In my search for inspiration I always stumble upon names that are not yet known to me. Often I see pictures and they seem familiar to me but I can’t think of a name. The same happened to me with Jacques Auriac. A french illustrator who worked mainly in the sixties to the eighties. A truly great designer who understands the interplay of clear form, color and typography.

There is only scarce information about him on the internet. However, there is a book that is long out of print and only quite expensive to buy if you find it somewhere. Unfortunately. As a hunter of old design books I will definitely snatch one up one day!

Some more information about Jacques Auriac can be found in this article on Grain Edit.

Images © Grain Edit

For when you need a shot of “reclining businessman with shoes.”

i stumbled upon this nice gallery of 1970s Stock Portraits by H. Armstrong Roberts lately on Mashable. Awesome photos from another time.

All Photos are © H. Armstrong Roberts/Classicstock

See the whole gallery on Mashable.

i really love to capture the feelings and the action on stage on live concerts of the bands i love. i did this in the past with a fuji s3 pro and some other digi cams. back then i stored all my pics on a ‘reliable’ hard drive – that unfortunately someday met it’s maker. and i had no backup!! (oh well, i learned my lesson!!) i released some of the photographies on flickr (> here) but most of the stuff simply was gone… i was so f**ing frustated…

now, after some years i decided to look up all the places where i once uploaded photographies and found some on > flickr, some on > the photocommunity and some in flash-galleries on my old website. i post them here now in the resolution i released them years ago.

guys on the photos:
Conrad Keely | And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
Jonsi | Sigur Ros
Stuart Braithwaite | Mogwai
Lou Barlow | Dinosaur Jr.
Ryan & Joe | Mock Orange
Guido Lucas | Scumbucket
and more (klez.e, earthbend, spiro, david judson clemmons & the fullbliss, leatherface, ascona, monochrome, johanna zeul.)

i lately designed some icons of the cameras i often use. download the set here.  

the icon-set consists of the following cameras:

Lomo LC-A, Holga 120fn, Nimslo 3D, Lubitel 166+, Lomo LC-Wide, Brownie Hawkeye, Diana F+ with Flash, Spinner 360°, Supersampler, Canon AV-1, 35mm Film Rolls (different ASA/ISO values from 100 – 1600), 120 Film Roll.

if you’d like to see some more icons of other cameras that fit the concept of the lo-fi photography icon set, feel free to drop me a line via the contact-form.

the lo-fi photography icon set is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

on a trip to sardegna this year i tried out a new film with my good old lomo lc-a. the adox color-implosion. i’m totally impressed by the way the film reacts to light. and i really love the grain.

Some pictures are 180° double-exposures.

I stumbled upon -> this great flickr-album by the user Døgen lately. Brilliant examples of futuristic minimalistic product-design objects of the (well, electronic) everyday life of the 60s and 70s. There’s just something about those simple color schemes, the clean fonts, a sense of futuristic minimalism from a time forgotten. i totally love it.