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Is there life in Irish typographical design?

YES.

Graphic designer Aiden Grenelle (above), who works out of Image Now in Dublin, standing damn hipsterfully beside his screen print selected for the David Bowie show at the Victoria & Albert Museum..

Aiden’s design was inspired by Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust-era pantaloon suit designed by Freddie Burretti in 1972 and captured in the photo (left). He is among 100 artists chosen to produce typographic mark or logotype for the word Bowie for the exhibition.

The 500mm x 500mm print, entitled ‘The Changing Face of Bowie’ is available exclusively from the V&A.

The show opens on Saturday.

David Bowie at the V & A (V&A)

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A short film by The Perennial Plate featuring the dabbawallas of Mumbai – who deliver home-cooked lunches to office workers in a low tech but remarkably effective way.

Each day in Mumbai 4000 men in white outfits and matching hats transport 175,000 lunches across the big city. They retrieve the tiffens (lunch containers) of food from mothers and wives, and bring them (by foot, train, bicycle and even carried on top of their heads) to the office buildings of waiting husbands and sons. The Dabbawallas have been doing this since the late 1800s.Despite the unsophisticated mode of transport, the lunches always arrive on time (the error rate is 1 in every 16 million transactions).

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Some 20,000 people over the age of 70 will lose their medical card under legislation changing the criteria for the card.

Minister of State for Health Alex White said the 20,000 would instead be eligible for a GP-visit card. The changes are part of the Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill which reduces the income threshold for a person to still retain the medical card from €700 a week to €600 or €1,400 to €1,200 for couples.

Independent TD Tom Fleming said the overall budget for the medical card system was €750 million. “The €24 million being saved is nitpicking in the overall context.” He said 94 per cent of people over 70 visited their GP on a regular basis. “It follows then that they have a high intake of drugs to them cope with illness and disability.”

The Kerry South TD said savings could be trebled or quadrupled if the whole cost of drugs issue was dealt with.

 

Related: That Would Be A Generical Matter

20,000 people aged over 70 to lose medical cards (Marie O’Halloran, Irish Times)

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)

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