visual attitudes http://www.visualattitudes.com/blog/ A personal view on design, art and visual culture in general. en-us contact@visualattitudes.com (Oliver Wehn) contact@visualattitudes.com (Oliver Wehn) PHP RSS Feed Generator 47.5608827.599382 Almost Lost, Fortunately Found: Vivian Maier
Imagine you buy a box full of old photographs and negatives and it turns out to be a real treasure. That's what happened to John Maloof in Chicago. He acquired about 40.000 negatives and 1.000 rolls of undeveloped films of an unknown photographer at a furniture and antique auction.

He had no idea of street photography when he started to look through the work of–as he finally discovered–a Jewish refugee from wartime France named Vivian Maier. After she had moved to Chicago in the 1950s, she started to create wonderful photographs of the city's streets. ...

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Why shouldn't a producer of trendy alcoholic beverages be keen to make the world a better place? Why shouldn't a strong and renowned brand like ABSOLUT evoke an utopia of a world freed from any label to boost the own one? Actually I don't want to discuss those strange social approaches of companies and their branding strategies today. Or the often curious pairings of products and values. ... read ]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VisualAttitudes/~3/Ug11TG0MVPo/100-in-an-absolut-world.html Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:11:18 +0200 http://www.visualattitudes.com/blog/article/100-in-an-absolut-world.html http://www.visualattitudes.com/blog/article/100-in-an-absolut-world.html For The First Couple Of Years And for you to go through it, if you’re going through it right now, if you’re just getting out of that phase or if you’re just starting off and you’re entering into that phase, you’ve got to know it’s totally normal and the most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work. Do a huge volume of work.Although Ira Glass in the video I recently came across is talking about video production and storytelling, in his remarks the analogy to the situation I'm confronted with as a young designer who's up to start his career seems very obvious. So there's a huge volume of work waiting to be done, right? ... read ]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VisualAttitudes/~3/uJ4homiqQzA/99-for-the-first-couple-of-years.html Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:01:08 +0200 http://www.visualattitudes.com/blog/article/99-for-the-first-couple-of-years.html http://www.visualattitudes.com/blog/article/99-for-the-first-couple-of-years.html Blu Did It Again
I already posted some videos by Buenos-Aires based street artist Blu. And again he impressed me with one of his new motionpaintings he did in collaboration with David Ellis who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.


Entitled COMBO this video again produces the dense impression we know from pieces like MUTO. It's impressive how Blu and Ellis conduct the interaction between the imaginative paintings in a state of continuous transition, the spaces of urban dementia those living images are taking possession of and the playfully developing narrative layer supported by a minimalistic and well-directed sound-design. ...

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The thesis presentations are finished. My time as a student of visual communication has quickly drawn to a close. And whenever a phase of life comes to an end and great change is in the air, a time of retrospection and summing up begins. What did I learn? ... read ]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VisualAttitudes/~3/lr7AlveDe4o/97-on-teaching-design.html Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:51:42 +0200 http://www.visualattitudes.com/blog/article/97-on-teaching-design.html http://www.visualattitudes.com/blog/article/97-on-teaching-design.html Hello Hello, visualattitudes.com I'm currently working on the concept for an interview series titled Hello,. I consider this series an important addition to the content I usually post here as these interviews are intended for introducing you to attitudes of other creatives who work in the manifold fields of visual arts.

Focusing on topics like design process, the role of the author in the different fields of visual culture and the people's personal sources of inspiration, a set of defined questions will allow to compare and contrast the diverse interviewees' attitudes due to concrete and briefly outlining statements.

Of course I've already a list of candidates in my mind who I'll be apporaching within the next days and weeks. Nevertheless, if you know someone whose attitude you consider very interesting or you always wanted them to be asked some stupid questions: let me know! ...

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