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17 février 2012

Leon Vidal

Leon Vidal
Portrait of a Lady 1879, photochrome 129 x 89 mm - made with twelve superimposed colour printings. Leon Vidal (1834-1906) developped the photochrome printing process in the 1870s as a method of accurately colouring photographs for quantity reproduction....
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6 février 2012

Book design research

Book design research
Le Corbusier as Book Designer: Semi-Modernity a la francaise by Catherine de Smet Le Corbusier -Charles-Edouard Jeanneret- produced thirty-five books which he authored, laid out, chose the format and the paper. Le Corbuser and Amedee Ozenfant founded...
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24 novembre 2011

Stefan Zweig, Irene Nerimovsky and Sandor Marai

Stefan Zweig, Irene Nerimovsky and Sandor Marai
I love these books for the cynical description of human relationships. Embers: Sandor Marai Describing the story of Embers is almost to do it a disservice. An elderly aristocratic general, Henrik, invites a childhood friend, Konrad, who disappeared 41...
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22 novembre 2011

Interdiction d'afficher: loi du 29 juillet 1881

Interdiction d'afficher: loi du 29 juillet 1881
Thank you to Jacques Mahe de la Villegle and Mimmo Rotella for each delightful minute I spent in the compay of their work. After weeks of work, brain-storming and stress... The essay is in its box. The research was fascinating and I enjoyed the time spent...
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2 novembre 2011

No more rules, graphic design and postmodernism

The products of postmodern culture tend to be distinguished by such characteristics as fragmentation, impurity of form, depthlessness, indeterminacy, intertextuality, pluralism, ecclectism and a return to the vernacular. Originality, in the imperative...
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