a visual collective outlet of inspiration 
any one naming a pair of shoes after king tubby is good with me. mr. hare puts out some terribly nice shoes from that tiny island near europe, called england. i’m having flash backs just looking at these creepers. by dd
while we are on logos: the johnnie walker logo story
the johnnie walker NEW logo above and the OLD logo below
note how in the NEW and improved logo johnnie is walker from left to right vs the old logo right to left. supposedly some poor sod convinced johnnie walker that in the old logo johnnie was walking the “wrong way”! they spend well over 6 figures changing this logo and i must say the old one look better to this day. also I like to know how many people noticed or for that matter cared which way johnnie walked. all that aside black label is my whiskey of choice when on a budget. by dd
Hermes + Coach: isn’t it nice when people are simply happy just being like someone else?
which carriage would you like to be on? this is the result of either a hack designer or a loser client. you know, the kind that is happy being number two and feeding off number one’s crumbs. either way, it’s a logo design disaster not much unlike the donna karen / david yurman logo debacle created by mr. fabien baron. there is plenty of this out there. by dd
As always it’s all in the editing
some nice pics by photographer brian keith. the work is sporadic, but there are a few beautiful areas of light. by dd
charlotte perriand – photo to design
i’m sure this exhibition is allover paris and french medias but here in new york, not so much. that is a very cool one, not another perriand/corbu show with the same book that is not bringing anything fresh to the talble. here, curators at “le petit palais “ put next to each other the photographic work of miss perriand and pieces that result from it. really interesting! is it a bit naive if i say that i prefer some of her photos over some of her furniture…
“from the fish bones that prompted her ‘banquette tokyo’ to the reclining figure that inspired her ‘chaise longue basculante’, the photographs lay bare her creative process. perriand began using photography for preliminary studies from the moment she joined the le corbusier/pierre jeanneret studio as furniture design associate in 1928, looking at the ‘laws of nature’ in urban and mountain contexts, and many of the 380 photographs show objects discovered on her many walks.” via wallpaper
by pp.
Hellllllloooooo You!
hi. and here’s some more tasty work from marton perlaki. by kl
rob & nick carter – postcards from vegas
i think the following images belong to the category of the ” it’s so bad that it’s nice” or something like that. funny how men couple can achieve this level of suspicious taste, from gilbert & george to pierre & giles. anyway, this exhibition was shown in london at the “fine art society”, posh place indeed, where the contrast between the walls and what they hold might have been even weirder than the piece themselves… there is no absolute good taste, right?
“to create, this new body of work entitled ‘postcards from vegas’ the artists used one of only two remaining cibachrome machines in the world to enlarge the postcards, which are drawn from a collection the carter’s each collected as children in the 1960s and 1970s, to up to 150 times the original size. in addition, the couple have added replicated and reduced-to-scale vintage neon signs spotted on trips to las vegas.“
by pp.
Lina Scheynius: beautiful photographs
saw lina scheynius’ book today and it reminded me of how much i liked it the first time i saw it. her work, unlike jurgen or terry is soft, and kind. there is a feminine touch and void of the “jerky boy gets a hold of point and shoot” attitude so inherent in so many of the others. she still shoots with a 35mm camera and at 28 isn’t about to let that go. its a hard sell in this world of instant gratification with digital but there is something to gain at the end… if you can see that. by dd
super cars collecting dust: in the most unlikley of places
the ex shah of iran had a knack for exclusive sports cars (as one can imagine) and had a collection of rarities that were left behind when he fled the revolution. finally someone has managed to photograph the stable of cars collecting dust under the islamic republic. surely one day they will be only specimens with such limited miles on the odometers. above are a few pictures from the spanish mag that managed to capture it all. by xy
therese + joel
striking images from photographers therese + joel, recently seen in some show at float gallery in nyc. how come i never heard about those two birds before? by pp.
david downton
it looks like rene gruau, but it’s not rene gruau, it’s david downton. at first i couldn’t really figure out if the guy was still around or if he was 80 years ago, but now i know. the dude is not so old, just some really talented guy with a kind of classical vision. by pp.
Arquivo Brasilia
lina kim and michael wesely went through the 10,000 images documenting the construction of brasilia, this weird architectural project that came out of nowhere in only a 4 years time. from an era that hold dreamers and believers to us, everything is compiled in a book, 1,400 photos, step by step. some kind of must have here. by pp.
