Fresh MoCo - Modern contemporary design & architecture Mother-daughter makeover: I love Mom Furniture by Serena Confalonieri uses nautical rope and Mom's help to decoratively transform mass-produced Scandinavian products into handcrafted tributes to stereotypical Italian characteristics: coffee table into armchair (laziness), stepladder into kneeling stool (Catholicism), and... LANDSCAPE URBANISM / CR Utopia and Dystopia - Possible Futures Inconsistencies by 4of7 Over the period of the last twelve months, 4of7 architects have conducted several workshops to explore structural capabilities of ‘inconsistent’ building materials. All experiments are based on widely accessible resources, often used in everyday life, and easy to do techniques. In the third and most recent phase of the project, 12 kg of yellow rubber bands were employed as construction components of a complex spatial structure. In general, rubber based materials are exploited for their ability to flex and change according to the specific external influence and then return to the pre-deformed condition. Elasticity, or behavior of the matter and form confined to the reversible deformation range, was essential to the design and construction process.
Core77 / industrial design magazine + resource / home BLDGBLOG Predictions made by Ray Kurzweil American author, inventor and futurist Raymond Kurzweil has become well known for predicting the future of artificial intelligence and the human race. His first book, The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990, put forth his theories on the results of the increasing use of technology and predicted the explosive growth in the internet, among other predictions. Later works, 1999's The Age of Spiritual Machines and 2005's The Singularity is Near outlined other theories including the rise of clouds of nano-robots (nanobots) called foglets and the development of Human Body 2.0 and 3.0, whereby nanotechnology is incorporated into many internal organs. Accuracy of predictions[edit] The Age of Intelligent Machines[edit] Perhaps most significantly, Kurzweil foresaw the explosive growth in worldwide Internet use that began in the 1990s. The Age of Spiritual Machines[edit] The Singularity Is Near[edit] Other sources[edit] Ray Kurzweil's response[edit] Future predictions[edit] Early 2000s[edit]
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The Chromatic Typewriter Washington-based painter Tyree Callahan modified a 1937 Underwood Standard typewriter, replacing the letters and keys with color pads and hued labels to create a functional “painting” device called the Chromatic Typewriter. Callahan submitted the beautiful typewriter as part of the 2012 West Prize competition, an annual art prize that’s determined by popular vote. I don’t know how practical painting an image with a color typewriter is, but if Keira Rathbone can do it… (via dark silence in suburbia)
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Theories behind Japanese Design A warm welcome to you dear reader! If you have not already, why not subscribe to The Design Sojourn Newsletter and get my latest thoughts on Strategies for Good Design conveniently delivered right to your inbox? It's free! You can also follow me on Twitter and Facebook as well. Thanks for visiting and please keep in touch? Aen, the guy who banged out the design of this site has an interesting write up of the theories behind the Japanese approach to design and aesthetics. Also called Wabi – Sabi (I know I had to re-read it after thinking it was Wasabi too), the Zen principles of Aesthetics are derived from the Buddhism beliefs of Anicca or Impermanence where “everything, without exception, is constantly in flux, even planets, stars and gods”. Source: Aen Direct It’s pretty interesting, more so if you read each principle while mentally refering it with your favorite Naoto Fukasawa design or any Japanese design for that matter. Powerful stuff to start your design day with. Love this post?
C.E.B. Reas « Scriptedbypurpose Process 6 (Image4 & 6) / 2005 C.E.B. Reas is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. He focuses on defining processes and translating them into images. The most important element of Process [#] is the text. The English text leaves many decisions open to be determined by a programmer. The hardware running this software Process is inconsequential. TI installation in Telic gallery / 2004 Aggregate layers of abstraction remove every trace of systemic complexity, revealing a living surface. Reas’s software and images are derived from short text instructions explaining processes which define networks. Process 4 / 2005 Process 7 (Software 1) is a software implementation of the Process 7 instructions: A rectangular surface filled with varying sizes of Element 1. I create two types of work. The Elements, Forms, and Behaviors referenced within Process 4 to N are defined in the Library: Form 1: Circle Form 2: Line Form 3: … Process 16 Implemented by C.E.B. Process 15 Process 14