To refer to LSD: Dream Emulator as a game can be as misleading as it is reductive. It was a three-pronged attack on contemporary art conventions as they existed in the mid-to-late 1990s, one comprised of an interactive dream, a profusely illustrated journal, and an avant-garde electronic music album. It was also the most sophisticated coalescence of art and interactive media coming out of Japan at the time. There had never been anything like it before. One may even argue there has never been anything quite like it since.
Christof Gassner, brochures for theatrical programming of german TV Channel ZDF, 1980s. Scan: Florian Hardwig. Collection of Letterform Archive. More to see: fontsinuse
“I have two big ideals (sic) for my typographical works: First, the calligraphers and book artists before Gutenberg: second, Herb Lubalin, who gave back, with his epochal work, the lost imagination to typography.”
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I'm not used to writing on here, but in the last few weeks there has been a figure I can't stop thinking about and not that many people know: Flávio de Carvalho (1899-1973). He was not only one of the pioneers of modernist architecture and painting in Brazil, but also designed the first Brazilian fashion show in 1951 and is regarded as the first performance and multimedia artist in the country. His most notable work is Experiência n° 3 from 1956 also known as "New Look", where he proposed an unisex garment specific for Brazilian weather and scandalized the public by wearing an early form of miniskirt on the streets of São Paulo.