Today Goodwood Festval of Speed, sculptures- A Sussex stately home is an unlikely place to find truly extravagant modernist imagery. Yet ever since 1997, Goodwood House has played host to a series of extravagantly bold sculptures, of a scale and ambition that evokes the mighty monuments of Soviet-era Russia or the fevered visions of science fiction speculators. Marking the entrance and start to the Goodwood Festival of…... (more)
- Today Kraftwerk perform at MIF, Manchester
- A smarter match of bill and venue is hard to imagine. The 2nd Manchester International Festival opened last night with a double header of American minimalist composer Steve Reich and German electro-pop pioneers Kraftwerk at the cityÂs Velodrome.
See more images from the spectacular performance last night at Manchester's Velodrome
Built in the mid 1990s, the Velodrome…... (more)
- Yesterday RCA graduate show: Vehicle design
- What we drive in the next decade is more or less born conceptually from within the walls of the RCA, thanks to its celebrated vehicle design course that continues to produce many of the thinkers and innovators in the automotive world.
This year is no exception. If anything, the young designers have had to explore beyond the confines of what can, at times, be a rather narrow…... (more)
- Yesterday Men's S/S10 fashion show venues
- Every fashion week the presentation of the presentation is key and venue choices are as important as ever. The latest men's collections in Paris and Milan were certainly no exception. From Moncler Gamme Bleu's commandeering of the Piscina Cozzi to DSquared's recreation of a campsite - the venues were talked about almost more than clothes.
See a round-up of our favourite…... (more)
- 3 days Transitory Objects exhibition, Vienna
- With mini-dwellings and public pavilions springing up everywhere (take for instance SANAA's pavilion for the Serpentine Gallery, which is currently under construction), architectural art spaces and semi-buildings are writing a new language for architects around the world.
Taking this cross-pollinatory shift between art and architecture as its cue, Vienna's Thyssen Bornemisza…... (more)
- 3 days MurmurART pops-up at Selfridges
- Selfridges, now in its 100th year, has a long and illustrious history of artistic patronage. For the next two weeks, in proof of this point, the high street stalwart will be hosting its most philanthropic artistic event to date.
See more work from emerging artists, as chosen by established artists
Produced in collaboration with Will Conibear and Donald Eastwood of…... (more)
- Le Corbusier's furniture from Chandigarh
- It happens so rarely these days but every now and then you hear of someone stumbling across a classic piece of furniture that has been discarded or taken to charity, unbeknownst of its true value and selling for tenths of its worth.
In a discovery the design equivalent of Howard CarterÂs unearthing of TutankhamenÂs tomb, Richa Mukhia stumbled across a host of original one…... (more)
- Jeff Koons: Popeye series exhibition, London
- ÂThe spinach is the art, says Jeff Koons in a press conference this morning, attempting to explain his latest collection of work, the Popeye Series, which goes on show at the Serpentine gallery from Thursday 2nd July.
See more of Koons' works on show at London's Serpentine gallery
Whether the New York-based artist and former guest editor of Wallpaper*, is saying…... (more)
- Men's Fashion Week invitations
- Fashion show invitations do much more than get you to your seat these days. Often the first element of a brand's creative output that you'll see the invitations are as carefully designed as the collections themselves. Hence, once again, we felt compelled to share our favourites with you.
See our pick f the best invitations to the S/S 10 men's shows and presentations…... (more)
- W South Beach, Miami
- The blue rinse brigade is little more than a distant memory on MiamiÂs 22nd street. Located in one of the cityÂs most prestigious neighbourhoods, the art deco lined strip has just received a conspicuous new resident.
Pulled together by a crack team of some of the biggest names in design, including award-winning designers Yab u Pushelberg and Studio B, Architect Costas Kondylis,…... (more)
- Now Showing: John Baldessari Sings Sol LeWitt
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- Obscure Design Typologies: Life Guard Chairs
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Another in an occasional series exploring design typologies. (Previously: a survey of Lightships here)... (more)
- Osama bin Laden Cigarette Lighter: Novelty Products as Congealed Culture
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What can you say about a cigarette lighter that projects an image of Osama bin Laden?
