Monthly Archive for January, 2010
No Mean Streets is a new social network that intends to encourage cycling, improve the attitudes of other motorists towards cyclists, and hopefully improve the proficiency for cycling in Glasgow. It has been set up as part of an arts project led by The New Social Art School, who will also be participating in the upcoming Glasgow Reshuffle at the Pierce Institute on Saturday the 5th of Febuary.
The Reshuffle is a free hands on event held at the Pearce Institute annually. It is an event to start the year on a positive note, get some people into a community centre and have them leave thinking they have seen something new that could be of interest to them.
Here’s a small selection of links to organisations participating this year:
Galgael Trust, Open Source Mapping, Unity, Burgh Angel, Gamesmonitor 2014, Documents Film Festival, Radical Independent Bookfair, Electron Club, Glasgow Social Centre, Sunny Govan Radio, Bridge Network
NASA’s Earth Obsertvatory, and their amazing collection of free-to-use high-quality satellite photography, can prove a very fulfilling web-based distraction. It was brought to my attention via an article in Task Newsletter, an initiative which I think originates from the Werkplaats Typografie.
Also discussed a lot in that publication, which focuses on both design utopias and mundane science-fiction, is the Whole Earth Catalog — The product of Stewart Brand, some powerful drugs, and a left-over project from 1966 when he initiated a public campaign to have NASA release the then-rumored satellite photo of the sphere of Earth as seen from space, the first image of the “Whole Earth.”
It was Brands idea that the image of this “Whole Earth”, viewed as one, at once, might go someway towards creating greater global cooperation and understanding – a powerful symbol, evoking a sense of shared destiny.
Leonora Belcher from Indicate got in touch about their magazine. They’re on the look-out for contributors; if you’re interested email indicatemagazine[at]hotmail.co.uk
Image: Max Henderson, from current edition.
This slideshow is to accompany a talk by Dr Neil Mulholland of ECA on altermodernism, in relation to postmodernism and modernmodernism. Thought i’d post it as it’s possibly retrospectively of use in the Post(er) Modernism project, if you can lay your hands on a time machine or fashion one from some aluminium foil and omnicrom.
Neil Mulholland not only has an excellent first name but is a very interesting writer/talker/practitioner, and doing some joint gsa/eca projects is on our collective radar. Note-to-self; must get back on the case with this…
I urge you to go and see the GF Smith paper exhibition currently showing in the Podium Gallery, ground floor of Bourdon Building. Only open 10-12 wednesday 27th (tomorrow).
And this is my favourite, a spread featuring the legendary footballer, Alan Ball.
This week Evolve will be running the final ‘Getting Your Work Out There’ event with the Made in the Shade girls coming in to talk about selling work at their events and selling work in their retail space. This will take place on Wed 27th 4-5pm in the Bourdon Lecture Theatre.
Hi, my name is Dick Murray, and I have a total hatecrush on Momus. And he’s written this stupid book. And he even writes (or wrote) for these idiotic magazines and blogs; Wired, Vice, Index Magazine, AIGA Voice, and Design Observer.
Pringle is a new advertising video by GSA alumnus David Shrigley.
Thanks to Kate Hollands for the link.
“There are not enough magazines or if you prefer all magazines are useless…”
I was luckily given permission to photocopy the above introduction to Issue 51 of Arc Magazine. I found it in the old offices of OZ Magazine in Notting Hill, now home to a most civilised graphic design practice. The magazine comprised a series of loose leaf lithographic prints by some of the best illustrative talent the 70′s had to offer. It was edited by Sue Coe and Stewart Mackinnon and includes works by The Brothers Quay, Terry Dowling, Eduardo Paolozzi, Douglas Dent and Andrzej Klimowski. Perhaps the most interesting contributor not to have written a comment in the introduction is Sue Coe and to compensate for this I thoroughly recommend this article about her published in issue 21 of Eye magazine.
Apple have confirmed with a release to press that they will make an announcement on the 27th January. Expectations are it will be a tablet computer, mixture of tablet, netbook, Amazon Kindle, iPhone and a few new stuff I am sure. Indications from New York Times and other sources is you will be able to subscribe to magazines and newspapers via the device.
On the subject of good grids, Vince Khoi’s new grid for WordPress is a breathe of fresh air in their ‘theme’ library. Vince is the Design Director for the NewYorkTimes.com
Basic Maths employs clear tagging, categories and multi-functional archiving – creating a more intuitive ‘contents page’. The short code function to reveal his base columns is a nice little typographic touch.
Wondering if our blog could pick up this theme??
‘Digital Gastronomy’ – an interesting concept from fluid for ‘printing’ food via an inkjet-style of rendering.
‘I’ll eat my hat’ wouldn’t be such an empty promise if this becomes a reality.
On a serious note, it does have some interesting possibilities for the fast moving consumer food market where structure, density, temperature and form could be designed without detriment to nutritional content.
…Heston Blumenthal would love this.
Sorry for gap of epic proportions between posts. Very good documentary from Melvin Bragg on In Our Time about the Frankfurt School of theorists which includes Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno. Well worth a listen.
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