on long pine shelves. That’s where they’ve sat, some for more than a century…in limbo. Always waiting. When Maisel was first allowed entry he found that the canisters, neatly numbered on top from 01 to 5118, had exploded with patterns. Leeched and corroded and etched minerals traced their way across them, each pattern completely unique. 5118 human souls refracting themselves, through metal, into colour. On his first visit, inmates from a local prison were brought in to clean the hallways and other areas surrounding the usually-locked room of canisters. One of the men looked in and whispered “the library of dust.” And so Maisel had the title for his project.

(via shape+colour)

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I have just done a quick CSS design/layout for Harry’s website. Check out his stuff, its beautiful.

Varvara and myself have just returned from a little vacation in Majorca, thought i would share a couple of pictures we took whilst away.

I really want to go back to Russia this summer, have just been looking through photos of my visit last year and been remembering how amazing the place is.

[Photo taken summer 2007, Red Square, Moscow]