supergood. This one’s for Ditty

It’s not Robin Fox but it’s still pretty cool.

(click pic to start video)

psfk. Again. And creative agency Superbien (on vimeo and here)

birth of the walkman (and everything else after)

From a soon-to-be-published new book by PSFK co-founder Piers Fawkes about finding good ideas…

(click on the pic for whole extract)

“…Impressed with the way [the accidental walkman prototype] worked, [Sony Electronics founder] Ibuka showed the device to his colleague Akio Morita and wondered if it could be used by young people to walk around and listen to music. Akio Morita found it impressive and began to carry it on his flights as well, but when he talked to his sales and marketing teams, they were very hesitant about the idea: for a start, they couldn’t understand why anyone would want to walk around wearing (what they considered) inferior quality headphones. Retailers were also hesitant about a product with no record button….”

this one’s for Narelle

click on the pic for more info.

(psfk for the original deets)

Villainy and Associates

Business cards for Villainy & Associates (a “collective of creative masterminds with hideouts in Los Angeles and New York City”). Printed by Studio on Fire, these are on the most amazing paperstock you have ever seen.

Thanks to ShareSomeCandy for the tips.

dress plate

Marianne Van Ooij’s ceramic dress plates. Dressed For Dinner. They intrigue me…

(thanks to design*sponge)

new rebels

The fabulous Ming-Zhu of Orland0&Ivy and The Public Studio directed my attention to this;

“The next real literary “rebels” in this country might well emerge as some weird bunch of anti-rebels, born oglers who dare somehow to back away from ironic watching, who have the childish gall actually to endorse and instantiate single-entendre principles. Who treat plain, old, untrendy human troubles and emotions in U.S. life with reverence and conviction. Who eschew self-consciousness and hip fatigue. These anti-rebels would be outdated, of course, before they even started. Dead on the page. Too sincere. Clearly repressed. Backward, quaint, naive, anachronistic. Maybe that’ll be the point. Maybe that’s why they’ll be the next real rebels. Real rebels, as far as I can see, risk disapproval. The old postmodern insurgents risked the gasp and squeal: shock, disgust, outrage, censorship, accusations of socialism, anarchism, nihilism. Today’s risks are different. The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists, the “Oh how banal.” To risk accusations of sentimentality, melodrama. Of overcredulity. Of softness. Of willingness to be suckered by a world of lurkers and starers who fear gaze and ridicule above imprisonment without law. Who knows. “ – the late David Foster Wallace (author and professor), 1993

awesome. Permanent sunset

sticky tape project.

(pix for clicks. Go to Permanent Sunset in 2009 on the SRS website when you get there).

beautiful

Love cathedrals. Love site-specific installation work (when they’re done well). These two site-specific installations in European cathedrals are amazing. First one is an upside-down  dome made entirely of lengths of chain, meticulously placed in the church of St-Michiel in Belgium. Designed by the design partnership Gijs Van Vaerenbergh, it apparently reverse-shadows the church’s never-built dome. Ahhhhh, love echos of missing objects and negative space* and this is like the negative space of an object that never existed. Awesome.

Second is a question mark light installation in the church of Saint-Paul Saint-Louis in Paris by artist (and designer? And furniture designer? Lots it seems…) Robert Stadler. Perfect. Truly perfect.

*Negative space – see here for a really shitty wikipedia article on it for explanation or just look at Rachel Whiteread’s stuff (here and here or just google image search her). She will teach you everything.

St-Michiel. Click on the pix for for the article…

Saint-Paul Saint-Louis in Paris. Click on the pix for the article…

(Dezeen for original links)

consumerist fantasies

It is my secret, consumerist, eco-child of capitalism dream that every man and woman dress in clothes from Need Supply Co. That’s all.

name your bike

Write A Bike by Juri Zaech. These are still concepts but apparently he got so much good feedback, he’s working on getting a prototype up and running. NEED ONE. SO BADLY.

(thanks – again – Lost At E Minor)