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Less than three weeks left in the year.
San Francisco in a month.Can you believe it?
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Will I miss this place? Probably.
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Art. Lebedev Studio
Flashkus USB flash drive concept: Soon the flash drive will evolve into a disposable form. All electronics will be contained on the tip of a detachable cardboard module.
Founded in 1995, Art. Lebedev Studio is a privately held company employing over 200 people offering advanced industrial, graphic, web, and interface design.
(Source: artlebedev.com)
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20 Questions
For a video-based design ethnography project we are documenting another’s working process and personal character and values, and as the subject of another’s, reflecting on our own.
It’s strange when I realize that I haven’t taken any time to reflect on my experience at RISD, though it will soon come to an end, the way I regularly did at Exeter, or even before then, by writing or other means. Even a simple 20-questions exercise felt foreign.
It’s been very go-go-go the past few years, always doing but rarely processing. I think it’s time to get back into the habit of reflection.
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Urban Destruction
Alex Lukas’ intentional use of dated imagery presented in tandem with contemporary situations forces the viewer to reconcile two differing ideologies of urban space. The artist’s work calls into question society’s collective acceptance of the urban environment as an arena of destruction, once thought unthinkable and now seemingly inevitable.
(Source: guerrerogallery.com)
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Errors in Production
Errors in Production is an ongoing collection of a variety of products with individual manufacturing errors. Sometimes the accidents are the most interesting of all.
(Source: errors-in-production.info)
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Colour Like No Other
Still one of my favorite commercials after many years.
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Having FontExplorer manage my fonts has resulted in my actual font folder looking like this.
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Stairway to ?
Do-Ho Suh’s work examines the concept of home and attempts to deconstruct what it means to identify with a place, often contemplating strongly architectural issues as a way to explore themes of cultural displacement and cultural identity.
(Source: architizer.com)
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Trend List
From the “Underlined” category (in which there are 249 examples as of time of writing): “Underlined typography creates the design on itself. Words or the whole sentences are usually underlined without any purpose. However it attracts the attention and accents the message of the poster. It looks very contemporary, but lets say it is very not supercreative way of designing typography.” Guilty!
(Source: trendlist.org)
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Just stretch it. Be rude! Because that’s who you are.
Hans van Dijk, Type III(Source: risdgd)
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Cute as a Button
This is the resident studio dog, a miniature poodle. His name is Danchoo (‘button’) and he belongs to Cindy. Usually he is a huge tease but every once in a while he stays still long enough for a photo or even lets me pick him up, although I suck at holding animals. Good thing shibas are too proud to be held.
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Abandoned Letterhead
Detroit-based designer Danielle Aubert, candidate for RISD’s GD Faculty Search (funny name, sounds like a gameshow) gave an interesting lecture last night about her personal projects, including the Center for Abandoned Letterhead, a collection/exhibit/pop-up shop? of unused and discarded corporate stationery (GM, Delphi, and others) found in the Detroit area. I thought it was a surprisingly poignant artifact/representation of the condition of the city.
(Source: internationaltypographicalunion.org)
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I ❤ Process
Individually generated qualitative descriptors of water categorized by sense and arranged by frequency; Reconfigured by concept to collectively determine outstanding qualities of water.
So far this semester (is a week in speaking too soon?) I am really enjoying our Relational Design studio and the opportunities it presents for collaborative and process-intensive work.
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Strawberry Box
Designer, Kenya Hara (b.1958) emphasizes the design of both objects and experiences. In 2000, he produced the exhibition “RE-DESIGN—Daily Products of the 21st Century”, which successfully presented the fact that the resources of astonishing design are found in the context of the very ordinary and casual.
(Source: ndc.co.jp)
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