the sea / in brighton

This is the sea. 

with my apricot-coloured jacket.

and some more nice things

(seen in Brighton)

punk / graphic / design

v i s i t !
SOMEDAY ALL THE ADULTS WILL DIE!
Punk Graphics 1971–1984

Friday 14 September 2012

 - Sunday 4 November 2012
Hayward Gallery Project Space

you should definitely see this exhibition

When was there, I felt like most designs I do and see are so "inhuman",
which means too much computer, so clean and not lively. So lets go back
to human! These thoughts are obviously affected by the work of Mike Mills, 
which I was watching last week. Later on -- more about him.

There'll 

probably 

be some 

music, but

we'll manage

to find 

a quiet

corner 

where we

can talk.

(finally, a nice quote from the exhibition) 

a lot of grey

It's grey. It hasn't been today but the day before yesterday and the day before
and the week before, too. When it is grey, it's not only grey, it is very grey. Surprisingly, it is nice, in a way. (Again, it fits to the whole story: In April 
this year I made the following posters during a workshop in Offenbach. In these 
days, I was preparing my application to come here. And: the workshop leader is 
one of my teachers now. Please continue reading with blog post 48.)

the posters come with a text on their back:

The world is much more than right and wrong, left and right, 

happy and sad, rich and poor, ugly and beautiful, 

high and low, good and bad, empty and full, light and dark, ... 

Discover the in-betweens and be aware of people that tell you the opposide.

new flatmates

1. Avocado orphanage

2. A guarding dog

3. The hungry frog

4. A sad potato

5. The garlic man.

beginnings

________

This is the first picture I made when I arrived here. 

I don't remember why I made it. Today, I wouldn't 

even notice this sign. The surrounding became normal.

When you are new, you see things in another way. 

I try to remember this view from time to time, this 

eyes-wide-open-curious-exploring-things-view.

books books bookshops

THE 
 

LONDON 


BOOKSHOP


MAP

_______

100 (!)

independent 

bookshops

_______

find a printed 

version of 

the map e.g. at 

bookartbookshop

pure beauty

most döner kebab
signs are very

abstract here

the leaf

mystery

Where are the people, that make designs like this?
If you see them, tell them that they are doing fine. I like it.
But: I want to meet them to get to know more about how
they decide that a writing pad should exactly look like this.

Home

My friend Alice send me some flowers. 

They make me think of the german autumn

 I will miss this year. And all these other

 autumns of the past and of the future.

brixton

brixton is at this enjoyable stadium of gentrification. it is still authentic
enough to be interesting and already discovered enough to feel save 
and cosy with pizza and latte macchiato. although it feels strange to change
it, while "consuming" it, it is really nice to be there.

...

 ........

for helena (turkosowy)

____________

Ping Pong

Thank you, Sebastian Best for making this spontaneous grafic-social-intervention-ping-pong together. Now, our studio seems to be much more cosy and we have spent an evening together with beer, pretzels and a shower of confetti. And, of course TAMPOPO. Besides, it is a good experiences to take things out of public trash bins as I did it with these newspapers. You feel bad and people look at you, although you are doing something good with recycling the stuff. I am going to train that.

riso print on old Metro newspaper

routine

Somehow, Oval Station is different. 

The pronunciation sounds beautiful. 

Sometimes, there is classical music. 

And there is Oval Station thought of the 
day. It is written by different people, 

as the hand script is changing.

Reading List #1

THE FORM OF THE BOOK BOOK
Edited by Sarah de Bondt and Fraser Muggeridge
Occational Papers (click here for more nice books)

7 essays about designing books and about embracing your ideas. We spent some time together last weekend (on a trunk of a tree, in a park, in the sun). One of those books, I want to own, after reading it. Small and handy, full of enjoyable content, designed for reading, something you like to hold in your hands.

Some appetizers: /(...) where does the designer draw the line between engagement with content and pure decoration?(p23)/Ideally, all books start with a question. The clearer the question, the more precise the answer, but this is rarely the case. You have to find out, what the question is. (...) As designers we are as responsible for content
as anyone else. (p85)/Design and content need to go hand in hand, like a perfect 
dance. (...) /Be clear who you are, what you believe in and do not try to be someone
else. Stick to your ideas. Embrace them. However impulsive or intuitive they might be, they are your treasures. Rely on the inner feeling that what you look for will work, that it will be alright. Use your imagination to make the book that does not exist yet. It could be your best book ever.(p89)

Rosemarie.

After seeing two children, who were giving their garden apples away
in front of their house and a desk, that needed a new home, this
was the third time I saw this kind of sharing things in my neighborhood.
Besides, Rosemarie is a beautiful name.

RIO Cinema/ Holy Motors

Contemporary Cinema
in traditional surrounding.

*watch Holy Motors!

The smell of friendship:

-------------A quince.-------------

One year ago, we had a magic weekend at the countryside with a couple of friends. 

Schulz found a symbol for it: The smell of a quince. It's very gentle, but 

it can fill a whole room. Yesterday, I bought this one and put it on my bed table. 

Thank you so much Schulz for this analogy.

back to big

(earrings)

ASPEN magazine (!)

The magazine in a Box 
Made a mind-broadening discovery in Whitechapel Gallery: ASPEN MAGAZINE.
I strongly recommend you to do some research.

*1965-1971 *10 issues *Art, Design, Music, Film, Theory *in a Box *every issue
designed individually *editorial Freedom *Andy Warhol, David Dalton,
Peter Blake, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Morris,Yoko Ono, John Lennon, Marcel
Duchamp, Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag, Marcel Duchamp, David Hockney,
John Lennon, Lou Reed, Quentin Fiore, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy …

LINKS

Exibition at Whitechapel Gallery 

11.09.2012 - 03.03.2013


Pat Matthews Gallery (Gallery 4)

First multi -media magazine and became a time capsule of the period.

! watch the video introduction

A portrait of ASPEN, the original magazine in a box. by Emily King 
032C Issue #6 — Winter 2003/2004 / Page No. 82 - 8
Aspen functioned on the principle of family resemblance rather than that of uniformity: there is enough in common between issues for them to be 
understood as part of the same body of work, but each issue is very different
from all the others.
Emily King is a London-based author, curator, and design critic
Reading Time: about 21 minutes.

! Overview and digital content of all the issues at UbuWeb
If Aspen was an art director's dream, it was also an advertiser's nightmare.

Prejudice.

english baguette & german umbrella 

In France, you will see as many people 

carrying baguettes with them, as you 

imagine. In London, you should always 

have your umbrella close to you. Really.

Hummus.

People are consuming as much hummus here as I would expected it in Israel. 

It tastes good with this fresh celery. 

(A beautiful addition to the brown-bulbous-celery-thing that we are used to eat)

New.

How I feel today.

Reincarnation

Dr Martens / redesigned

Not sure, if I am ready to wear Dr Martens again. 

Had some dark red classic boots when I was around 15. 

But as your viewing habits change by seeing things 

frequently, I start liking them again. The re-designed 

edition is quite nice, especially the velvety ones.