Archive for the 'Culture' Category

Design for Thought

Friday, February 24th, 2006

Haven’t had the chance to have a good gander yet but Iain Aitchison is showcasing a diverse and interesting set of work. A graduate from the masters programme at the Design Academy Eindhoven, a programme led by Droog design.

Posted by Dom

Who says book deals are hard to get?

Monday, February 20th, 2006

“Juvenile, profane, and timeless, FUCK this book collects images of real public signs that have been mischieveously altered by stickers bearing the most expressive of all four letter words….”

this fucking book is on sale now :)

Posted by Dom

Superneen world

Monday, February 20th, 2006

I saw this: Neen World on we make money not art and reminded me of some of the ideas I had for my final project of my degree. This guy has started to take over the urban landscape to question the division between physical and virtual.

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This digital architecture entered the physical space when he designed the facade and music stage for P130 in Athens. A fragment from Mai Ueda’s home in Neen World is translated into a simulated ruin, a 3D computer pattern whose missing pieces resemble pixels lost in the conversion.
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Posted by simon

We are what we do

Friday, February 17th, 2006

Have you seen the book ‘Change the world for a fiver’?

We are what we do appears to be online extension of the project. Basically asking us to use our everyday actions to change the world! Its been live for a while, 188658 actions completed and counting…

Posted by Dom

The Dumpster

Friday, February 17th, 2006

This is a nice interesting commissioned project by Golan Levin with Kamal Nigam and Jonathan Feinberg.

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The Dumpster is an interactive online visualization that attempts to depict a slice through the romantic lives of American teenagers. Using real postings extracted from millions of online blogs, visitors to the project can surf through tens of thousands of specific romantic relationships in which one person has “dumped” another…

Posted by simon

British Design Icons

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

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Verdana, mini skirts and the comfy ride that is the Raleigh Chopper are out of the top ten.

BBC Culture Show (Vote)

Design Museum’s
GB Design Quest Site

Posted by Iman

Nacho Libre

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

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Jack Black stars as Ignacio (friends call him Nacho), a Mexican priest who moonlights as a lucha libre wrestler to raise money for his orphanage in this comedy from the creators of “Napoleon Dynamite” and the writer and star of “The School of Rock.”

Watch the online trailer here

Posted by Dom

Amazing piece of work or just toss?

Monday, February 6th, 2006

What did everyone think about Dorian Lynskey’s attempt to chart the branches and connections of 100 years of music using the London Underground map?

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Posted by Dom