I visited a great restaurant/bookshop this weekend in Brussels called Cook & Book where you can enjoy browsing books and eating in the same place. Although we ran out of cash so food wasn’t on our menu, the concept was great. But above all, the large format ‘Berbères’ photo prints of Serge Anton welcomed me in. These photos run on A1-sized posters and sell for something like € 4.800 (which would make more than 6.000 USD ?). But the detail on this limited edition of prints make it worth every cent (You can also settle for the calendar (A2) which costs a fraction of the price). At home I tried Googling this photographer but the results were rather slim. The image below is one of the few I found which’ resolution was high enough. I guess I have no excuse but to return to this place for further investigation.
Just bumped into a nice poster which Jakub posted on the ISO50 blog in their ‘Images from where and who?’ series. It belongs to Horacio Lorente who has been designing several prints for the Ushuaia Shh festivals (a festival about mountains & art – how can this not give for amazing artwork!) the past years. The first poster you see here is the 2009 edition, followed by the one for 2008. But the endless amount of drafts he’s produced are also worth showing here. Also, have a look at his site to see the making of the 2009 poster and some more shots and other deisgns. Must say we recognize quite some of the elements and styles such as the dotted circles, paper linear burn, rays and borders. But hey, I’ll be the last one saying he’s mimicking ISO50 (see here to know why).
Very clever use of ‘pixelation’ by Mark Brooks which reminds me of some Soulwax posters I saw a few years back (for those who don’t see it – look at these images from a few feet distance). I’ve always wanted to have a look at the old printing process of newspapers when photos were still very pixelated black & white renderings (halftones), made up of hundreds of little dots still visible to the naked eye (as you can nowadays only find in smaller and low-budget papers such as my old university’s monthly). Love the catch phrase ‘distance yourself from the stars’ btw.
