City of Signs 4
The recent advert for Sky Movies is beautifully shot across the Brazilian city
of São Paulo, that recently decreed to remove all billboards. It is inspired by
Tony de Marco's São
Photography
City of Signs 3
Closer investigation of Stephen Gill's website reveals an intriguing portfolio
of projects, including the Billboards project, contrasting the aspirational
messages on the front with the quotidian reality that lies behind.
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The Bastard Countryside
In a recent article
[http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/photography/story/0,,2224011,00.html] in the
Guardian, Robert Macfarlane and Iain Sinclair walk the perimeter of the 2012
Olympic Park, accompanied
121 images of Mies
At auction house Jeschke, Hauff & Auvermann in Berlin, on November 13th 2007 is
an auction of 123 photographs from the prewar ouevre of Mies van der Rohe. Now
my understanding is that
City of Type
London's Kerning, by NB Studio
[http://www.nbstudio.co.uk/londonskerning/index.html], is a map of London
composed entirely of type. The city is rendered as pure typography.
In contrast,