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October 31, 2005
Placentero lounge chair
A round bottomed lounge chair that moves with you as you move - Placentero
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Tord Boontje's Icarus
In a couple of weeks Tord Boontje's pendant lightshade 'Icarus' will be for sale over at Modern Poverty
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Lights, Camera, Brands
The Economist looks at product placement.
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The quiet elegance of Renzo Piano
Italian architect, Renzo Piano's work has developed from being the outrageous Pompideau Centre in Paris to a more subtle form of Architecture. Piano, rejects the notion that great architecture has to make a lot of noise. "The intensity of architectural experience doesn't rely on vertigo, on acrobatics,"
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October 29, 2005
The ArtReview Power 100 list
The Financial Times has the list of the 100 most powerful people in the artworld for 2005.
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October 28, 2005
Tastemakers: Fashion designers
Forbes look at the fashion industry and the top ten tastemakers in fashion today
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Web 2.0 cracks appearing
"While there's no strict agreement on exactly what Web 2.0 is, much of it involves public participation and contributions from the commons.
Web 2.0 is very open, but all that openness has its downside: When you invite the whole world to your party, inevitably someone pees in the beer. " - Xeni Jardin, Wired News Article
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I want it that way
A funny rendition of the Back Street Boys' 'I want it that way' by two Chinese students.
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October 27, 2005
Print and Play
Readymech - print them out, cut them up and make them into you very own toy - all for free. - via K10K
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The Power of Pictures
Historical figures have always manipulated their photo opportunities to present the image that they wish the public to believe. This 'perceptual encouragement' is discussed at Fotolia Blog
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Dubai's sand castles
Mike Davis from TomDispatch investigates the architectural boom in Dubai, where everything has to be the biggest, brightest, tallest and most expensive. 'Pruned' (a landscape architecture blog) follows the meme
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Magazine cover analysis
Andrew O'Hagan from the Telegraph looks at how the semi-naked celebrities are bringing about the demise of the magazine cover.
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Branding an American state
BusinessWeek Online have a good look at how States in the USA develop that 'come hither' look.
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October 26, 2005
National Design Awards
The National Design Awards were launched in 2000 by the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum to honor the best in American design.
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Gridgame
A simple, hypnotic flash game - gridgame
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Selling to Children
The Guardian looks at some of the techniques the marketing and advertising industries are using to turn todays children into avaricious consumers.
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October 25, 2005
Ross Lovegrove's VitrA bathroom design
Ross Lovegrove has launched a new bathroom design for VitrA
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501 chair
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Hooking consumers with Interactive advertising
Is viral advertising separating the content from the advertising? or is the advertising the content? Either way, it's a growing business.
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How to build a breakaway brand
Fortune talk to Landor Associates about 10 companies that have taken their brands to new heights.
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Bootstrapping
"Bootstrapping" refers to setting up a business without any funding- relying solely on your own skills, money and efforts. Keith Robinson at Lifehacker, gives some tips and lessons on how to avoid the many pitfalls along the way.
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October 20, 2005
Tomato Chair by Eero Aarnio
The sculptural 'tomato chair' (1971) of Eero Aarnio. A precursor to the 'blobtecture' of Karim Rashid or a Ross Lovegrove.
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Manifestos galore
ChangeThis - lots of ideas, theories and Manifestos
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Advertising within the public space
Po Horyzont's 238x504 project. Replacing advertising on billboards with the landscape they block out - 238x504
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Apple photo editing software
Apple have just released 'Aperture' what looks like a direct competitor to Adobe's Photoshop.
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October 19, 2005
How to have a number one hit the easy way
The Timelords AKA The KLF give you step by step instructions on how to have a number one hit!
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Stylish Ties
If you wear a tie, then you might want to get Naked & Angry
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Innovative Ikea catalogue
Using many cameras and some flash sophistication Ikea have produced a great way to show off their products while capturing the moment
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October 18, 2005
Peter Saville
To mark the launch of their new 'Ambient' section, Mocoloco talk to designer Peter Saville with regards to his new 'ambient loops' - update: part 2 of the interview is now available
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Cupful Design
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October 17, 2005
The Hell of the Beautiful
Baroque and Neo-Baroque. The Hell of the Beautiful
More than 70 artists, both national and international, taking place in various spaces around the city of Salamanca, Spain. - via archinect
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How has art changed?
frieze has asked 33 artists, collectors, critics, curators, educators and gallerists to respond to the question 'How has art changed?' - part one, part two and 'where is it going?' - via archinect
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Striking Artists
Cinemas, theatres, concert halls and opera houses and even circuses in Italy will be empty today because of a combined strike and lockout in protest at huge cuts to the arts budget ordered by Silvio Berlusconi's government.
