HELLO TYPE
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If you happen to be in Lausanne...
The XIe Journee Romande de la Typographie will take place the 18 November 2006.
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October 27, 2006
HELLO GOODBYE LADISLAS
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Ladislas Mandel famous French-Hungarian type designer recently died. Peter Gabor wrote a beautiful homage to one of the most humanist typographer who, while being asked how he conceived the font Galfra he drew for the French Yellow Pages said: "je dessine pour celui qui lit le moins bien, car les annuaires sont un service d'ordre social qui s'adresse au plus grand nombre" (I draw for the ones who need clear legibility and readibility, the French directories are made for everyone without distinction).
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HELLO YVES&KEITH
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Yves Klein did his Saut dans le Vide in 1961 and 40 years later Keith Boadwee Leap into the Yard.
Keith Boadwee is visiting faculty in the New Genres department. He studied at the University of California, Los Angeles in the late 80’s, where he worked with Paul McCarthy and Chris Burden, who have both been influential on his practice. Boadwee’s work achieved some notoriety in the early to mid 90’s when he was grouped with other artists who were seen as working in the arena of “identity politics.”
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HELLO OLIVER
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Oliver Laric makes funny things
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HELLO BECK&LAURENT
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Beck's Sea Change Tour poster by Laurent Fétis
HELLO BECK&JEREMY
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the four different art covers by Jeremy Blake (Art direction & design by Kevin Reagan & Beck Hansen)
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HELLO BECK&OTHERS
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So are designers better than random collagians? Do you think design or do you do design? Or both?
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Sea Change, cover art by Jeremy Blake (comes in 4 different album art cover)
Midnite Vultures, cover art by Yamantaka Eye (some collages by Michel Gondry)
Stereopathetic Soulmanure, cover art by ?
Mutations, photographs by Charlie Gross and Autumn DeWilde
Guero, cover art by Marcel Dzama (member of the Royal Art Lodge)
HELLO BECK&YOU
one of the many covers, seen on amazon®
cover art by fan
cover art by fan
cover art by fan
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Read the very complete article by Dimitri Siegel back at DObs on Beck's latest album Information designed by Beck and Matt Maitland/Gerard Saint at Big Active. The CD case is almost blank (apart from the sticker BECK in lineto's lego letters) and packaged with other artits' stickers so the buyer can create his/her own cover. Conclusion? You too can become a graphic designer! Und viva interactivity!