- ARCHIVE / April, 2008
- CASE / Something out of Nothing
MPLS Design Conference, April 28-30
Above: A card for a friend, see more here. Typography One work by Siham Al-Zadjali, VCUQatar Spring 07.
I am very grateful to be delivering two lectures at the Minneapolis CASE Design Conference: Something out of Nothing. See more information on the conference faculty here. I am most pleased to be [...] - The Canadian Design Resource
Via Lathrop
Above: From The Canadian Design Resource blog. An amazing compendium of material, thanks to Dylan at Unequal Design for forwarding this along.
Above: A tantalizing (Sacre Vache!!!) item from Motherbrand’s Souvenir Shop. I must have this flag now. From their description, “There is no shortage of patriotism in each country, however there is a need [...]
- IP / Indian semiconductor worries…
Looming US recession and Intellectual Property Issues
From the Economic Times: “Indian semiconductor industry to face heat of US Recession,” (IANS story) Interesting development that contradicts the optimism of this recent article (see last week’s News of the News post, no. 002). Intellectual property rights are seen as away to “move up the value chain,” in [...]
- Everyday Design / AIGA LA
Global photography exhibit on everyday objects.
Above: Photo by Maggie Sanchez in Cairo, Egypt.
Everyday Design: Great Finds from around the World opened at the MODAA Museum in LA on April 14 and will be traveling to the AIGA National Gallery in June. Everyday Design has been curated by Vesna Petrovic of Picnic Design. I am very [...] - Elisabeth Workman / Site Q 008
“Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand”
Elisabeth Workman writes: A recent, lengthy NYT investigation into the Pentagon’s PsyOps on the American public. For the short on time, check out the interactive media components. The primary source documents (for which the NYT had to sue the Pentagon to access) are available for download. And, in the spirit [...]
- Aesthetic Apparatus / Gedrucktes
Inspirational opening at Burlesque of North America
Above: A beautiful and very self-deprecating Pixie, spotted with some of Dan Ibarra’s new work at the Aesthetic Apparatus opening last night at Burlesque of North America here in MPLS (URK).
Above: More of said screen-printed beauties aus dem Hause, Aesthetic Apparatus. Dan Ibarra and Michael Byzewski also grace [...]
- Kunsthaus Baselland / Perjovschi
Dan Perjovschi Exhibition
Above: From the exhibition, Fair Enough, Kunsthaus Baselland,
in Basel, Switzerland. Via the excellent e-art now.
- Web People
A new horror.
Above: The We Campaign splash page (dig the upside down m). If I see one more web person emerging from my browser I am going to go cuckoo. They talk, then walk off-screen! It’s amazing, and I blame those guys at DAG and HEMA.
I saw another one the other day and it makes [...] - Afghanistan / 7th Century Oil Paintings
Discovery pre-dates European use by centuries.
From CNN International, a surprising find in Afghanistan shows what are described as the first oil-based paintings known to history.
- Toko / Dutch Designers Down Der
Sydney based design studio.
Above: Poster from Toko, a Sydney based design studio with roots
in Rotterdam, Holland.Above: Newspaper for the City of Rotterdam by Toko. Via the Artsmonitor.
Started in 2001, they moved their shop (toko) in 2006 in search of new
“(geo)graphic adventures.” A wide variety of highly interesting print
based work.
Good on ya’, Toko!
- Thursday / No Parking
3rd Avenue
Above: Lovely reminder here in Minneapolis today.
- Flux / Jean Nouvel
Hanging Gardens of Paris
Above: From Karin Fong’s entry, Vertical Verts, Jean Nouvel’s
Musée du Quai Branly. (Flux)
- Jenny Tondera / Wim Crouwel
Above: Wim Crouwel’s “New Alphabet” typeface, 1967.
Tondera / Crouwel
A fresh installment of Jenny’s interviews with contemporary designers on
the Bauhaus. See her previous interviews with Michael Bierut, Experimental Jetset,
Steven Heller, Paula Scher, Ellen Lupton, and Jessica Helfand.Jenny Tondera writes: Dutch designer Wim Crouwel (born 1928) is one of my favorite designers of all [...]
- News of the News
Recent, Relevant, Related
Above: ¡Vamos a la playa! From Smashing Magazine, “Celebration Of Vintage
and Retro Design.”001 From The Earth & Economy
“Reused Materials for Global Design and Construction Community”
We need something like this for graphic designers now, from the article:
“PlanetReuse connects users from all over the world together to further sustainable and environmental responsibility. They [...] - Elisabeth Workman / Site Q 007
Elisabeth Workman writes: One more plug for the PEN World Voices/Rattapallax International Film Feast in NYC on April 29th. See sample above of brilliantly awake John Giorno (star of Warhol’s Sleep), Just Say No to Family Values. The following, an exploration of the options.
- Sameh / King of the Road
Via Mona Makhlouf, somewhere in the Sinai…
Above: Mona was on her way back from Sharm-el-Sheikh and saw this truck somewhere on the Sinai road. Like all right thinking people, Sameh must like both kinds of music, country and western. Har. (See below.)
Yalla Yalla Sameh!
Shokran Mona!Above: Roger Miller’s classic, King of the Road. A must see, [...]
- Iceland
Cold forward thinking.
Above: Geothermal plant in Iceland (Photograph: Paul A. Souders/Corbis). From the Guardian, “Iceland’s answer to global warming comes naturally. Jessica Aldred visits Reykjavik to find out how Iceland is tapping into its renewable energy resources as it prepares for a low-carbon future.”
- Made in China
Created in China
Above: From the China Daily. Winner of the National English Speaking competition, Beijing Foreign Studies University student Zhao Xinyan. In her speech entitled “Living with Globalization,” ‘…Zhao said it was essential Chinese enterprises moved from a “made-in-China” to a “created-in-China” culture.’
- V&A Museum / China Design Now
Through July 13, 2008
Victoria and Albert Museum. London, UK. Design China Now.
- CCCP / USA
From The Guardian, UK
“Competing cold war visions of the future revealed,” by Charlotte Higgins,
in The Guardian. A review of the current Victoria and Albert Museum’s autumn
exhibition, Cold War Modern, which promises an interesting historical perspective
on competing design initiatives that sprang from such crucial moments as the famous
Nixon-Krushchev “Kitchen Debates.”
- Typeladies / Sister Corita
Verena Gerlach posts on a heroine of graphic wonder.
Via Typeladies: Female typeworkers unite! See this brief overview
of the great Sister Corita Kent here.
- 馬と蝶 (feat.初音ミク）
Via Jorge.
- Elisabeth Workman / Site Q 006
Above: Money exchange services (storefront detail).
Minneapolis, Minnesota. Estados Unidos.
- Jenny Tondera / Jessica Helfand
Above: Cover of Jessica Helfand’s book Reinventing the Wheel (Princeton Architectural Press, 2002).
Tondera / Helfand
A fresh installment of Jenny’s interviews with contemporary designers on
the Bauhaus. See her previous interviews with Michael Bierut, Experimental Jetset,
Steven Heller, Paula Scher, and Ellen Lupton.
Jenny Tondera writes: It was so heartwarming to receive such an inspirational, [...] - Derrick Buisch / PENG! Raum für Kunst
Left Coast artist shows in Mannheim, Germany
Above: Derrick Buisch (with hat). DB’s Artificial Horizons show is opening in Mannheim, Germany today, in the PENG! Raum für Kunst.
Mabrouk Derrick! Weiter so!