Jun 15
Jun 15
Limited time only–every episode of “Genius of Design” now online!
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pThere are very few e-mails that could cause me to tear my eyes away from a World Cup match, particularly one where Drogba takes to the field with a broken arm; but twenty minutes ago I got a heads up (thanks Bob) that the BBC’s entire “Genius of Design” series has now A HREF=”http://shapesifter.tumblr.com/post/701225744/the-genius-of-design” been posted online/A!/p
pNon-Brits were excited enough to hear that A HREF=”http://www.core77.com/blog/videos/now_we_can_all_see_god_genius_of_design_16715.asp” the first episode had been posted/A, and now that all six are up, I’ll have something to watch that doesn’t involve a A HREF=”http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/a_closer_look_at_the_jabulani_part_2__16737.asp” Jabulani/A./p
pGet it while it’s hot, folks–these aren’t sanctioned uploads and are bound to be pulled down shortly. But many thanks to the unknown uploader in the meanwhile./pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/limited_time_only–every_episode_of_genius_of_design_now_online_16743.asp”(more…)/a
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Jun 15
PHE 2010: Harold Edgerton
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Shooting The Apple, 1964
The excellent annual photography festival, PhotoEspaña, opened last week in venues across Spain and Portugal. CR visited to see what was on show this year…
The festival is now in its 13th year, and is bearing up well despite the global recession. This year it is themed loosely on concepts surrounding ‘time’ and the official selection boasts exhibitions from Juergen Teller, Isabel Muñoz, Collier Schorr, and Roman Signer. There are also brilliant retrospectives of the work of László Moholy-Nagy, Helen Levitt, and Harold Edgerton. A full review of the festival will appear in the August issue of CR, but I’m going to highlight a selection of the exhibitions on the blog this week, beginning with the afore-mentioned Edgerton.
Cycloid Demonstration (Bicycle Wheel & Reflector), 1987
The retrospective of Edgerton’s work, titled The Anatomy of Movement, is on show at the Fundación BBVA in Madrid. It brings together 95 photographs as well as notebooks and working materials by Edgerton, who was a US engineer and a pioneer of ultra high-speed photography. His images revealed a world slowed down.
Gussie Moran, 1949
Edgerton famously photographed a milk drop as it landed to form a coronet in a puddle, and he also experimented extensively with the effects of bullets (see top), and the movements of athletes, including tennis player Gussie Moran, above. Like Eadweard Muybridge (who will receive a major retrospective at Tate Britain from September), Edgerton created his own technology to capture his images, inventing the stroboscopic flash, a device that used repeating bursts of light to photograph moving objects in fractions of a second.
Hammer breaking a lightbulb, 1933, all images: courtesy Palm Press Inc, © Harold & Esther Edgerton Foundation, 2010
According to the exhibition’s curator, Sérgio Mah, Edgerton used photography for purely scientific purposes, although many of his images are now also being viewed in an art context. Included in the exhibition at Fundación BBVA is a charming (and Oscar-winning) documentary about Edgerton from 1940, titled Quicker Than A Wink, which reveals some of his experiments on film. These include a slow-mo version of a tooth being drilled – not for the faint-hearted. I was hoping to find the film on YouTube but have been unsuccessful, so have included a film of a hummingbird by Edgerton below instead.
The exhibition will be on until July 25. For more info on PhotoEspaña, visit phe.es.
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Jun 15
Terunobu Fujimori builds a treehouse at the VA museum, London
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pema href=”http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/architecture/smallspaces/index.html”1:1 – Architect’s Build Small Spaces/a/em opens today at the Victoria and Albert Museum. The museum has invited 19 architects to submit concepts for small architecture to be built in and around the museum during the exhibition, seven of which have been built. Among them is a treehouse by Terunobu Fujimori, much like the amazing emBeetle’s House/em in VA’s video above./p
pSee all the structures through August 30th, 2010. /p
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Jun 15
KRUZIFIX by Stefan Strumbel
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Neon colours and bright stripes cover these crucifixes by artist Stefan Strumbel from the Black Forest in Germany. (more…)
Jun 15
NeoCon 2010: New ways to organize paper at Haworth
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pIn the sea of contract furniture and endlessly customizable systems, it was refreshing to run across these small student projects sprinkled throughout Haworth’s showroom from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Strangely (or maybe not surprisingly), the sales staff didn’t know much about them (even how many there were), but, from what we could tell, they all proposed new ways to organize desktop paper. Upon closer inspection, many of these systems stayed open to the inherent organizational systems of individuals, providing a means to represent them physically instead of circumventing them. /p
pFor example, Sprout, by Xin Wang, is a disembodied file organization system that use color coded tabs as paper stands/clamps. They are magnetized and can hold paper upright on a desk, hanging from an overhead storage system, or outwards on vertical panels. A combination of increased visual contact, color coding, and free placement is meant to encourage memory and the locating of paperwork. Similarly, Wedge, by EunJung Grace, is a magnetic set of stacking in/out trays that can be stacked in different orientations depending on use./p
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pMichael Savona uses ambiguity as a means of organization. One’s filing system may seem arbitrary to others, but could actually be a powerful, intuitive memory tool. In response his desktop “fence,” Daytona, can take on multiple forms: a sculptural paper storage tray, a bookend, a desktop tool holder, a safe home for liquids, or all of the above, depending on the individual./p
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Jun 15
The Times’ World Cup iPad app
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We’ve all seen wallcharts a-plenty – actually, we’ve just been filling in the latest World Cup match stats into our wall chart of choice (kindly sent to us by benjaminprescott.co.uk) – but in this day and age, it’s unsurprising to learn that there are various interactive apps floating around that give you all the typical who, when and where wallchart-type info – and more besides. The Sun and The Telegraph have already released iPhone apps relating to the World Cup – as has The Times, which is also about to unleash its “interactive World Cup planner” as a feature within its iPad app…
Designed by Applied Works, the new iPad app allows users to look through the various stages of the competition to find out the scores from the various matches and see the times and locations of matches yet to be played.
