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... About Afterall is a research and publishing organisation based in London. Founded in 1998 by Charles Esche and Mark Lewis at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London, Afterall focuses on contemporary art and its relation to a wider artistic, theoretical and social context. Afterall, a journal of art, context and enquiry, was launched in 1999. Afterall offers in-depth analysis of artists' work, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. The journal is published by Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and was co-published with California Institute of the Arts from 2002 to 2009. It is currently published by Central Saint Martins in editorial and research partnership with M HKA, Antwerp; Smart Museum of Art and Open Practice Committee, University of Chicago; and UNIA arteypensamiento, Seville; and in association with The University of Chicago Press. Afterall encourages proposals for all its projects. Afterall Design: Atwork
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 EveryAware | Enhance Environmental Awareness through Social Information Technologies 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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