Erik Bernhardsson spent two and half years working, travelling and meeting people in China: through his essays and interviews, he offers a unique look into the realities of clothes-making in China today. The volume includes interviews with Zhang Da, designer of Shang Xia, a Chinese heritage label established under the...
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Concrete Flux 流泥 is a multi-media, multi-disciplinary online journal which takes as its subject matter China’s hyper-fast emerging urban spaces, their meaning and one’s everyday experiences of them. Concrete flux believes that a new configuration of space through urbanisation will lead to a new configuration of society. Their aim, then,...
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K I M is a studio run by Thomas Kim and Lisa Huang, a duo specialized in graphic design, typography and typeface design. Operating mostly in the areas of culture and art (books, publications, identities and custom typeface) KIM also has a more experimantal research based approach. Their self-initiated projects often...
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Customs and traditions: the originality of Estelle Hanania’s photographic work appears in the fact that it focuses on the european vernacular rites in a very unique way. Unlike the anthropologist or pure documentarist, she doesn’t try neither to understand nor to decode the mystery of those rites, letting them pass...
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‘Modular’ is the newest title of Sub Press, a small publishing imprint focused on limited edition zines. ‘Modular’ holds a series of illustrations inspired by the idea of modular architecture. Very much in the line of our post of yesterday on ‘OpenStructures‘. Check out the Modular Promo-movie below. 20 pages...
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Imagine a world where everything is modular, every connection piece, every sink or dishwasher, every building and streetlamp fits together. The OpenStructures (OS) project initiates a construction system where everyone designs for everyone according to a shared grid. It is an ongoing experiment that wants to find out what happens...
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Now that we’re probably all back from our holidays, it is time to load our pictures in the computer and have a look at how great it was! Close to Home is a portrait of a small town on an island off the coast of Kent. The work focuses on the seasonal...
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Atelier Recup, recuperates (as its name might assume) waste material and 3rd rate objects. The studio observes and visualizes overseen and unseen conditions of diverse public space. In their investigative travels around Europe or as in the case of the ‘aFEU series’ in Senegal, their work has a strong base in experimentation, participation...
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Our Polite Society is a graphic design studio based in Amsterdam and Stockholm, formed in 2008 by Jens Schildt (SE) and Matthias Kreutzer (D). Jens is currently teaching at Konstfack University, Nyckelviksskolan and Grafikskolan in Stockholm andMatthias is teaching in the foundation year of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam and is visiting...
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Belgian artists Yannick Val Gesto and Benny Van den Meulengracht-Vrancx (who we all know from some previous posts) are celebrating the release of ‘Deviant’, an artist publication and homage to the deviantArt community and dōjinshi artists around the world! To celebrate the occasion Yannick and Benny are throwing a party! Entrance includes a...
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The Twelve o’ clock boys are a notorious urban dirt bike pack in Baltimore — popping wheelies and weaving at excessive speeds through traffic, the group impressively evades the hamstrung police. “I hope these images capture a sense of urban Baltimore and the youth’s desire for inclusion in the pack.” —Noah...
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For three months on end graphic designer Marco Land has collected 315 bus tickets, flight tickets and all kinds of other receipts, all of them officially dated. In this period of three months he found ticket stubs which match each and every day of the year. The result is a...
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As current housing markets continue to simultaneously marginalise potential homeowners and renters; and transient living patterns become more widespread- there grows a need to investigate alternative living arrangements which sit outside of this market economy. There is an urgency for us to test out other models. The site is a...
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syz·y·gy [siz-i-jee] In astronomy, a syzygy is a straight line configuration of three celestial bodies in a gravitational system. The word is often used in reference to the Sun, the Earth and either the Moon or a planet, where the latter is in conjunction or opposition. Solar and lunar eclipses occur at times of syzygy, as...
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Img. Karel Martens Graphic design criticism is a website run by Anna Craemer. After having spent a great deal of my sunday afternoon watching her collection of interviews I thought I’d send her an email with some questions about the project. I was curious to hear why she started...
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With the headline “Close, Closer” the upcoming edition of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale will “put forward an alternative reading of contemporary spatial practice. For three months chief curator Beatrice Galilee and curators Liam Young, Mariana Pestana and José Esparza Chong Cuy will examine the multiple possibilities of architectural output through...
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Alexander Pasenau plays with some kind of abstract positivism. Just browsing around on his website we find all kinds of strange captions floating around in between his works, and even tough his work is as versatile as it comes, intimate photography projects are mixed with fashion projects or graphic design, it...
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Just a little bit to late. Raven Row, a gallery in Londen showed IAIN BAXTER& and Adam Chodzko. From the 11th of July to the 11the of August 2013 (so yesterday) BAXTER& reconfigured his seminal work from 1966, Bagged Place, a totalising scheme of plastic, in ‘Rebecca’s flat’ on the top floor of...
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