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Citation from: Hans Arp, I am born in natur

FAIRY TALES OF A CIRCLE

Countless fairy tales of a circle Sophie dreamt.
A royal circle, a sky-blue jewel
which is sheltered by mighty dream circles.
The gleaming awakening of a breathing circle.
The calibrating of a pure circle.
Reresounding and resounding circles.
Firs-green circles.
Sea-green circles.
A circle in the labour pains,
a gyrating circle.
The long way of the good circle.
The circle of the wheel.
The circle of the coin.
A circle of primeval times.
The long way of the bad circle.
The circle of a festive meeting of living
circles
which breaks out in the call:
” High Sophie Taeuber and her fairy tales of a circle lives! “
A circle on which nicely arranged the words
stand:
” Long our earthly light and our earthly
darkness lives! “
A circle from which an infinite wing tree
grows
with uncountable blossoming bright wings
under which Sophie sits
and paints buoyant dreams.
Countless fairy tales of a circle dreamed by Sophie.

(Sophie Taeuber-Arp was as well a famous artist and the wife of Hans Arp - he dedicated this poem to Sophie)

(via Dichtung & Wahrheit (Poetry and Truth))

We’re thankful for Edmar and his DIY publishing co-op constantly printing materials for the past 2 decades. He may be printing your favorite magazines, he may be printing your most hated and you may say, “this publication sucks”, but what are you doing about it? We’re doing something. It reminds of me of what Professor Joërg Becker once told me, if you sit down and try to only make 3 brilliant pieces, you may never succeed, but if you sit down and make 100 shitty pieces, at very least, 3 of them will be brilliant.

(I may have phrased that poorly, but you get the idea, make stuff, constantly. Don’t worry about making everything the best thing you’ve ever done, you’ll never succeed that way.)

Dropping Friday, hopefully.

from Lumpen: We are excited about the release of another issue of Lumpen magazine. Issue 114 should be out this Friday, February 5, during the Save the Whale fundraiser at the Co-Prosperity Sphere.

Professor David Dabner gives us a look into his classroom in London
where he and his students set type by hand. A humorous and insightful look
into using the computer to teach typography and how it can make the
students’ work seem ”sloppy”. A good thing for design students surrounded
by computers to see.

…and for a nice use of  “A Colour Box” during the end credits.

Sleeves of Desire is a fantastic collection of ECM covers, featuring some of the most amazing album artwork, ever.

Also reminded me of Web Trends Map.

See more work by Amandine Alessandra
(from TypographyServed)