Except, that it provides more evidence that novelty products are the place where the most frightening conceptions of culture coalesce. Forget Milan and its multiple takes on what we would like to be. It's objects from the periphery where we see what we really are. The bargain bucket at the toy shop, knock-offs on the market stall, gift shop detritus ... these are the places where plastic is moulded into ob... (more)
- Absurd Car Crashes: A Eulogy for J.G. Ballard
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I've no idea what this piece of video is, where it came from, or what it's for. But it seems an appropriate eulogy for J.G. Ballard, perhaps the only Briton who really understood modernity.... (more)
- Candy Pistol
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Perhaps the most disquieting development in the candy novelty world is the 'Candy Pistol'. You place the barrel between your lips and pull the trigger to fire a candy bullet into your mouth. (These photos show a spontaneous quasi-performance piece that could have been titled 'Candy Darling' at the Lisson Gallery.)
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- Now Showing: Dan Grahams 'Rock My Religion'
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Rock My Religion (1982-84)
1982-84, 55:27 min, b&w and color, sound
Rock My Religion is a provocative thesis on the relation between religion and rock music in contemporary culture. Graham formulates a history that begins with the Shakers, an early religious community who practiced self-denial and ecstatic trance dances. With the "reeling and rocking" of religious revivals as his point of departure, Graham analyzes the emergence of rock music as religion with the teenage consumer in th... (more)
- This Concrete 'O': On Serotonin, the M25, and the Motorik Picturesque
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Painting of Junction 7 of the M25 / M23 by Michael HirshVia
What Florence was to the Renaissance, what Paris was to Modernism, so was the hinterland of the M25 to a particular generation. For a fleeting moment this non-place became the ephemeral capital of a brief moment in time.
The big outdoor raves of the early nineties changed the way we could occupy landscape. As The Orb put it in the layered samples that made up Little Fluffy Clouds, "to the traditional sound of the British summer - th... (more)
- Church of the Literal Narrative
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- Philadelphias Floating Architecture
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Floating Church of the Redeemer, Philadelphia, 1847
Lieb House, 13th March 2009
Ok, so the Lieb House was in New Jersey, but at least its conception was Philly-centric. Today, the Venturi and Rauch designed house sailed under the Brooklyn Bridge on its journey to Long Island, waved on from South Street Seaport in the early morning by its architect and a gang of onlookers assembled by Storefront.
In a strange coincidence, on a recent trip to Philly to meet with Robert Venturi and Denise S... (more)
- Strange Harvest Visits: Archizoom, EPFL, Lausanne
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I'm in Lausanne, where tonight I'll be chairing a discussion with David Keshavjee & Julien Tavelli (Lausanne), Rafael Koch & Urs Hofer (Bern), and Jeremy Schorderet & Cem Sever (Lausanne). We'll be talking about tools and automation processes in graphic design, and what architecture might learn. (My guess is that architecture has a lot to learn!).
