July 2011
1 post
"The Ravenswood Granodiorite" by Victor Ziegler
March 2011
1 post
Article by Frederick Kaufman in Lapham's...
2008 / New York City
Waste Management
TAGS: disease, garbage, journalism, New York, parasites, science
“The first regulations with respect to waste go back to the code of Hammurabi,” said Steve Askew, superintendent of New York’s North River Wastewater Treatment Plant, one of the world’s largest. “You have to bury your waste far from where you sleep.” And he gave me the look. Steve Askew...
July 2010
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Lufthansa Searches for Savor in the Sky - WSJ.com →
“Mr. Mayer noted that one slight consolation for people crowded into coach is that all those other passengers emit lots of moisture, which keeps cabin humidity at around 15%. In sumptuous first-class cabins, humidity can plunge to 5%, sapping the bouquet from champagne and caviar.”
May 2010
1 post
The Scent of Design →
By Amelia Black / April 29, 2010
A designer who creates objects and spaces engages our sensations of touch, sight, and sometimes hearing. But what of our noses? Despite olfaction’s unmatched ability to evince memories and emotions—two essential objectives of design—smell is a relatively untapped medium in design practice. Combining scents with design was the challenge put to five designers, deemed...
March 2010
1 post
Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn Is Given Superfund... →
“The federal Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday that it was designating the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn a contaminated Superfund site, paving the way for a cleanup of the decades of pollution there.”
More coverage on Curbed.com
February 2010
2 posts
iA » Kenya Hara On Japanese Aesthetics →
The full text from an interview with Kenya Hara that was published last October in the New York Times around the question of Japanese national design aesthetic and how this ‘craftsman’s spirit’ is mirrored in the traditional Bento box-lunch. (via AI)
January 2010
3 posts
[exhibition] Philagrafika2010 - The Print Center,... →
"Casting Identities in Light" by Phil Patton on... →
December 2009
6 posts
[Review] Metropolis Magazine's design research...
The film is a comprised of interviews with 15 designers/educators whose collaborative projects with student design teams at various (mostly architecture) schools won recognition in Metropolis Magazine’s Next Generation design awards. Conversation footage is mixed with panning shots of still images, and while many interesting things come up during the film - an overall narrative structure is...
Donald Judd, or Cheap Furniture? (Quiz) →
Reason 10,006 to love New York City, because only... →
Mac Motorcycles (Fast Company) →
WatchEast Village Pigeon Lady
November 2009
10 posts
Creative Time publishes Summit speaker videos &... →
Rebecca Ward →
Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of... →
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Online Checklist →
Queer Design Criticism: NY Times article on K8... →
FASHION is the Rodney Dangerfield of culture. It don’t get no respect. We take unconscious cues from it; make art about it; base movies, plays and media franchises on it (some with the half life of plutonium, viz. “Sex and the City”); mine satire from it, and draw pleasure from its basic productions — that is, clothes. Yet still, fashion gives people the willies.
“Fashion makes people...
October 2009
8 posts
Joseph Beuys - Plight (1958/1985)
Joseph Beuys, Plight, 1958/1985, installation: 43 rolls of felt, piano, black table, thermometer, 310 x 890 x 1813 cm, Georges Pompidou Center, Paris
Nov 14 / MediaModes: Critical Thinking at the... →
Cities x Design: Designer Roadtrip →
Find me on Base Now: Interview with Alice Twemlow →
The elegant Alice Twemlow is a design writer, curator, and critic based in New York City. A long-time voice within the graphic design community, she has directed several conferences for the AIGA and is the author of What is Graphic Design For? (Rotovision, 2006) and StyleCity New York (Thames & Hudson, 2005).
As the Chair of Design Criticism (D-Crit), an MFA program she co-founded with Steven...
September 2009
3 posts
Ross Racine →
“Days and Hours of Brookdale Gardens” by Ross Racine. Drawn images of a suburban development through the lens of various phenomena, “as if it were an organism at times projecting itself onto the…
NYC Realestate Maps →
Online tool “property shark” uses a combination of statistical data and content from Open Street Maps to provide and interactive way to explore a neighborhood by crime, education level, diversity,…
Florian Kräutli » Project » Human Antenna →
Human Antenna from Florian Kräutli on Vimeo.
