Digital Pioneers

7 December 2009 - 25 April 2010
Julie & Robert Breckman Prints and Drawings Gallery, Room 90 and Paintings, Room 88a
Free admission

This display provides an overview of the first decades of the computer's history in art and design. It includes some of the earliest computer-generated works in the V&A's collections, many of which have never been exhibited in the UK before. From the 1960s until the early 1980s, digital pioneers worked directly with computer hardware and software to produce graphic images unlike anything that had gone before. Some artists went on to use increasingly sophisticated software packages, while others continued to work directly with the hardware itself.

LINK HERE

The Sustainability Song

Jaime Lerner reinvented urban space in his native Curitiba, Brazil. Along the way, he changed the way city planners worldwide see what’s possible in the metropolitan landscape.

Shrinking city - Porto ?

A bit of text about Porto

Arrow download

LINK HERE - DOWNLOAD AT BOTTOM OF POST

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

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...

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

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

CHALLENGE

Found this random website ...

click here - deptford design challenge

Rules of the game - LW

This piece posted today is a call for new thinking in architecture by architects - proactive/complex/inter-disciplinary ->i am thinking we are perhaps ahead of the game...

right click here

Presidents Medals 2009

The prize giving is this wednesday - with exhibition open for a while afterwards - worth a look... right click here <><><><