Your are driving a Volvo 1996, by Julian Opie.
* with Amandine, on Sunday breakfast on a terrace we were discussing of the notion of iconic and archetypal cars’ shape.
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Your are driving a Volvo
September 16, 2008Tags: archetype, art, car, compression, geometry, reduction, sculpture, shape | Comments (1)
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Arnolfini | On Purpose: Design Concepts
September 01, 2008
On Purpose: Design Concepts Exhibitions Sat 13 Sep - Sun 9 Nov, 10am - 6pm (Except Mondays) Free Åbäke, Droog Design, Daniel Eatock, Electronest, Ann-Sofie Back, Will Holder, Peter Jensen, Onkar Kular & Noam Toran, Metahaven, Alex Rich, Savage, Yuri Suzuki On Purpose: Design Concepts looks at conceptual design practices, the emergence of ‘meta design’, and the question of who or what can define something as design. The exhibition will present interventions and work by a selection of the most interesting and ‘speculative’ designers today. In recent years, the field of design has evolved significantly having embraced conceptualism and technology, and is now offering advanced parallel theoretical practices to contemporary art. Yet the renowned principle that has been given to design in order to differentiate it from contemporary art is still a point of contention - that it should have specific purpose. On Purpose looks to investigate this tension around the definition of design, questioning whether ‘purpose’ is actually its ultimate constraint. Focussing predominantly on interventions within Arnolfini, some of which may become semi-permanent, On Purpose will also be used as an opportunity for designers to offer proposals to reshape the existing infrastructure of Arnolfini. It will look at every public facet of the institution - physical and virtual - and will aim to rethink it afresh. On Purpose is the second in the Concept Store series of projects at Arnolfini, exploring the realms of marketing, design and experience economy.
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links for 2008-07-31
July 30, 2008-
How do people use products, systems and environments?
How can designers influence interaction?
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research interests on the integration of mobile activities (working, learning, playing) in real-world ubiquitous environments.
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note to first slide
The title, Transcendent Interactions, refers to the goal of designing and developing software with the explicit understanding that any given interaction may exist outside the applications and systems produced. People will carry their -
a few weeks ago, while in hospital, Pierre and I were talking about a system to retrieve web document for later browsing - Piere was refering to Richard Richard Stallman’s use of the mail to retrieve documents.
Tags: *****, *****, *****, *****, api, application, apps, architecture, art, blog, code, coding, communication, design, development, email, environment, hack, installation, interactive, mail, mobile, mobility, pattern, performance, pervasive, research, robot, sustainability, tool, urban, web | Comments (0)
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links for 2008-07-07
July 06, 2008-
Manuel Raeder designed the Bless book - very nice homepage where the projects are just presented by a single picture; very simple and quite effective
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links for 2008-06-25
June 24, 2008
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SoundManager 2 lets web developers load, play and control sounds via Javascript. SM2 is an attempt at providing the sound API which Javascript has been missing. It’s a library which wraps and extends Flash’s sound capabilities, bringing cross-platform
Tags: art, book, bookshop, design, javascript, london, shoreditch, sound, texttospeech | Comments (0)
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Humanoid robot drawing portraits
June 23, 2008Tags: art, autonomous, portrait, reproduction, robot | Comments (0)
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WHY THE INTERNET IS BAD SOMETIMES
June 21, 2008Tags: art, culture, email, geekery, reference | Comments (0)
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links for 2008-06-20
June 19, 2008
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js to embed flash using the DOM
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An introduction to Europolis (a backwards portrait of the artist as a 12-point system) - published in DOT DOT DOT 9
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stupid ©
June 19, 2008This evening, I just wanted to put a link and some images on R-Echos towards the Palais de Tokyo exhibition of Loris Gréaud - well, finally I changed my mind because of this:
copyright notice and it is using Flash - just so that they’re sure you aren’t even able to have an image on your desktop - and they are sure we are not going to spread their information. Hey, Palais de Tokyo, this is internet and information is meant to be diffused…
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Jan Vormann - Dispatchwork
June 14, 2008
This work was done in Bocchignano, Italy, a village close to Rome, as part of the group project “20 Eventi”. The group of artists developed projects for 4 villages of the Sabina region and decided to create a compilation of drawings, for collectors to purchase, and to support this project.
These “art-boxes” are limited to 18 pieces, each one including 18 signed and numerated drawings of all the artists, not necessarily connected to their works on site. One exemplary box can be seen here.
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