Users can also click on any fixture to make player cards appear for each player in both teams involved in that particular match. Each card shows a player from that nation’s squad. Select the player and the card flips round to reveal top trump style World Cup stats. For example, should I want to have a look at the squads for Italy and Paraguay (who played last night), then the following screen would come up:
And if you don’t have an iPad – you can still use the app on your computer screen – providing, of course, you’re a signed up user of thetimes.co.uk. The online version works in exactly the same way as the in-app version – only you use your mouse to select stuff, rather than your finger…
As a wallchart replacement, this is pretty good – and it fills itself in. Handy. But it seems like an opportunity missed that there isn’t an option to link through to videos of the goals from matches that have already been played.
If you do want an app that you can access each played game’s goals and match highlights, you should check out the free ITV1 2010 FIFA World Cup iPhone app. The app also allows users access to live video coverage of matches. Very nice.
Hang on a moment – what’s this? Creative Review’s very own iPad has just been delivered to the office. Cue much excitement… If we’re a bit quiet on the blog front for the rest of the day – you can guess why!
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Jun 15
Modern Toss: London Museum of Urban Shit-Naks
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Modern Toss is bringing its delightfully skewed world view to a London gallery space for the first time next week, with a two-week-long show at the Maverik Gallery in Shoreditch…
Modern Toss is the brainchild of Mick Bunnage and Jon Link, who have published their brilliantly witty illustrations in a series of comics, and also as animations for two Channel 4 TV series. Recurring characters by MT include Mr Tourette, a French signwriter; Alan, who appears in a Titanic poster below; and Prince Edward, Royal Entreprenuer.
Swearing is a popular element within the Modern Toss ouevre, as can be seen in the Periodic Table of Swearing, below. The Table includes all your favourite sweary expressions, plus some unexpected entries, such as, um, ‘cock garage’.
Detail below…
For the exhibition at Maverik gallery, we are promised limited edition prints, interactive art pieces and “assorted, hilarious paraphernalia from the Toss cabinet of shit-naks”, according to the advance press info. Special treats will apparently include: “a three-ton marble fly; two eggs in a cage fighting over a pin; a talking, stuffed bird moaning about sitting on a twig; and Mr Tourette’s incisive summing up of the international banking crisis.”
Detail below…
The Modern Toss London Museum of Urban Shit-Naks will be at the Maverik Gallery, 68-72 Redchurch Street, E2 7DP from June 22 until July 4. More info is at moderntoss.com.
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Jun 15
Dogs on Design: Danzico’s Obedient Vizsla
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pemIn this third article in our series, Dogs on Design, writer Sarah F. Cox met Liz Danzico on the Brooklyn Promenade to talk about how interaction design is everywhere, whether you are in front of a computer screen or out walking the dog. Sarah’s blogging partner, a fox terrier named Raleigh, stayed home to guard her computer and work on her blog, a href=”http://raleighpop.wordpress.com/”Raleigh Pop/a./em/p
pa href=”http://interactiondesign.sva.edu/faculty/profile/liz_danzico/”Liz Danzico/a points a finger in the air, makes eye contact with her Vizsla, and lowers her finger, pointing to the ground. The dog, Lucy, obediently drops her hindquarters into the “sit” posture. As Lucy waits for the next command, Liz turns her attention to the Brooklyn Promenade where we stand on a sunny morning, surrounded by runners, walkers, tour groups, kids, strollers, and leashed dogs, most of whichmdash;unlike Lucymdash;pull on their leashes and bark. /p
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p”Information is passing us by,” says Liz, “that man might be tracking his run with Nike + (iPod sport kit).” She gestures toward the tour group, “they might be using Google maps, or physical maps. And that guy has a camera so those might end up on Flickr. He may be tweeting right now, too.” This world of flowing information is the one that Liz, chairperson of the a href=”http://interactiondesign.sva.edu/”MFA Program in Interaction Design/a at SVA, inhabits at all times. Now that the lines between design online and in the physical world are disappearing, everything is a design research opportunity and to her; it’s all about a href=”http://bobulate.com/”communication/a. /p
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