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Jody Barton was begat of woman in the County of Kent in the year of our Queen 1972. After being a baby for ages and then inevitably a child after that he finally inhabited his adult form. Not a virgin having had sex with a lady, or without a car having a 1985 1000cc Peugeot shopping vehicle with three massive dents, he is an eligible bachelor who would like to be married to a beautiful intellectual lady who is not too short probably. He is a terrible skateboarder. Fortunately the forces of youth apparel have not discovered this fact so have in recent years asked Jody to weave his works into the hooded topped tapestry. The world screams - and Jody feels its pain and cries out mournfully in a terrible chord of Teen Angst. After a period living in Shitsville (London) he now lives in quiet seclusion with his elaborate bicycles in the deep countryside of the County of Suffolk. His dwelling is so remote that there are no roads out at all. No shops, no lights - only the howl of the owl, the inquisitive friendship of the weasel and the mud. It is possible to travel out to civilisation, but Jody must drag himself bodily across lakes of slippery mud, through thorny hedges and penetrate leagues of impenetratable woodland to reach a road. At which point he would be quite torn to threads and having the appearance of primitive man in the natural history museum. This takes so long that leaving the house clean shaven to travel to London he will arrive with a quite long beard and no memory of the journeys beginning.

Anton Stankowski was born on 18 June 1906 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. His most important teacher was Max Burchartz at the Folkwangschule in Essen, where — after completing an apprenticeship and his journeyman years as a decorative painter — he studied for three semesters, starting in 1926. After a short stint free-lancing for the Canis Advertising Agency in Bochum, the 23-year-old Stankowski was invited toward the end of 1929 to work at Max Dalang’s famous advertising studio in Zurich. This marked the beginning of an important time: Stankowski’s photographic and typographical work developed into a prototype for a contemporary advertising style, later called “constructive graphics.” Stankowski quickly made friends with people who later became known as the “Zuricher Konkreten,” Richard P. Lohse, Verena Loewensberg, Max Bill, and others. In 1934 Stankowski lost his work permit and he moved to Lörrach, Switzerland, before finally returning to Germany in 1938. In 1939 Stankowski founded his Grafische Atelier in Stuttgart. Shortly thereafter, he was drafted into the army and had to go to war. After the war, he connected with leading characters of the visual movement, such as Baumeister, Hugo Häring, Kurt Leonhard, Mia Seeger, Egon Eiermann, Max Bense, and Walter Cantz. Thanks in part to Stankowski’s work, Stuttgart became a Mecca for graphic design in the 1950s.

Thank you Charlotte!

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