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Short and Snappy (No. 18)
 Popular culture is getting a serious look in at the moment in a number of Melbourne’s galleries and museums. At the Immigration Museum – Bollywood Dreams features the photographs of Jonathan Torgovnik. This is a lovely exhibition that goes beyond the glitz and glamour of Bollywood, offering glimpses behind the scenes of film sets, as well as the fascinating travelling cinemas. There's also an interesting discussion over at Andrew Haig’s blog about the typography for the exhibition. More popular culture at the NGV with ’s Tezuka: The Marvel of Manga featuring everyone’s favourite robot Astro Boy, as well as Sneakers: Classics to Customs. Ideas for sale! Order your copy of the Ideas Catalogue: Issue 2. The concept for the catalogue is simple – contributors submit their ideas and propose a price for them. There’s a whole range of ideas from the serious to sacrilegious – Madonna Cheese Cutter anyone? A great concept, well executed – get lost in Melbourne. More here. (Via 1+1=3) Melbourne’s Design Guide – I haven’t checked this out yet, but it sounds like a useful resource for locals and visitors Perth illustrator Shaun Tan has a new book on the shelves ‘The Arrival’. For anyone who hasn’t seen one of Tan’s books, they’re beautiful and thought provoking. I’ve been seeing them in the children’s section but they’re probably more suited to an adult audience. Drawings from ‘The Arrival’ will be on display at the Fremantle Children’s Literature Centre from the 5th of Feb to 29th of June. I keep coming back to this video at the moment – Royksopp’s Remind Me uses the visual language of diagrams to tell the story of someone’s ordinary day. What could have turned out to be dry and boring, turns out to be quite poetic. Watch it to see if you agree. Dumbo Feather, Pass it on (Via Bila + Design) Old school printing – The Art of Letterpress (Via Design Observer) More of the everyday – Gas meter set and Espresso machine set on Flickr (Gas meters Via Core 77) Business Week’s tips for the best innovation and design books, 2006 (Via Core 77) Draw your own cover ‘Material World is an interactive, online hub for contemporary debates, discussion, thinking and research centred on material and visual culture’. (Via the Attic) |
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