A carpet made of looms from conductive thread.
By standing on it, your body acts as an antenna. The carpet picks up the radio waves, which your body receives and makes them hearable. When walking on the carpet you can tune it to a certain frequency, like the tuner of a radio.
via FashioningTech
August 2009
1 post
SymbioticA →
A very interesting residency program in Perth, Australia where artists are able to come and work side by side with scientists. Exciting to see education opportunities that enage a multidisciplinary dialogue in a meaningful way.
July 2009
7 posts
Neo Gardenism -- Social Design Notes →
A collection of “neo gardenism” links off John Emerson’s blog Social Design Notes that I found interesting and wanted to save to explore in greater detail later.
US Customs Office Demolishes Design
In an article by Nicholai Ouroussoff in yesterday’s NY Times, I learned about the destruction of the recently opened US Customs office on the US/Canadian border designed by the New York architects, Smith-Miller & Hawkinson.
Featured in an exhibition that closes this week at the Van Alan Institute, the design for the Massena, NY boarder crossing is an elegant and considered update on...
Oliver Storz, Ferdinand Ludwig & Hannes... →
ludwig is grafting trees together - trunk to top, top to trunk - by seven young willow trees, with a scaffold used to support the tree tower. restricting the way in which the trees grow, allows the roots of the trees to protrude sideways and into containers of soil. as the trees reach a certain point, the roots are cut off, which allows them to merge into a single organism. to construct this...
The Cloud Project →
The Cloud Project takes the shape of a retro van selling ice-cream flavored clouds. An industrial-strength water spray mounted on top of the ice cream van would shoot a mix of liquid nitrogen and ice-cream into the atmosphere as a fine spray, leading to flavored condensation nuclei that will seed ice-cream clouds and give them the flavour of your choice.
As the designers explain:...
American drivers should learn to love the... →
Here is a narrative that has been playing out over the last several years in any number of American towns: Traffic engineers notice that a particular intersection has a crash problem or is moving traffic inefficiently. After a period of study, the engineers propose a roundabout. The engineers, armed with drawings and PowerPoint slides, visit a community meeting. They try to explain the benefits...
40 farmers under 40 | MNN - Mother Nature Network →
Who do you picture when you think of an American farmer? A leathery-handed AARP type who rises at dawn, works the fields all day and returns home when Sally Mae rings the supper bell? If so, you aren’t too far off. According to the USDA, the average American agrarian is a white male aged 55 or older. And some studies show that the presence of young farmers, 18 to 35, is actually in...
MoCo Loco: Shibori Pleats by Angharad McLaren →
Angharad McLaren
March 2009
8 posts
my search for THE shoe.
Probably anyone who has met me over the last 7 months, is aware of my on-going search for a particular pair of shoes. Last September I awoke with beautiful sun shine coming through my window and as I struggled to make my way through the post-dreamworld haze - I had a vision. My vision was of a pair of shoes that I could wear with any outfit, that were femine and androgynous, clean and elegant,...
Guilloche Patterns
The basic hypertrochoid equation from Mathworld
Fake Battlestar Galatica Money
Sothis Horus Guilloche Dial on Strap
György Kepes, Hand and Geometry, 1939
Spirograph Toys launched in 1965
Title Sequence for Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, Art Directed by Saul Bass
Cover for Cybernetic Serendipity: the Computer and the Arts, Frederick Praegaer, 1969. This book describes the...
The Monopoloy on Communication
In a recent article on the NY Times website,“One Number to Ring Them All”by David Pogue introduces us all the new horizon of telephone conversations. Google Voice goes beyond just the mobile phone to unify all our various forms “telephone” communication.
Now when someone calls you can specific which phone rings and the message that they hear. However, the major...
Fingerless Driving Gloves - seasonal transition...
Straight from Paris Fashion Week which ended yesterday, we already have a re-occuring trend that is taking the world with a somewhat unexpected fervor… the fingerless driving glove, really? We don’t have oil to drive with and we probably don’t have $$ to put down on a pair of Lagerfeld originals, but we can watch them in the music videos (also launched the week).
The question...