February 2010
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Hilary Greenbaum
Some great work by New York-based graphic designer Hilary Greenbaum. She is the staff designer at the New York Times and still manages to frequently collaborate with artists and other designers on a number of projects! Some great 2 colour screen printed posters for guests lectures at the California Institute of the Arts.
What also caught our eye were some experiments under the title...
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Objectified.
Lets be a bit subtle here and you should ignore the words in blue below as you definitely won’t be taken to a link for Gary Hestwit’s latest documentary Objectified.
http://tvshack.net/movies/Objectified__2009_/
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Dr No Words
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Simply genius video. In this video Caleb Larsen has edited out all of the dialogue segments from the 1962 James Bond movie Dr No. A really enjoyable website to flick through and enjoy.
Other works such as The Entire Contents of the Pen 1,604 Linear Foot Drawing is also as simple and all work on the site is not based on any conforming design style but has an unconventional...
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“ADD US ON FACEBOOK, WE POST STUFF UP ALL THE TIME NIGHT AND DAY, SO GET...”
– www.facebook.com/recuperate
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Jaakko Pallasvuo
Meticulous drawing, watercolours, ink and collage are Pallasvuo’s ingredients for cooking up some hot visuals. You’ll find him working within the fields of painting, illustration, moving image and even his own comics. With a slight medieval twist to his visual style and undoubtedly an effortless blend of skill and imagination he manages to create something truly unique.
Run and look...
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WatchGot 2 minutes?
Then you should watch the first TED video which is a great short talk about every action having a flip side from Derek Silvers.
Now following on from Dereks talk we thought you might fancy watching a few more 2 minute TED talks.
Video Two - Lalitesh Katragadda on google map maker
Video Three - Richard St Johns on being successful
Video Four - Stewart Brand (a man of few words...
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One great free event in London. Super Colliders...
This months fair is a Polar Special and if its anything like the ones which have gone before they’re more fun than setting the chemistry lab on fire back when you were at school.
So if your in London on Monday and close to the Book Club in Old Street. Pop on down and hopefully we’ll see a few of you there!
Click the link for details.
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Bob Noorda 1927 - 2010
We just found out that the modern design icon Bob Noorda has passed away, he was the great age of 82.
He once quoted as saying “don’t bore the public with mysterious designs” and after reading up about him, Bob Noorda sounds like an incredibly modest chap and very much into keeping things simple. Which is easy to see when you look at his work, so i think its probably...
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Secret Wall Tattoos.
Secret Wall Tattoos = Remove a picture/mirror in your hotel room, draw something (preferably whilst drunk/stoned) Replace picture/mirror. Result, Secret wall tattoo + you instantly don’t care about being overcharged for using the minibar.
Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age has apparently being secretly drawing throughout the various hotel rooms he’s stayed in whilst on tour...
Van Doesburg
Piet Mondrian? Yeah I know him. Van-who?
Theo van Doesburg sometimes known as Mr Diagonal has a new exhibition in his name recently open up at the Tate Modern. He worked within the disciplines of art, design,text. Van Doesburg proclaimed that diagnoals are better than horizontals and verticals which he saw as classicising and old fasionshed he along with his (slightly more) famous countryman,...
BibliOdyssey
Are you feeling uninspired? We have the perfect cure, get some of this down your neck! BibliOdyssey is a blog dedicated to sourcing and scanning eclectic historic science and art images from rare books and prints. A simple mission to search the dusty corners of the internet and retrieve all these materials for little old me and you!
Here’s a few images to wet your appetite but you can use...
L.A Times - Online photo archive.
The University of California’s Library has online a collection of unedited photos from the L.A Times spanning from the 1920s to the 80s, and even if you don’t live in L.A hopefully you’ll be in agreement of the understated brilliance of this amazing photo archive.
Heres some of the good ones we’ve found so far..
Click here for the archive
One great free thing for your iphone - Wallpaper*...
Admittedly Wallpapers infamous city guides have been out for the iphone for a while now but at a cost of £2.39, which is really nothing to grumble about considering how great they are. But sometimes times its always good to get something in life for for free, and as you might have picked up Recuperate are big fans of worthwhile free stuff.
At the moment you can download the Berlin City Guide...
From The Pocket
From The Pocket
So ‘From The Pocket’ is a project by Chicago-based photographer, Jeremy Edwards. starting to sound just like another photography post? well all the images on his site were captured by using Apple’s second-generation iPhone with the iPhone 3Gs cameras, with the final images only being processed and altered using various iPhone photography applications.
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Jack Teagle
Jack Teagle
We can’t tell you much about Jack, but what we can say is he is making the nostalgic hairs stand up on the back of our necks. Pictured is ‘Heroes and Villians’ which is a collection of his 8x8 acrylic paintings. He is also giving you the chance to WIN the White Ranger painting by simply posting a comment! SIMPLE! We suggest you do so.. so click here.
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Eoin Ryan
Eoin Ryan
BOOM! today we have London based Illustrator Eoin Ryan. Describing his style as ‘Folk Wave Geometry’ in a recent interview, how could you not help but flick through his website? With a great eye for texture and colour this Camberwell graduate hits every nail right on the head. Plus we have a soft spot for the beauty that is Bjork at Recuperate and Ryan manages to capture...