Today Chanel A/W 2010 show- Though calling anything �cool� nowadays is something of a death knell in the style stakes, there aren�t any other adjectives that fully do justice to Chanel�s A/W 2010 show. See more of Chanel's icescape The spectacle, which took place at the Grand Palais this morning, was housed in a hermetically sealed �glacier� box in subzero temperatures, constructed to resemble……(more)
- Today New Fornasetti vases by Bitossi Ceramiche
- Fresh characters have been added to the family of Fornasetti vases by Bitossi Ceramiche this month. As always, the designs give a witty twist to Piero Fornasetti's iconic prints, such as the face of his muse Lina Cavilieri. Each of the designs is produced in limited edition and once sold out, will be replaced by a new personality. See more pictures of the collection All……(more)
- Today Paris Fashion Week
- It's show time again. From New York to London, Milan to Paris, the women's A/W 2010 collections are being unveiled and from top to toe we've got them covered in all their glory. Photographer: Jason Lloyd-Evans Profile: Jason Lloyd Evans Paris News Chanel A/W 2010 show Read the article London Bloggers The Wallpaper* fashion team Read the blog London……(more)
- Yesterday Apartment building in Carabanchel, Madrid
- It takes a certain amount of chutzpah to pull off a truly colourful building. One of the sorry legacies of modernism's largely sterile palette was the post-modernists' sudden lurch into jarring colour, splashed superficially over fa�ades with little sense of creative composition. Colour application is also the foremost strategy of regeneration - witness HawkinsBrown's scheme……(more)
- Tesla Roadster
- A lot has been written about the Tesla Roadster. Now in its 2.0 iteration (yes, in the future, cars will get upgraded just like software), the Roadster recently started rolling silently off the production line in right hand drive format, giving British - and Japanese - enthusiasts no excuse not to add one to their fleet. See more of the Tesla Roadster Since last Summer,……(more)
- Homework: Polish poster design
- Warsaw-based graphic design studio, Homework, has - for the past seven years - been working to resurrect the neglected art of Polish poster design. See more of Homework's poster designs Formed in 2003 by Joanna Gorska and Jerzy Skakun, Homework has been credited - by design writer Ellen Lupton - with 'bringing the medium of Polish posters back to life', and this month�s……(more)
- In Almost Every Picture
- Erik Kessels is a founding partner and Creative Director of KesselsKramer, the renowned Amsterdam communications agency. He also collects vernacular photography, scouring fleamarkets and the internet for pictures that, as a collection, contain a narrative, which goes beyond their significance as individual photographs. Over the years he has curated these finds into a series……(more)
- Book: New Architecture in Japan
- This welcome addition to the library is a comprehensive overview of over 100 recent projects in Japan, from large scale pieces of urban to small scale residential gems, photographed with an almost fetishistic eye for detail (such as the glossy blacks and velvety concrete of the Ware House in Hokkaido by Jun Igarashi, featured in W*120). See more from the Sumners' new book The……(more)
- More Scenes In Cartoon Deserta
- When you find yourself in times of trouble, historically speaking, its quite likely you'll find yourself in a desert. For Satan in Paradise Lost, for the Israelites fleeing Egypt, for Mark Thatcher on the Paris Dakar rally, deserts are places we become lost in or are exiled to. Equally, they are places where beyond-normal things happen, things like nuclear tests, alien autopsies and what-goes-on-in-Vegas-stays-in-Vegas moralities. They are places beyond our normal conception of place, empty of t…(more)
- Eiffel X-Rays
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From the medical records of St George's Hospital Medical School:
"A 3 year old boy presented to our accident and emergency department with an obvious penetrating head injury. He had tripped and fallen onto a metal model of the Eiffel Tower which then became rigidly lodged into his skull.
On arrival he had a Glasgow coma score of 15 and was neurologically intact. He was then anesthetised for a computed tomography scan which showed the tip of the metallic model penetrating the skull and lying …(more)
- Beyond: Values and Symptoms
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Excited that Beyond issue 2 is out. Alongside luminaries both literary and architectural including Douglas Coupland and Francois Roche, I have contributed a short story titled "Everything Dale Myres Could And Couldn't See". The story chronicles a digital animators increasing obsession with the assassination of JFK which leads to ever more byzantine recreations of Dealey Plaza and other sites noted for their conspiritorial nature - kind of Dan Brown via Nikolaus Pevsner if you will.
