EXIT-Deutschland has caused a stir among the extreme right with a Trojan shirt. The organization had T-shirts distributed at the right-wing ‘Rock for Germany’ festival in Gera on August 6th. The subversive intelligence of the shirts was only revealed in the privacy of the owners’ homes. This in from Deutsche Welle (the German news service): [...]

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I spent the first weekend of July as the houseguest of Lucio Passerini, Milanese woodcut artist and letterpress printer. On the morning of July 2 we took a leisurely walk a mile or so to his studio, Il Buon Tempo on Via Longhi. The weather was sunny but cool, unusual for Milano in the summer, [...]

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In Lubinje, a small, picturesque village of 3500 inhabitants, a few hours from Prishtina, the capital of Kosovo, members of the Trebesh community live in colorful houses. They also have a colorful custom - or rite - of "beautifying brides on their wedding day," writes Nita Deda in Kosovo 2.0 magazine. As part of their [...]

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The Soviet Union, America's ally against the Nazis in World War II, suffered around 28 million dead soldiers and civilians. Without this sacrifice the United States and western allies not have won the war. One of the battles fought was through propaganda. During World War II, the Soviet Union’s news agency, TASS, enlisted artists and [...]

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Since Kosovo is in the news for the current renewed border conflicts with its Serbian neighbors, it is useful to know that the country is more than a hot-spot for violence. It has a thriving design community with a robust design magazine, Kosovo 2.0 (and website). Here's what the editors say: Kosovo 2.0 pulses with [...]

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Continuing our periodic look at some of the more interesting and influential contemporary Dutch designers (so far we've featured Wim Crouwel and Droog), today we visit the studio of?Bruno Ninaber, who says his main source of inspiration for design "is irritation." A man after our own hearts. Ninaber is thought of primarily as a product [...]

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"Sky Park" Marina Bay Sands Singapore, opened on June 24 a new wonder of the world. It is located on the three 200-meter high skyscrapers, as if on three pillars. Here are the most expensive casinos, bars, restaurants, the largest outdoor swimming pool in the world. Read this from the Daily Mail: If you fancy [...]

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If you are a film buff; film ephemera buff; lobby card collector buff; or Mexican lobby card collector buff -- in other words, if you are a buff -- you should cut and paste the urls below to view an impressively massive number of Mexican lobby cards. 150,000 of them from the 1930s to 1980s [...]

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The inaugural Core77 Design Awards Program covers all the disciplines of international design and promises to honor excellence wherever it can be found. To inaugurate the inauguration Core77 has launched an event. And here's what they say: Join us in our 10-day celebration of design excellence, enterprise, and intent. The award winners are being announced [...]

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Australian type and graphic designer Tiana Vasiljev founded Beautiful Pages in June 2011 as an online store dedicated to the promotion and sale of a constantly expanding collection of quality graphic design related books, posters, magazines and DVDs. It was, she says, "created out of a love and obsession of books, paper, language and all [...]

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