Horst P. Horst: Chanel Beauty
Chanel Beauty, 1987, by Horst P. Horst.
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Stirling Prize 2012 Shortlist
Six buildings have been shortlisted for this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize, including the London Olympic Stadium by Populous and ‘The Hepworth Wakefield’ by David Chipperfield, who we have the pleasure of working with for the Marrakech Museum (Photography & Visual Arts). You can see more of his nominated building, The Hepworth Wakefield here.
Hara Kiri
Hasving just watched the DVD release of Taakeshi Miike’s latest version remake of the classic samurai movie Hara-Kiri, I’m prompted (with thanks to the Movie Poster Of The Week blog on Notebook) to cast a glance towards the movie posters that have been produced to represent this great film.
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Charissa Du Plessis
You can see many more photographs of Charissa Du Plessis here.
…and I’ve added a few of them too from other editorials (not that I’m smitten or anything).
La Sardina DIY Edition Camera
The La Sardina DIY Edition camera comes in purest white along with all the tools you need to customise it’s appearance, including the right screwdriver, plenty of extra screws, marker pens and transparent front/back panels.
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Le Corbusier As Nature Intended…
While most blogs strive to post everything new, the latest trends, what’s happening today (or tomorrow), we also try to cast an eye backwards too – without sounding too grand, to inform and educate (if only ourselves!).
To continue in that vein, here’s a portrait of Le Corbusier painting a mural at Eileen Gray’s E1027 House, 1939. In the buff… naturally!
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Alfred Steiner
In running a graphic design agency, we get to see a lot of illustration and it sometimes surprises me that we don’t feature so much of it here.
…maybe it is just because we so much that it’s difficult to find something that really stands out; whether that be because the quality is just at some altogether different level, or whether it’s simply is that distinctive compared to the rest.
Maybe Alfred Steiner fits into that category.
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Pneumatici Pirelli
Bold use of colour and simple typography and layout in this 1963 poster by Massimo Vignelli for Pirelli.
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Karolin Wolter
These editorial images feature model Karolin Wolter, from the Berlin-based publication ‘I Love You’.
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The Master
I know nothing about Paul Thomas Anderson’s new movie, ‘The Master’, other than it he makes movies that I like and that it has a cool cast – including the equally constant Philip Seymour Hoffman – but what I do know is that the film poster is really great (and makes me want to see the film already).
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