Here is an…(more)
- Sub Plan
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Sub Plan is a research project developed by an AA summer school unit led by Finn Williams of Common Office, David Knight and graphic designers Europa. It's a guide to what's known in the UK as Permitted Development. Permitted development is a subset of planning legislation which attempts to define the point where you no longer require planning permission, defining the extent to which you can add and extend your home without engaging the planning process.
The book explores the narrow set …(more)
- Shenzhen: Window of the World
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Back from Shenzhen, where amongst the super-speed urbanism is the model village Window of the World. Along side the kinds of thing you might expect (Big Ben, a giant sized miniature Eiffel Tower and so on) are some less likely candidates: Brazilias National Congress, Lenins Mausoleum, Niagra Falls and Mont Blanc. Oh, and Gaudis Park Guelle surrounded by a golf green for some reason.…(more)
- White Power
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So Switzerland has banned minarets. In a sense, that is no real surprise coming from the home of architectural minimalism. There is something about the idea of 'purity' or 'essence' propagated by the cult of minimalism seems to echo other kinds of 'purity' which have far more sinister undertones.
Minimalism is more than anything the art of exclusion. Its effort is to edit out all that is somehow impure, to resist the presence of foreign bodies from its domain. This ruthless edit is the sourc…(more)
- Generic Powerpoint Template: Delivering Bad News
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- Duplicate Array
- Just back from Lausanne, where FATs show "Duplicate Array' opened at Galerie Lucy Mackintosh.
"Duplicate Array: Objects/Buildings/Plans presents a series of architecture, design and art projects by London based practice FAT ranging in scale from objects to buildings and masterplans. The projects explore an idea of architecture as narrative, media and communication engaging directly with the culture, communities and scenarios that surround them. Using tactics which include appropriation, irony a…(more)
- Today EVENT: PSFK Conference New York 2010
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Piers and PSFK have been pretty good supporters of the blog and helpful to me, so when he asked if I’d mention PSFK Conference New York 2010 on Friday, April 09, 2010 I said sure. Below are all the speakers—I’ve seen and hear a couple of them before and can attest to their smarts.
Colin Beavan - Green pioneer and journalist aka No Impact Man
John Dimatos - Lecturer concepting tech solutions for Unicef at NYU
Nick Felton - Designer and creator of the annual infographic Feltron Repo…(more)
- Yesterday How do you write a post?
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Typically when I start writing a blog post I’ll open up Word Press to get things started. I’ll just use their editing window pushing my ideas out. I thought that was how most people published until I talked recently to another writer who mentioned that she uses text edit. She also mentioned that there’s other blogging tools like MarsEdit. Apparently it plugs into WordPress though I couldn’t get it to work with my old version of version. In any case I’ve been using …(more)
- Link Drop from 02.26.10 to 03.05.10
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The big news this week for me is that I did a quick announcement that I’m going to be leaving Daylife in a couple weeks. I’ve been given an awesome opportunity at Behavior that I’m pretty excited about. As that was being finalized below are the sites and posts that made me think this week for Link Drop.
Books in the Age of the iPad
While I recognize that it is still too soon to talk about the influence of the iPad when it has yet to come out, the post Books in the Age of th…(more)
- Link Drop Today Video Festival 005
- These are the latest videos posted from Link Drop Today…
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- REVIEW COPY: Flaunt: Designing effective, compelling and memorable portfolios of creative work By Br
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When Armin emailed me asking if I would be interested in reading the PDF version of Flaunt for review I said sure. I’ve only read a couple pdf books before but I was curious about the experience of something visual and how it would translate on screen. I did eventually print the whole thing out but in hindsight I probably didn’t need too, though I did accidentally deleted my only PDF copy and had to get a second download sent to me. With all that said I think the book is inc…(more)
- Looking at My Design Process Today
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Taking a step back from my everyday work, I thought it would be interesting to break out my design process when the ideal conditions are available. While it is pretty rare to have everything work out perfectly in terms of conditions when I started writing down some of the steps I was surprised that the word “design” isn’t part of the first five steps. Sure everything building up to that point is design but to not see the word till the end was interesting to me. I’ve also experie…(more)
- Link Drop from 02.20.10 to 02.25.10
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This week was all about tracking and taking note of stuff. There was visualizations of maps and cursors, diagrams and questioning of process. Just an average week I suppose. Looking back I was reading things that made me rethink or gave me room to reconsider things. As always there’s a ton of things that filled in gaps that I wasn’t able to find elsewhere.
