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POLITICAL THEATER: PROTOKOLL BY CHRISTIAN LUTZ
Over the course of three years, Geneva based photographer, Christian Lutz travelled with the Swiss diplomatic corp in an official capacity. His own ambiguous relationship to power (“part attraction, part repulsion”) reflected through the camera lens captured a dimension of diplomacy he calls “political theater”. The result is PROTOKOLL, a handsome pictorial study of authority, power and hierarchal systems…
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RE-PRESENTING TOM KUNDIG
We’re pleased to announce that Tom Kundig, who we profiled here several months ago, is the winner of the 2008 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Architecture. Facing off with formidable future-forward talents of Weiss/Manfredi and the industrial chic of Lo-Tek, Kundig’s graceful mechanics set in nature won out. As Mark Robbins, Dean of the Syracuse University School of Architecture […]
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CHRISTIAN WASSMANN’S SENSE OF PLACE
Helvetica Bold spent an afternoon with Wassmann, rummaging through his design philosophies, “I always do drawings for myself or write little manifestos that are not for publication but lead to something I try to share or have in my office culture—“
We thought we’d come up with a manifesto of sorts that reflect Christian Wassmann’s sense of place.