Posts tagged Design

Hunter S. Thompson. Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ‘72 . San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1973. First printing. Contains the priceless and still relevant quote from Thompson: “When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional.”

Hunter S. Thompson. Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ‘72 . San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1973. First printing. Contains the priceless and still relevant quote from Thompson: “When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional.”

An Artist in the Moment “Desi Monster” (Desi Santiago) - “’Whatever appears is where I go,’ he said. ‘I don’t have a Web site. I am found. It’s like I’m in a cave somewhere and someone finds me and I do my thing and I go back. That’s how it’s always been. The people who find me are the right ones.’”

An Artist in the Moment “Desi Monster” (Desi Santiago) - “’Whatever appears is where I go,’ he said. ‘I don’t have a Web site. I am found. It’s like I’m in a cave somewhere and someone finds me and I do my thing and I go back. That’s how it’s always been. The people who find me are the right ones.’”

Alésia Museum Visitor’s Centre by Bernard Tschumi Architects -“The cylindrical centre occupies the same position held by the Roman army during a historic battle against the Gauls over 2000 years ago and its wooden exterior references the timber fortifications that would have been constructed nearby.”

Alésia Museum Visitor’s Centre by Bernard Tschumi Architects -“The cylindrical centre occupies the same position held by the Roman army during a historic battle against the Gauls over 2000 years ago and its wooden exterior references the timber fortifications that would have been constructed nearby.”

“New York studio Triboro has designed a series of oversized match boxes featuring photographs of ‘smokestacks’ from the Greenpoint, Brooklyn area. On each the image of industrial power is paired with a rather limp-sounding piece of motivational jargon…David Heasty of Triboro explains, ‘Towers of Power pairs these relics with upbeat motivational phrases and words,” Heasty continues. ‘The hollow phrases interact with the defunct stacks to create a disjointed effect: success meets failure, power meets weakness, past meets present.’ Towers of Power is currently a prototype project. Triboro recently updated their website with a host of new work at triborodesign.com.” via Creative Review.

LSD TV: Robert Abel’s Mindbending Television Commercials of the 1970s - Dangerous Minds has a great article on the psych-freak inspired commercials of Abel and Associates who were pioneers in the use of computer graphics in TV commercials creating tripped out commercials for 7up and Jovan Musk Oil. Then again I grew up seeing this news promo for years in Cleveland, Ohio.

Herzog & de Meuron with Ai Weiwei is the team working on this year’s Pavilion at the Serpentine Pavilion in Kensington Gardens, London. They built that crazy looking lush “birds nest” inspired Beijing National Stadium, for the 2008 Olympic Games and won the prestigious RIBA Lubetkin Prize.

Herzog & de Meuron with Ai Weiwei is the team working on this year’s Pavilion at the Serpentine Pavilion in Kensington Gardens, London. They built that crazy looking lush “birds nest” inspired Beijing National Stadium, for the 2008 Olympic Games and won the prestigious RIBA Lubetkin Prize.

The design instinct, above all, is about viewing the world around you as a place filled with opportunities to add more thoughtfulness and care.
Sahil Lavingia, Pinterest’s founding designer shares his dead-simple design philosophy
Moon Hoon: Lollipop House - “Seoul-based practice Moon Hoon has recently completed ‘Lollipop House’, a single family dwelling in Giheung-Gu, Korea. Evoking the imagery of a child’s candy with alternating pink and white rings, this rounded and segmented elevation conceals seven storeys of internal living spaces, beginning with input from the inhabitants, the design initiated with explorations of rising stairs and spirals. due to budget limitations, the ideas were simplified into a practical skip floor format which wrap around an interior void which forms an atrium”

Moon Hoon: Lollipop House - “Seoul-based practice Moon Hoon has recently completed ‘Lollipop House’, a single family dwelling in Giheung-Gu, Korea. Evoking the imagery of a child’s candy with alternating pink and white rings, this rounded and segmented elevation conceals seven storeys of internal living spaces, beginning with input from the inhabitants, the design initiated with explorations of rising stairs and spirals. due to budget limitations, the ideas were simplified into a practical skip floor format which wrap around an interior void which forms an atrium”

Back in days of yore, people used to set type with the Bedford Meteor 3000  which had an output on photo paper, machine is a total beast.

