entries Tagged as [avant garde]

Pocket Calculator

 
Electronic music pioneer Kraftwerk performing Pocket Calculator. Live.

Remixes below.


Kraftwerk: Pocket Calculator (The Mix)


Kraftwerk: Pocket Calculator (Mixx-It Remix)


Kraftwerk: Pocket Calculator (Tomozo Remix)


Kraftwerk: Pocket Calculator (Alexampler Mix)

Futura Maschine 2011

‘Paul Renner’s Futura interpreted in metal’

Handmade model with engine. Cesar Santos Perez’s final project from my most-recent experimental typography course at Ai Sacramento.

Play-Doh pumps

From I Love You. More here.

Found via Refinery29

‘Seldom was covered with snow and an old oak’

Money: ‘This is your god’

Video for N.A.S.A.’s Money. Feat. David Byrne, Chuck D, Ras Congo, Seu Jorge, Z-Trip and the work of Shepard Fairey.

A set of Russian avant garde books

More here.

Found via Mr. Mule’s

Chaubin, CCCP

‘The beauty of Soviet brutalism’

Frédéric Chaubin’s photographs of 90 oddly-designed buildings constructed in the final decades of the Soviet Union.

And thru Taschen, available in handy book form.

Found via RebeccaWho

A TETRIS History of the Soviet Union

Video for Pig With The Face Of A Boy’s A Complete History of the Soviet Union as Told by a Humble Worker, Arranged to the Melody of TETRIS. Directed, animated and edited by Chris Lincé.

Lis

The work of St. Petersburg-based photographer Serge Lis.

More here and here.

Andrews, 1934

Sybil Andrews’ Speedway (above) is a linotype print commissioned by the London Passenger Transport Board in 1934 to advertise what was a new spectator sport, Speedway Racing.

The final piece – like the famous ‘keep calm’ poster – was never used for its intended purpose.

Found via Gunther Stephan

Goncharova, 1913



‘She did not hesitate to break up forms and rearrange their component parts. She introduced musical notation, letters and words, as they flash past in shop signs; she expressed movement by repeating the same form in several phases of its action and velocity by blurring contours.’ –Goncharova: Stage Designs and Paintings

The work of Natalya Goncharova (1881-1962).


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