October 2011
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Urban Stargazing
Urban Stargazing - Royal College of Art 2011
Over time, society has developed a complex rhythm that demands we live in an environment artificially lit twenty-four hours a day preventing us from experiencing the natural lights coming from billions of light years away, shining and twinkling as soon as the Sun sets to the west. The Urban Stargazing project focuses on bringing back the stars in...
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WatchI am following the developments at Dale Farm, which is being forcefully evicted by the police since this morning. It may be that technically the people living at Dale Farm are ‘illegal’ by the letter of the law, but I seriously question the way in which the British Government and police force are being used to push through the law. I am not sure why there wasn’t a more peaceful...
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5 Million Dollars 1 Terrabyte
5 Million Dollars 1 Terrabyte (2011) is a sculpture consisting of a 1 TB Black External Hard Drive containing $5,000,000 worth of illegally downloaded files. A full list of the files with clickable download links can be found here.
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Studio
My current studio and I have to say - I absolutely love it. What’s yours like?
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Brasilia: Working Plan Or Utopian Blueprint?
The long-awaited start into the final year of the BA (Hons) Interior Design course at the LCC, I am beginning to write my dissertation about Brasilia. What are your thoughts on Brasilia?
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To Sell Out Or Not To Sell Out
Banksy’s new “artwork” for the Frieze… Speechless!
“The Banksy Truck will be in Old Quebec Street, London, W1C 1LZ (behind The Cumberland Hotel) tomorrow, 6 October, from 8am to 2pm. Visit www.guoman.com/urban_contemporary_art_and_luxury_sale for more details.”
September 2011
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WatchNorthern Lights as seen from the International Space Sation.
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Smoke Signals
“For one hour starting at noon, SABER wrote across the sky circling downtown L.A. Aside from shouting out his crew, he called for an end to the mural moratorium the city has affronted on its citizens. Since graffiti and street art are being attacked by the bureaucrats, he took to the air, right over City Hall. Shouldn’t be much of a surprise since SABER had the world’s largest ...
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Strata #4
Quayola has created a new multi-screen video-installation to be premiered on the 7-9th October 2011, at the renowned Palais des Beaux Arts in Lille, France’s second museum after the Louvre, as the opening of their 2011-2012 season. An exclusive password protected excerpt is available for you to watch here. Quayola’s mesmerising piece, Strata#4, is part of his on-going series of films,...
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New Project
I am very excited to announce that I am working with an amazing contemporary artist to design an online presence for the work. More soon…
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Cinema 4D R13
I’ve been playing around with Cinema 4D’s new physical render engine and the first impressions are very good! You can finally add a real camera and control aperture, shutter speed, ISO and much more to give very realistic results. If you haven’t got it already, head over to Maxon now.
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My grandfather Alfonso Bialetti
Earlier this year Alessi launched the Alessi Moka by Italian design maestro Alessandro Mendini. It’s a homage to Alberto Alessi’s grandfather Alfonso Bialetti, the inventor of the now iconic Bialetti Moka Express. Here Alessi writes about his grandfather’s lack of interest in commercial success and fame and yet 200 million Biallettis have sold worldwide.
Read more after...
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Felt & Gravity Sideboard
Beautiful and simple.
“Felt & Gravity Sideboard (2011)
Faitful Copy, RAM galleri, Oslo
Douglas Fir, 100% wool and solid brass bolts. H: 1000 x W: 400 x L: 1500 mm
Gravity becomes one of the components in this sideboard. The shelves in 100% wool get their strength from the weight placed inside them. The unit is created with a flat pack construction and solid brass wingnuts and...
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August 2011
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Tribal DDB Office by i29
My readers might remember that I used grey industrial felt for my last project “hub 5” for two feature walls in a cafe/hot desk space in Switzerland. Well, it seems that i29 has taken it a step or two further with creating this office space entirely in grey industrial felt. I do like the tactile look but feel that some color might enhance the impression. Perhaps it will be a bit less...
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Pause Fest
Pause Fest is an amalgamation of the cultural, creative and commercial world, the global digital scene and national impetus, showcasing the work of leading creative minds of the 21st century.
The fest presents the best and freshest work from global thinkers that dare to innovate and break the rules to set new standards, thus making it the essential meeting point for all who want to experience...
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ANIMAL BIKE CO.
I always loved everything about this brand and have been riding their hardware for over eight years now. It’s good to see they’re still going and keeping BMX alive on the streets. Beautiful photography of riding and products in this flick book. Good job!
July 2011
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How algorithms shape our world – Kevin Slavin’s wildly thought-provoking talk at last week’s TEDGlobal.
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I Am Eleven, is another journey around the world, this time from the perspective of, you guessed it, eleven-year-olds.
I AM ELEVEN is a globe-spanning portrait of humanity at a crucial age – no longer children, not quite adults, preparing to inherit a world changing as quickly and dramatically as they are. This documentary focuses on a series of eleven-year-olds from 15 countries,...
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Piano Hanger
The Piano hanger, designed by Patrick Seha for the Belgian company Feld, is completely flat when not in use. When you need to hang something – you can unfold numerous wardrobe hooks on the different levels of the panel (so, the piece is child-friendly as well). The fold mechanism functions according to a simple principle – when one side is pressed down, the other one moves upwards. Just...
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WatchMorag Myerscough has been a student at the London College of Communication and now successfully runs her own studio based in East London.
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June 2011
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WatchThe Immersive Cocoon is a future concept study by Tino Schaedler with design collective NAU; an idea to push the envelope and provoke a new conception and evolution of computer interaction. More at i-cocoon.com.