Forms of Inquiry, The Architecture of Critical Graphic Design (27 February - 9 April 2009),
opening at Archizoom, Lausanne, presents alongside the ... (more)
- Today Link Drop (7·03·09)
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- Yesterday Studying Process Type Foundry
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- Mapping my iPhone space
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Warnings on iPhones come in a different couple flavours. There’s the blue dialogue box that mentions how a person has surpassed their 100 twitter api calls per hour or mentioning that there was a loss of internet connection. There’s also those red pop up’s that cover the corner of an app mentioning how many "things" are inside to be clicked. I think those red dialogue boxes have been there from the beginning of the iPhon UI. As I was looking at them I kind of wondered why they... (more)
- Link Drop (6·26·09)
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Ok, this Link Drop is even too late for my liking… But it’s better to publish it three days late as opposed to not posting it all or doing a double issue this week. With the amount of rain NYC has been getting in June, if there’s a day of sun it’s worth trying to make the most of it. This weekend there was a lot of it--hence this post is coming out on a Monday. I’ve got UX on my mind and it seemed like that came across with a lot of the posts that I thought were wo... (more)
- This week
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kensands wrote "Most significant death of the week? You decide: Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Neda Agha Soltan."... (more)
- REVIEW COPY: I Miss My Pencil by Martin Bone and Kara Johnson
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I Miss My Pencil, by Martin Bone and Kara Johnson is a highly unusual design book in that it’s not just about the final product, it’s not about dry process and it’s not about trying to build a egocentric design legacy. Through all the modern day technologies of today like IM, email and face to face communication, Bone and Johnson work in parallel talking about projects that don’t yet exist. They use their discussions as starting points for experiments that in the end... (more)
- iPhone Recordings
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Now that I’ve had a couple of days with my new iPhone GS I thought it would be interesting to compare my old behaviour with my slower 2nd generation 16 GB iPhone I used to have. I noticed a great improvement with my everyday stuff. The keyboard is a lot faster and smarter. I rarely make mistakes hitting the wrong key which in turn has made typing easier. I’ve heard people complaining about the horizontal mode, for me I rarely use it because the visible screen is too small. While t... (more)
- Brewing the perfect coffee organically vs. systematically
- Cuisinart and Bodum side by side
Bodum empty cup and filter
Cuisinart empty cup and filter
When it comes to coffee I’m very much for it. It’s what powers this blog for the most part. I write early in the morning and there’s always some warm goodness beside my keyboard. For the last couple of years I’ve been making coffee with one of those classic Bodum’s that sucks the water from the bottom to the top and brews itself naturally above, only to come back down as ... (more)
- Link Drop (6·19·09)
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This week’s edition of Link Drop is a bit lighter than usual. The summer is supposed to be less busy but that doesn’t seem to be the case and in turn that means less time to collect and filter interesting stuff on the interwebs. The new iPhone came out which made me happy as I was getting tired of my 2nd generation iPhone that I’ve had for a couple years. I’ll post a review about that once I’ve fully tested it out. Other things that caught my attention related to p... (more)
- I Miss My Pencil, by Martin Bone and Kara Johnson book launch at IDEO NY
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UPDATE: REVIEW COPY: I Miss My Pencil by Martin Bone and Kara Johnson
Tonight I slipped out of work for a bit and walked across the street to meet up with AMT and Jan. We were heading over to IDEO to see the launch of the book I Miss My Pencil, by Martin Bone and Kara Johnson. While I can’t really review the book in any depth because I only thumbed through it, I did get to experience a number of the objects in the book. Martin Bone was nice enough to walk me through a couple o... (more)
- Today Ghost Town: The Bumpy Road To Bodie
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Stephen Worth says:
When I was very small, I had one of those horses on springs. I would jump on
it and bounce around furiously while my Dad would urge me on, calling out to
me to "Ride that horse down the bumpy road to Bodie!"
Before I was born, my family had taken a trip to the High Sierras and my Dad
and Mom never forgot the potholes they had to navigate their 56 Chevy station
wagon over. It was a memory they spoke of often. When I got a little older, I got
a chance to visit Bodie with ... (more)
- Today The Don Martin Dictionary
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Richard Metzger pointed me to the Don Martin Dictionary. Martin was one of my favorite Mad cartoonists. His sophisticated absurdism was the opposite of Dave Berg's middlebrow sitcom humor (but I liked him, too).
The Don Martin Dictionary
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- Today Music video of stochasticity for Radiolab science podcast
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Higher Mammals made a song and video to accompany Radiolab's recent show about stochasticity. If you don't already know about Radiolab, it's a terrific science podcast produced for WYNC public radio.
Radiolab Stochasticity Bonus Video!
