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House. Illustration. Food. For gardening. Materials. To play piano. Conferences. For research. To design. To write. To shop. To read. Bio « Elin Strand Ruin. ‘My work is operating in the interface between art and architecture in the public space and explores how experimental art- and architecture projects could function as catalysts for social and architectural changes.’
Elin Strand Ruin www.elinstrandruin.se. Beyond the Body by Imme van der Haak. Couture Allure Vintage Fashion: Rant: Modern Clothing Manufacturers are Skimping on Quality. In the drive to keep prices of clothing down for customers who demand it, modern manufacturers have to find ways to cut costs.
Many of those cost cutting measures result in lower quality garments. This "dumbing down" of American fashion has been gradual over the last 15 years or so until a whole new generation of buyers have come to accept poor quality and throw away garments as the norm. I have recently started noticing more press devoted to the issue of poorly made garments imported from overseas. In my opinion, this is a very good thing. But talking about the issue is just the beginning. Here's an example. Let's look at a few details. - First, the fit. The folks at Eileen Fisher are hoping you won't notice these areas where they've skimped to cut costs. Sorry, Eileen Fisher, I won't be buying this t-shirt. When design & craft meet. When design & craft meet Fernando & Humberto Campana Circus Rug 2010 Design is a young discipline.
A process engineered at the beginning of the industrial age that first and foremost developed function and derived beauty from it. Up until today, function was the trademark of industrial and serial design, reluctantly giving in to the emotional and the ephemeral. Petersen. Home. Let’s Be Less Productive. HAS the pursuit of labor productivity reached its limit?
Productivity — the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy — is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.’s and finance ministers. Perhaps forgivably so: our ability to generate more output with fewer people has lifted our lives out of drudgery and delivered us a cornucopia of material wealth. But the relentless drive for productivity may also have some natural limits. What, then, should happen when, for one reason or another, growth just isn’t to be had anymore?
One solution would be to accept the productivity increases, shorten the workweek and share the available work. Fernando + Humberto Campana / Design Museum Touring Exhibition. Drawing inspiration from Brazilian street life and carnival culture, the brothers FERNANDO AND HUMBERTO CAMPANA combine found objects – such as scraps of wood and fabric off-cuts – with advanced technologies to create a vibrant, energetic and definitively Brazilian approach to design.
Taking their cue from everyday scenarios and using unexpected combinations of found materials – such as rubber hose, tissue paper, string or furry toys –Fernando and Humberto Campana transform modest materials into objects that celebrate the discarded and mundane and are instilled with the spirit of contemporary Brazil that they describe as “zest for life?. Neither brother intended to be a designer. Humberto, born in the Rio Claro area of São Paulo in 1953, originally studied law, but began to design furniture in the mid 1980s after Fernando, born in Brotas in 1961, had completed his architectural degree.
Central to their practice is the importance of materials. Visit the Campana's website © Design Museum Q. STYLE WILDERNESS: Circle skirts seam like a good idea. Is it too late to wish you happy new year?
I hadn't intended on such a long blogging break, but various forms of technology conspired against me*, and so I find it's been a whole month since my last post. It hasn't been a wholly unpleasant hiatus, with trips down to Sorrento and some DIYing among the activities that have kept me occupied. This year, one of my blogging goals is to learn to use my new camera (or perhaps more accurately, to get my boyfriend to learn to use it, haha) so that I don't have to rely on selfies taken in the backyard to showcase my creations.
Here's our first attempts at a fashion shoot. Not bad, considering it was crazy windy, we were both being attacked by flies and it was about 40 degrees in the shade - and that this dress is made from what seems to be 100% polyester. Really, how on earth did people survive summer in the '70s if they were all wearing synthetics? Ah, well that would be due to a spot of DIY. Elke Lahousse on the Rise of Amateurism. TV chefs teach us how to cook better.
Cutting edge sports equipment makes us run faster. And with a combination of the words 'how to' and an internet connection, you can learn pretty much everything. The amateur is getting more professional. But are we still having fun? There was a time when, if someone had said "I'm going to run a marathon", you would have replied, "You're mad. "