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”A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.”
A massive thank you to all of my friends for the BIG weekend and for always being there. You are my family and I love you.
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(Itak da se poveca ce kliknes gor!)
image: www.identitythroughart.com
There is not much we can do but please take a minute to sign the Avaaz petition in case you haven’t done it yet. If there is as much as a glimpse of hope that this might help Tibet, it is well worth doing. If you’d like you can also read this post by Pia Jane Bijkerk.
Good morning ladies and gentlemen, I’m back in the smog. I needed to get a fix of fresh air and a reminder that life is freaking sweet. I still can’t quite promise to blog regularly because I’m homeless but I shall do my best to keep the stats up. A massive thanks with flashy rainbows and thousands of unicorns to Buda for the cabin.
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(photo by Hep, part time supermodel, part time couchpotato @ Sirarna)
Because I love you, and you’re all an inspiration :*
I’m so sorry people but my life is a crazy hell at the moment so my brain switched to error mode and will soon shut down or at least do the blue screen of death thing. Thanks for your understanding, I’ll be back soon. I think.
The Brazilian Icaro Doria has been working for the Grande Reportagem magazine in Lisbon for 3 years now and came up with these very original graphics. Icaro says: ”The magazine Revista Grande Reportagem is a Hard Journalism magazine, on the same line as the Times. The idea was to bring across the concept that the magazine offers profound journalism about topics of real importance to the world today. This is how we thought of the concept Meet the World. /…/ We used real data taken from the websites of Amnesty International and the UNO.”
/see the rest of the flags here.
This is a really good read for all of us, not only industrial and communication designers. People at Ideasonideas have put together a nifty article called Fuck style. In it they’re thinking about what style is vs. design and I’ll give them two thumbs up for it. It’s really sad how people can get massively effected by ’style’, forcing them to be ‘in style’ all the time, spending enormouse amounts of money to feel a part of a society/ group. And if you’re a designer/ architect and fall in that cycle - we have a problem. Design is here to SOLVE things, make life easier and better. ”For hardcore designers, “does it work?” is the one question that must be obsessed over. Really, this should be the case for any designer anyways; not whether it looks cool, and not if it can win awards. Hardcore design is about taking away the cute, fluffy stuff, and concentrating on what is actually accomplished.”
Caution: There are NO photos or pretty pictures- I repeat - no photos or pretty pictures. Just text.
Gaki no tsukai ya arahende, a Japanese TV Show. European shows have nothing on this. Not a freaking thing :D
This is a (said to be unfinished) student project that by no means wants to trash religion, claim that god is dead or blame the western cultures for all the evil. But if you don’t get that it’s pretty sad =) Check it out, the graphics are great.
I have no idea how I haven’t noticed this piece of brilliancy up until now. I’ll just make it a ‘better late than never’ thing and post it. Said to be written by John Cleese, it goes like this:
To the citizens of the United States of America:
In light of your failure to elect a competent President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately. Her Sovereign Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths and other territories (excepting Kansas, which she does not fancy).
