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July 22, 2014 Marina Galperina

Oral:phabet is a font experimentation project by graphic designer Takayuki Ogawa — a three-dimensional typeface, re-imagined with mouths enunciating each letter. Spoon Tamago explains: “The mouth alone is able to express many emotions,” says Ogawa, speaking about the impetus for his project, which was presented as his graduating thesis last year from Tama Art University. “For example, in email we use […]

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July 15, 2013 Marina Galperina

Glory to Sergey Merkurov! People’s Artist of the USSR, Soviet Academy of Arts alum, director of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts and all the rage of pre-1950s Soviet Union! One of the leading figures of the Giant Ass Statues of Soviet Leaders Art Movement! He sculpted and erected a huge number of these monumental statues, […]

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April 1, 2013 Marina Galperina

This alphabet-themed series of photographs by Anastasia Mastrakouli is all like naked and stuff “utilizes the nude human form to highlight the dialectical relationship between anatomy and visual art. each image is the product of an experimental performance, rendered as a composition of a silhouette and surface while conforming to the shape of the English alphabet.” Thanks, […]

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