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Castles in the Sand
The weirdness of the architectural boom in Dubai
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10 things you shouldn't buy new
Books, DVDs, Toys, Cars... MSN Money have a list of 10 things you shouldn't buy new
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Ideas for startups
How do you take an idea and make it something real? What if you don't even have an idea? - Paul Graham has some
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The Power of the sleep cycle
By measuring your sleep cycles (1.5 hours per cycle) and dividing your sleep into two distinct sleep sessions per day you will feel more refreshed and rested - according to Glen Rhodes
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October 12, 2005
French contemporary art
French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has set aside a 70-acre island in the Seine outside Paris and introduced a 50% tax reduction for Artists - to try and recapture the glory when France was the capital of the Art World
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Megachurches
Slate have a good slideshow of some of the worlds largest modern churches - An anatomy of a Megachurches
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Dearingo
Designed by Dutch design group Moooi, the Dearingo is a pendant light made from multiple desk lamps
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Rachel Whiteread
The new installation by Rachel Whiteread has just been unveiled at the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. The Guardian and The Telegraph have a look at EMBANKMENT.
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The Rise and Fall of Pop culture
What used to be a way to share common interests with the people around you - popular culture has now become so diverse that today
"The national water cooler bubbles with competing monologues rather than inclusive dialogues."
"To be considered conversant with pop culture, your contemporary omnivore must try to find room in his or her consciousness for a nonstop torrent of DVDs, blogs, Game Boys, anime, podcasts, music-playing cellphones, websites devoted to celebrity news, and scores of TV channels."
The Boston Globe looks at how Popular culture is collapsing under it's own weight.
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October 11, 2005
smallthings
Handmade jewellery from Teresa Robinson & smallthings designs
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Mobile phone insurance
The British Insurance Brokers' Association (BIBA) are suggesting that insuring your mobile phone is a waste of money.
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Cribcandy
A good selection of cool stuff for your home
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NorthSouthEastWest
Magnum photography documenting the effects of climate change.
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October 10, 2005
Photo printing
Home photo printers have been falling in price - but so have the 'per print' costs at photo labs. Which is the cheapest?
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Diamonds
Man-made diamonds are becoming so close to the real thing that even highly trained diamond experts cannot tell the difference. This not only changes the market for jewellery but will make new technologies a reality. The ability to manufacture diamonds could change business, products and daily life as much as the arrival of the steel age in the 1850s or the invention of the transistor in the 1940s.
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Vitamin Living
Some quirky British design from Vitamin
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Crimes against design
Why is it that dictators surround themselves in cartoonish tacky glitz? The Tyranny of Design
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October 07, 2005
Cambrian Workshop
The Cambrian Game, by Toshihiro Anzai and Rieko Nakamura, is a game in which players submit their own "leaf" to a "tree." You then link a new leaf to the existing leaf that inspired you to create the new one. - via we make money not art
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Web 2.0
There is a resurgence in online activity and this article from Discover magazine looks at why - web 2.0 update: Wired is talking about web 2.0 too
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Playing the Building
David Byrne's latest project in collaboration with Jan Åman. Connect up parts of a building so air blows, vibrations oscilate and parts get struck. There is no amplification or computer synthesis of sound. The building is the instrument.
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Martin Creed
British Conceptual Artist, Martin Creed is at the ding dong lounge (market lane,city) in Melbourne on Friday 7th of October and Sydney on Monday 10th of October at the Excelsior Hotel in Surry Hills.
Creed is most well known for winning the Turner Prize of Art in 2001 for his controversial empty gallery where the lights were turned on and off. - via Shutupandfollowme
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October 06, 2005
The Noguchi filing system
Japanese economist Noguchi Yukio's technique for filing paper
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100% Design
Core77 have their photo gallery from the recent 100% Design event in London.
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October 05, 2005
Arash and Kelly
Some clever, witty work from Arash and Kelly including the giant belly button chairs (above) - via mocoloco
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Ad Free
What happens when you fill your TV programmes with products (for a fee) but then sell your programme to a commercial free channel?
In many European countries like Britain and Germany, paid product placement is still officially off limits. But in America, billions of dollars is made by weaving brands into content - the IHT looks at what the BBC had to do to blur out logos in the latest series of 'Spooks'.
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Fashion moves to fast
Tom Ford, ex-Gucci designer believes the constant demand for change is leaving customers bewildered - with many simply giving up and retreating into a world of casual clothing.
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October 04, 2005
When disaster strikes
What should you take with you? How about an encrypted thumb drive containing all your important information?
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Happiness
Can the concept of happiness exist outside of 'Pop Science' and be explained by 'hard science'? Professor Martin Seligman looks into how happiness exists within the biology of the brain.
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October 03, 2005
Broken Shelves
Break up your book shelves and diversify away from right angles
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Detour DVD
If you would like your television to be used for more than just playing TV programmes through - try Detour DVD
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