London based illustrator Melvin Galapon has produced these silkscreen/embossings of the jpeg icon. Galapon says he is “Looking at simplicity of form with in a busy image and relating this back to technology by using the relationship of the rgb colours from a jpeg icon”. There was a time that I could google for images with the search term “jpeg” and find an abundance of this archaic icon, where has it gone?
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Since 2004, R-Echos is an experimental online magazine dedicated to republication; topics vary from biology to graphic design, from ecology to business. It agglomerates anything which is about art, computing, science. His form is made out of collages of texts, links, images, references, videos and sounds - choosen with care to take part to this very personnal publication.
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Colophon events this weekColophon events this week There are a couple of Colophon-related events in Europe this week. First up, Andrew Losowsky – that’s him above next to a copy of IsNotMagazine – has curated an exhibition of magazines as objects in Milan. CR Blog has an in-depth report with details – it sounds great, lots of magazine-y-ness. Andrew’s [...] | |
