Photography: Daniele Sambo / Design Maeve Redmond + Sophie Dyer
Monthly Archive for August, 2011
OASE Journal for Architecture has a new website and better still, editions 1-81 are available as PDF’s to download to your non-brand-specific portable tablet device. OASE is/has been designed by Dutch designer and educator Karel Martens.
Vis Com person Lu SiSi features as one of 5 to watch in this month’s Creative Review Graduate Special. A nice wee feature on one of 2011′s top graduates.
(It’s obviously been a long time since I paid money for a magazine – five pounds and ninety pence it was!)
Will someone else please press that tweet button down there on the right. I pressed it about three months ago.
Samantha Hardingham talks about Cedric Price’s Potteries Thinkbelt: A City Caused By Learning at the Lighthouse on Thursday (1st Sept). Follow link to reserve a place. (Links to this and this).
Blog Interlude by Helmut Smits is a blank image for blogs, meant as a moment of rest.
We’ve mentioned Daguerreotypes before, but factor tumblr in to that equation, and of course, its obvious, you get My Daguerreotype Boyfriend… Where early photography meets extreme hotness.
From Rob Walker, ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Googled Reproduction‘. Connects (in my mind) with this (or this). (And this).
Adobe Muse (AIR App)
Just Launched as a Beta by Adobe, MUSE is an AIR App aimed at Graphic Designers who can’t or don’t want to code HTML. You can download it for free from here until early 2012 when they will start charging with the release of v1. I will be having a look at it and let you know how stable or compatible with current browsers the pages it creates are. Adobe also launched Edge in Beta. It creates animations in html 5 and CSS 3 with a bit of javascript. You can download it here. I assume they have mainly used javascript in Edge as they did with Wallaby since there is a huge performance hit using Canvas to animate, especially with iOS devices such as iPhone and iPad.
While London burns, (hope all friends of Vis Com in the capital are ok), I am wondering where (if at all) this connects with recent activities of the Deterritorial Support Group (DSG). A friend brought this to my attention, and has recently posted an interesting article on this here. On an equally interesting, but lighter note, Type Tuesday is a very good recent (I think) addition to the Eye Blog. So two things happening on a tuesday.
Talk to Me is the latest exhibition from Design and the Elastic Mind curator Paola Antonelli. This coincides with a recent purchase of mine, a HP desktop printer/scanner which not only talks to me (giving me printing ‘tips’ via its built-in lcd screen), but via its own I.P. address and a wireless connection to the network, talks to Hewlett Packard HQ… about me? about what I print? about how I’m not very good at loading the paper? The Internet of Things is well and truly here.
A Domus review nicely summarises some of the key questions;
“In the catalogue text, these changes are read along the long wave of opposition to cold 20th century rationalism: “The clichés of the twentieth century, such as ‘form follows function’, the modernist motto borrowed with some variation by Louis H. Sullivan, and ‘design means solving problems’… have been responsible for soulless and lobotomized architectural design.” On the contrary, the experiences shown in Talk To Me go back to the 1960s and the fruitful experiences of the radicals with their first ideas regarding cybernetic, mobile and interactive architecture.”
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