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- Today Andy Warhol paints Debbie Harry on an Amiga
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This week, Cory posted a Talking Heads video and I followed up with a Laurie Anderson clip. For the trifecta of posts related to NYC's downtown scene in the 1980s, here is a video of Andy Warhol painting Debbie Harry on an Amiga computer at a Commodore press event in 1985.
Previously:Andy Warhol and the Commodore Amiga 1000 - Boing Boing
Debbie Harry in the New York Times - Boing Boing
Interview with Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol - Boing Boing
Warhol, Spielberg, Bianca Jagger on a hotel bed... (more)
- Today Record sleeve table and syringe chandelier
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While BB Gadgets' Rob is fond of Bughouse's Album Side Table made from old LP jackets, I prefer the Hypolux Chandelier, constructed from plexiglass plates, commercial syringes, and a ballchain suspension.
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- Today Cool projects on Make: Online
- Make: Online has published a number of cool projects recently.
Sew a cute Morse code key leg strap
Diana Eng's frilly and fashion-forward Morse code key. Diana Eng (best known from Project Runway and her book Fashion Geek) is our current guest author. Besides being a geek-chic fashion maven, Diana is also a ham operator and on a mission to introduce a new generation of hobbyists (especially women) to ham radio. In this project, she makes a sexy garter strap to hold her new Morse key.
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- Today New images of the lunar surface
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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has sent back its first photos of the moon. The photo above was taken near the moon's Mare Nubium region. The man in the moon is just outside the frame. From NASA:
Older craters have softened edges, while younger craters appear crisp. (The image) shows a region 1,400 meters (0.87 miles) wide, and features as small as 3 meters (9.8 feet) wide can be discerned. The bottom (faces) lunar north.
LRO's First Moon Images
Previously:Lunar junk - Boing Boing
Secre... (more)
- Today World's oldest basketball shoes
- These may be one of the oldest pairs of basketball sneakers in the world. The shoes were manufactured by the Colchester Rubber Company which shut down in 1893. Vintage clothing dealer Gary Pifer paid 50 cents for them at an estate sale in Vista, California. From CafeTerra:
"In a instant, I knew this discovery would be re-writing basketball and sneaker history, as these sneakers are 25 years older than the 1917 Converse All-Stars", added Pifer. The Colchester Rubber Co. was located in Colchest... (more)
- Today Summer Reading List by Roy Christopher
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Roy Christopher has assembled his annual summer reading list, which includes book recommendations from several of our friends and former guest bloggers.
Gareth Branwyn:
A trend I'm noticing in books recently is that there are an increasing number that trade in danger -- anti-Nanny State books. No, not those Dangerous Book for Boys and Girls. Those are rubbish. I'm talking about books like Theo Gray's tremendously awesome Mad Science: Experiments You Can Do at Home -- But Probably Shouldn't... (more)
- Today The Choppers (1961)
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"The choppers call him 'Torch.'"
Many thanks to the The Isotope Guerrilla Cult Theatre for uploading this 1961 movie about a gang of kids who steal and strip down cars to turn into hotrods.
If you cool cats like classic hotrod cars, bad boys from the other side of the tracks, sexy blondes in tight shirts, insipidly catchy songs, goofy teen idol good looks, and the world's biggest cell phone... this one is for you!
Hot rods, hot rock, and hot hair are the jewels in the juvenile delinquency ... (more)
- Today Design_Download competition: Call For Entries
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Our major retrospective exhibition SHOWstudio: Fashion Revolution will open at London's Somerset House on 18 September this year, but in the meantime we are launching a new competition, based around our ever-expanding Design_Download series and giving our viewers a chance to showcase their own creations along side award winning work... [more]
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- Today Richard Nicoll LIVE now!
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Our latest live In Fashion interviewee, Richard Nicoll, has just arrived at SHOWstudio to undertake his live interview stream with our Fashion Director Alex Fury. Click on our In Fashion project for all the real-time action now!
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- Yesterday Finalists announced!
