Hasta La Ideas

From opening parties to closing remarks, Core is all over IxDA’s latest gathering in Vancouver. Links to our posts here, links to other coverage below:

Interaction 09: Vancouver is the right town.

Interaction 09: Some nice touches.

Interaction 09: Day One Recap

Interaction 09: Behavior as the medium, and the search for IxD rockstars

Interaction 09: LiveScribe Paper Computing System is cooler than it sounds

Interaction 09: Lightning Rounds

Interaction 09: Coroflot job board, snapshots from day 3

Elsewhere on the web:

Johnny Holland, an English language site based in the Netherlands, has been described as “the Core77 of Interaction Design” (!) — exhaustive coverage of nearly every session is here.

Doug Lemoine of Cooper gives a succinct run-down of the keynotes here.

Jon Kolko of Frog Design gives a more critical analysis, and a link to the slides from his own talk, on Design Mind.

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After Vivienne Tam’s models carried mini special edition HP laptops as clutches during her Spring/Summer show at New York Fashion Week in September, we had a feeling we hadn’t seen the last of the fashionably marketed tech toys- and we were right! As the countdown to the Fall/Winter shows begins, Sony is sending models to various New York City settings, toting the new VAIO Lifestyle PCs while showing off the latest from Elise Overland, Threeasfour, Libertine, and Katy Rodriguez. So if you happen to be window shopping in Midtown today and spot a group of impeccably dressed women acting strangely robotic with laptops in hand, go ahead and stare- it’s like one of those artsy television commercials, except live and kind of awkward. You can even track the models on Sony’s web site and watch video footage of them at each location. Strange? Yes, but this is NYC, and Fashion Week no less, and strange is to be expected.

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Raindance logo 1989-present by Pezman

Artcore, an exhibition and auction opening at Selfridges’ Ultralounge gallery space this Friday, celebrates the 1980s/90s rave movement in all its garish glory. Warning: the images that follow may be painful for some design sensibilities…

The Jester ‘Penny-wise’ flyer for Helter Skelter event, 1996

Artcore celebrates an era of design that many of us may prefer to forget: the Acid House and rave movement of the late 1980s-early 90s. Characterised by garish colours and badly Photoshopped images of iconic symbols such as marijuana leaves and smiley faces, it has to be one of the least subtle eras in graphic design history. And yet, looking at the Super Super-influenced graphics that assault our senses today, it may seem to some as if rave has never been away, making it the perfect time to explore the style’s heritage.

Wonderland (Pete Tong) by Goldie, 2008

The exhibition will be a mixture of original artworks and ephemera from dance music history (including flyers, posters, and even the floorboards of one club). All the works on show will then be auctioned off at exhibition’s end. “It’s a visual representation of dance and free party culture,” says Mary McCarthy of Dreweatts Auction House, who has curated the exhibition alongside Ernesto Leal from Our Cultural History. “We’ve worked alongside a lot of the artists who did the work that originally appeared on the flyers. Much of the artwork has been lost so they have redone canvases and prints for the exhibition.”

Beyond Therapy flyer, 1989

The exhibition will include artworks by prolific dance music artists and designers including Dave Little, Pez and Pierre Anstis. Artcore opens this Friday (13th), with the auction taking place on February 26.

Puzzled flyer, 1995

Discovered while waiting tables in NYC, painter Paul Rowland switched gears and began modeling. Shortly thereafter he created Women Management, a modeling agency with a mission to do more than just employ beautiful people, but to explore visual perception by finding talented models that could transform into a character that would engage and stimulate the viewer, and create a real meaning behind the image.

Transformations is a look at the last half-decade of Rowland’s photography and the underlying current running throughout his work, which is his fascination with what is not actually in front of the camera but what one could imagine being there. While the main focus is mostly on models morphing into various characters, he does explore the idea of cross-gendering. Evident in all of the large scale, mostly black and white photos is Rowland’s opinion that a great subject is one who has the courage to expose themselves to the camera.

Transformations
Opening Reception: 12 February 2009, 6-9pm

13-20 February 2009

Women & Supreme Management

136 10th Avenue, Ground Floor

New York City, NY 10011 map
tel. +1 212 226 2196