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Monochromatic Clutter

2012-02-09T10:40:14-05:00

Installation art from Marc Anthony Polizza.

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Double Exposure

2012-02-08T14:22:12-05:00

Beautiful in-camera images by Dan Mountford.

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kooaba Shortcut Feed Sponsorship

2012-02-08T00:00:00-05:00

kooaba Shortcut is a shortcut between real life and the Internet: take a picture of what you are reading in a newspaper or magazine and instantly get connected to the digital version.

Using image-recognition technology, Shortcut recognizes what you’re reading. Once recognized, you can share the digital version of the pages via Facebook, Twitter, SMS, and email, or store them in Evernote. This works with over 1,000 newspapers and magazines worldwide. (See http://www.kooaba.com/products/shortcut for a list of publications.)

Shortcut also works with advertisements in newspapers and magazines, and billboards with the Shortcut icon. After taking a picture of such an ad, you gain access to extras such as coupons, sweepstakes, or store locators.

With Shortcut you no longer need to type links into your phone, google for information, or cut out articles - Just take a picture instead!

Shortcut is available for iPhone, Android, and Windows Phone 7.

Fred Herzog

2012-02-06T22:08:44-05:00

“Two Men in a Fog,” photographed by Fred Herzog in 1959. See more mid-century photographs from this photographer here.

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Tom Darracott

2012-02-06T07:22:58-05:00

Portfolio samples from an independent designer and art director. More here.

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Do You Draw or Paint

2012-02-05T11:37:32-05:00

Matchbook advertisements from the 1940s and 50s recruiting art students. “The schools encouraged men and women to enter their talent tests and submit drawings for chances to win scholarships and earn big money.” View link.

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Robert Polidori

2012-02-04T13:43:27-05:00

The Faulconer Gallery (what a great name) at Grinnell College in Indiana has an exhibition of photographs capturing the ongoing restoration of the Palace of Versailles.

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Francois Truffaut

2012-02-04T07:22:18-05:00

“Film lovers are sick people.”

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The Adventures of You and I

2012-02-03T08:03:46-05:00

If you really care about printed media and want to see it succeed, then you’d probably acknowledge it must change in some way. The husband and wife team of Armin Vit and Bryony Gomez-Palacio seem to understand this better than most; they remain passionately devoted to paper goods but also embrace the possibilities of digital technology. (Full disclosure: they’re friends of mine.)

Their latest project, “The Adventures of You and I,” is a great example of this. It’s a beautifully illustrated and imaginatively written children’s book that you can customize for the special child in your life. That doesn’t just mean you can add the child’s name to the cover or even to the title, though both are possible. No, more than that, you can configure the central character of the book, changing his or her hair color, hair style, skin color and clothing color. The child’s name gets seamlessly integrated into the storyline too, making the whole thing uniquely personal.

This is a hint of what a healthy marriage of print and digital can be, not just in its configurability, but in the fact that “The Adventures of You and I” is a thoroughly indie affair, too. No big publishing house was involved in this production, both because no big publishing house was necessary and because no big publishing house could have done this so well. Find out more here.

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Vintage Vogue

2012-02-02T22:09:26-05:00

Scans from five decades of Vogue Magazine dating back to the 1920s.

Over 1,600 images. Amazing. See them all here.

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