_is it us or is everybody designing logos with lions or dragons these days? our dear ol’ Gopher looks so harmless!
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_after looking at all the images on Nick Harrison’s website you’ll find this message: “thank you for scrolling all the way down here”, nice!
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_studiofolk is the brainchild of French Illustrator Denis Carrier, featuring vector and hand-drawn works that fill us with joy!
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_the man behind the Indie Rock Coloring Book – graphic designer, art director and illustrator Andy J. Miller - is available for commisions!
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_check out this photostream by ‘P is for Philip’/Philip S. Maybe we’re bad internet detectives, but we couldn’t find the website behind the whiz!
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_the submissions for the 2010 edition of Curvy Book & Exhibition are now open. Curvy presents a selection of female graphic artists and illustrators from around the world.
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_Alex Varanese “is an artent believer in hard determinism” – perhaps it was fated that he would create a series of found art typefaces
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_it keeps happening: we choose a photo and after choosing it we find a thousand we like even more. Exhibit number n, the work of Luke Gregory.
_248
_yes, Marcel Dzama did the illustrations for Guero, but his artwork spans way beyond record covers. Did you know that he often employs root beer base?
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_every now and then we spend hours looking at pretty pretty fonts online. Today [ yes it was one of those days ] we liked Badona by the people of Gravitart. ALSO: did you know about the iKern service?
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_for those of you into music monday’s and stuff, here’s our contribution: Boompa, canadians and into watercolor websites.
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_Alberto Hernandez is a graphic designer based in London who is looking for a gig. Check his stuff out!
_238
_paranoia thursdays: did we post something about Michael Northrup’s amazing photographs? did we? looks like we haven’t… but we’re not so sure.
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_Jeff Hamada, is a “friendly Japanese Canadian artist living and working in beautiful Vancouver, BC”
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_Martin Klasch has a blog that is retro, nostalgic and smart. Oh space age, how we long for thine PVC promises.
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_friday and some geek fun: Anatoly Zenkov’s Mouse Path application traces your movements around your computer and by doing so, it shows how complex our day-to-day activity can be; do download ! pc and mac version available!
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Julia Haltigan has stolen our Gopher hearts without even knowing it. Tune in for a heavenly experience here, the favourite is “Goodbye Cowboys & Rocket Men,” but they are all gradations of the sublime…
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_on top of this words a detail from the Visual Communication of Ecological Literacy by the folks of Eco-Labs.
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_here’s something we love: creative publishing that is handmade and has numbered small print-runs. Duke Press, marry us?
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_the weekend is always a good time for freebies, this saturday: Quicksand, a free sans serif typeface by Andrew Paglinawan [ via Typophile ], enjoy!
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_artist and designer Bruno Kurru’s work isn’t “born from certainties, but from questions about what to do and how it should be done”
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_words by Seek and Peak: “I’m Brandon Schaefer, a 25 year old graphic designer. I make things, and am available for freelance and commissions. Please, no crimefighting requests”.
_216
_we’ve never featured a booking agency, but we just felt for the name of this one: Approaching Serpents, hey the even book Eliot Lipp!
_214
_this is Good William and the Eye of the Dead by Andy Kehoe [ makes us think in some bearded Bowie lurking in a wood ] [ can Bowie grow a beard? ].
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_today we’ve got a bad case of the nerds: we’re effing loving the obssesive Photographic Periodic Table of Elements.
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_Jesse Corinella is a dynamo. Check out his illustration/ design/ photography/ retouching work HERE.
_210.5
_looking trough the window, enjoying vodka with some friends and wondering how Sauerbruch Hutton’s building of the Hamburg’s Behörde für Stadtentwicklung und Umwelt is going? this is the last thing we heard about it.
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Freddie Stevenson will make your heart explode. I usually can’t get through the day without a fix. Don’t tell him I said that.
Stream his music on MySpace, or alternatively, listen and download here.
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_don’t know much about Choi Nam Yang other than she’s Korean and she has some pretty good work to her name.
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_we’re almost sure this is an indexing website by someone named Harsh Patel. Or whatever, we’re uncool, but his “drawer” is not.
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_Scott Jarvie “believes that the solution to any design problem can be assimilated by creative interrogation, research and thought.” Take, for instance, this chair made of straws.
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_how is it possible that we spent the whole 2009 without making a single post about Pietari Posti’s work?
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_Antje Herzog loves to draw in the Zoo. And she’s awfully good at drawing other things too. Also, adorable website.
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_what type are you? video test made by the people of Pentagram, apparently we are Universal [ via Gopher friend Siera ].
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_continuing with this bookish theme we seem to have going, Andersen M studios makes fantastic paper stop motion animation. Also check out this work for the New Zealand Book Council,
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_some of you have asked about Matt Kish’s inspiration. Here it is: Zak Smith’s illustrations for Gravity’s Rainbow.
