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Corinne Drandic
Switzerland
(bookseller - copywriter - researcher)
Fav URL(s):
http://literart.ch, http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/ruskin/ruskin/jr.htm, http://www.diogenes.chLovemarks:
Damien Hirst, Steinway & Sons, Apple, IKEA, Phaidon, Putumayo World Music, The Smiths, H & M, Dorling Kindersley, Six Feet Under, Leica, Vanity Fair, Helmut Lang, Kodak, Frank Lloyd Wright, The Ramones, Calvin and Hobbes, Eurovision Song Contest, Oxford Dictionary, Paul Smith, Zeiss, Monty Python, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Gorey, Associated Press (AP), Dead Poets Society, BookCrossing, C S Lewis, Where's George?, Roald Dahl, The Pixies, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (The), Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Da Ali G Show, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Mute Records, Eddie Izzard, The Office, Tim Burton, The Prisoner, 7 For All Mankind, Wallpaper*, Yuri Gagarin, Ricky Gervais Podcast, Bolshoi Theatre, Saint Petersburg, Shiseido, Dostoevsky, Caran d'Ache, DeviantART, Moomintroll, Hugh Laurie, Alain de Botton, Barbapapa, Budapest, Franz Ferdinand, Adelphi Edizioni, Barack Obama, The Clash, H.P. Lovecraft, Fleetwood Mac, Bauhaus, Les Salons du Palais Royal Shiseido, Arte, Albrecht Durer, Little Britain, Berlin, Germany, Edition Peters, Susan Sontag, Putumayo World Music, Diane Arbus, Daniel Libeskind, Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy, The Catcher in the Rye, Diogenes Verlag, Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography, Particules en Suspension, Literart, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Istria, Jewish Museum, Kras, Alan Davies, Wim Wenders. -
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A unique brand identity
Putumayo World Music
02 March 2012
Putumayo is considered a pioneer and leader in developing the non-traditional market. A large portion of its target audience consists of “Cultural Creatives,” a sociological term for 50 million North Americans and millions more around the world with an interest in culture, travel and the arts. By combining appealing music and visuals with creative retail marketing, Putumayo has developed a unique brand identity, a rarity in today’s artist-based music industry.
So sensational
Diane Arbus
02 March 2012
Arbus is best known today for the "freak" photos that were so sensational 40-odd years ago, and for becoming something of a cult figure by dying young. It is difficult to locate more than a handful of Arbus' works on the Internet, due to her closely guarded estate. For extended viewing, one's best bet is either purchasing or borrowing one of the image-intensive books on the artist authorized by the Arbus Estate.
A human rights activist
Susan Sontag
06 March 2012
Susan Sontag was born in New York City on January 16, 1933. The famous photographer and writer did graduate work in philosophy, literature, and theology. A human rights activist for more than two decades, Ms. Sontag served as president of the American Center of PEN, the international writers’ organization dedicated to freedom of expression and the advancement of literature, from which platform she led a number of campaigns on behalf of persecuted and imprisoned writers. Her stories and essays appeared in newspapers, magazines, and literary publications all over the world, including the New York Times, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement.
The Art of Architecture
Daniel Libeskind
06 March 2012
Architect Daniel Libeskind, known for his dynamic, fractured compositions, is also recognized for introducing a new critical discourse to architecture. In an enormous variety of projects around the world — major cultural institutions, convention centers, universities, hotels, commercial centers, and residential work — he has manifested his commitment to expanding the horizons of architecture and urbanism. To me, he represents the Art of Architecture as deep as I did someone like J.Ruskin in the previous decade. At least to be (eventually) compared with Frank Lloyd Wright (without the self-esteem theatre). The (New) Jewish Museum in Berlin is - after the Manchester War Museum - the biggest significative achitectory achievement in the 20th decade.
Just enjoy!
Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy
06 March 2012
We cannot be indifferent
Frank Lloyd Wright
11 March 2012
My favourite publishing house
Diogenes Verlag
23 May 2012
Diogenes is Europe’s largest purely literary publishing house, having so far released more than 5,800 titles, including classics such as Montaigne, Shakespeare, Moliere, Flaubert, Stendhal, Balzac, Dickens, Tolstoy, Chekhov; modern classics such as Georges Simenon, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Orwell, Carson McCullers, Patricia Highsmith; bestselling authors such as John Irving, Paulo Coelho, Donna Leon; and equally successful German-speaking writers such as Alfred Andersch, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Urs Widmer, Hugo Loetscher, Ingrid Noll, Jakob Arjouni, Erich Hackl, Bernhard Schlink, Doris Dörrie, Martin Suter and Patrick Süskind. The guiding principle of Diogenes’ publishing policy has always been not so much to release individual books but rather authors and, wherever possible, their complete works. My favourite publishing house represents also the global rights in the works of various authors of foreign languages, e.g. those of Patricia Highsmith, Andrzej Szczypiorski, Leon de Winter, Donna Leon, Viktorija Tokarjewa, Magdalen Nabb, Tomi Ungerer, Andrej Kurkow and Petros Markaris. Let's close with that: he greatest literary success of a German-speaking author in the Anglo-Saxon world after Perfume was again a Diogenes book: Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader which also made it onto... Hollywood!
