Hasta La Ideas

2wice is a contemporary dance journal designed by Pentagram’s Abbott Miller. Always beautifully presented, its regular territory is a somewhat high-brow world of toned musculature and perfect posture. Not so the latest issue.

Everybody Dance Now features a portfolio of Martin Parr photographs celebrating the sheer joy of having a dance. From Durban to Blackpool the simple human pleasures of getting down. Sometimes I find Parr’s images to be a little condescending or patronising (not an original observation, I realise) but here they seem very much to be celebratory and not at all judgemental.

The issue comes bound in irridescent cover stock printed in rainbow colours. Page edges are coated in silver as glitzy as a glitter ball in a downmarket night club.

A piece of print that lifts the mood on many levels: lovely.

2wice can be bought here

Project Team: Abbott Miller, partner-in-charge; Kristen Spilman, designer.

Back cover – note rubbish reflection of photographer, sorry

After more than a year of planning, world class photographer JR has completed an ambitious exhibition that covers 2000 square meters of rooftops in Kiberia, Kenya.

This exhibition features a rather innovative twist: Two times a day – as a train passes the village – the eyes and faces come together to complete the image. The material used is water resistant so that the photo itself can also function to protect the fragile houses during the rainy season. To see more work by JR see below.
Village of Murals:

via PSKF

Andrew Lih has sent us a set of photos of Office for Metropolitan Architecture’s Television Cultural Centre in Beijing, which was destroyed by fire last night (via Dezain). (more…)

Une très belle série photo intitulée Plastic Life par l’artiste français Vincent Bousserez. Des clichés qui permettent de voir le monde dans de superbes décors, à travers le regard de ces minuscules figurines. Quelques exemples dans la suite.

Portfolio de Vincent Bousserez

The Work-in-Progress Society is a group I started on Flickr recently and we’re already at 40+ members!

The photographs selected for the pool celebrate beauty in the unfinished. The subjects can be craft, art, design, illustration and the various tools, supplies and mess required to create the works. Whether the project ever gets finished is beside the point — we’re just happy to be creating and exploring!

{Irina Troitskaya, Poketo, Think Girl, famapa, vair}