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Sunday 27 December 2009

Parking Plus (design opportunity in the mundane)


A new HDM building - FT ARTICLE HERE

and here a 'cheese grater' in sheffield by allies + morrison - ARTICLE HERE

Monday 21 December 2009

Eames - materiality

there is something about the eames work and playful understanding/re-imagining of post-war industrial manufacturing in the construction of form and architecture that has resonance with works for the coming semester - this film is a prime example of a real lucidity and quality to the material of a polaroid machine... meaningful and human / social awareness that todays technologies may lack - i.e. the true comprehension of these materials in reality DESIGN MUSEUM DESCRIPTION

Polaroid SX-70 Promotional Film from Ekim on Vimeo.

upload - extract of proto-economic

please upload an extract from your epic to the pro-local blog before xmas !
thanks

Graphic Anatomy - copies in the library


There are new copies of the Graphic Anatomy book in the library... xmas reading...

Friday 18 December 2009

Street Vendor Guide

Thousands of free copies of Vendor Power! A Guide to Street Vending in New York City were distributed to vendors in the Spring of 2009. The guide also serves as an educational/advocacy tool and includes a poster full of fun facts on the history and challenges of NYC street vending, personal vendor stories, and policy reform recommendations.

DESIGNER LINK HERE
STREET VENDOR MAIN WEBSITE

HAPPY CHRISTMAS

Sunday 13 December 2009

SAKSIA SASSEN + RICHARD SENNETT













Inspirational resource No 5.
Download and listen to it when you have spare time...

LINK TO LECTURE (AUDIO - mp3)

Woolworths - school of art and science


"an old Woolworths store would, for example, "make a very fine Da Vinci studio – you know, science and art [together]"

reuse of empty spaces in the city for schools to use as mess / renaissance rooms...

link to guardian article here

Saturday 12 December 2009

CHALLENGE


Found this random website ...

click here - deptford design challenge