Yesterday The brand new Jaguar XJ- This is a critical car. Ever since the early 1960s, Jaguar has become synonymous with the modern sporting saloon car, practically inventing the genre and carrying the flame for three decades until finally the combined talents of certain German firms encroached upon its territory. Despite a long run of uncertainty regarding ownership and finance, Jaguar stuck to its guns, producing……(more)
- New Simplicity show, Brompton Design District
- A show that celebrates pared-down, functional and practical design might not sound full of thrills but, as the stalwarts of simplicity, Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa, have proved time and again, less can be certainly more. See more designs on show at New Simplicity 'New Simplicity', in London's Brompton Design District, brings together a stellar selection of work……(more)
- New Simplicity exhibition in London
- A show that celebrates pared-down, functional and practical design might not sound full of thrills but, as the stalwarts of simplicity, Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa, have proved time and again, less can be certainly more. See more designs on show at New Simplicity 'New Simplicity', in London's Brompton Design District, brings together a stellar selection of work……(more)
- Interactive floor plan: Sentosa House, Singapore
- Mention Singapore and mental images are apt to flash immediately to skyscrapers and gigantic retail emporia. Less heralded are the sea-fronting properties along the east coast and on nearby Sentosa island. Yes, the beaches here are decidedly puny and much of it is artificial, having been carved out of reclaimed land; but from the right vantage point, the views of the South……(more)
- ECAL's 'Luxury & Design': graduates' portfolios
- You'd be forgiven for expecting graduates of a course in 'luxury' to go heavy on bling. But this year's crop of students from ECAL's Master of Advanced Studies in Luxury & Design adeptly chose craftsmanship and functionality over flash materials, and presented their work in an enticing collection of portfolios, which we take a leaf through here. See the graduates' products……(more)
- Selfridges window installation by Kyle Bean
- For a department store known for selling the newest in fashion, design and gadgets, Selfridges' latest window display is something of a surprise. Suspended from giant weighing scales in the 'Wonder room' is a dismantled Honda Fireblade motorcycle, complete with dangling wires. See more Kyle Bean's Selfridges installations Created by young designer, Kyle Bean, of multidisciplinary……(more)
- Psychopomps exhibition by Polly Morgan, London
- From a giant orb made from disembodied crows' wings to a suspended human ribcage with a flaming red bird resembling its heart, Polly Morgan's macabre sculptures take on a strange, fantastical beauty in the dim light of the Haunch of Venison's Mezzanine Gallery. See more of Polly Morgan's work The taxidermist's latest body of work - on show until 25th September - marks……(more)
- Highlights from the PhotoEspaña festival 2010
- Increasingly ambitious in both scale and scope, this year's PhotoEspaña's main theme was 'Time', and many of the official shows took this as their starting point. See more from PhotoEspaña 2010 The Harold Edgerton retrospective at BBVA proved that no one has yet bettered the good doctor's work from the 1930s - 1970s, capturing motion and freezing time. The……(more)
- Postopolis DF
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Super excited to be part of Postopolis DF - the Mexican edition of Storefronts Postopolis, this time in partnership with Museo Experimental El Eco, Tomo and Domus Magazine.
Previously you've seen groups of celebrated (if that's the right word) architecture/landscape/urban/art/design bloggers converge in NYC and LA, inviting the great, the good and the obscure to present while they tweet and post like fury.
This time, I'll be there with:
Urban Omnibus (Cassim Shepard), Intersections (Daniel…(more)
- Election Aesthetics
- Over at Election Aesthetics, we will be following the upcoming UK General Election from a visual culture, aesthetic and design perspective. Posts will come from top British designers and design critics so it should prove to be an interesting dissection of designs role in contemporary politics (as well as an experiment in issue-based group blogging).
So far we cover topics such as David Camerons Photoshopped face, Swingometers and the colour purple.
If you'd like to contribute, let me know.…(more)
- Sign Language
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- The Worst Condition Is To Pass Under A Sword Which Is Not One's Own
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The most fascinating show about design in London this year (and we've had a lot of design shows) is not a design show. Michael Rakowitz's 'The Worst Condition Is To Pass Under A Sword Which Is Not One's Own' at the Tate (on till 3 May) is the most revealing study of how design, fiction, and horrifying reality combine in the strangest of ways.
