Read an excerpt from the book (in French). Buy the book online. Check out David’s blog 10 Secondes Tigre.
“Beastness” is the contraction of “fitness” (in a biological sense) and “beast”. It’s the name David Jaclin gave to the evolution of the relationship’s economy (“business”) bonding humans and animals since the dawn of time to the present day.
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Artist statement:
“These photographs of albatross chicks were made on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.
To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, none of the plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the untouched stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world’s most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent.”
To learn more, visit Chris Jordan official website.
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“Long before modern icon libraries like Helveticons, designers and sign-makers were forced to use a mishmash of symbols. Until the Helvetica man came along… — By 1974, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) realized the problem of using inconsistent symbols and commissioned the AIGA to produce a standard set for the Interstate Highway System, resulting in Symbol Signs. Sometimes referred to as the ‘Helvetica’ of pictograms (or specifically the Helvetica Man as coined by Ellen Lupton, and interviewed by Designer Observer), the project gave us the most common pictograms we see today. […] The AIGA team (which consisted of Thomas Geismar, Seymour Chwast, Rudolph de Harak, John Lees, and Massimo Vignelli) worked with designers Roger Cook and Don Shanosky to study the various pictogram systems in use around the world at the time, drawing inspiration from airports, train stations, and the Olympic Games.
A set of 34 symbols was published in 1974, receiving one of the first Presidential Design Awards. In 1979, 16 more symbols were added, creating a total of 50. Over the years, the symbols have become a standard in wayfinding, resulting in a set of icons we see and recognize on a daily basis (like the popular restroom and no smoking signs).
The copyright-free symbols, available for download from AIGA’s website, were released in the public domain and can be used by anyone without license.” (read more).
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Simon Evans was born in 1972, in London, England. He now lives and works in Berlin. In it’s March 16, 2009 issue, the New Yorker wrote about him: “The Berlin-based young Brit shows terrifically charming word works in scrappily drawn and collaged maps, charts, diary pages, CD covers, and what all. The mode is poignat recall” (read more: PDF)
He is currently represented by the James Cohan Gallery.
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 | The finding, published in the December issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, suggests that loneliness is not a character trait, as in “that person is such a loner,” but more of a state such as hunger, which evolved as a cue to motivate our ancestors to go find food. “We’re fundamentally a social species so we need others with whom we can cooperate and work,” Cacioppo said. As such, loneliness may have been a cue to look out for anyone who might ostracize you, he added. |
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Poster design by Cody Hoyt inspired by the book Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (1996). The poster was designed for the Kitsune Noir Poster Club which “feature curated prints by all kinds of artists & designers creating around central themes”. For the first round of posters, Bobby Solomon, editor of the blog Kitsune Noir “asked five of [his] favorite artists to interpret books they really enjoy into a print that will be a lasting work of art. The first collection of poster artists include Frank Chimero, Mark Weaver, Jez Burrows, Cody Hoyt and Garrett Vander Leun.” You can buy those posters over at Society6.
Follow the link to read an interview with Cody Hoyt about his creative process.
“Kitsune Noir is an art and design blog that dabbles in music, movies, food & fashion, all filtered through the brain of Bobby Solomon” Read more. Follow him on Tumblr.
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| The Vatican has admitted that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution should not have been dismissed and claimed it is compatible with the Christian view of Creation. |
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| Un être vivant ne s’adapte jamais à son milieu ou alors, en s’adaptant, il meurt. La lutte pour la vie est la lutte pour la non-adaptation. Vivre, c’est être différent. C’est pourquoi toutes les grandes espèces végétales et zoologiques sont monstrueuses. |
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