There’s a an interview with Diana Sudyka about her artwork for Andrew Bird’s Noble Beast on an excellent music site called Sezio. {We were lucky to have Diana’s work in UPPERCASE for the Posteriffic show in 2007.}
Srikanth Jalasutram, a graduate ID student at Georgia Tech, sends in this link from the Boston Globe’s Big Picture, called At Work. This from the Globe:
“When the economy makes big news, many photographs of people at work come across the wires, usually to help illustrate a particular story or event. By collecting these disparate photos over the past few months, I found that a global portrait emerged of we humans producing things. People assembling, generating, and building items small and large, mundane and expensive, trivial and important. I hope you enjoy this look into some people’s work lives around the world”
And this from Srikanth:
Any product designer who has seen Ed Burtynsky’s Manufactured Landscapes Documentary or has attended Allan Chochinov’s talk on the social impact of design professions (“We are in the consequence business”) will appreciate taking a look at this slideshow of people “producing” or being involved in manufacture of physical objects across the world.
It should prompt designers to think where their problem solving skills are really required–creating new and novel things just for the sake of “design,” or really helping people lead better and more fruitful lives by uplifting their living conditions. Contrary to the opinion of some superstar designers who proclaim that problem solving is dead and what the world truly needs is more “beautiful things” (made of translucent plastic), the world urgently needs designers who can bring social equity to the masses through their work.
Image above from the site (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki).
[Allan is humbled to mentioned in the same sentence as Edward Burtynsky.]
Today we bring you news out of Starbucks that can only deepen your complex love/hate relationship with the ubiquitous brand and its efforts to simultaneously take over the world and make it a better place to live. The company has just opened a state-of-the-art roasting plant in Calhoun County, South Carolina. Dear reader, it is LEED Silver-certified. While the plant supplies coffee only to Starbucks stores in the southeastern U.S., it’s part of the company’s goal to reduce its environmental footprint by 2015.
In constructing the new plant, Starbucks used recycled building materials (for 20% of the materials used), and more than 75% of construction waste was recycled. The facility also features efficient lighting and water fixtures, and a portion of its power will be supplied by wind energy. According to the company, many of the green design elements used in the South Carolina project are being integrated into the company’s other roasting plants and retail stores. Next on Starbucks’ to-do list? Seek LEED certification for stores worldwide. The company has committed to LEED certification for all new company-operated stores by the end of next year.
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Can’t wait for the May issue of Metropolitan Home to see if your chic dwelling is the winner of the annual “Met Home of the Year” contest? No problem. Every day this week, the magazine will showcase a new outstanding reader home design (one of the five finalists and six honorable mention winners) on its website, culminating with the grand-prize-winning Met Home of the Year announcement next Monday, March 2. The winner will also be featured in the May issue.
“The online unveiling of the reader winners allows us the opportunity to showcase more photos and information about the residential designs than we can in the pages of Metropolitan Home,” said editor-in-chief Donna Warner in a statement issued by the magazine. “These homes and spaces are wonderful, and we want to give them a platform that will allow each of them to have their moment in the spotlight.” Among the winning entries? “A movie theater turned loft, an all-ages tree house, the savviest kitchen in Texas, and the ultimate PETA-friendly design solution.” We just hope the latter doesn’t involve chimpanzees, no matter how metropolitan.
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Andrew Bird‘s latest album is fantastic. {photos by Cameron Wittig} Listen to it on MySpace, and then go out/online and buy it! (I used his music for a couple little moving picture vignettes, the songs just fit my creative mood so well… I hope you don’t mind, Mr. Bird!)
We don’t envy the international panel of judges that will choose the winner of the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, which aims to reward the contemporary photographer who has made the most significant contribution (exhibition or publication) to the medium of photography in Europe in the previous year. This year’s shortlist is a doozy, consisting of a British-born master of quotidian America (Paul Graham), a Palestinian-American archivist/activist/poet (Emily Jacir), an old-school chronicler of poignant beauty (Tod Papageorge), and a young American star with a flair for the forbidden (Taryn Simon). The work of the four artists shortlisted for the prize, now its in its thirteenth year, went on view last Friday in an exhibition at The Photographers’ Gallery in London, where it will remain through April 12 before traveling to C/O Berlin and Deutsche Börse headquarters in Frankfurt. The winner, to be announced next month, will receive £30,000 (approximately $44,000 at current exchange rates). Past winners include Esko Männikkö, Walid Raad, and Robert Adams.
Previously on UnBeige:
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Although the Rhode Island-based Thames & Kosmos has only been around since 2001, the science kit manufacturer has a roster of more than 57 award-winning kits. This prolific output has been possible, no doubt, through partnership with the respected German publisher Kosmos, which has been producing experimental sets since 1922. (Its chemistry set won a gold medal at the 1937 World’s Fair.)
Thames & Kosmos has been publishing eco-driven science kits since its inception. In fact, the first product to be introduced to the States under the label was the Fuel Cell kit. At last week’s NYC Toy Fair, the company introduced four new kits in its Alternative Energy and Environmental Science line-up, one of which was a revised and sportier (see above) version of the Fuel Cell Car and Experiment kit. Available this fall for $169, we’re guessing this kit might be a popular holiday gift for automotive executives.
Another revised edition is the new Power House Green Essentials Edition. A follow-up to the best selling Power House Kit, the new edition is geared towards kids ten and up, and features 30 experiments over ten energy-related models: the power house itself, a greenhouse, a solar cell array, a passive solar collector, a solar oven, an air conditioner, a refrigerator, a hydrometer, a lemon battery and a wind power generator.
Un superbe travail de reconstruction d’images par l’artiste danois Peter Funch vivant à New-York. En effet, il a rassemblé plus de 20 clichés pris à différents moments de la journée afin de montrer que chacun de nous fait la même chose au même moment dans la rue.
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