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- MIKHAIL KAUFMAN: portraits 04/05/2022
- VUFKU 100 13/03/2022
- Rodchenko’s Birthday 05/12/2021
- MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: trainspotting! 11/12/2020
- MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: reflections 24/11/2020
- MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: the first cinema screening 24/09/2020
- MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: the film locations 29/06/2020
- MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: the film locations 29/06/2020
- Adriano Olivetti 27/02/2020
- Why is Computer Design stuck in the 1950s? 04/04/2018
- MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: the movie cameras 26/02/2018
- The movie cameras in Man with a Movie Camera 26/02/2018
- Apple Park 24/07/2017
- Archispeak #1 – TEA, Tenerife 11/01/2017
- Dismal Designs – Nikon D5 30/10/2016
- Delightful Designs – 1946 SIRIO Elettra II camera 10/10/2016
- Japanese Style 22/07/2016
- Whistler’s Haircut 27/04/2016
- Beyond The Dreaming Spires 11/04/2016
- Leica 1 Model C – The First System Camera 29/02/2016
- Blot on the Historic Townscape 21/02/2016
- Dismal Designs – The Hearing Aid 09/01/2016
- A Factory Filled with Light – Olivetti at Pozzuoli 13/11/2015
- Great Designers Remembered – Pier Giorgio Perotto and the first PC 28/10/2015
- Dismal Designs – New Google Logo 15/09/2015
- Miniature Masterpiece – Leica FIKUS Variable Lens Hood 03/09/2015
- Disappointing Designs – Apple Watch 18/08/2015
- Memorable Images – Henry Taunt 19/07/2015
- Duane Hanson at the Serpentine 16/07/2015
- Blots on the Cityscape – The Ruin of London? 15/07/2015
- Disappointing Designs – Alfa Romeo Giulia 07/07/2015
- Golden Silver – The Beauty of Nickel Plate 02/07/2015
- Delightful Designs – Arteluce Bean Bag Light 15/06/2015
- Housing Design Crisis 12/06/2015
- Blot on the Landscape – Close-board Fencing 10/06/2015
- Delightful Designs – Alessi Birdsong Tea Strainer 08/06/2015
- Miniature Masterpieces – Leica RASAL and ROSOL Frame Finders 31/05/2015
- Hiroshige at the Ashmolean 01/02/2015
- Blot on the Townscape #2 – The Blade, Reading 01/02/2015
- Miniature Masterpieces – Leica APDOO, WINKO, WINTU and AUFSU 01/02/2015
- Dismal Designs – Premier Inn 01/02/2015
- Blot on the Historic Landscape – The Port Meadow Scandal 09/01/2015
- Peter Overs – Emu Dreaming 08/01/2015
- Dismal Designs – new Mini 04/01/2015
- Miniature Masterpieces – Leica VISOR, VIDOM and VIOOH viewfinders 03/01/2015
- Alessi Makes Serious Coffee 29/12/2014
- Blot on the Townscape #1 – Oxford 29/12/2014
- Great Designers Remembered – George C Blickensderfer and the First Portable Typewriter 29/12/2014
- Constructivism in Tenerife! 19/12/2014
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Category Archives: Art
Rodchenko’s Birthday
С Днем Рождения Александр Михайлович! Rodchenko in his Productivist work suit, folded parts of the Spatial Construction sculptures in the background, c1924. Photograph by Mikhail Kaufman. Aleksandr Mikhailovich Rodchenko was born in St Petersburg on the 5th December 1891 (New … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Cameras, Constructivism, Design, Graphic Design, Leica, Photography, product design, Uncategorized
Tagged Constructivism, Photography, Soviet Union
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Adriano Olivetti
Adriano Olivetti in memoriam 11th April 1901 – 27th February 1960 A film about the greatest industrialist of them all: https://youtu.be/Ax_zKlnSxHE
Posted in Architecture, Art, Computers, Design, Housing, Housing Design, Personal Computers, product design, Typewriters, Uncategorized
Tagged Adriano Olivetti, Architecture, Design, Design Italiano, Industrial design, Italian design, Italy, Ivrea, Olivetti, Typewriters
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Whistler’s Haircut
James Abbott McNeil Whistler (1834-1903) was one of the greatest artists of the late nineteenth century, and the finest etcher since Rembrandt. An expatriate American, he had a huge influence on the cultural world of London and Paris, friends with … Continue reading
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Tagged Art for art's sake, James Abbott McNeil Whistler, Mortimer Menpes, Victorian artists, Whistler
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Duane Hanson at the Serpentine
The 1805 Magazine building (an armoury and gunpowder store) in London’s Kensington Gardens was sensitively converted by Zaha Hadid and Liam O’Connor Architects in 2013 into the new Sackler extension of the Serpentine Gallery, with a swooping tent-like addition in fabric and glass … Continue reading
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Tagged Duane Hanson, Hyperrealist Art, John De Andrea, Pop Art, Ron Mueck, Serpentine Gallery, Serpentine Sackler Gallery
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Peter Overs – Emu Dreaming
I recently bought a painting by Peter Overs, an aboriginal artist from the Kamilaroi people, currently living in Alice Springs, in the centre of Australia. Painted with acrylic on canvas, it is quite small, (300mm square) but I was really impressed by its … Continue reading
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Tagged Aboriginal Art, Emu Dreaming, Emu Dreamtime, Peter Overs, Quandong fruit
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