designed by Giovanni Pintori for the Olivetti Lexikon 80 – 1950
designed by Giovanni Pintori for Olivetti Olivetti typewriters Booklet cover – 1957
designed by Ettore Sottsass for the Olivetti Tekne 3 – 1964
designed by Giovanni Pintori for the Olivetti Lexikon – 1953
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Has a whole seven years elapsed since Tim Griffin became editor-in-chief of Artforum? So it has, and he has decided to leave the post for new adventures (which we fervently hope he will write about, whether in prose or verse). In his new role as Artforum‘s editor-at-large, Griffin will organize symposia and book projects, and will produce a special issue of the magazine next fall. He is also completing a volume of his own critical writing on contemporary art. Meanwhile, senior editor Michelle Kuo is taking the helm as editor-in-chief, Artforum announced today. A doctoral candidate at Harvard who has written numerous articles for Artforum, Kuo has also contributed to many other publications and exhibition catalogues. From 2005 to 2007, she was the Wyeth Predoctoral Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art.
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 | When it comes to clothing, I love incorporating bright colors into my wardrobe. But with eye makeup, I usually play it safe with neutral shades like brown, grey and taupe. Just when I was trying to figure out how to get out of this drab makeup rut, I discovered Sugarpill Cosmetics. Founder Amy Doan launched her makeup line earlier this year with a variety of brightly colored pressed eyeshadows, loose pigments, and false eyelashes. It sounds weird, but I wish I had more eyelids so I can play with all the products all at once. Unexpectedly, one of my favorite pressed eyeshadows is Dollipop, an insanely bright matte pink that I usually pair with a light brown shadow for a look that’s almost work appropriate. (Tip: you can also use it as a blush!) MAC Carbon lovers like myself looking for an alternative should try Bulletproof because it’s one of the blackest black eyeshadows I’ve ever encountered. You also get over double the product compared to MAC at a lower cost too. As for the loose pigments, Lumi may look like a simple white glitter powder, but when applied there’s a surprisingly flattering turquoise sheen that catches the light beautifully. Prices range from $8 for a pair of dramatic false eyelashes to $34 for a quad eyeshadow palette so there’s something for everyone. It’s time to ditch boring neutrals, embrace bright colors in your makeup routine and using Sugarpill is the perfect way to start. |
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Set in Vienna’s design-forward 4th district, Gabarage Upcycling Design repurposes materials from personal and corporate donations—old binders, street signs, film, tennis balls and more—into playful, purposeful modern design pieces. The upshot is a dramatic increase in product lifecycles, garbage bins may become furniture, a silencer may become a piece of jewelry, and a bowling pin can find a far more peaceful existence as a flower vase.
But what Gabarage provides its community goes beyond ecologically sound design solutions into the realm of social responsibility. Every finished product in its showroom results from collaborations between professional artists and designers and a team of disadvantaged people from the surrounding community, all preparing to rejoin the regular labor market. Its staff of 20 includes unemployed individuals, welfare recipients and adolescents addicted to illegal substances who either completed drug therapy or are being cared for at outpatient clinics. The employees gain professional creative experience through an occupational training program developed specifically for the shop.
When asked about the company’s hopes for the future, Daniel Strobel, Gabarage’s head of marketing and corporate communications, replies, “Besides the aesthetically pleasing aspect, most of all I hope that our products and the idea behind them contribute to a rising level of awareness concerning both the ecological and the social responsibility we all bear. By (re)using waste materials and employing former addicts, we work towards a more sustainable economy and try to set an example for corporate social responsibility, which hopefully many will follow.”
Photography by Ambra Duda and Sandra Krimshandl-Tauscher
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pCore77 is busily putting together our annual Essential Guide to the best of New York Design Week 2010. If you’re planning an event, opening, exhibition, or just all-around shit-disturbing and want to be considered for the list, send us the details to calendar[at]core77[dot]com./p
pNo pdf’s please – here’s what to include, in what order:/p
pSubject: br /
New York Design Week Event Submission: {name of your event}/p
pEmail body:br /
– Name of eventbr /
– Date and Timebr /
– Locationbr /
– 1 sentence concise description (really, 1 sentence only; submissions without this sentence will not be considered)br /
– 1 paragraph expanded description with more background and infobr /
– Link (critical!)br /
– Your name, email, and tel. number/p
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pWeekend’s coming up, and what better way to wash off a week’s worth of work than to attend some fun ID thesis presentations? It’s time again for Pratt’s ID grad students to show you their goods, today and tomorrow in Brooklyn:/p
pSpring 2010 MID Thesis Presentationsbr /
200 Willoughby Avenuebr /
Pratt Studios, Room 43br /
Brooklyn, NY 11205/p
pFriday, April 30thbr /
10am-4pm/p
pSaturday, May 1stbr /
9:30am-3:30pm/p
pGallery reception to followbr /
Design Center Gallerybr /
2nd Floor, Pratt Studios /p
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pTo celebrate their 30th anniversary, Umbra is holding a design competition with a somewhat misleading title, “A HREF=”http://www.youdesignumbra.com/” You Design/A.” From what we can tell they’re not seeking actual product designs, but photographs of “using Umbra product[s] creatively in your space,” i.e. flipping the Garbo can into a lamp as seen above. /p
pTop prize is $5,000–not in cash, but in credit for purchasing Umbra products online, keeping the whole competition self-contained in the Umbra ecosystem. Still, if you’re looking to load up on product, it does sound like a comp with a fairly low barrier to entry.br /
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Après Interactive Multitouch Sphere, voici cette projection interactive axée sur le mapping pour le client Nokia et son produit “Ovi Maps”. Une installation produite à Covent Garden dans Londres par le collectif Seeper. A découvrir en vidéo dans la suite de l’article.
So you’ve hired an architect, spent months planning, followed by contractor hires and them bringing in their crews to start the labored process of getting a new building built. Despite all the stress, everything is going along just fine, but then the worst possible thing happens, the thing you’d hoped to avoid during this whole difficult endeavor that’s sure to delay everything: Bill Murray shows up and starts reading poetry to the construction workers. Found by way of A Daily Dose, this video shows Murray during the building of the Poets House‘s new home in Battery Park, where the actor had apparently popped in for a tour (one assumes he’s a donor) and decided to share a little verse:
The building was finished late last summer, but the video was just recently put up, so either the edit took a while or they just forgot they had a very funny clip of Murray. Either way, enjoy.
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