Rakowitz presents a rangey speculation on the relationship between Sadam Hussain, science fiction, Jules Verne, Supergun, WWF, Iran Iraq war, Star Wars,…(more)
- Design Will Kill Us All, Horribly, Again & Again
- Hausu, La lampara asesina from seres on Vimeo.
2.31 minutes which set out in the clearest terms the deep seated antagonism at the heart of design. In the end, design will suck us in, tear us apart, spit us out, and spray us with blood. At least physiologically. (From the incredible 1977 film Hausu.)…(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)
- 3 days Some Ambient Themes about the #Flipboard iPad App
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For those that have had the chance to read content displayed on Flipboard for the iPad, there is almost universal approval of the experience. Yeah there are people that weren’t able to download the app for the first couple of days, and they should have had better error messaging explaining why some Twitter lists and people weren’t able to be followed. But with that said there’s a lot to take note with how an app with content is dynamically choosing, sifting and making layout …(more)
- Charlatan, Martyr, Hustler Poster by @joeyroth
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You might know of Joey Roth because of his Sorapot for Tea and the ceramic speakers that he recently designed. As a designer who is constantly thinking about the bigger picture he’s made a poster of a concept that he did for 48 Hours magazine. I really liked illustration when he first mentioned it on Twitter and am happy to see it in a larger format. You can but the Charlatan, Martyr, Hustler Poster for twenty five dollars from his site. I’ll be buying on after I hit the publish bu…(more)
- Some Recent Press & Four Years in NYC
- Bar codes get around town and get more useful
Gizmodo: What’s Your Tech Setup to Watch the World Cup?
Fast Company: World Cup: How Are You Watching?
Perspective: Michael Surtees on User Experience within an Ecosystem of Screens
I celebrated a small victory this morning. Four years ago was my first full day in NYC. I moved from Edmonton, Alberta Canada after setting my sights here for about six years. It has been a truly crazy and exciting time with lots of ups and higher ups but rarely…(more)
- Close is the New Back Button on Apps
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@MichaelSurtees Most of the time, I’d rather hit “close” than “back” — if those were my only two options.Wed Jul 21 04:30:16 via Twitter for iPhoneRobert Gorellrobertgorell
First off—sorry for the messy backgrounds of the tweet embeds but I didn’t feel like taking a screen shot of each comment. What I’m trying to note for myself with the close button on an app is that it is quite different from the normal web and linking stuff that a brows…(more)
- No Kidding that Kindle ebooks Outselling Hardcover on Amazon
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I don’t think it should really come as a surprise that Kindle ebooks outselling hardcover on Amazon. The process of buying a book is simple and fast. Since buying my iPad I’ve bought four books so far. The last book I bought was a couple days ago—let me explain how fast it was to do. I was reading the blog post from A VC about the book Grumby. The book sounded interesting so I typed the name into my Kindle app on the iPad. The book appeared in Amazon and with one click was downlo…(more)
- REVIEW COPY: Obsessive Consumption by Kate Bingaman–Burt
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REVIEW COPY: Obsessive Consumption by Kate Bingaman–Burt
At first glance Obsessive Consumption: What Did You Buy Today?by Kate Bingaman–Burt seems pretty straight forward. Kate has drawn objects, things and animals on a daily basis between Feb 2006 to Feb 2009. While each object is different, her recognizable drawing style makes all the miscellaneous consumption consistent. What makes the book worth looking at more than just the images are the personal annotations that follow each draw…(more)
- Comparing Real Time Weather Data from my Window and iPad
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Comparing Real Time Weather Data from my Window and iPad
Looking outside a couple minutes ago from my window I noticed some ominous clouds approaching. Wanting a better idea of what might be coming I opened the WeatherBug app on my iPad. Sure enough there’s some nasty weather coming in my direction. Weather based apps have been around for a while but I wanted to note how quickly and easy it was to transfer what I saw with my eyes to other data displayed through technology.…(more)
- Awesome Food Truck Chart from New York Magazine
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I’ve always been a fan of illustrated vehicles, but this collection of food trucks in New York from New York Magazine takes it to a new level of usefulness and aesthetic interestingness. Hopefully next year they can include carts like http://twitter.com/CalexicoCart.…(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 SPECIAL FEATURE: High Design
- In the world of design, urban mobility is much more than how you get from point A to point B. Urban mobility operates at the intersection of myriad innovation freeways, from architecture to infrastructure, technology to transportation, city planning to style. It's about feet, fashion, bikes, busses, automobiles, and yes, even cars that fly. Just ask Jens-Martin Skibsted, co-designer of Terrafugia's new Transition Roadable Aircraft, aka flying car.Read the rest
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- Today The 100 best magazine articles ever
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Kevin Kelly has compiled a list of the 100 greatest long-form magazine articles ever published. He has found links to the text of each article, and says: "I'd like to have folks start to vote up the best (although they can still add). There's a Top Five that has emerged. Maybe we can get a top 10."