Back in days of yore, people used to set type with the Bedford Meteor 3000  which had an output on photo paper, machine is a total beast.

OBSOLETE! #5 is out now with more essays, fiction, poetry and artwork than ever before. It includes work by Bob Pfeifer, Spike Vrusho, Diana “The Doc” Thomas, City of Strangers, Cheryl Ammeter, Lenny Zenith, Michael X. Rose,Karim Hetherington, Chuck Miller, Chris Schipper and Walter Sun Chien, and more.

OBSOLETE! #5 is out now with more essays, fiction, poetry and artwork than ever before. It includes work by Bob Pfeifer, Spike Vrusho, Diana “The Doc” Thomas, City of Strangers, Cheryl Ammeter, Lenny Zenith, Michael X. Rose,Karim Hetherington, Chuck Miller, Chris Schipper and Walter Sun Chien, and more.

Typographica’s Favorite Typefaces of 2011 - “The idea is simple: I invite a group of writers, educators, type makers and type users to look back at 2011 and pick the release that excited them most. The reviews range from the academic (like Paul van der Laan on Zizou or Jens Kutilek on FB Alix) to the theoretical (such as Jan Middendorp on Agile) to the personal (like Carolina de Bartolo who reviewed Calibre and Periódico after firsthand experience with a redesign of WIRED magazine) to the playfully unexpected (Microsoft’s Si Daniels praises Apple Color Emoji) to the exclamatory (Matthew Butterick on Neue Haas Grotesk).”

Typographica’s Favorite Typefaces of 2011 - “The idea is simple: I invite a group of writers, educators, type makers and type users to look back at 2011 and pick the release that excited them most. The reviews range from the academic (like Paul van der Laan on Zizou or Jens Kutilek on FB Alix) to the theoretical (such as Jan Middendorp on Agile) to the personal (like Carolina de Bartolo who reviewed Calibre and Periódico after firsthand experience with a redesign of WIRED magazine) to the playfully unexpected (Microsoft’s Si Daniels praises Apple Color Emoji) to the exclamatory (Matthew Butterick on Neue Haas Grotesk).”

The Lift in Autostadt From The Top of The Glass Tower

Azeri artist Orkhan Huseynov, Splash 2011, Pexiglass 200 x 240 cm.

Azeri artist Orkhan Huseynov, Splash 2011, Pexiglass 200 x 240 cm.

Dushanbe Scrapbook - Mr. Prudence writes from his flickr stream, “In Oct 2010 while on a research trip in Tajikistan I came across a curious scrapbook of Soviet-era graphics in a junk-shop in the capital city Dushanbe. Within it were pages with collaged panels containing imagery ranging from depictions of cosmonauts, political figures, musical iconography and political illustrations in Constructivist and Suprematist styles.”

Dushanbe Scrapbook - Mr. Prudence writes from his flickr stream, “In Oct 2010 while on a research trip in Tajikistan I came across a curious scrapbook of Soviet-era graphics in a junk-shop in the capital city Dushanbe. Within it were pages with collaged panels containing imagery ranging from depictions of cosmonauts, political figures, musical iconography and political illustrations in Constructivist and Suprematist styles.”

Love the cover of the new Aram Bartholl book. Edited by Domenicio Quaranta, Design by Manuel Bürger. With essays by: Josephine Bosma, Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Jon Cates, Lindsay Howard, Alessandro Ludovico, Evan Roth, Bruce Sterling, Brad Troemel

Love the cover of the new Aram Bartholl book. Edited by Domenicio Quaranta, Design by Manuel Bürger. With essays by: Josephine Bosma, Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Jon Cates, Lindsay Howard, Alessandro Ludovico, Evan Roth, Bruce Sterling, Brad Troemel