Afin de célébrer les 125 années de Sony Music, Alex Fowkes a réalisé une fresque au cœur des bureaux à Londres de Sony retraçant ainsi en typographie les noms des 1 000 artistes ayant pu signer avec Sony et ses filiales depuis 1887. Un rendu magnifique à découvrir en vidéo sur une musique d’Avenue Beech.
by L.S. Winkler Technological advancements and the influx of electronic, digital and automated applications have drastically changed the way we create, view and share art. Mark Herschede, founder and owner of Haven Press Studio in Brooklyn, runs his print shop with an interest in innovation but holds a strong respect…
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Coup de cœur pour la nouvelle série « Edge » de Mikko Lagerstedt, un photographe finlandais qui capture des images d’une incroyable beauté. Ce dernier nous propose des clichés d’horizons et de paysages à travers les endroits les plus reculés de la Finlande. A découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
In Gretchen Rubin’s recent article in The New York Times, she said:
While we’re constantly bombarded with messages of “More!” and “Buy now!” we’re also offered the tantalizing promise “You’ll be happier with less!”
She goes on to say that achieving simplicity is not as cut and dry as it may seem. Like some relationships, it can be complex. And, it can get especially complicated when you have to let go of things that have high sentimental value.
Rubin also suggests that we need to keep things that are precious to us. Striking the right balance between how much to keep and how much to let go of can be difficult if everything is (seemingly) dear to you. How do you decide what stays and what goes? It’s this part of the process that can stop you in your tracks. And, there are times when you’re forced to make a decision, like when you’re moving to a smaller home (or office) or if you have to sort through the belongings of a loved one who has passed away.
Though you may not know what to do with everything, there are some steps you can take until the time comes for you make a decision.
Making a decision about an emotionally charged object is a tricky endeavor. But, you don’t have to have all the answers right away or to decide what to do immediately. And, if you keep in mind that you likely can’t keep everything, you’ll be able to part with items that are truly clutter and keep the ones that mean the most to you.
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Next week photographer Tim Flach (whose image of Jambo, a hairless chimpanzee, above, graces the cover of our new November / Photography Annual issue) is set to talk about his new book, More Than Human, at a PhotoVoice lecture in London…
Jambo, a resident of Twycross Zoo in Leicestershire who suffers from alopecia, is one of dozens of animals, beautifully shot by Flach, which appear in More Than Human (Abrams, £65). The book looks to explore various contemporary relationships between humans and other animals and makes, Flach says, “an inquiry into how these relationships occupy anthropocentric space within the context of ethics, history, science, and politics.
“My hope is that I can engage with subjects in illuminating ways,” Flach continues, “helping inform the thoughts we each have around our relationships with animals.”
Put simply, the images, alongside brilliantly researched and insightful text by Lewis Blackwell, invite further thought about how we perceive the creatures depicted. For example, orangutans are often thought of as solitary creatures, yet the cleverly framed image above shows a family group and the mother’s direct gaze challenges the viewer to reconsider preconceptions.
Below, this image of two bonobos kissing makes you wonder what the relationship is between the two primates shown, and what the circumstances are for this seemingly tender moment.
The image caption in the book explains that the puckering up is nonsexual, “a gesture between two females engaged in friendly and helpful grooming.” It also points out that there are some human tribes that have been found not to kiss at all and that “kissing means different things in different times in different places.”
The above image is of a featherless chicken, bred by Professor Avigdor Cahaner of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Faculty of Agriculture, drawing on a naturally occurring recessive mutation that eliminates feathers. Rather than taking the view that this is genetic modification taken to extremes, the accompanying text in More Than Human points out the “considerable economic, and potentially environmental, benefits” of such a breed.
More Than Human is published by Abrams, £65. More info at abramsbooks.com.
The PhotoVoice Tim Flach Lecture will take place at Kings Place, 90 York Way on November 5 at 7pm. Tickets are priced at £9.50. To book tickets and find out more about PhotoVoice’s work to build skills within disadvantaged and marginalised communities, visit photovoice.org.
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At his recent TYPO London talk, Henrik Kubel of A2/SW/HK admitted he can’t draw animals like the artist he used to watch on TV when he was a boy. But he can wield a pen to produce some fantastic hand-drawn lettering, as a film for the studio’s A2-TYPE foundry shows…
The film, which is available to view on A2-TYPE’s Vimeo page here, was made for the foundry by Animade and features hand-drawn type and a voiceover by Kubel. The designer presented the piece as part of his presentation at the “Social”-themed TYPO London conference last week.
I’ve been living in Kampala, Uganda, for the past month now, and it’s truly been a treasure trove for design observations. From the city’s many tech incubation hubs to the wide variety of formal and informal solutions to everyday challenges, creativity can be found everywhere. In the spirit of Tricia Wang’s Instagram ethnography, I post many of my field observations on my own account. This is not just for convenience; Instagram fosters conversation that helps me clarify my own thinking around the things I see. Here are a few field shots, with some notes I’ve added for context.
A stereo outfitted for a memory stick. The stereo reads the music files and displays the song artist and title from the meta data while playing each song. I’ve not read much literature on this, but I’ve now seen USB stick music players in Kampala, Beijing, Manila and even Los Angeles. Enabled by a stereo, the sticks act effectively as a portable music player without the cost and risk associated with a pricier MP3 player. As with iPhone decks, USB-ready stereos also enable a social experience, as people swap in their own sticks with their own music mixes.
I spotted this two-way calculator in Fort Portal, in the west of Uganda. Big calculators like this are quite popular in places like Beijing, as they ensure clarity of price and can even be used for haggling between two people who don’t speak the same language. It was common in China to see the shopkeeper type in a calculation and turn the calculator around to face the client. The client then takes the opportunity to enter a new price. With the calculator above, the opportunity to haggle is lessened.
The famous Kampala stage, where a vast number of the city’s minibuses, called “taxis” locally, take off to locations far and wide, both inside the city and into other parts of the country. From above, it looks like a vast mass of white cars with no particular rhyme or reason. But as soon as I descended to the staging floor, I realized it was no more or less complicated than Penn Station. Signs clearly indicated where each minibus was going, and locals easily directed me to the minibus I needed. And as in Penn Station, vendors wandered the grounds and set up shop on the periphery, ready to feed hungry travelers.
Competition: Dezeen and Areaware have teamed up to give readers the chance to win one of five white Balancing Blocks sets of wooden toys, signed by the designers Fort Standard.
The stone-shaped building blocks are coated in a water-based paint and are available in white or multi-coloured sets. As the blocks vary in size and shape, they can be stacked to create a large number of patterns and shapes.
Made of oak, each set of ten faceted blocks comes with a printed cotton drawstring pouch that will be signed by the designers especially for this competition.
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Competition closes 27 November 2012. Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeenmail newsletter and at the top of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.
Other wooden toys on Dezeen recently include models of satellites orbiting the Earth and vehicles incorporating items associated with household chores. See more stories about toys on Dezeen here.
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During the Let’s Talk Coffee (LTC) conference, coffee farmers, importers, exporters, financiers, cafe owners, baristas, and the Sustainable Harvest staff gathered in the Rionegro region of Antioquia, Columbia to do just that. People from twenty-eight countries including South America, Central America, Mexico, Africa, Canada, the USA, India, and Europe…
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« Split of a Second » est la nouvelle création de Goovinn après l’excellent Sense of Flying. Réalisée par John Boisen et Björn Fävremark, cette vidéo magnifique produite par Is This It nous permet d’être au plus près de la préparation d’un saut incroyable. Des sensations fortes à découvrir dans la suite.
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