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_that thing about following blogs in languages we don’t understand, this week: Janine Viveka does photographs and general linkage.
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_inspired by a similar project on Gravity’s Rainboy, Matt Kish set out to illustrate every page of Moby Dick.
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_we begin the year with a nod to our beloved [ and snowy ] London: the creative agency Airside is one of our favorites out there.
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_peruvian born, Oregon dwelling Santiago Uceda is a lot friendlier than he appears on his bio picture. He also makes beautiful posters.
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_this nice Line_A font (and a couple of other fonts) are available for free at Rodrigo Fuenzalida’s website! Also: Today is Gopher Editor Lope’s Birthday. Be sure to drop him some birthday love.
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_Tabitha Gwyn Osler lives in Halifax, but used to live in Vancouver. She takes pictures, draws, makes sculptures and jewelry, and we hope everyone in Vancouver is that cool.
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_Michael Latimer’s words: “I am a freelance artist and designer, I have worked as a creative director for many years for various companies, if you give me some pounds then i can do the same for you too.”
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_the fellas from hangar.org in Barcelona just released an online magazine featuring their resident artists.
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_no gifts under that tree? Fret not. Tao Lin is the author of Shoplifting From American Apparel. He also has a blog that is very funny. Go buy his book or read his blog.
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_for those of you looking for an agent, 2agenten is s nice German agency. They even represent our beloved Mario Wagner [ check out their store! ].
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_We Are The Friction is a book of illustration and short fiction created by 12 pairs of international writers and illustrators, published by Sing Statistics.
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_Spencer Charles lives in Salt Lake City. He created the packaging for his band on his kitchen table. Look at some more of his work here.
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_the posters that Paul Rogers has been doing for the Los Angeles Metro are so nice that they keep getting stolen out of the train cars. Also, check out his “name that movie” series.
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_Christina Ung retroactively affirms she left her native Bangkok for the Barbie Doll rich lands of Canadia. Her images are geared “towards young adults”
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_”your mind, a wild monkey” the website of Ommwriter told us. Oh yeah? well, your mind a bunch of 00101010110111’s, you, dumb website.
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_wow! the Gopher is featured on Kickstarter!!! we’re making our first edition and you can be part of it! go! go! go!
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_we may be a bit late in catching this, but Brock Davis makes something new and different every day.
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_the answer to a question we had for months [ and keeping the Dutch theme in this little blackboard ]: the wonderfull Jazz-a-Palooza Festival @ Utrecht artwork is put together by the people at Autobahn studio.
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_nerdy fan confession time: one day we would love to work with “Studio on Fire” design and letterpress studio. For now, drooling over BeastPieces will have to do.
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_it’s tuesday and we’re listening to Jenny Lewis with the Watson twins, and by “we” we mean Lope, ‘cuz Michu doesn’t like Jenny Lewis even a little bit.
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_what you see here is part of a campaign for MAMBO by the Australian art and design collective Rinzen. They have offices in Berlin, Brisbane, Melbourne and New York.
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_Greer Honeywill is an artist, photographer and sometime educator living in Melbourne, Autralia. We also like her work with birdcages.
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_Carolina Raquel Antich is an Argentinean currently based in Venice, she won the Italian Youth Art Prize in 2005, and exhibited at the 51st Venice Biennale. In recent years she has held solo shows in New York, London, Rome, and Art-U-Room @ Tokyo.
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_Scott Campbell is a printmaker, illustrator and musician and one of the founders of the Young Monster collective in Tennessee.
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_hey! Print Magazine is following us on Twitter, we just found out today, we looove Print Magazine and especially their index of competitions.
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_Jonas Bergstrand is “no lone wolf” – and neither are his illustrations. Very I Dream of Jeannie at times. (via GrainEdit)
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_Shigeru Ito is a Japanese-born designer who moved to Bangkok to be with his wife. Romantic, yes, but also very talented.
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_as soon as you enter the website you read: we have decided not to die. Bold statements in the Arakawa + Gins website.
_153
_from WIRED’s GeekDad blog, a cute little list: Top 10 Bad Messages from Good Movies. Oh stop it, you know I’m a sucker for lists.
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_we had no idea that the people of Lineto were behind the amazing typo, graphic identity and signage of the Köln-Bonn airport in Germany that we visited in April, thanks to Billy Ben for the link!
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_San Francisco Illustrator and Artist Maxwell Loren Holyoke-Hirsch has a show at Fecal Face Gallery righthisminute. We wish we could go.
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_Tohyto is a good old friend, and his work gets more amazing each day. You should check out the Wall of Light visuals he made @ York with the people of Wassergate, go! go!
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_Diana Marie Behl’s work references “memory and narrative… metaphor and humor” She lives in South Dakota.
