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Twoninedotsix is a colobrative photography project and photographic documentary of Efe Mert Kaya and Maurizio Braggiotti. Efe is a visual communication design student in Istanbul Bilgi University and Maurizio is a photography and video student in the same school.(left to right : Efe , Maurizio)

twoninedotsix.com is a free photo archive project of my two former students from Istanbul. They have quite good amount of photos that has taken in different places by different cameras. Colors, compositions, content, everything looks very nice! By the way what the hell is 29.6?

• Petra Cortright - SELECTED UNORGANIZED WORKX
• Rare Cartography Book by Unknown - Portalan - - Unknown, (author) - - The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
• Information Expert Edward Tufte - When information needs to be communicated, Edward Tufte demands both truth and beauty.
• Logo.Hallucination - memory associated images for famous logos
• Web Typography Sucks - Slides and notes from SxSW 2007

And the thing is that we get very bored. Really bored. What happened to fun, to subversion, and to the idea of creating just for the sake of it? Does it ring the bell? Is this really the future? Turn off your computer. Close your eyes. Breath deeply and answer this question:
Would you like to restart the system?

So this is quotation from concept text of this year’s OFFF festival in Barcelona. Since 2001, OFFF is taking its place in art & design scene by aiming to bring people together who are related to software aesthetics, new languages for interactive & visual expression and so on.

The festival hosted quite important names during the last 6 years such as Amit Pitaru, Neville Brody, Hi-Res! and lots of others. I have already bought my tickets, arranged everything, I even submit some designs for this year’s catalogue.(You see one of them above). We are still waiting for the announcement of the full program by re:freshing their home page!

• Graphic Design from the 1920s and 1930s - 1920s and 1930s travel-related ephemera
• Das Keyboard - The Blank Keyboard for Demanding Users.
• Squidfingers / Patterns - Free to use background patterns.
• Meek~FM - typographic synthesizer - MeekFM.ORG - Meek FM is an interpretation of type as sound.
• Media Arts and Sciences - Open courses in MIT Media arts, MIT OpenCourseWare.
• Design Online - Design Online is electronic library containing a digitised record of Design journal for the years 1965 to 1974.

I just came across with the beautiful typographic designs of Mouneer al Shaarani. He is a Syrian calligrapher and his works are splendid and quite impressive. Maybe we should be looking for much more on different cultures other than western countries and popularized far-east. Thanks to all skillful calligraphers who are still trying to make it alive.

via ywft blog.

Here is another talented designer, Can Usta, from Istanbul. He is one of my former students and colleague when I was working for VCD. He has updated his website and the new version looks quite good in terms of usability and work organization. He has very unique design pieces and well edited photos. It is absolutely worth to visit. I hope more good work will come out from my former department.

Today, I received a message from my friend who works for Trollbäck company. He told me that they changed their website. Trollbäck is a NYC based motion graphics company which has a bunch of coll and elegant works. And the new website is just working, the simplicity, the clever interaction and easy to use navigation are the things that we are looking forward to see on the web. I also liked the implementation of tag system into a portfolio site, our minds are changing nowdays, we started to beleive that tags are much more better than categories. Greetings to Trollbäck!

• http://www.billbuxton.com/multitouchOverview.html - Bill Buxton, list of historical developments in Multi-touch Interfaces
• panopticist: I Gotta Have This James Brown Poster - incredible James Brown poster
• OhMiBod - Music Powered Vibrator. It will make you ‘feel’ the music.
• Spotplex.com :: Find most visited blog articles today! - Spotplex provides internet users with real-time ranking of blog articles based on actual impression count. In other words, you can find what is the hot news today, this week, or this month in real time at Spotplex.
• hillmancurtis :: 917 679 2725 - Design films by Hillman Curtis
• Flickr: Google Earth Game - matching google earth simulations to real photographs
• seltar’s snippet palace - snippets archive for processing

Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. The film is an exploration of urban spaces in major cities and the type that inhabits them, and a fluid discussion with renowned designers about their work, the creative process, and the choices and aesthetics behind their use of type.

The poster of the movie (you see above), so called, “Meet the cast” released. It is 27″ x 40″, litho printed and costs $20. It is designed by Experimental Jetset.

There is a new project from MW2MW called Gothamberg. MW2MW is a collaboration between Marek Walczak and Martin Wattenberg. Started in 1997, both artists work independently but come together on long term projects such as Apartment, Wonderwalker, Thinking Machine and Noplace. Regarding the project of Gothamberg:

Everyone who has lived in an apartment has a story to tell. Gothamberg is a place to read, interact and exchange stories of lives in apartment buildings. Together, these tales of sounds and smells, lobbies and bathrooms, laundry room gossip and unexpected favors form a single collective building, Gothamberg. Their experiences form the elliptical threads of inhabitation, a mnemonic quality expressing something of the shared nature of dwelling.

Other than this one, for my personal taste their history flow was one of the greatest projects in information visualization area.