The Power of Frameworks
Lately I’ve been thinking about constraints, limitations and the conditions that create those e…(more)
- IDEO Method Cards App on the iPhone
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It still amazes me how the iPhone and apps have completely changed how information can be distributed. And it’s really easy to take it for granted too—no big deal anymore, apps are just apps right? Why I think it is still worth mentioning was last night I came across IDEO’s Method Cards as an app. They’re cards that have a bunch of different exercises to think about design, process and spark ideas. I don’t recall how much those cards cost to buy as a “thing”, but i…(more)
- Pleasure wear. Tokyo
- In Tokyo a day off work is a rare treat and whether you spend it walking in the park or working your way through your magazine stash, you'll need the perfect attire.…(more)
- ...And relax
- There’s no need to rush your Sabado in Madrid.…(more)
- Bang on
- This elegant, oval-shaped Suovo box (ideal for storage or laundry) is made by Villa, a third-generation family-run homeware firm based in Milan.…(more)
- Q&A Noriaki Okabe
- Noriaki Okabe, the Japanese architect who worked with Renzo Piano for 20 years and whose projects include the award-winning terminal at Kansai International Airport, has recently been putting the finishing touches to the new Belgian Embassy in the Nibanch…(more)
- Shelf help
- Vitsoe is expanding its reach with its first US shop, on Bond Street in New York.…(more)
- Happy place
- Residents in Keelung, Taipei's port city, now have more space to play thanks to a new plaza designed by Spanish architect Vicente Guallart.…(more)
- Shedding Light
- Brisbane-based architecture start-up Richards & Spence transformed a collection of run-down sheds (scheduled for demolition) into sleek new retail space for Brickworks South, a shopping collective in Southport, Queensland.…(more)
- Q&A. Mauro
- Mauro Bianucci trained as an architect in his native Argentina, before moving to New York to work as a retail architect in 2000.…(more)
- Today Study says US doctors in hospitals only wash their hands about 30% of the time
- An upsetting stat tucked away in a NYT piece today: Doctors in American hospitals wash their hands only 30-40% of the time, according to national estimates. (via consumersunion)
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- Today Wired Reread: AT&T's "strap-on telephone"
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Image (large size): One of many vintage ads from old issues of Wired Magazine at wiredreread.com, a site created by Theis Søndergaard. This one for an AT&T "strap-on telephone" appeared in 1995. Be sure to use your fancy new 28.8 modem when you call up that website on the internet.
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- Today Kids in Haiti refugee camps making kites
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Lawrence Downes of The New York Times says: "I was just in Haiti reporting on things there and found amazing makers: boys who make kites. Even in refugee camps, where there’s only tiniest scraps of stuff: plastic, sticks, thread."
The kites are beautiful: some have layers of black and clear plastic forming diamonds and stars. Some have decorative edges, the plastic razor-sliced into piñata fringe. But they work, catching the breeze and jack-rabbiting into the smoky air. Small kites are noto…(more)
- Today Totally righteous "Cove" dudes reported to have caught LA sushi joint selling illegal whale meat
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Santa Monica sushi restaurant The Hump is reported to have been caught selling illegal whale meat to its customers. Who went after them with hidden cameras? The guys behind the dolphin slaughter documentary The Cove.
Image above: Ric O'Barry, right after The Cove won an oscar, during the Academy Awards. BB pal Ehrich Blackhound emailed in the image and says, "I love it when winners hijack the broadcast, and for a txting campaign!"
His speech, after the jump.
Ric O'Barry: Winning the Osc…(more)
- Today Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs: The Metzger interview
- Richard Metzger writes: "It was the blog post heard 'round the world. When Charles Johnson wrote "Why I Parted Ways With The Right" in the space of a few minutes and posted it on his popular Little Green Footballs blog, he had no idea the firestorm it would set off. Nasty denunciations, death threats and a New York Times magazine feature article later, Charles Johnson joined me for a lively discussion about what happened to him, the Darwin-hating, know-nothing Creationists and the frenzied insan…(more)
- Today Lindsay Lohan is absolutely not a milkaholic
- Lindsay Lohan would like you to know that she is not a milkaholic. To that end, she is reported to be suing e*trade for $100 million over a baby that appears in one of its TV ads. (via @tokyomango)
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- Today Future of Interrogration
- Not only are torture techniques like waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and forced stress positions evil, they don't work very well for interrogation. Jacques Vallee talked about that on BB last year in his provocative essay, "Waterboarding's curious corollaries." This week's New Scientist also considers the efficacy of torture and "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment" (CIDT). On the heels of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, Obama established the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group to study a…(more)
- Today Horned centenarian
- Zhang Ruifang, 101, of Henan province in China, appears to have a horn growing on the left side of her forehead. Another is reportedly sprouting on the right side, according to the Daily Mail. I know, I know, the Daily Mail... but look at that horn. Just look at it. From the Daily Mail:
Although, it is unknown what the protrusion is on Mrs Zhang's head, it resembles a cutaneous horn.