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_we want to have a freebies section soon, just like the people of the Subtype Foundry or Font Shop or even Toyota.
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_not everyday you bump into a “wearable textile sculpture”, so kudos to Nadine Byrne for surprising us, even deep into the XXI century.
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_In her website’s own words: Emily L. Eibel wants a cabin in the woods, but for now, she lives in Brooklyn.
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_Michael Paulkner works around “information technology and new media as it relates to branding, communications and design.” We basically think he’s awesome
_137
_Miss Lotion is a Danish-born artist who resides in Copenhagen. Apparently she has some sort helpless compulsion to draw?
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_”and from that moment every time I hear the words funiculi funicula I remember Asako Narahashi“ said Mike over some wine this week.
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_ Lumadessa is Josh Brill’s art and design label, where he aims to construct ‘visual reinterpretations of life’. We like his birds.
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_Mikey Burton is a midwestern designer living in Philadelphia who “still wants to make beautiful things for awesome people.” This is his dissertation project: New covers for required reading. Double nerd joy!
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_we can’t believe we have forgotten to feature our friends of La Más Bella experimental magazine until today. Sorry Diego & Pepe !
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_Agan Harahap is a self-taught photographer and illustrator in Indonesia. He plays around with photos.
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_”Ji Lee is a polymath of all sorts of creative pursuits” says a 99 Percent interview, check her work at pleaseenjoy [ be sure to check the New Museum campaign ].
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_About 8% of the male population has some sort of color blindness. This website works to create web patterns for the colorblind.
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_her exhibition at ZingerPresents might be about to end, but we’re sure that Marijn van Kreij is up to something already.
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_“I can Read” is a picture blog with a simple concept: posting images with words in them. Kind of like PostSecret, but without all the guilt.
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_ Mauro Gatti’s website exclaims “Welcome, Stranger. While you are in my territory, no boring thoughts will fill your head.” We believe him.
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_amazingly, the sculptures that Jessica Fortner builds are even more complex than her illustration work.
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_Kim Sooja is a Korean-born installation/performance/video/everything-else artist living in New York City. Check out her work here.
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_All we know about George Myers is that he is a freelance illustrator and that he’s somewhere in the UK.
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_if you went to NYC recently and attended some undergound-ish concert, chances are that NYC Taper recorded it [ in the image, a set by Blood Warriors ].
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_Today (and tomorrow and forevermore) we bring you Julius Von Bismarck and his Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus.
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_the folks at NowNow [ Melbourne ] continue their series on studio visits, this time checking Dylan Martorell’s place.
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_ We were saddened to learn that San Francisco bookshop Babylon Falling closed shop. They kept their website as an archive
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_oh come on! How are supposed to become anything BUT an artist if your name is Stephanie Wunderlich ?
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_Central Office & Co. is in Portland, Oregon. We like their webpage, and we think you’ll like it too.
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_Marc Alcock’s website tells us he is a graphic designer who believes “design begins with ideas.” This is the result.
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_ just thinking that it would be so amusing to find a website that draws inspiration / makes fun of the head of Monocle Magazine, and bam! Being Tyler Brûlé.
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_today the Gopher is divided, [ divided ! ] in civil strife: those who like the work of Norwegian artist Kristian Hammerstad and those who… well.
_083
_We got this 1958 illustration for Canada Dry from the amazing canadiandesignresource.ca / you must go there immediately.
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_google a phrase you hear on the street and in most cases some artsy art appears! . This week: “were never married” heard on the subway / photographs by Jackson Eaton.
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_Philadelphia based artist AJ Fosik makes bears out of paper. They kind of make me feel like i’m in a very cool NatScience museum.
_072
_what’s the idea behind the Complete Publications in PDF Format collection ? some of the books don’t even make sense at all.
_067
_Check out this article by Michael Bierut, a Critic in Graphic Design, titled 26 Years, 85 Notebooks. Also, the Gopher wishes Lili a happy birthday.
_066
_if you ever drop by Cheltenham don’t forget to visit the Meantime Project + Space. On top of this words some work by Freya Gabie [ no link for her because we just can't find anything on the interwebs ].
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_Sarah Cain is an American artist living in Los Angeles. Her work incorporates doilies, sometimes. via ArtNet
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_we had no idea that Sanna Annuka was half Finnish and half English, although we did figure out that the Kalevala had some sort of influence in her work.
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_Jill Lin made the scratch-n-sniff version of everyflavor beans, and in gorgeous tiny card form. See more of her work here
_058
_not only do we enjoy how Steve Raura’s website behaves [ all smooth movements and stuff ], but we certainly like his illustration work as well.
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_Mark Silipo from Magic Sweater has a zine well worth a check if you’re into illustration: Teen Vomit [ and yes, we're not that much into the mag name ].