Here are the top 5 (based on the number of people who have recommended them to Kevin):
David Foster Wallace, "Federer As Religious Experience." The New York Times, Play Magazine, August 20, 2006.
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- Today Girls Like Boys With Skills - new song from Rocky and Balls
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Rocky and Balls's "Girls Like Boys With Skills" is probably the dirtiest double-entendre ukulele ditty since George Formby sang "With My Little Ukulele In My Hand."
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- Today Burmese protesters using "Team America" likeness of Kim Jong-Il on posters
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Team America lives on. Jeff Koyen sends this along and asks, "Anyone remember Evil Bert spotted alongside Osama in Bangladesh?" Indeed. At left, a snapshot of the original Kim Jong Il puppet from the Team America movie. I shot the photo during a visit earlier this year to South Park Studios. The little guy does get around.
Team America preview screening in Hollywood
Team America puppet sex scenes revealed
Wired: South Park's Puppet Regime
MPAA freaks out over puppet sex scene in "T…(more)
- Today Wikileaks source suspect Manning transferred from Kuwait to Quantico, VA
- A press alert received by Boing Boing from the U.S. Army Public Affairs Office reports that PFC Bradley Manning— who is believed to have provided Wikileaks with a trove of classified data including the "Collateral Murder" video and the recent "Afghan War Diaries" archive— was today transferred from the Theater Field Confinement Facility in Kuwait to the Marine Corps Base Quantico Brig in Quantico, Virginia. Snip:
Manning remains in pretrial confinement pending an Article 32 inves…(more)
- Today Report: Army admonished Manning for YouTube uploads referencing classified facilities
- "An Army private suspected of leaking classified information to WikiLeaks was admonished as a trainee in 2008 for uploading YouTube videos discussing classified facilities, according to an Army official with direct knowledge of the incident." Wired News has more.
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- Today Google computer and Western media report China outage, actual humans in China beg to differ
- Rebecca MacKinnon reports: "Numerous major American and European news outlets are reporting that Google is blocked in China, based on the information appearing on Google's Mainland China service availability page. However no journalist has actually confirmed with a human being at Google that this information is correct. What's more, I've heard from several dozen people all over China who say that Google isn't blocked for them when they access it on their Internet connections from Beijing to Shan…(more)
- Today DIY Kitty Crack: ultra-potent catnip extract
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In this Instructable, talbotron22 shows how to make "Kitty Crack," an ultra-potent catnip extract containing nepetalactone, catnip's active ingredient. One pound of catnip yielded 143mg of nepetalactone.