This is a funnel-shaped growth and although most are only a few millimetres in length, some can extend a numb…(more)
- Today Surreal chic at Valentino
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Despite the label's somewhat chi-chi reputation as purveyor of ruffled cocktail perfection, Valentino is this reason projecting surreal film montages onto the backdrop of their catwalk. Maybe another trip into the future from the successors to the Sheik of Chic, as with their Avatar-inspired January haute couture collection? We'll find... [more]
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- Today Too Funky
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Frankly this is the last invitation I expected to request here in Paris, but it's true: Thierry Mugler, of sculpted cyber suit infamy, is once again showing here in Paris. Granted I don't think Monsieur Mugler is at the helm anymore, but given the sheer number of designers currently referencing... [more]
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- Yesterday Paris Fashion Week - Day Six...?
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It's an unbelievable day six here in Paris, and I have seen and reviewed about thirty collections already. Here is my take on what I have seen thusfar - apologies for the darkness of video, but hope you enjoy the picturesque Rive Gauche backdrop!
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- Yesterday Full image galleries, reviews and videos
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We've barely seen our Fashion Director Alexander Fury this year, since Autumn/Winter 2010 Fashion Weeks have led him astray to Paris, New York, London and Milan, some twice around. Our catwalk photographer Chris Moore has been with him all the way, providing brilliant images to accompany Alex's sterling reports, both... [more]
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- Yesterday Kenzo's coming up roses
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Prize for prettiest invite of the week undoubtedly goes to this shrink-wrapped floral number from Kenzo, evidently celebrating their 40th birthday in style. After our unceremonious blacklisting from Emanuel Ungaro (apparently Lohan free after just one season), our first show of the day was Giambattista Valli - a gallant attempt... [more]
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- Yesterday ReVolta
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This time last year, word on the street was that Volta was nothing short of revolting. This year, the satellite fair felt much the same. While both the work on the walls and the venue were a little more pulled together, in all, most of the galleries should... [more]
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- 3 days Sweet nothings from Delvaux
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Nothing guarantees a fabulous review like chocolate. Well, at least in my book. These cleverly-branded melt-in-the-mouth chocolates at Veronique Branquinho's first Delvaux presentation take the biscuit for best fashion nibble of Autumn/Winter 2010, hands down.
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- 3 days Pull up to the bumper
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Here is my snap of the opening blast of faux-exhaust and flash of car headlights that heralded the start of Hussein Chalayan's Autumn/Winter show, after a short tribute to his contemporary Lee McQueen. 'Mirage' was the title of the collection - literally written across the models' faces in giant sunglasses... [more]
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- Grindin’
- This is the music video for Grindin’ by Nobody Beats The Drum. It’s a very impressive stop motion piece made with 4085 photos, yet very simple. The music is … well not my cup of tea and you might want to turn down the volume. The making of video is actually quite entertaining.
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- Sketch-a-Move
- Sketch-a-Move is a project by Anab Jain and Louise Klinker. They actually did this a few years ago. It’s a concept for a toy car that allows you to explore the unique relationships between small surface doodles and actual physical movements. If you draw a circle on the top of the toy car, it will move in a circle. If you draw a complicated spiral, the car will move in a spiral. They don’t explain how it actually works or could work, but it sure looks like fun.
via @sermad
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- New Overpainted Photographs
- Overpainted Photographs by Gerhard Richter is an ongoing series where he overpaints his own snapshots. I’ve posted some before, but I still like them. If you’re in Tokyo you can go and see some of them at the WAKO Works of Art till this Saturday.
found at Contemporary Art Daily
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- Page Texture
- Page Texture by Harm Van Den Dorpel. I know that it’s only a multi-directional motion blur applied to a screenshot of a Facebook page, but I like it.
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- Tour des Convoyeurs
- AntiVJ made this light and sound installation called “Tour des Convoyeurs” during the Mutek festival in Montreal. We’ve seen video projections on buildings before, but the look and feel of this one is very nice.
found at Digital Schweinshaxe
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- The Persistence of Sadness
- The Persistence of Sadness by Rafaël Rozendaal. Turn up your volume and click on the rocks!
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- Oblique Clock
- It’s quite amazing how many different designs there’re for a simple clock. Tristan Zimmermann his Oblique Clock is my current favorite.
found at MocoLoco
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- Anders Clausen
- Anders Clausen likes the OS X scroller, so do I.
found at Contemporary Art Daily
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