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This is Samuel Luescher's personal website. Sam is 27, from Switzerland, studies Visual Communication and is now back to Basel after a semester in New York City and recently completed his studies in Visual Communication with the diploma. For the time being he is living in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

 

Disclaimer

The content below is my personal weblog. It is not updated very frequently and is mostly about personal developments or things that catch my attention. Please do not expect any of it to be of any relevance to yo. If you are in fact looking for my work, some of it is documented in the Portfolio section. Moreover, most of the entries are in German. Fortunately you can look at the images if you don't understand them.

Bart White

12 August 2007

Im Zuge der allgemeinen Simpsons-Begeisterung (und zu Ehren der White Stripes, deren jüngstes Album, wie Carlo schon feststellte, grossartig ist): Hier wieder mal ein äusserst unterhaltsames YouTube-Fundstück...

 
Cervelat

Cervelatskandale

12 June 2007

Nachdem wir letzte Woche bereits erfahren mussten, dass unserer Nationalwurst dem Cervelat Gefahr droht, weil wegen eines Importverbots die argentinischen Rinderdärme ausgehen, folgen diese Woche weitere Schreckensmeldungen (die einem ebenso Wurst sein könnten).

Da berichtet 20 Minuten auf der Titelseite, der Fernsehsender Viva boykottiere das neue Musikvideo des sogenannten Bündner Kultrappers Skandalrappers Gimma, in dem sich dieser mit einem Basler Porno-Sternchen auf der Wurstplatte vergnügen soll. Nun ist dieser Gimma fast noch platter als sein Kollege Stress und dessen Song «Fuck Blocher». Der Boykott kann ihm indessen nur recht sein, schliesslich spielt sich Musikfernsehen heutzutage sowieso im Internet ab, während Gimmas Bekanntheitsgrad durch die läppische Angelegenheit explodieren dürfte, wie in solchen Fällen üblich. Und ich bin wieder mal fasziniert vom Mahlen der massenmedialen Vermarktungsmühle (nicht nur wegen des Stabreims). Arme Frau Schwarzer. Was meint ihr dazu? Meinungen gerne in Stabreimform...

 
Darkroom, NYC

Fun with obsolete hardware

01 June 2007

My ultracheap Fisheye camera ($30, almost 180°angle) is pleasureable. Maybe the best thing about it is that you can see the inside of the lens. It's kind of like when you close your eyes and concentrate on the reddish web in front of the dark. You actually see the very front of your brain, the optic nerve that is.

 
Hoodie Clone

How firefighters spend their time

06 May 2007

Last winter I rediscovered that hoodies are the way. At least when it comes to fighting the cold. From the Geneva Airport fire fighters comes this funny clip to a French rap song called «Fous ta Cagoule» (drop your hood). The supervisor was not impressed. And in other news: Save the hoodie. Lovely hoodie in picture thanks to Pudel.

 
Birthday Crèmeschnitte. The Zürich design scene celebrates Helvetica's 50th birthday, and themselves.

And your mother, too

03 May 2007

This will hardly win a Hot Typography News prize, but here's yet another blog post about the premiere of Gary Hustwit's Helvetica film in Zürich, earlier this year, where I also attended the panel discussion.

For everyone who hasn't heard yet, in this lengthy informative monologue Spiekermann explains, once and for all, why Steve Jobs is to blame that even your mother uses Arial for her birthday invitations. Blame my spy cam for the sound quality.

People who don't see the point in discussing letterforms, this video might change your mind. Not.

 
 
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