A note about safety. Yes, it is safe to use this extract on cats. I have looked into it, and there are a number of studies (very interesting in their own right) using pure nepetalactone on cats in experiments trying to figure out why it causes them to go bonkers. The upshot is that it's p…(more)
- Today The Journey
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Halfway through this epic, we have been seduced on a journey by Zita Syme and Patricia Hammond singing ‘Flower Duet’, ‘Pie Jesu’ and ‘Vidit suum dulcem natum’. Millie Brown is exploring a corresponding path. Having spoken to her during the break, we learn she hasn’t eaten for almost a week... [more]
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- Today The right calf by Malcolm Pate
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To close this second week of Fashion Body programming, filmmaker, photographer and artist Malcolm Pate captures the right calf - inspired, he said, by the floral tributes left at the roadside after traffic accidents. Strapping a length of Burberry Prorsum barbed-wire around the leg and intertwining... [more]
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- Today Preparation Nexus Vomitus
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Preparation has begun for the forthcoming LiveStudio with Millie Brown. At 11:30 BST, Brown will perform Nexus Vomitus in the company of two classical singers and a plain white canvas. For the time being, operatic rehearsals and hair and makeup are top priority. Stay tuned for the live performance and... [more]
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- Yesterday 'The Fashioned Body' by Alistair O'Neill
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The history of a material covering for the neck is formed from the need to protect the throat from cold, but it evolved into dressing the neck as a pedestal for the head and a frame for the face.
Click here to read essay
This week our Fashion Body seems more naked... [more]
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- Yesterday #14: Dolce e Gabbana corset
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If you're looking for the perfect fusion of fashion and fetish, it's natural to turn to the corset. The whaleboned foundation of feminine fashion for centuries (and underpinning quite a few male sartorial excursions also) this undergarment was triumphantly reclaimed as outerwear, in 1992 dubbed by none less than Karl... [more]
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- 3 days The Chest by Alice Hawkins
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This week, our Fashion Body is taking a decidedly sexual twist - first Ruth Hogben's buttocks were prominently showcased on Monday, and today photographer Alice Hawkins' chest takes centre stage. Or rather, her vision of the chest does, captured on a whirlwind topless road-trip across the... [more]
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- 3 days Millie Brown live performance this Friday
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We here at SHOWstudio.com have a penchant for embracing the unusual, whether it’s taxidermy mice à la Charlie Le Mindu or urinals courtesy of Lady Gaga. This week, we are inviting controversial vomiting artist Millie Brown to our LiveStudio - this Friday 30 July, Millie, the puking performance artist who... [more]
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- 'The Fashion Body' by Fleur Britten
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So could it be that, with the influence of fashion film, fashion is about to get much more real? It already has! Untouched is the new selling point, and has fed right back into still photography.
Click here to read essay
Our essays this week open with Fleur Britten's taken on a... [more]
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- Today Domestic Sculpture
- Domestic Sculpture by Annika von Hausswolff. I guess I live in a museum of modern art from time to time.
found at iGNANT
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- Today Joe Kievitt
- This untitled artwork by Joe Kievitt is just ink on paper. But it’s ink on the right places on paper.
found at but does it float
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- Today Theo Mercier
- I’m very intrigued by the work of Theo Mercier. Here’re just 3 of his … artworks/photographs/installations … But there’re a lot more of them to discover on his website.
found at acidolatte
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- Today Charlatan, Martyr, Hustler
- This “Charlatan, Martyr, Hustler” poster by Joey Roth is awesome. Did I mention it’s a letterpress print? Can’t decide what I am. What are you?
found at swissmiss
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- 3 days DIS Summer Trends
- DIS Magazine is on top of the LA summer trends 2010. Here’re my favorites.
multi-level denim shorts
mini clothes-pins
label whore neckline choker
a halter neck piece
velcro
show off your baby in a Juicy Couture dog bag
found at It’s Nice That
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- cutcutcut
- cutcutcut by Chris Collins.
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- Crystallization
- Crystallization is the title of Iris van Herpen her Spring Summer 2011 collection. One of the pieces was a collaboration with the architect Daniel Widrig. This is not the first piece of clothing made with a rapid prototyping technique, but maybe one with the most complex shape. It was printed in 3D by .MGX.
found at notcot
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- 8-bit Color Cycling with HTML5
- 8-bit Color Cycling with HTML5. Euh what? A few years ago, video cards could only render 256 colors at a time. So it was very hard to do nice animations. That’s why they invented color cycling. Certain pixel areas cylce through a palette of colors to suggest animation. A very simple idea with a really nice aesthetical outcome.
Joseph Huckaby adapted this principle to HTML5 (forget about Internet Explorer) and brought some artwork by Mark Ferrari to life. Check out these examples. And if yo…(more)
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