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We can proudly announce that our VMAN Model Search finalists have been decided - but the race for the cover of VMAN15 isn't over just yet. Our two finalists, Daiv Ambrose and D'Marco Jones, are scheduled to fly over to London on Monday to be styled by Simon Foxton, shot... [more]
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- All S/S 2010 menswear reports now online!
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Spring/Summer 2010 Paris Menswear Week has now come to a close (our final show being yesterday evening courtesy of Paul Smith) and all of Hywel Davies' on-the-spot reports and Chris Moore's sterling images are now loaded the latest addition to SHOWstudio.com, our Collections section. Designed to comprehensively house all of... [more]
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- Qasimi
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Exploring the line between masculine and feminine, cropped jackets, high waisted trousers and draped tops were presented by Qasimi as part of his menswear presentation. Redefining masculinity may be the concept here - but it's not easy to pull off these looks - for brave boys only!
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- Qasimi
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London based Khalid Al Qasimi created a film as a back drop to his menswear presentation. Directed by Mariano Vivanco and styled by Robbie Spencer, the film's focus was of model posing by the sea. In various states of Qasimi dress and undress, the sensual film showcased the collection of... [more]
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- Maison Martin Margiela
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Focusing just on the garments, Margiela's presentation was pure minimalism. A simple statement of perfectly formed and expertly executed clothes.
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- Maison Martin Margiela
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As models walk onto the podium a front light isolates them individually to the audience. A dresses joins him to add a piece of clothing to complete the look, while a live voice over describes the clothes in accurate detail.
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- Maison Martin Margiela
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The first look from Margiela's menswear spring collection.
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- More menswear!
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We're on the penultimate day of Spring/Summer 2010 Paris Menswear Week, with Hywel Davies' catwalk reports and Chris Moore's imagery coming thick and fast. With updates from the heavyweight shows of Raf Simons, John Galliano and Commes des Garcons and big names including Dior Homme and Lanvin still to show,... [more]
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- Today Imported Landscape
- Imported Landscape by Pétur Thomsen.
found at trendbeheer
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- Today Self-Portrait Machine
- “Self-Portrait Machine” by Jen-Hui Liao (his website isn’t online yet) is a really cool drawing machine. The user places himself in front of the machine and a camera will take his portrait. Now he has to wrap his wrists to the machine while holding 2 markers. The machine will analyze the picture and translate it into mechanical movements to guide the hands of the user to make the drawing.
You can go and see it at the Royal College of Art SHOW 2009 in London till this Sunday.
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- Today Teruhiro Yanagihara
- Teruhiro Yanagihara is a Japanese interior and product designer with a really minimal style. You might remembed the interior of this hair salon in Tokyo. His website is actually brand new, somehow I like it somehow I don’t.
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- Today Play More
- Play More is just the right kind of notebook for me. Designed by Trapped in Suburbia.
found at Fubiz
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- Yesterday Circuit
- Modèle Puissance is French collective which pratical articulates around drawings. Here are a few drawings by Jean-Philippe Bretin from his series Circuit. If you like their work, you should check out their books Random and Supersymétrie.
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- Yesterday E99500
- E99500 is an orange color in hexadecimal color codes, but it’s also the title of this video by Hugo Arcier, a French director and 3D artist. He also has another portfolio with some very weird 3D work.
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- Yesterday New Work by Xavier Barrade
- Xavier Barrade just emailed me to let me know he has new website and a lot of new work online. I really can recommend you to look at his work, top notch stuff.
“The Book” is a photo book about the presence of book.
Red Green Blue
Untitled, Untitled, Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
Endless growth
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- 3 days L'intelligenza del Male #5
- “L'intelligenza del Male #5″ by Andrea Galvani.
found at dropular
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- 3 days Elna Frederick
- I’m completely blown away by the internet art of Elna Frederick. These are not just weird static images but javascript animations. Man I love the internet.
found at Rhizome
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- 3 days Mister Furry
- Mister Furry is one of the 6 new TV idents created by Universal Everything for MTV’s international brand refresh. You can read more about the whole project at the Creative Review blog.
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