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Thursday 29 October 2009

TRADING TO PRO-LOCAL


Dont forget to upload your trading image and description to the pro-local blog by end of FRIDAY!

Tuesday 27 October 2009

JULES


LINK FOR IMAGES

Monday 26 October 2009

EXHIBITION AT APT GALLERY


Deptford Update is an exhibition of architecture, landscape, art and urban design work, including drawings and models. The exhibition is accompanied by a programme of events showcasing emerging public realm and development projects in Deptford and North Lewisham.
Part of the gallery is being set up as a meeting room available free of charge to local organisations. Events planned include a heritage walk, design workshops, a two day design charrette lead by Creative Process building on the successful charrette event from June 2008 and design crits for architecture students working in the area.
The exhibition is intended to invite debate on the design ambitions for the area amongst the local community, key players from the private and public sector and designers involved in shaping London’s public realm.

EXHIBITION LINK
EVENTS LINK

Sunday 25 October 2009

SOFT CITY - STROOM


The exhibition 'Soft City' shows the specific way in which artists depict the mental, psychological and socio-economic effects of how people are organizing or are being organized.
RIGHT CLICK HERE

Saturday 24 October 2009

ACTIVE LANDSCAPE - OMA


Woods talks about the original proposal for la villette in his blog - plus images of the drawings and models of a calculated territory of activities... super stuff.
link to lebbeus blog

Sunday 18 October 2009

DUTCH ROPE


link to dezeen announcement some of you might remember this one at the museum in rotterdam... here is the design studio website - here -wiekisomers

WERNER HERZOG


V22 has organsied a series of screenings throughout September and October of twenty-one of Werner Herzog’s films in London. (image: Heart of Glass)

V22 LINK

VENDING MACHINES


Vending machines are a common sight in Japan on station platforms and in proximity to transport nodes.

LINK TO JENNY NORDQUIST PHOTO STORY

Saturday 17 October 2009

Selling links...



goodbye wafflemaker an everything must go self made websiteKettles Yard is an amazing archive of objects in cambridge - this was an exhibition of objects to do with materials being used in alternative ways by artists this might be useful as a model of association... strong graphic identityhere with environments and the sale there off - fun spanish officewho have an friendly approach to selling their projects.... architecture led thinking books with a bold simplicity toward content - archive of publicinstallation works from around the globe - LEGO hasits own construction boutique... war game designed by guy debord - situationsist objects specially designed and sold with the game... all about context with these eruption vases remember to photograph the process as you go along - you cant go backwards for the portfolio... interesting link archive of objects sold on ebay - the fetishised object crafted leather shoes photographed well on a simple website - branding of baggu bags with clear alternatives and deviations... greyworld installationas a part of big art on 4 - objects / bodies with notation on - this is sarahs supermarket it changes regularly as she sells the stuff - similar to baggu - this is happy socks clear cataloging and labelling - roni horn produces quality objects and they become site specific because of their context / reflections - the only record is the photograph... these guys [pictured] sell the object and associated experience - very simple.

ART MAP - DEPTFORD


ART MAP LINK

Friday 16 October 2009

MODEL

Wednesday 14 October 2009

SITE VISIT LONDON





Thu 15 Oct
10.00 am LDA, 197 Blackfriars Rd, London SE1 8AA.
Check your e-mail for detailed info.

Monday 12 October 2009

Selling props...


this is a small shop in great titchfield street in london - they sell props for selling - labels, haberdashery, jewelry displays, boxes and bags ... you name it they probably have it... just dont go overboard... remember all this stuff has a meaning... morplan website

Book reference


This book has nearly every manufacturing process under the sun - and is a definitely useful book for us this year in understanding the application of material and effects... its in the library - Amazon link

Wednesday 7 October 2009

TURNER PRIZE 09



Went to this today - the work of Lucy Skaer is particularly relevant for some of you working with porous materials... she uses coal dust and resin to shape elegant skeletal forms... beautiful!

gallery of images
tate turner prize
british council image

Saturday 3 October 2009

LERNER AT RIBA IN NOVEMBER


Jaime Lerner's 'urban revolution' successfully transformed a congested, grimy, crime-ridden city into a world-renowned model of green living and social innovation. His talk will focus on the role cities play in contemporary society, shown through case studies, enhancing the meaning of design both in structuring urban growth and in the development project of a city, a state, a country. He will also address the key issue of mobility – stressing the importance of public transportation and discuss how sustainability and identity are vital areas for intervention.

GUARDIAN ARTICLE
RIBA LINK FOR TICKETS - RIBA STUDENTS GET CONC!

Friday 2 October 2009

PROJECT SITES



LONDON SITE VISIT




Intuitive re-sourcing day at the Natural History Museum, Science Museum, Serpentine Gallery and the Victorian & Albert Museum.

MONEY AT SHUNT


New Shunt event based on Emile Zola's novel 'L'Argent' inspired by a nineteenth-century banking fiasco. Staged in a new space, a former tobacco warehouse, near the old Shunt Vaults.

SHUNT LINK