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Tag Archives: vintage
Megaphones
A composition of magazine paper rolls, done by a 10-yearsold pupil of the local school. It looks like a modern Léger, a message from a world where media are the new (industrial*) revolution. * a big theme in Leger’s work. … Continue reading
Posted in ART, EARLY WORKS, KIDS ART, REVIEW, TEXT
Tagged 10 year old, 1919, Amsterdam, comparison, composition, cones, fernad leger, interpretation, KIDS ART, leger, magazine, megaphones, modern, oil on canvas, painting, paper, print, revolution, roll, school, stack, The Railway Crossing, vintage
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Anna Karenina now
On the left from Creative Review one from a series of reissues of Russian classics, and on the right my design for the cover of a personal book. An idea that popped up when I saw the Tolstoy cover. Read … Continue reading
Posted in ART, Books, CREATIVE CAREERS, DESTINATION HAPPINESS, TEXT, THE FABRIC OF HOME, Things I made
Tagged animation, anna karenina, best, book, brief, campaign, cover, creative review, design, Design library, fabric, female, front, Image, impulse, leo tolstoy, London, Look, New York, page, power, publishers, seduction, student, text, title, toyboy, vintage
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PS | Pick Me Up #CARPORN
Nothing picks me up like watching a bit of vintage car porn. (By the way, have you noticed that porn is the new word for craze? Hair porn, fashion porn, trend porn mostly) These pictures I took at a car … Continue reading
Posted in CREATIVE CAREERS, everythingcar, PHOTOGRAPHY, PS, TEXT, TIME LAPSE
Tagged #, #carporn, advertising, Anomaly, Blog, car, cars the animation picture, colour, commercial, craze, design, everythingcar, faces, Fashion, fit, freedom, going places, hashtag, identification, inspiration, life, logo, mobile, mobility, model, outfit, own, perception, porn, PS, rationale, style, T-Mobile, vintage, VW, wheels
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A trip into yesterdays
This summer I visited the US, and on my way to the Grand Canyon I came across a junk yard. It was a trip into yesterdays. Beautiful patina only time can create.
Posted in CREATIVE CAREERS, DESTINATION HAPPINESS, PHOTOGRAPHY, TEXT
Tagged 50mph, ack to the future, Arizona, boat, bonnet, buick, car door, car plate, chrome, control panel, digits, junk yard, number plate, numbers, painted, patina, retro, road sign, rust, temper, text, true, Typography, USA, vintage, yesterdays
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Monday morning must do
Tell me why I do like Mondays. Well, because there are at least two fabulous markets in Amsterdam that are very much worth a visit. One of them is the Noordermarkt, in the Jordaan area. {The other is the Dappermarkt, … Continue reading
Posted in (B)OOST, TEXT
Tagged Amsterdam, Dappermarkt, Ghana, Glass beadmaking, Mali, market, Mingface, Monday, Noordermarkt, second hand clothes, vintage, West Africa
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