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Selected news about graphic design, photography, film studies and media & interaction design for CV students at ECAL (Lausanne, Switzerland)
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Sasha Elage doesn’t edit his technicolour portraits of horses, he “paints with light”

Sasha Elage doesn’t edit his technicolour portraits of horses, he “paints with light” | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
It might be hard to believe, but Sasha Elage’s photographs of horses aren’t edited – the effect is a fine balance of coloured paper, manipulated light and stunning landscapes.
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Celebrities Kissing Themselves shows us just what AI and celebrity have in common – imperfection

Celebrities Kissing Themselves shows us just what AI and celebrity have in common – imperfection | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
On the surface, Bård Edlund’s series is an indictment of the cult of personality, but it is actually a showcasing of the standoff between the artist and the machine.
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PAC, the performing arts centre at ground zero, debuts its branding

PAC, the performing arts centre at ground zero, debuts its branding | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
“We needed to radiate mass appeal,” says Porto Rocha, the graphic design studio tasked with encouraging visitors to the World Trade Centre site.
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Peter Hujar’s Delicate, Devastating Portraits of Life and Death

Peter Hujar’s Delicate, Devastating Portraits of Life and Death | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition combines his intimate portraits of the 1970s Lower East Side artistic milieu with haunting images of embalmed bodies in Palermo’s catacombs
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Elizabeth Goodspeed on how signs remind us of design beyond the screen

On a recent trip to Italy, our US editor-at-large became fascinated by the myriad forms of “folk” signage on display. Here, she asks why designers find it so easy to fall in love with mundane design abroad, but not closer to home.
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Justine Kurland’s Intimate New Book Captures Life on the Road With Her Son

Justine Kurland’s Intimate New Book Captures Life on the Road With Her Son | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
As This Train is published by Mack, the photographer behind Girl Pictures talks about road-tripping through America with her son, motherhood, and why “images don’t have fixed meanings”
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Artist Daria Chernyshova lays out extremely organised works on paper

Artist Daria Chernyshova lays out extremely organised works on paper | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
Grids and tight graphic systems provide comfort and safety to this artist working in Berlin.
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The identity for the New York Times’ staff conference balances motion and legibility

The identity for the New York Times’ staff conference balances motion and legibility | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
The branding for the State of the Times event, created by CC Studio in London, aims to celebrate the breadth of content and media that the newspaper produces.
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IED is a global creative space for new thinkers, makers and doers

IED is a global creative space for new thinkers, makers and doers | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
With eleven campuses across Italy, Spain, and Brazil, the education network Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) is on a mission to champion, nurture, and foster the latest generation of creative innovators – finding the shared humanity connecting us all that sits below the surface.
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Embedded/Embodied – Sound as a means of obtaining knowledge –

Embedded/Embodied – Sound as a means of obtaining knowledge – | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
Embedded/Embodied unites ‘acoustics’ and ‘epistemology’, acoustemology to investigate sound as a means of obtaining knowledge, delving into what can be known through listening.
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Polytechnic’s publication design for Hospital Rooms amplifies its impact on mental healthcare through art

Polytechnic’s publication design for Hospital Rooms amplifies its impact on mental healthcare through art | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
The book explores the charity’s diverse artist commissions (such as Hurvin Anderson, Yinka Ilori and Shepherd Manyika) and celebrates its important work.
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"American Bedroom" Brings Us Into People's Intimate Spaces

"American Bedroom" Brings Us Into People's Intimate Spaces | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
Photographer Barbara Peacock has spent years traveling across the United States to get a glimpse inside our most intimate space—the bedroom.
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Related Images | "In the wake of emotions" on Notebook

Related Images | "In the wake of emotions" on Notebook | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
The animator Flóra Anna Buda shares part of her visual research for “27,” imaginary portraits of actual moods.
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Toaster-Typewriter – An investigation of humor in design –

Toaster-Typewriter – An investigation of humor in design – | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
Toaster-Typewriter is the first iteration of what technology made with humor can do. A custom made machine that lets one burn letters onto bread, this hybrid appliance nudges users to exercise their imaginations while performing a mundane task like making toast in the morning.
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Type knitter Rüdiger Schlömer makes fonts for screens and jumpers

Type knitter Rüdiger Schlömer makes fonts for screens and jumpers | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
An old project on soccer fan scarves opened Rüdiger’s eyes to the possibilities of textiles. Now he prototypes typefaces on screen and fabric.
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Katrien De Blauwer Interprets Le Labo’s Musk in a Series of Collages

Katrien De Blauwer Interprets Le Labo’s Musk in a Series of Collages | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
In 2010, AnOther collaborated with Le Labo on a fragrance that juxtaposed clean architectural lines with sensual ambroxyde to addictive effect. Here, artist Katrien De Blauwer celebrates the intoxicating power of the scent in a series of collages
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“The key is irregularity”: This Arabic font is made to accommodate dyslexic readers

Leo Burnett Dubai agency has partnered with Omantel telecom network to create the Maqroo font, which translates to “readable”.
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Raúl Cañibano is not a surrealist but rather a “documentarian with my own vision”

Raúl Cañibano is not a surrealist but rather a “documentarian with my own vision” | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
At the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, just two years after becoming a professional photographer, Raúl Cañibano joined a generation primed to document Cuba’s present-day struggles. He’s stuck with the mission for his whole career, and now offers a look into the islands future.
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gr1dflow – Exploring recursive ontologies –

gr1dflow – Exploring recursive ontologies – | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
gr1dflow is a collection of artworks created through code, delving into the world of computational space. While the flowing cells and clusters showcase the real-time and dynamic nature of the medium, the colours and the initial configuration of the complex shapes are derived from blockchain specific metadata associated with the collection.
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“A love letter to the football shirt”: The book commemorating 50 years of Admiral replica jerseys

“A love letter to the football shirt”: The book commemorating 50 years of Admiral replica jerseys | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
A new publication looks into the impact and legacy of Admiral, the brand that pioneered fan football shirts in the UK.
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Proto-typography: how type is dictated by the surface it’s written on

Proto-typography: how type is dictated by the surface it’s written on | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
Be it historical writing systems inscribed on leaves or entirely new mediums all together, we explore how, in typographic design, the medium has always shaped the message.
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Artist Arvida Byström Deepfakes Her Own Nudes

Artist Arvida Byström Deepfakes Her Own Nudes | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
As her new book of pornographic AI nudes is published, Arvida Byström talks about parasocial relationships, sex work, and whether or not it matters if images are “real”
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Middle East Archive’s new book memorialises the region’s passion for football

Middle East Archive’s new book memorialises the region’s passion for football | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
We speak to Romaisa Baddar, founder and curator of the archive about its third publication, which lenses the MENA region’s football culture and defies stereotypes.
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Galerie Caroline O’Breen : Satijn Panyigay : Nightcall

Galerie Caroline O’Breen : Satijn Panyigay : Nightcall | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
Galerie Caroline O’Breen in Amsterdam is presenting ‘Nightcall’, a solo exhibition of new works by artist Satijn Panyigay, who has been photographing temporarily vacant interior…
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On Intimacy and Self-Doubt: Paul Mescal and Andrew Haigh in Conversation

On Intimacy and Self-Doubt: Paul Mescal and Andrew Haigh in Conversation | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
From the set of Gladiator II, Paul Mescal joins director Andrew Haigh for a conversation about their heart-rending film All of Us Strangers. “I’ve tried to capture intimacy a lot, but there is something special going on here,” says Haigh
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