_054
_ok, ok, we swear is the last time we feature somebody from the Stephen Wirtz Gallery, but truth is that we saw the work of Alec Soth also at the CCCB [ Barcelona ] website. Some saliency syndrome happening around here, sorry folks.
_053
_Independent book publisher Lines&Shapes has just launched OtherBooks, which “originated for the sole purpose of publishing more ambitious book projects…” We like the sound of that. via randominspiration
_052
_since we’re still checking the Stephen Wirtz Gallery from two posts ago, we’ll like to feature some Deborah Oropallo today; also, her book Pomp was just released so you might want to check that too.
_051
_Cardon Webb brings his design skills to the aid of missing cats and babysitter services in New York City. Sharpies, beware. For his complete portfolio go here.
_050
_in Raymond Saunder’s work graffiti meets botanical meets chalk meets blackboard meets stencil, more images at the Stephen Wirtz Gallery.
_049
_Dirk Fowler’s work profile describes him as an old man stuck inside a young man’s body – who is not that young anymore. But look at these posters! via random inspiration
_047
_in the style of American paper-boys, rolled art pieces are distributed by bicycles in the streets to random passers-by, says the website of Papergirl, an art project that takes place once a year in Berlin since 2006.
_046
_just wondering how many anarchist / zine / activist shops like Irregular Rhythm Asylum are up and running in Tokyo.
_045
_ A few artists collaborated with cloudycollection to make a limited edition print set that reminds us of out parent’s childhoods. This one by Stephan Britt.
_043
_check out the Field Guide to Wild American Pulp Artists – because you don’t have a reason not to. This one by Leo Morey.
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_From the rare trove of unintelligible sources in the internets: the nonsense infographic here is credited to Viget via makenosound
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_We’re suckers for catalog-work, so we were thrilled to find the Museum of Flight’s airline logo archive. In other news of vintage interest, it’s Michu’s father’s birthday today!
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_if you drop by Morld’s website don’t forget to check the Human’s Favorite Color [ 人間の好みの色 ] project.
_038
_we know this should be in the Sound part of the website, but what the hell, we’re really enjoying Minger Records music these days.
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_according to her website: Johanna Dery not only illustrates but also makes short films, drawings, prints, little books, and occasionally music & papier-mache creatures; multi-tasking, Rhode Island-style.
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_Rip: a Remix Manifesto is a documentary about copyright and the current generation done by Canadian activist Brett Gaylor. Another example of his position about copyright is the project Open Source Cinema.
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_the Tour De France wouldn’t have struck us as particularly artsy, but photographer Brent Humphrey has made its sights his muse.
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_nothing visual today, just Daniel W. Drazer’s column at Foreign Policy and Tyler Brûlé’s one at the Financial Times. Airport reading you may say.
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_yesterday’s Jared was 21 years old and from Boone, USA. Today some Pekka Niittyvirta, 35, and from Helsinki. That thing about taking photos of people from behind them.
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_if the title is to be taken literally, the guy bending in the photo is a priest. More info at Jared Boger’s website [ can you believe that Boger is just 21 years old ? ].
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_ These seats are a part of Charlott Markus’ “Cinema de Erotique“. We guess these are shot in Amsterdam, where she lives.
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_the new week gets us thinking about color and gradient. Fitting our mood - Jordi Ferreiro [ Barça ].
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_we’re still wondering if the some of the portraits and landscapes by Lane Coder are shot in Polaroid.
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_and now that we’re talking about blogs: Boicozine was a project from Press Publish that we still miss, their new blog -just called Press Publish- is excelent, but has quite a different interface and feeling [ in the image some work by Beci Orpin featured on the PP blog ].
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_we had no idea that Adam Scott [ the painter not the golf player ] had showcased his work at Kavi Gupta Gallery.
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_Nathanael Rich of Slate asks why Scandinavians write such great crime fiction. RedRum in Oslo? (that legendary home of the accords) Click on the link for the story.
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_Here at the Gopher we love lists. Lists make up the geography of our minds. So when we found Webdesigner Depot’s list of 100 extraordinary paper designs we had to post it.
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_This is not a portfolio, but it is free content in easily digestible meta-format. Check out Chris Anderson’s Wired piece on why freebies are the future of business.
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_as if proof was needed that the editors of The Gopher [ Illustrated! ] spend a lot of time online [ particularly editors of the male gender who will will not <LOPE> name that tend to scan the interwebs for pretty tchatchkes all day long ] here’s a link to byAMT design, home of the Incredible Key-Shaped USB device. We were tempted to put a tiny picture of the I.K.S.U.S.B.D. here but decided to create an image instead, their [...]
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_last time we checked Richard Hogg he was not into making movies. Now he is. And yes, we still prefer his illustration work.
