It’s hard for me to believe that I launched LOKi design (labs) over 8 years ago now. Life is certainly quite different these days, but browsing through my archives, I’m surprised by how much has stayed the same within my work. It was nice to see the amount of (strange) self-initiated work I did and think about how it has in many way lead to the zine project. The numerous iterations of my site (this blog would officially be version 7!) that I created and carefully attended to over the years help me to believe that I genuinely do love this medium.
Looking back it’s also interesting to trace the currents and trends of (web) design that I voraciously followed and suppose in many ways still do. From the pointless lines and 45 degree angles, to miniscule pixel type, vector shapes and grungy posterised images, its all in there, part of my endlessly self-conscious searching for form. Presented here for your enjoyment/amusement, a selection of images from those years.
This has been everywhere lately, and that’s a good thing! So I’m jumping onto the bandwagon and posting it here for (my own little corner of the web’s) posterity’s sake. Backstory here.
Sunday July 13th 2008, 3:06 pm
Filed under: miscellaneous
I found this brilliant little piece of street art just outside of the Mont-Royal metro station last week. Not only is it incredibly intriguing as an object (a doorway…), but seriously, what are the chances that it would have been found by a typophile such as myself? In the middle of the night. And in a foul, searching mood to boot (the interior inscription by the arrow reads “for the broke(n) hearted”). Small miracles, I guess. Cat simply couldn’t believe it…
Some casual googling led to this gallery, but not much other info. Anyone know about this work? I’d love to know the provenance and backstory.
I was not speaking of marginality one wishes to lose, to give up, or surrender
as part of moving into the center
but rather as a site
one stays in, clings to even,
because it nourishes one’s capacity to resist.
It offers the possibilities of radical perspectives
from which to see and create,
to imagine alternatives,
new worlds.
www.readatwork.com | A pretty damn silly/funny campaign site for the New Zealand Book Council that (unintentionally) raises some interesting questions on literature and visual form. More parody than paradox, yet also uncomfortably close to the sacrilegious…
