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- capsize0
Amzalag pulls out a prop from the shoot — a dusty sign with a hand-painted double M — recalling how the two set out with ambitious ideas about type, signs, symbols, the history of graphic design. “In the end,” Amzalag says, “she looked like a hooker.”
I like density as much as the next overeducated pompous failure but these guys seem completely fake and inauthentic. They do not seem to know they are for sale themselves.
- 7point340
nice read... it took a bit to get into, but at the end i really wanted to read more.
thanks, janne
anyone have a link to the serpentine gallery that they are/have created? the one i found seems to be the unremarkable one.
- janne760
capsize, you quit at the rietveld, or...?
- capsize0
I remember when this came out and thinking they were guys I would find really precious and when I reread the article things like this piss me off:
(“With this typeface,” Amzalag says, “everything looks very cute. Even a bad poem looks cool.”)It just tells me they equalize everything, flatten everything in order to arbitrary rearrange mere aesthetics according to whim and less.
Its a viewpoint but I find ultimately dulling and without contribution.or this which describes what I eman exactly: "To create the font Cesar, they commissioned a small child who did not know how to write to draw the alphabet."
- moamoa0
they had their own Gallery at the Art Basel 2005, which I visited, the work looks so much better in live, then on photos, some of their fashion stuff (especially Balenciaga) was absolutly groundbreaking.
- janne760
i apologize for asking a personal thing.