Communication Design Department Blog / Glasgow School of Art
Project produced by Rotterdam company V2, where Herman Asselbergh dismantles a brand new MacBook Pro piece by piece. Although the online video is only a clip right now, the still image makes me very exited to see the finished autopsy. Asselberghs comments on the contradiction between how often we see laptops in artworks and the ubiquity of them in our lives.
Looop™ is an interesting endeavour to match designers needing print up with printers with spare space on their print runs, reducing waste and increasing value for money. It’s not overloaded with print offers so it’ll be interesting to see if it achieves the critical mass necessary to function effectively.
Just to add another David Harvey related link to the blog.
Here is a link to a really interesting article he wrote for the new left review titled ‘The Right to the City.’
In it he argues that
“The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.”
This idea has helped to inspire the Right to the City social movement that first emerged in New York in 2007 as a unified response to gentrification and a call to halt the displacement of low-income people, LGBTQ, and youths of color from their historic urban neighborhoods. Through shared principles and a common frame and theory of change, RTTC is building a national and international movement for urban justice, human rights, and democracy.
There will be a Right to the City forum in Glasgow on the 24th of July at Kinning Park Complex. Well worth checking out.
Address Details Below:
Kinning Park Complex, Cornwall Street, Glasgow, G41 1AQ (Kinning Park
subway opposite). 12.30 for 1.00 start prompt, until 5.00. Saturday,
July 24th.
If you’re interested in network cultures, web design (history thereof), or eyeballs and attention, this post might be useful. It has lots of good links, uselessly hidden in a rambling text.
The Anti-Design Festival call for entries looks quite slick to me, and there-in lies the catch-22?
Congratulations to Abdi Adam and Fang Zhou who won the coveted Student Yellow Pencil at the annual D&AD Student Awards in London’s Old Spitalfields Market. Abdi and Zhou won in the Animation category for their short film ‘Design Intervention’ (see below), in response to a brief set by the Design Council’s Alliance Against Crime. Their work will be published in the D&AD Student Awards Annual along with their fellow winners.
Two money related links – the first to an enlightening excerpt from an RSA lecture by radical geographer David Harvey, with helpful accompanying animation.
And secondly, a conference (with some interesting speakers) that asks the following questions: “Data visualisation – a genre within visual culture that depicts data streams in provocative, poetic or insightful ways – has been booming, thanks to the growing availability of large amounts of data and the desire to grasp ever more complex realities by visual means. But is it always a good idea to assign such an important role to numerical information? How can we best interpret various data in relation to the values we consider important? And which new forms of storytelling does data visualisation have to offer us? Will the data film be the new documentary form?”
(and point 2.1, if you’re mad for data, the following set of videos from the gov 2.0 conference in the US)
This archive contains some interesting talks, such as the one above featuring 5 middle-class white men talking about atemporality, which sort of links to lizzies previous post about power-browsing (i think): from the Video Archive | transmediale.
This timely article on the eye blog asks some interesting questions about MA programmes. The GSA Communication Design Masters, 1 and 2 year courses, have gone through their second-stage validation.
Image: Dave Anderson
—incase you’re wondering, it’s funny because it’s true, to quote Homer (Simpson)
This post by Michalis Pichler, asks some interesting questions of appropriation. Courtesy of the very nice Donlon Books.
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