Photo shooting session
This week we had a photo shooting of some of my work for this website and I hope to upload pictures very soon. This is a part of my Nouvelle specimen, more pages to come asap. Thank you Nataša!
Japanese calligraphy
Last weekend I attended a short japanese calligraphy course. We practiced modern and ancient kanji. Below is one of my early attempts to write yama (mountain) and kawa (river). Our sensei Shin Watanabe used an orange ink to correct our lines!
TipoBrda 17
On this year’s typographic workshop we carved letters into stone. Everyone was given a name of a typical tree that grows in the close area of the village where we stayed and we carved it on the stones that we found close to the village. Since letters carved in the stone are much more durable then anything else, we left a message to the next generations on what types of trees were growing in that particular area.
Origami
I just finished a 2 week intensive japanese language course. It was really great, I always wanted to learn the language and hopefully some day I can continue with studying. On the last day our teacher Ikumi brought origami with her and we could choose one to take home with us. I thought this little warrior was just hilarious.
In a dream
I can’t wait to see this movie. I fell in love with Isaiah Zagar’s artwork. “I’m somebody that wants to do what they need to do in their life. I’m an artist.” Hope I can get my hands on this poster some day:
Ex Libris
Years ago I was given a nice collection of old ex libris. Here I’m posting one piece. The art of ex libris seems to have fade away but I think it’s something that would really need some reviving. What do you think?
Zürich trip
I had another Swiss trip. My interview at Ecal went fine and for the rest of the day I decided to visit Museum of gestaltung in Zurich. They had an exhibition about robots, From motion to emotion.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
The art of Ian Hamilton Finlay is unusual for encompassing a variety of different media and discourses. Poetry, philosophy, history, gardening and landscape design are among the genres of expression through which his work moves, and his activities have assumed concrete form in cards, books, prints, inscribed stone or wood sculptures, room installations and fully realised garden environments.
Beautiful type by Koch
A typographer, a writer, calligrapher. I just love his typework. My favourite is ABC Long Legs (example below). His fonts are here, get ready to do some downloading.
Art Basel
Art Basel was great, lots of inspiration. I was completly astonished by graphic design in Switzerland. Whatever you see is well designed, although everything follows the same rules and can become generic at some point. I was a little bit dissapointed when visiting Ecal, a school in Lausanne – I expected a lively fun place, but what I saw was very sterile and uniteresting … I only wish to live in a place where I’d be constantly surronded by great design:)
The photos were taken by Nataša. This monster represents bureaucracy/paperwork.
