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We all know, that tobacco brands are slow death dealers and if it wasn’t for their lobbies and the substantial amount of tax they contribute to economies all over the world (thus buying toleration), they would probably even be deemed illegal and forbidden by law.
In times, where other global players are at least beginning to understand the need for moral and ethics for their futures and are ocassionally responding with corporate social responsibility programmes, the cigarette industry is pre-occupied with itself trying to invent ways around the legal restrictions which …

We are all witnessing a process where music and its visual manifestations are quickly de-materializing. Music has been digitized, playlisted and cover art has been reduced to thumbnails. More and more DJs, who are traditionally a strong pro-vinyl fraction, are discovering the amenities of tools like Serato or Final Scratch.
In this context it is interesting to see that there have been a couple of recent projects to portray DJs and producers in their creative workspaces. The picture above shows Hamburg based DJ Koze’s studio as photgraphed by Ragnar Schmuck. Ragnar …

Mobile design strategist Rachel Hinman took a creative recovery from her job at Adaptive Path to conduct an ambitious project: protoype 90 mobile related ideas within 90 days. The project site is a great documentation of all ideas and sketches she had been working on during the three month project, initially started in June 2008.

LnA Clothing und Invisible DJ brachten vor einiger Zeit das Music Tee raus. Eine echt hörenswerte Kompilation mit zahlreichen Indieacts. Das Besondere: es gibt keinen herkömmlichen Tonträger (CD oder Platte) auf dem die Kompilation vertrieben wird, es wird ein Kompilationshirt angeboten auf dessen eingenähten Tag ein Downloadcode steht, der auf der LnA Site eingeben werden kann um schlussendlich die MP3s auf seinen Rechner zu laden. Smarte Idee, denn das Kauferlebnis ersetzt zunehmend das eigentliche Produkt. Und ein schmuckes Shirt ist dem Musikkontext allemal gängiger als mobile Festplatten mit Downloadladenanbindung.
LnA, Invisible DJ …

A recent edition of Süddeutsche Zeitung’s highly awarded SZ-Magazin features a brilliant photo series of music fans in the first row. The photographers visited a total of 23 concerts featuring the likes of Shakira, Marilyn Manson, The Sex Pistols, Rod Steward and more. Any guesses on who these guys are trying to impersonate?
The Front Row