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This is Cristian -Kit- Paul, graphic designer and founding partner of Brandient. Welcome to Kit·blog.
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Museum lobby, Berlin. View large on black.
Counting the squares that I step on—everybody does—don’t ask me why.
Anyway.
The trick is to avoid the black ones and to keep away from the floor drain for as long as possible.
Although sooner or later you’ll have no choice—because The Big Bastard won’t allow you to step on the same square twice.
Writer working at Cafe Wintergarten in Literaturhaus, Berlin.
As a hopeless office inmate, I often fancy the idea of working in a public space—a nice café like Cafe Wintergarten at Literaturhaus1 in Berlin—but I never actually try doing it. I wonder whether its mild noise of dishes and chatter would inspire or rather distract.
Moreover, I just learned that my preferred café in Bucharest, Crem Cafe Royale, has been acquired by a local restaurant chain and will be murdered in order to make room for another mediocre luncheonette with greasy spoons.
While passing by it, I’ll murmur —The price of progress!, and I’ll keep looking the other way.
1 Right across the street from the Leica Store—even looking through its window inflicts serious damages to a bank account.
Entry no.: 473
23 Apr 2008, 7:07 PM
Tags: applause, black & white, Edinburgh, film, Leica M7
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Beth Gibbons at Portishead live performance, Cristian ·Kit· Paul, Edinburgh, 2008.
The concert was heart wrenching beautiful—way beyond what my writing skills will ever allow me to express.
God, how could I possibly forgot that film—with all its grain and scanning pain—feels this fucking amazingly great?
Fleeing the country for the better part of the week seems like a golden idea since in Bucharest hysteria boils as the heavy security measures taken to protect the honchos participating in the 20th NATO Summit effectively paralyze the city and strongly interfere with its moving swarms of anxious inhabitants.
So for the weekend ich bin ein Berliner. Well, ein temporary Berliner, at least.
Don’t expect anything other than camera-phone photos because—after eight years—I carry a film camera, again. Analogue. There’s no better place to do this.
Tschüs Tschüß!
Economic growth gets really luxuriant—this country is clearly well managed and really blooming. Any day now—the blooms. Any day.
A river or a lake on a windy day—water with small waves.
A building reflecting in the river/lake, that is. More lines in the architecture, more intricate the texture. A sunny day helps.
Shoot that building’s reflection in water. Play with the picture, change the colors, get crazy if you feel the urge.
Entry no.: 429
5 Feb 2008, 1:10 PM
Tags: bewilderment, black & white, Boston, Bucharest, Nikon D70
Comments: 4
While playing with the pictures above (large on black here and here), I thought about writing something about the melding past and future, about time stretching like a grotesque accordion, freaking enormous and grossly out of tune.
Until I saw the glistering white tops. One in the painting and one in the picture. I stopped in bewilderment, trying to get my mind around this like when you bite off more than you can chew—choking, unable to move jaw, unable to spit all out.
I shot these pictures thousands of kilometers and a couple of years apart. Fucking long accordion!
The first received e-mail stored in my trusty (yet exceptionally ugly) Eudora archives dates back to 27 February 1997. That was (almost) 11 years ago.
My previous e-mails—from 1995 to 1997—are lost. Don’t worry, I had 11 years to get over it. Anyway; people, names, dates—having a BIG searchable archive proves to be very useful sometimes.
Internet. Just to put things in perspective: in 1997 Yahoo was still nursing its post-IPO hangover. Google was not incorporated yet. Hell, the internet domain google.com was still free! Yeah, I know.
Questions: How old is the oldest e-mail message stored on your computer? Do you intend to keep the mails you’ve got today until—say—2019, 11 years from now? Answer on your blogs.
Click to view large on black.
Entry no.: 413
20 Jan 2008, 9:45 PM
Tags: Bangkok, cluelessness, design, humor, Sony Ericsson K750i, typography
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Helvetica “Goat’s Milk + Salt” body scrub and other Helvetica products.
Found this in a Manga shop in Bangkok. I’m totally clueless, too.
On the other hand—you know those two holy sayings about it:
Nobody has ever been fired for choosing Helvetica.
and
When in doubt, use Helvetica.
So, all things considered, goat’s milk looks like a safe bet.
Prizzi spent her time examining her pedicure, critically scrutinizing her paws from every imaginable angle.
A subjective account of winter nights—shaken shots with frozen hands.
“It seems that with admirable loyalty, management returned to Wally Olins, whose 1988 team designed Akzo’s ‘Reaching Man.’ Wally’s post-Wolff Olins firm is Saffron.” Read more at Identityworks.
“Later this year, Vodafone customers in Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey will be able to purchase the iPhone for use on the Vodafone network.” From Vodafone’s press release cited by DF.
Today CEC Bank, the oldest Romanian bank, unveiled its new identity designed by Brandient.
See the press conference video record (link in Romanian, free registration required).
The product of an 8-week helicopter expedition from Hamburg to Cape Town: Eyes Over Africa by Michael Poliza.
So many blogs are crap that the two substantives—blog and crap—will soon be synonymous. But every once in a while you find a post so honest-to-goodness and beautiful that it single-handedly exonerates the whole damn category.
“Our designers, production and client facing people are living dog-years. They live seven years to any normal designer’s one year” — Attik’s new NoiseBlog.
“I think people are really noticing the difference between Mac OS X and Windows to a greater degree than ever before.” Steve Jobs about Apple’s 51% increase in Macintosh sales.
“I finally realized: living life is more important than blogging about design.” Khoi Vinh in his post My Time Away from Blogging.
For many companies, Orthodox Easter is a great opportunity for sending tons of crappy e-mails that are written worse than most unsolicited mass mailings commonly known as “spam.” The Easter greetings filter cries to be invented.
“Intelligent information is alive”. More at Identityworks.
Bumbuț posts an incredible image. Ironic and depressing at the same time.
The Rolling Sones, as you’ve never seen them before—Shine a Light, a concert film by Martin Scorsese, shot with 17 cameras by an all-star team of cinematographers headed up by Robert Richardson, whose fellow directors of photography include Emmanuel Lubezki (“Children of Men”) and Robert Elswit (Oscar for “There Will Be Blood”). Trailer.
So intense it’ll crush you.
I’ll be in Scotland this weekend for a Portishead live performance. Not very far from the real Portishead, actually.
Laugh until you cry. And, as my colleague Iancu says, “don’t you ever complain again”.
The “Feature Photography” 2008 Pulitzer Prize goes to Preston Gannaway for her intimate chronicle of a family coping with a parent’s terminal illness. To see the feature, go to PrestonGannaway.com → Stories & Essays → Remember Me. Via TOP.
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Despre industria designului grafic, branding, maestri si prezenta in juriul international Best of the Best 2007.
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This interview appeared in the ‘featured designer’ section at Logolounge.com.
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De ce proiectul legislativ numit “Lege privind organizarea şi exercitarea profesiei de designer” este toxic.
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Despre identitatea grafica a Cupei Mondiale de Fotbal 2006
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Despre publicitate si design de brand, despre local si international, despre zig si zag
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Despre tranzitia de la Connex la Vodafone
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Despre evolutia identitatii Dacia
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Despre constructia identitatii si a manualului de identitate Connex.
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