Kusho: Writing in the Sky

Shinichi Maruyama’s Kusho Since 2003, the Japanese artist and photographer Shinichi Maruyama - born in Nagano - lives and works in New York City. He generates a new remarkable art movement, called Kusho. Kusho, which means as much as “Writing in the Sky” is in my opinion paraphrased at its best thus: A human being takes an oversized, broom-like paintbrush, dunks it into a bucket full of more diluted indian ink - it’s a special black colour mixing - takes position in front of a camera and wags the brush through air. ...

August 3, 2009 · 1 min · 139 words · Jan Brennenstuhl

Flashmob in Antwerp

I love them - these hardly trained but still spontaneous acting mass-events midway through the public urban space with hundreds of dancing, singing and moving people. Phenomenal! This time one of these so called flashmobs went into the Antwerp central station and sparks a lot of people with an amazing dance interlude. Under the unbelieving and impressed looks of plenty of passengers, about 200 flashmob dancers including children, danced to a famous song whose title I unfortunately forgot… ...

August 3, 2009 · 1 min · 82 words · Jan Brennenstuhl
Typography Poster Inspiration

Typography Poster Inspiration

Possibly the best source of inspiration for typography posters is available under typographicposters.com! With the theme „feed and consume quality“, lashings of typographically influenced posters from the whole world are collected and presented there. For everybody searching for new inspiration for the next poster-collection, typographicposters.com with artworks by Via Grafik, Petros Voulgaris, Ralph Karam and many more is an amazing fundus! Now, take a look, get inspired and put up your own typography posters!

August 3, 2009 · 1 min · 74 words · Jan Brennenstuhl