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8 Sep 2012, 11:09pm
architecture body choreography ephemeral Togetherness
by amandine
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Franz Erhard Walther

http://www.artreview.com/m/discussion?id=1474022%3ATopic%3A1210905

16 Mar 2012, 1:20pm
architecture enhancing the everyday language Togetherness typography
by amandine
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khtt.net

TMMC book cover

Edited by Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares
Khatt Books, Amsterdam 2010
Highly illustrated 396 pages in color
Languages: Dutch, English, Arabic
Size: 21 cm x 28 cm
Soft cover with flaps

The Typographic Matchmaking in the City project is a design research project investigating new approaches for bilingual lettering and poetic narrative for public space.

The Khatt Foundation, Center for Arabic Typography is a cultural foundation and design research center dedicated to advancing design and typography in the Middle East, North Africa and their diaspora, and to building cross-cultural creative networks.

khtt.net.

27 Jan 2012, 8:03pm
erotic Togetherness
by amandine
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Lover’s eyes

The secret history of ‘lover’s eyes’:

In the 18th and 19th centuries, wealthy British and European lovers exchanged “eye miniatures” — love tokens so clandestine that even now, in the majority of cases, it is impossible to identify their recipients or the people they depict.

Experts believe that there are fewer than 1,000 “lover’s eyes” in existence today.

Apparently, they were meant to be worn inside the lapel, near the heart. Damn romantic.

I discovered these just a few weeks ago in The Met’s Gallery 754 (one of my favorite parts of the new American Wing – all portrait miniatures). I’d love to see the show in Birmingham.

even*cleveland: lover’s eyes.