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I’d like to see this exhibition on cyber art from the 60’s.
The winners of this summer’s Design It: Shelter Competition—an online competition that asked participants to create and submit designs for virtual 3-D shelters using Google SketchUp and Google Earth—visited the Guggenheim Museum and Google offices in New York. As part of their competition prize, David Eltang, the Juried Prize winner, and David Mares, the People’s Prize winner, first met with Google staff at their New York offices and were given a behind-the-scenes tour of the block-long office building and treated to lunch in Google’s cafeteria.
iPhones in Toyland
Wonderful geometric wooden textiles by Elisa Strozyk, masters student at Central Saint Martins, London.
Interview with Nathan Shedroff on the difference between businesspeople and designers, his upcoming foray into sci-fi, and what designers wanting to get involved in sustainability can do.
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n 1938, the visionary designer R. Buckminster Fuller wrote Nine Chains to the Moon,his radical proposal for improving the quality of life for all humankind via progressive design and maximizationof the world’s finite resources. The title was a metaphor for cooperation – if all of humankind stood on each other’s shoulders we could complete nine chains to the moon. Today, the population of the planet has increased more than three times to 6.7 billion (we could now complete 29 chains to the moon), and the successful distribution of energy, food, and shelter to over 9 billion humans by 2050 requires some fantastic schemes. Like Fuller’s revelation from five decades earlier, 29 Chains to the Moon features artists who put forth radical proposals, from seasteads and tree habitats to gift-based cultures, to make the world work for everyone.
Massimo Vignelli in an interview for Design Indaba (via Bruce Mau)
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Modern design was born in the depression, which is a good thing about depressions — they wake people up.
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So far, we have failed in designing a real alternative to the car. Compare the bus and the car as experiences: there is a clear winner and loser. Why does my minivan have 17 cup holders - but my bus has none? Why is my bus shelter not heated, but I can start my car remotely and let it warm up? Why is my bus uncomfortable and noisy when I can listen to Beethoven in my car? My bus is a design failure. It’s a stick painted green, and out of desperation or inspiration I’m supposed to want the experience. In Toronto, the slogan of the transit company is ‘the better way’. Well, it’s not, and everyone knows it. Until the bus experience is more attractive and effective than the car, we will always be selling a losing proposition.
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Michael Beirut of Pentagram has redesigned the NC Museum of Art’s logo (above). I like it!
A CHANCE TO SEE YOUR WORK ON THE LONDON UNDERGROUND
The V&A has commissioned Karsten Schmidt to design a digital identity for the Decode exhibition using open source code (video above). We are giving you the opportunity to recode Karsten’s work and create your own original artwork. If we love your work it could even become the new Decode identity.
You can download and interact directly with the source code, but you do not need to be an expert coder, as Karsten has also designed a graphical user interface. For full instructions and downloads go to theDecode Google code page which also has a detailed user guide written by Karsten.
Otherwise, this video as is sure is pretty…
Milton Glaser on “How you live changes your brain.”
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Thought changes our life and our behaviour. I also believe that drawing works in the same way. I am a great advocate of drawing, not in order to become an illustrator, but because I believe drawing changes the brain in the same way as the search to create the right note changes the brain of a violinist. Drawing also makes you attentive. It makes you pay attention to what you are looking at, which is not so easy.
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