Don’t normally gratuitously post graphics (there’s too much pretty stuff in the world). But here are a couple of particularly amazing bits of work- one from Artist and Illustrator Anne Harild who made these collages about the modernist housing estate Bryant Court in Hackney from photos of the area. I think it’s the jeuxtposition of modernist building against the irregular shed-like quality of the ‘dwellings’ that gets me. So much lovely texture.
And this piece buy graphics legend Marian Bantjes speaks for itself- pointless and beautiful decoration of a laser dinghy, referencing another graphic design classic- dazzle ships.
Moving house double bike- I think there is a real place for proper cargo bikes like this in ‘The New World’ (which I’m working on creating) I love the idea that the modern family still has a garage where the car is replaced by one of these.
I think it’s interesting how Puma are advertising their product now. And as I had this queued up to blog I came across these other trainer adverts, trying to push their products in a similar ‘not-so-sporty’ way.
These trainers have built in foursquare- geotagging trainers- orwellian or brilliant?
This is a machine which as far as I can tell- has a story loaded on it and then takes keywords and compares those to keywords in patents in the US patents office- it finds the images associated with the words and then draws them- a drawing for every word. So you end up with a story told in amazing diagrams and drawings. Read the website, watch the video…….. link: http://storyteller.allesblinkt.com/
Little bit late but here it is. Went to the RCA in short- was surprisingly disappointed with the Interactions work- I think now that most people can use an arduino a bit and appreciate that electronics and stuff isn’t as hard as it used to be, the magic has left a bit. I’m not impressed now by a sensor or a projector with a something on it- I’ve seen it before- quite a bit. It all needs to be coupled with an intelligent and good idea which didn’t seem as apparent as in previous years. I was surprisingly pleased with the Product stuff though- don’t know why- perhaps because a fair bit of the interactions electronicy stuff has osmosised over- as I said- all that stuff is a lot more accessible than it used to be- the best piece of electronic interaction that was there was in the Design Products space.
Pressed Chair by Harry Thaler. Not often I like chairs- but this one seems to actually live up to it’s eco concepts- I like that if you left it outside it might begin to look like a watering can. I think the raw metal one would look better with age- tricky to do.
Disappearing by Andrew Friend. Read the website and see the pictures. I like this one for a few reasons- the objects look like they are older than they are- the one for the sea looks like a 20 year old buoy. Also the project only comes alive in the photographs- the objects are almost by the by- the photos are the heroes here- contextualising the objects in wall sized photographs at the show was a winner- I’ve got a real thing at the moment for how far do you need to take a project before it’s a project.
I only ‘This Happened’ found this one the other day- not sure how I missed it for so long to be honest- Created/curated by Chris O’Shea, Joel Gethin Lewis and Andreas Müller, it’s basically videos where a designer (normally interaction) talks through one of their projects for a bit and then takes questions. There’s a couple of gems in there- I’m a big fan of Matt Cottam of Tellart’s talk about wooden logic.
This is some footage I made with Jamie when we were in Spain- we sat around talking about art, design, cars, bikes etc for a couple of hours, I filmed a lot, and it has been a huge pain to edit, hence why I haven’t made a film for (over) two weeks.
