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Bembo’s Zoo

  • 07.06.2007

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A book and a stylish animal alphabet site with illustrations created from the letters in each animal’s name - by Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich.
Related: The Typeface Bembo - Pietro Bembo

The Book
32 pages
13.4 x 8.6 x 0.4 inches
Hardcover
Henry Holt and Co.
Publication date: April 2000

Gil, Zoé, Adrien, Karak, Erwan, Esteban, Amina, Aïcha, Rayan, Pinki, Anna, Thelma, Sylvie, Yakoub, Tayib, Jack, Nicette, Fatoumata, Barnabé, Nassim, Sun Xi, Hamza, Yuri, Lucie, Inès, Ayoub, Rosalie, … It’s for you!

Takeshi Nishimoto

Thank you Andy Warhol!

“Thank you Andy Warhol” , by Miltos Manetas, 2007.

Alec Soth - Dog Days, Bogotá

Dog Days, Bogotá, is a powerful series of photographs by Alec Soth.

My wife and I adopted our baby girl, Carmen Laura, from Bogotá, Colombia. While the courts p rocessed her paperwork, we spent two months in Bogotá waiting to take Carmen home.

Carmen’s birthmother gave her a book filled with letters, pictures and poems. “I hope that the hardness of the world will not hurt your sensitivity,” she wrote, “When I think about you I hope that your life is full of beautiful things.”

With those words as a mission statement, I began making my own book for Carmen. In photographing the city of her birth, I hope I’ve described some of the beauty in this hard place. — Alec Soth.

The Book
96 pages, 65 colour plates
22.8 cm x 22.8 cm
Hardcover
STEIDL Photography International
Publication date: July 2007

Type + Motion

Paper Four

UNKLE - Burn My Shadow

Thee, Stranded Horse

H.A.M.S.T.E.R.S. A.R.E. E.V.I.L.

An illustrated poem about death-hamsters by an 8-year-old Atlanta child named Shecky.

Zuse - Toast you can draw on

Le Grand Content

  • 01.06.2007

A Film by Clemens Kogler together with Karo Szmit.
Nararation is by Andre Tschinder.
The diagrams are inspired by the site indexed.blogspot.com created by Jessica Hagy.

Le Grand Content examines the omnipresent Powerpoint-culture in search for its philosophical potential. Intersections and diagrams are assembled to form a grand ‘association-chain-massacre’. which challenges itself to answer all questions of the universe and some more. Of course, it totally fails this assignment, but in its failure it still manages to produce some magical nuance and shades between the great topics death, cable tv, emotions and hamsters.

Lines

Justice - D.A.N.C.E

Screw Asylum

Flags By Colours