17.02.10

Vilmar

The Man and the Brand

Paris Hilton, Damien Hirst, David Beckham, 50 Cent

On my MA seminar debate last week at Goldsmiths we discussed the ‘author function’ in relation to value-creation in the economic context, interrogating the notions of originality and distinctiveness posited by Foucault in his essay “What Is an Author?’. Read the rest of this entry »

14.10.09

Vilmar

Harrison Catering knows its onions and ‘on-lines’

Harrison DM

Following a thorough website re-design, Harrison commissioned Dusted to create, and strategically advise on a direct marketing campaign informing their audiences about their new website launch. Firstly, Harrison Catering aimed at leveraging its brand within the sector through a re-assessment of its on-line presence. Read the rest of this entry »

08.07.09

Vilmar

Achtung. Aekt3 ist da!

Aekt3 Logo

Aekt3 is the brainchild of Spanish artist Ángel Fernández Sánchez de la Morena, born in Madrid and currently living/working on London, and art cognoscenti Dagmar Valcarcel. Both had an idea to create an online platform that could enable artists working with different medias to display their work outside the conventional gallery circuit. Read the rest of this entry »

01.04.09

Vilmar

It’s either a joke or a hoax

comic-sans

I was gobsmacked when reading about the [real] possibility of Comic Sans being chosen as the official typeface for the 2012 London Olympics. Read the rest of this entry »

02.12.08

Vilmar

Advent Blog: The 2nd

Christmas card sketches

Christmas card sketches

03.06.08

Vilmar

Offf to Lisboa

I recently had the opportunity to attend the Offf festival in Lisbon, as a Dusted correspondent. The event, in its 8th edition, is one of the most exciting digital design festivals in Europe at the moment. It showcases top talents from web design to typography, motion graphics to installations, in a 3day marathon of talks, performances and workshops, lasting 10 hours each, uufff.

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29.02.08

Vilmar

Brighter, Faster, Stronger…

Fentix Cube

The sky is the limit when it comes to creating electronic devices for entertainment purposes, specially for the conventionally called ‘geeks’. For better or for worse, some of them can be really catchy and appeal to the greater public, be it die-hard techies or young and well-off curious. Read the rest of this entry »