Marius Watz

@mariuswatz

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Lauren Halsey at Gagosian Basel. Artnews review of her work: Lauren Halsey Celebrates South Central at David Kordansky https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/aia-reviews/lauren-halseys-psychedelic-homage-to-south-central-1202684663/

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Too much Switzerland.

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When someone questions your lineage.

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Apparently, Carl Friedrich Gauss had an idea for how to signal aliens that humans are an intelligent species, all the way back in 1820. He proposed drawing a gigantic diagram of Pythagoras’ theorem by planting trees in the Siberian tundra to draw a triangle and three rectangles. Really not so different from the thinking behind the NASA Voyager golden record. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%27s_Pythagorean_right_triangle_proposal

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Patrick Martinez: Look What You Created, series of 10 neon signs acquired by Whitney Museum in 2021 https://www.instagram.com/patrick_martinez_studio/ Martinez uses the visual language of neon signs seen in strip malls and pawn shops to comment on the politics of everyday life in America.

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Managed to compile a #monochrome-monday T9 on @rodeodotclub: @pizzapunk, @stc, @idflood, @lammetje, @dennis-chilas, @paul-prudence, @mariuswatz, and others

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🔳 🔳 🔳 #monochrome-monday (Only monochromes done by women, a 🧵 in case I find more...) Tauba Auerbach, Five Stand Woven Type, typeface, 2013 https://diagonalpress.com/products/five-strand-woven-font-poster Marian Bantjes, Seduction poster, 2006 https://marianbantjes.com/work/seduction/

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🔳 🔳 🔳 #monochrome-monday Typografische Monatsblätter, 8-9, 1971. Cover design by Gunnar Lilleng https://designreviewed.com/artefacts/typografische-monatsblatter-8-9-1971/ (This #monochrome-monday theme is too perfectly aligned with my visual interests, I could post 20+ pieces more..)

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Sad news: Stamen (SF data + cartography studio, major influence in the data viz scene since 2000’s) is shutting down Map Stack. Map Stack was a free service that let you create and host custom map tiles for Google Maps-style web maps. It never made money, so it’s no surprise Stamen wants to retire it. But damn, Map Stack was an amazing tech solution for designers. https://stamen.com/farewell-map-stack/

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🔳 🔳 🔳 #monochrome-monday Dead History, 1990 font by P. Scott Makela (RIP 1999) https://www.emigre.com/Fonts/Dead-History A blend mixing the serif Centennial and the "poppier" VAG Rounded, Dead history is classic 90's PoMo design. Playing with tropes from design history and remix culture, it's typical of Makela's punchy design style and his sense of humor. It was intended as a tribute of sorts to Makela's father, who died of Parkinson's, gradually losing his ability to communicate.

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🔳 🔳 🔳 #monochrome-monday Poster for guest lecture by Marius Watz + Halvor Bodin, CalArts, 1998 Designers: HweeMin Loi, Lee Schulz, Andrea Tinnes, Ana Llorente, Pirco Wolfframm, Jose Allard (CalArts students) posters.calarts.edu/marius-watz-... Hardly a crucial bit of design, but it represents a very different age in graphic design. CalArts in the '90s was all about typographic experimentation, featuring the California style of designers like Ed Fella, Jeff Keedy etc. The CalArts poster archive is a timeline of graphic design from the 90's to the present, well worth a look.

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Recently collected @rodeodotclub featuring @luka, @lammetje, @stc, @mariuswatz, @olgaf, and others

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@tipn Would it be possible to not tip for a like if the cast you’re liking is a reply to a cast you posted? I find myself oddly disincentivized to like replies that are just basic back and forth. 😎

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Decided to look up Yuji Oshimoto, one of the true pixel font masters and designer of the 04B font series. Delighted to see that he hasn't updated the web site since 2006, making it a web design time capsule that's rather hard to read. The fonts are still great, too. http://www.04.jp.org/ cc @luka @vortac

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Amoeba FivePX , pixel font , 1999 on @rodeodotclub Dug up this pixel font I made in 1996 after @luka mentiooned pixel fonts. Posted a combo of my original graphics from the time and a Fontforge preview of the font map. Haven't touched a font editor for decades! Old TTF was buggy, but I got OTF exported. Added glyphs for brackets and curly brackets, will release when done.

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Windows desktop spotted IRL.

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I know Molly White’s earnest anti-corruption attitude is at odds with basic crypto tenets. But I still care, too. https://www.citationneeded.news/it-matters-i-care/

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NONOTAK: Sora, large scale kinetic light and sound installation, 2023 https://nonotak.com/_SORA

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Hello Fluo, a collection of creative coding visuals printed in Quadrifluox, curated by Mekit Studio and 70magenta. Published by @vetro. Feeling jealous, printing with special inks is a blast. https://vetroeditions.com/products/hello-fluo

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E.T. Manning - "Wernher bon Braun", 1978 From Computer Graphics & Art, Feb 1978 (PDF availiable at https://www.are.na/block/11375199)

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