I want to quit

(via CR—made by Shaz Madani)

Chasing Clouds

(view larger on flickr)

Hespera’s Gate

(been here before—view larger on flickr—Hespera wiki)

I wanna be a poster

I’d sure love to turn this photo into a poster :) Big type would look great on it, especially Akzidenz Grotesk or Franklin Gothic. Ragged left, of course—would work better than ragged right with the photo flipped, I think.

(view larger on flickr)

Silent World—Michael Kenna

Superb, eerie photography by Michael Kenna.

(via BySoAndSo)

Form follows function

Great business card from Jan Sabach. Very useful. And memorable.

(via flickr)

Smoke on the Shinano*

I won’t give any hints, the title is enough—just sit back and enjoy :D

*You can find the video on several websites under the name “Smoke on the Yangtze”—however, the musicians are obviously japanese, not chinese, so I think Shinano would be more suitable (or Biwa, as somebody suggested).

(Thanks go to Maria “Anael” for the link)

The Big Ones

This is too good to miss: Blanka has organized their flickr, making sets with posters by Muller-Brockmann, Wim Crouwell, Otl Aicher and some other great designers. A definite must-see.

Some apetizers:

• posters by Josef Müller–Brockmann
(the Opernhaus Zürich template is amazing in its simplicity and impact)

• poster by Otl Aicher (for Munich 1972 Olympic games)

• poster by Wim Crouwel

• poster by Experimental Jetset

(via AisleOne)

Oi Va Voi

Some time ago I was enchanted by N.O.H.A. This time I’m glad I’ve found Oi Va Voi (wiki). Combining jewish-music influences and hungarian folk with electronic music, the outcome is a seductive, eclectic and blood-boiling pleasure for the ears. Ranging from beautiful melancholic songs like Yesterday’s Mistakes, burning energy like Refugee (see it below), dance-till-you-drop D’Ror Yikra or even Massive-Attack-like tunes in Hora, Oi Va Voi members surely have grown to a distinct and well-developed personality. Their last album, bearing the same name as the band, was released in 2007 and has some great songs as well. The first single is the hilarious Yuri.

Here’s their beautiful Refugee song, from the 2003-released Laughter Through Tears album. Do admire their gorgeous singer, Alice McLaughlin ;)

You can also listen some of their songs on the excellent Deezer site or on the Oi Va Voi MySpace page.

(photo from here)