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Above: knitted lighting pieces by Kwangho Lee (past works) We at Set & Drift will be showing the work of Kwangho Lee at Current at The Bakery (San Diego) September 1-5th. Just in from Seoul, Lee’s Black Whale is a 7 foot long sculptural lighting piece, knitted with power cords as his unconventional medium. We [...]
In “Winter Stories”, Paolo Ventura creates an imaginative series of photographs depicting nostalgic scenes that arise from the mind of an old circus performer as he looks back on his life. Rather than dramatic events, the invented character recalls images of an everyday life, though they feature the bizarre and fantastical: tightrope walkers, sword swallowers, [...]
“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.” – Mies van der Rohe Born out of our increasing reliance on cars, the design of parking garages dominates the last century. Simon Henley’s book “The Architecture of Parking” argues there’s something unexpected to be found within these overlooked structures, cataloging the most striking and [...]
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” -R. Buckminster Fuller
The Washington Post review calls British graffiti artist Banksy’s latest film, Exit Through the Gift Shop, “a celebration of pranksterism and perhaps a superb prank in its own right.” Indeed, Banksy initiates an unexpected and entertaining dialogue through the supposed “documentary”. It’s a twisted art project in itself. Why do we love pranks? They remind [...]
via The Living City, by Jonah Lehrer (full article at SEED Magazine) A group of scientists and economists got together for an unexpected experiment: to study how cities might work like organisms. Indeed, through all their math and measurements, they found cities act just like creatures. Cities apparently act decidedly like elephants, because “they get [...]
Some food for thought via WorldChanging — some of the “Sustainability Trends of the Next Decade”: Welcome: BIKE CULTURE! How: bike lane expansion, bike-friendly city thoroughfares, bikesharing, indoor bicycle parking, access on public transportation. In this scenario, bike-friendly accommodations, fashion, etc. is sure to be in demand. END OF CHEAP OIL: The overbuilt market for [...]
The Haiti Poster Project has just been launched: It’s a collaboration of artists and designers from around the world, benefiting victims of the earthquake in Haiti. Moxie Sozo, the organizer of the 2005 Hurricane Relief Poster Project, is teaming up with Josh Higgins, the organizer of the 2007 So-Cal Fire Poster Project to produce the [...]
Thanks to Miriello Grafico for the recommendation: Tim Brown of innovation and design firm IDEO discusses “design thinking” at TED. He reminds that the potential of design is enormous. We need a different view of design, he says: less focus on creating small consumer objects and more on cultivating comprehensive “design thinking” to tackle the [...]