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💤 Fight the boredom

Alright ok, another quarantine weekend has passed and we hope that you managed to chill out. Amazing: écal just announced a live talk with Mr. Jean-Luc Godard this Tuesday at 14:30 pm on their Instagram @ecal_ch. This will be in French, and definitely worth tuning in!
🔗 Follow here

It’s Sunday and we all need to chill out! Why not chill out while listening to KLF’s chill out classic ”Chill Out”? — Sorry what, you have never heard of the KLF? The Kopyright Liberation Front a.k.a the Kings of Low Frequency had a couple of No. 1 chart hits in the 90ies, wrote a book about how to have a No. 1 hit the easy way, and made a loooot of 💰 money 💵 through their music. They also spent a looooot of 💰 in the most controversial ways, e.g. by burning GBP 1’000’000 in a fire 🔥 while filming 📹 it or by rewarding Rachel Whiteread with a dubious award of GBP 40’000 for ”worst artist of the year“, right after she’s won a Turner Prize of GBP 20’000 for ”best artist of the year“. These days, people don’t do that kind of crazy/funny stuff no more!
👂 Download ”Chill Out”
👀 Watch ”The K Foundation Burn a Million Quid“
🎧 Listen to “3 A.M. Eternal”
🤓 the-manual-how-to-have-a-number-one-the-easy-way.pdf

You are privileged. Just reading this sentence makes you part of the 85% of the 🌏🌍🌎 population that is literate, the 20% that understands 🇬🇧 English, and the 40% that has access to the 💻 internet. Visual communication is not an even playing field, but is dominated by the urban regions, primarily in the Northern hemisphere. The design of visual communication is shaped by the designers’ cultural and political bias. Designers themselves are often unaware of this. Ruben Pater’s book The Politics of Design shows the cultural and political bias of visual communication using visual examples.
👀 Watch Ruben’s Walker Art Center Lecture
🔘 Check out Ruben’s Website

The Bravo archiv team asked themselves how they could make a small contribution to make these difficult times a little bit nicer. Therefore they made their BRAVO issues available for free ✨. And to make sure that every generation gets something out of it, there is one issue from each year. From 1956 to 1994 you can download the first issue free of charge. Furthermore there is a BRAVO star cut 🕺. So once again dig out the scissors ✂️ and glue sticks and start tinkering!
📖 Hop in the time machine

Not only in times of a crises 🦠 are our lives are dominated by an ever growing consumption of 📰 news media, both fake and real and everything in ➰ between. Roughly 25 years ago, German filmmaker 🎥 Harun Farocki sat down with Czech-born philosopher, writer and journalist Vilém Flusser (👓 & 🕶) to discuss the front page of Germany’s leading tabloid newspaper Bild. The resulting 13 minutes film is a fascinating conversation about the power of media, the relationship between image and text and therefore about graphic design in general.
👀 schlagworte-schlagbilder.mkv

Y’all must be bored by now from listening to too much SRF 1️⃣, 2️⃣, and 3️⃣ (mostly 3️⃣ = 🤢!). With a bit of luck you’ll catch Couleur 3 at your house, but even then… Radio Garden collects over 8000 radio 📡 stations from all over the 🌎🌍🌏. Just spin the globe and teleport yourself to the destination of your choice. Developed by 👍 Jonathan Puckey, running on ❤️ Kirby.
👂Listen here

Ok, so we all spend the majority of our ⏱ inside apartments or — if you’re lucky — houses, surrounded by things. This might as well be the best moment to dive into the book Arranging Things — A Rethoric of Object Placement, simply and beautifully written by Leonard Koren alongside equally charming paintings by Nathalie du Pasquier. Arranging Things considers the placement of objects in three-dimensional composition as a form of rhetoric: persuasive communication. In the 70ies, Koren published the now infamous magazine 💧 WET — The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing 🛀, perfectly archived here. Nathalie du Pasquier is a designer, sculptor and painter as well as one of the founding members of the Memphis movement. Should you not be familiar with her work, then A) shame on you and B) now is the time to catch up!
🔎 arranging-things.pdf

Why not skip ◎ Tatort ◉ tonight and watch “Umbruch” by Hans-Ulrich Schlumpf instead? The year is 1985, and Akeret AG in Bassersdorf, a printer and publisher of a small local 📰, exchanges its Lintotype department with cutting-edge photo-typesetting machinery, much to the chagrin of its employees. Shortly after, Ruppert Murdoch fires more than 5000 printers and typesetters in London 🇬🇧 because they were on strike ✊ against the introduction of the new typesetting and printing technology. “Umbruch” is a unique document, and with 🎥 by Pio Corradi and 🎵 by Bruno Spoerri, what’s more to ask?
👀 Watch here

Herb Lubalin (1918–1981) was one of the most prolific 🇺🇸 American designers of the 20th century and many of his typefaces and logos are still widely in use today. After his death, he donated his vast collection of works of post-war graphic design to the Cooper Union in NY who transformed it into a generous and productive archive, the Lubalin Study Center. At this center you'll find, amongst many other things, huge file cabinets, and they let you open the Sandberg drawer, which is right on top of the Vignelli drawer, etc. Unfortunately we cannot go to NY right now, but we can browse their Flickr (yes!) albums of type specimens and other gems. Bravo!
👀 Browse here