October 2010
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How would you draw yourself? A sketchy interview...
The other day I twittered about Elisa whom I share an office with (amongst others) here in Kreuzberg.We got together for a cup of coffee and chatted about what she’s working on, what I’m making a living with and how being creative in Berlin differs from London or Paris. She also told me about an interview she once did for design blog mat and me where she was asked to draw here...
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The work of a sketching addict roaming the streets...
My friend Philip pointed me to Oonas’s work. She recently started a blog with fashion illustrations - “observing and documenting the people and styles in the streets of Berlin”. I’m also quite fond of her blog which has a lot of sketches around urban stuff. Houses, people on the metro, musicians playing on bridges and much more. Oona on flickr:...
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Straight out of Berlin: sign painting, wall...
Last week I was at stroke03 and while my general feeling about this urban art fair was a bit awkward I also had a very suprising encounter with a guy called Ludwig.Ludwig is part of the designer and artist collective Klub7, based in Halle and Berlin. And the reason why I stopped and talked to him was this sign: I’ve been looking for sign painters around here for a quite some time. While...
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Graphic recordings from the "Future Of Journalism"...
Last month I was invited by the European Journalism Centre to join them for their “Future Of Journalism” conference during PICNIC Festival in Amsterdam.I’ve already collaborated with the EJC for the “Data Driven Journalism” conference in Amsterdam in August. Back then all the talks were about 10 Minutes long and we chose an DIN A3 format for the visualization. This...
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Finally! A good explanimation video that's not in...
You’ve probably all seen one or more RSAnimate videos (I’ve posted one on this blog back in March). There’s been a couple of very similar explanimations like this and this can’t find the other one now.Everyone seems to be digging that style so much that they forgot to do their own thing. While I do appreciate good products (and the RSAnimate vids are certainly great!), I...