Don't miss it while in NY
Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography
23 May 2012
Herb Lubalin (1918–1981) is an graphic artist best known for his breaking illustrative typography and his groundbreaking work for the magazines Avant Garde, Eros, and Fact. The Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography, stablished in 1984 in NY, was created in order to preserve the unprecedented resource of Herb Lubalin’s vast collection of work. The Study Center's core collection includes an extensive archive of Lubalin's work, including promotional, editorial and advertising design, typeface designs, posters, logos, and other other materials dating from 1950 to 1980. There is also a library of books and magazines about design and typography and an extensive collection of posters, myriad type specimen books and pamphlets. You don't need to love typography to appreciate the many incredible ways one can use the letter/the word to create an impression which is above the word itself. Don't miss it while in NY...
Very original choice
Particules en Suspension
30 May 2012
Particles in Suspension is a very original shop concept which opened its doors in November 2006 in Lausanne, Switzerland. The first idea: propose original works from the creative studios and workshops of the region. From the mini accessory to the great smart present, Particules has a very original choice – provided that your sense of humour is as snobbish as it is hype. T-shirts, bags, jewels, home design, children's accessories, cameras, Lomography, books. Come and see, it is worth it! The Swiss French BoBo’s Paradise.
A restless and audacious experimenter
Italo Calvino
19 June 2012
Cloven, leafy, impossible - the fiction of Italo Calvino looms over the European literary landscape like a non-existent viscount in the trees. For the past fifty years, the versatility and daring of the author has enriched and influenced the modus operandi of modern writing. Calvino was a restless and audacious experimenter, forever attempting to merge opposing fictive forms or to extend literature into other disciplines. More than his contemporaries, he managed to reconcile form and content, tradition and innovation, cerebration and emotion, in his search for a style which "breathes philosophy and science but keeps its distance." Now his heirs continue that search.
Has become a global brand
Damien Hirst
10 August 2012
Damien Hirst is an artist whose notoriety has become a global brand. Serious critics have risen about his work, because Hirst takes a direct and challenging approach to common ideas about existence. His work calls into question our awareness and convictions about the boundaries that separate desire and fear, life and death, reason and faith, love and hate. Hirst uses the tools and iconography of science and religion, creating sculptures and paintings whose beauty and intensity offer the viewer insight into art that transcends our familiar understanding of those domains. This may be troubling and disturbing, as it questions the comfortable, Western human common sense validity.
THE German bookshop in Geneva
Literart
25 January 2013
Literart is THE German bookshop in Geneva and therefore in the "Westschweiz"! "Besuchen Sie uns, es lohnt sich auf jeden Fall, sei es um uns kennenzulernen!"
Jacques is a Legend!
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
25 January 2013
Re-discover the legendary adventures of Jacques-Yves Cousteau; his expeditions, his crew, his inventions, his dreams and aspirations. Don't you remember? Jacques is a Legend!
Unique and magnificent
Istria
25 January 2013
Istria is the largest Croatian peninsula, unique and magnificent, around which the Adriatic Sea has deeply etched itself into the land, sprinkling its jagged coastline with a thousand lagoons and islands. Surrounded in the northeast by the Cicceria and Ucka mountains, Istria is prepared to reveal its thousand years of history to the chance traveller.
A magnet for the public
Jewish Museum
25 January 2013
The Jewish Museum Berlin is one of the most spectacular museum buildings in Germany. Since the beginning it has been a magnet for the public, attracting 350,000 people even as an empty shell before it opened in fall 2001. The architecture was undoubtedly the cause for this initial popularity.
Kras' “sweet” history
Kras
25 January 2013
Right from the start of production in 1911 till now, Kras has been systematically extending its production of all three confectionery categories – cocoa products, biscuits and wafers, as well as sugar confectionery. Kras' “sweet” history commenced in 1911 when the factory named UNION from Zagreb began to operate as the first chocolate maker in South-Eastern Europe. From the very beginning, delicious sweet treats produced at this company received the highest recognition of that time – UNION became a purveyor of chocolate to the Imperial and Royal Court of Austria-Hungary! Try it!
One of the foremost stand-up comedy performers
Eddie Izzard
28 January 2013
Eddie Izzard has been hailed as one of the foremost stand-up comedy performers of this generation. He takes ideas and situations and extrapolates them into bizzare tangential, absurd, and surreal comic narratives. He is the first to admit that he gets well paid for talking total bollocks. The good pay is because unlike the bollocks most of us talk, it's funny. Izzard is one of the most successful stand-up comedians Britain has produced. He is equally one of the most controversial and troubled. That's also why we love him.
Uncommonly inventive wit
Alan Davies
08 February 2013
Alan is one of the UK's favourite comedians and actors. If you've seen him in anything else, it was probably the superlatively quirky cult BBC series Jonathan Creek, in which he plays the part of a woolly-coiffed, windmill-dwelling magician-sleuth. You may also have been lucky enough to see his stand-up routines which have played all over the country, to great acclaim. On QI, Alan is 'everyman' - the voice of the masses, but with an uncommonly inventive wit, who says what we're all thinking and takes the negative scores upon his shoulders. He makes us realise that asking questions is not something we should shy away from, and more often than not he asks something from so far leftfield that it completely baffles even Stephen. If we don't ask questions, how are we ever going to learn anything? Alan has an uncanny skill for foreign accents.
Brought a new cinema to life
Wim Wenders
06 May 2013
People around the globe have seen the films of Wim Wenders. Many have been influenced by them, and some of the films have become classics or cult films. They belong to a collective memory of cinema-goers of every age and many nationalities. "Paris-Texas", "Der Himmel über Berlin", "Mulholland Drive", "Elephant Man" or even "Eraserhead" are among the movies that brought a new cinema to life.