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Archive for the ‘art’ Category
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Calligraphy Art
Thursday March 11th, 2010 0Look at the picture below.
Now take a closer look, and see that the cat is literally build up from the letters C-A-T, and – ofcourse – the same for the mouse. (Amazing right !)
This is the work of calligraphy artist Margaret Shepherd. An author of best-selling books about calligraphy and etiquette. For example books with [...] -
30 Bizarre Examples of Defacing Money
Friday February 26th, 2010 0We’re almost ready here at the jovoto HQ to call it a day, and jump into the weekend. First some good stuff to get a smile on your face before finishing the day !
There are actually a lot methods of individual expression today as compared to any other period within history. Whether you select blogs, [...] -
Now and Then
Wednesday February 24th, 2010 2Stumbled upon this great flickr account about a guy who made images in modern day locations, but holding old photographs of the same place within it. Homerun idea !
It seems there is a whole Flickr group who is lovin it to, check out the group here for much more of these pictures. -
TXTHYPE – Magazin für Sprachkultur
Sunday January 17th, 2010 2Die ersten 100 jovoto-Leser, die das TXTHYPE Postermagazin über service@txthype.de bestellen, bekommen es umsonst.
Mit TXTHYPE wollen die Macher dieses neuen Magazins die Lebendigkeit und die natürliche Entwicklung sprachlicher Phänomene beleuchten und ins gesellschaftliche Blickfeld rücken. Dabei ist TXTHYPE als Schnittstelle gedacht, die Sprachphänomene von einem Kontext in andere übersetzt und aufzeigt, wie verschieden und zugleich [...]
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Exhibition “The dream of the ocean” at Galerie RS21
Thursday November 12th, 2009 0Until the 29th of november you can see a nice exhibition in Berlin at the Galerie RS21.
The exhibition is called “The dream of the ocean” and plays with clichees of the sea in its images. The works shown are mostly polaroids with some holga and camera obscura images completing them. The exhibition is at Gallery [...]
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Art/Design Review – Illustrative 09
Monday October 19th, 2009 0Berlin has been practically wallpapered with the friendly CMYK-colored pencils that are the funky protagonists of the posters informing about Illustrative, the “leading international forum for contemporary illustration and graphic art”.
Of course, this is something jovoto couldn’t miss and so I went out to the beautiful venue of Villa Elisabeth in Berlin Mitte to [...] -
First crowdsourced magazine cover
Friday September 25th, 2009 2The Graphic design studio O.K. Parking from the Netherlands not only host this nice blog, but also publishes a magazine in a series of O.K. Periodicals.
Twice a year a new issue with a new theme comes out, in which the relationship between magazine, blog and internet is explored. The first edition was packed with extraordinary [...] -
looking at collaborative creativity in film
Thursday July 16th, 2009 2today it hit me that collaborative filmmaking is becoming bigger and bigger! Sure, it’s partly a momentary trend but I’m sure it will bloom and take on many new forms in the future. In a common form, collaborative filmmaking involves many users acting out the same scene. Then all these scenes are mounted together to [...]
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My Research Work Book
Monday July 13th, 2009 3I’m Glen and I’m a pupil at the “Nelson Mandela school” in Berlin. Today I’m at the Jovoto HQ in Berlin for a short term internship of one day. Once a year my school participates in campaign called “Work for Peace”. For this campaign the students go to work for one day and the money [...]
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Meet the neighbors: new gallery opens on our street!
Friday July 10th, 2009 0On a cigarette break a couple of days ago we noticed a new gallery right across from our office!
Kuma Gallery, as it’s called, is run by two women: Bianca Duclert is originally from France, and her partner Suvi Lehtinen from Finland and they’ve spent the recent years living in Brooklyn/NY. Obviously, the next logical step [...]