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

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

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

“Using Helvetica is like cooking 🍝 spaghetti — a few achieve a world class dish, but most produce junk.” (C.W.)
Documentary film 🎬 maker Gary Hustwit has generously created free access to his work for the time being, muchas gracias 👍. So if you have missed the Helvetica movie, it’s now the perfect 🕰 to catch up. Under the second link below you'll find a free Hustwit film each week, until the end of March this will be Objectified, and after that probably Rams. Enjoy!
👀 Watch Helvetica
👀 Watch Objectified