The Record Contemporary Art & Vinyl at ICA Boston
Posted by Fabio 18 April 2011
The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl, organized by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, is the first museum exhibition to explore the culture of vinyl records within the history of contemporary art. Bringing together artists from around the world who have worked with records as their subject or medium, this groundbreaking exhibition examines the record’s transformative power from the 1960s to the present. read more
Jan Jansen
Posted by Fabio 3 March 2011
Jan Jansen was born in 1941 as the son of a shoe salesman. In the sixties he started his career as haute chaussurier at a small workshop in Amsterdam.Together with his wife and muse Tonny, who supports the design process by testing new models and choosing colours, Jan Jansen gained worldwide attention with his remarkable shapes and fits. His designs have been proven to stay fashionable, even if they were designed decades ago.
C60 – The Buckminsterfullerene
Posted by Fabio 2 March 2011
The first fullerene to be discovered, and the family’s namesake, was buckminsterfullerene C60, made in 1985 by Robert Curl, Harold Kroto and Richard Smalley. The name was an homage to Richard Buckminster Fuller, whose geodesic domes it resembles. Fullerenes have since been found to occur (if rarely) in nature.
Vol Libre
Posted by Fabio 25 February 2011
I made this film in 1979-80 to accompany a SIGGRAPH paper on how to synthesize fractal geometry with a computer. It is the world’s first fractal movie. It utilizes 8-10 different fractal generating algorithms. I used an antialiased version of this software to create the fractal planet in the Genesis Sequence of Star Trek 2, the Wrath of Khan. These frames were computed on a VAX-11/780 at about 20-40 minutes each.
– Loren Carpenter
Dead Island Trailer
Posted by Fabio 24 February 2011
Dead Island is an upcoming horror action adventure video game by Polish game developer Techland for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. It is centered on the challenge of survival on a zombie-infested island with a major emphasis on melee combat.
Viktor – 5000 Years of Chairs
Posted by Fabio 1 February 2011
The drawing machine Viktor is an amalgam of digital and mechanical technologies. A collage of tools, all of which were invented for other general and specific uses. The video shows Viktor illustrating the lecture «5000 Years of Chairs» by Michael Marriott about the development of the world through advances in chair making technologies spanning five thousand years.
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Rick Poynor
Posted by Fabio 7 January 2011
The MFA in Design Criticism at the School of Visual Arts is an innovative two-year program trains students to research, analyze, and evaluate design and its social and environmental implications. Shown here is a lecture with Rick Poynor, “Curating ‘Uncanny: Surrealism and Graphic Design”. Rick Poynor is a British writer on design, graphic design, typography and visual culture.
Playbuttom
Posted by Fabio 25 November 2010
Playbuttom is a wearable button that plays music: A record that plays itself. The content is pre-recorded and cannot be changed or downloaded. Like an album the sequence of the music cannot be altered. Playbutton’s audio output and battery charger are shared in one jack, and the button exterior can be designed as album art, or to otherwise correspond with the content behind it. read more
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"A woman is locked in her home with an egg" - A film by Italian film director and artist, Martina Scarpelli. -
A selection of paintings by Swedish-born artist Camilla Engstrom. -
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citylikeyou: Interview with Paris based illustrators and graphic designers Jérémy Schneider and Violaine Orson, founders of the design studio, Violaine & Jérémy.