May 18, 2009

Photojournalism - Photography, Video and Visual Journalism - Lens Blog

NY Times has launched an interesting online journal/blog that chronicles photo essays and video features....

Slow Photography in an Instantaneous Age

NY Times has launched an interesting online journal/blog that chronicles photo essays and video features....

May 16, 2009

The Yas Hotel Abu Dhabi by Asymptote Architecture Nears Completion

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The Yas Hotel Abu Dhabi by Asymptote Architecture Nears Completion
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Web site sparks creative ideas for city's vacant lots

Here is a story about a website that asks people to create their own images about different visions for infill in Baltimore on blocks with vacant row houses.
Waterfall
John Ruppert also submitted a waterfall.
(Courtesy of John Ruppert)

Follow up to the post:: Web site sparks creative ideas for city's vacant lots

May 10, 2009

Leon Ferrari & Mira Schendel | Tangled Alphabets Selected Works

Leon Ferrari & Mira Schendel | Tangled Alphabet | Selected Works


The exhibition at MoMA, Tangled Alphabets redefines Typography as a spatial construct…. The works presented describe an architecture of ‘type’ - of the constructed ‘word’ that is tactile, hollow, and brittle and occupies space while defining it. Word as a ‘figure’ and not merely ‘texture’ or ‘ground’ repositions Gestalt in a whole different way. It’s the other that defines what is ‘between’. What separates is what connects and creates space between words, texts and the Type through ‘difference’.

The way Leon Ferrari and Mira Schendel employ ‘type’ to lay down geographies of space and culture and what lies in between……. -Viren
The exhibition at MoMA, Tangled Alphabets redefines Typography as a spatial construct…. The works presented describe an architecture of ‘type’ - of the constructed ‘word’ that is tactile, hollow, and brittle and occupies space while defining it. Word as a ‘figure’ and not merely ‘texture’ or ‘ground’ repositions Gestalt in a whole different way. It’s the other that defines what is ‘between’. What separates is what connects and creates space between words, texts and the Type through ‘difference’.

The way Leon Ferrari and Mira Schendel employ ‘type’ to lay down geographies of space and culture and what lies in between……. -Viren


Tangled Alphabets | Leon Ferrari & Mira Schendel

Leon Ferrari & Mira Schendel | Tangled Alphabets Timeline

The exhibition at MoMA, Tangled Alphabets redefines Typography as a spatial construct…. The works presented describe an architecture of ‘type’ - of the constructed ‘word’ that is tactile, hollow, and brittle and occupies space while defining it. Word as a ‘figure’ and not merely ‘texture’ or ‘ground’ repositions Gestalt in a whole different way. It’s the other that defines what is ‘between’. What separates is what connects and creates space between words, texts and the Type through ‘difference’.

The way Leon Ferrari and Mira Schendel employ ‘type’ to lay down geographies of space and culture and what lies in between……. -Viren
The exhibition at MoMA, Tangled Alphabets redefines Typography as a spatial construct…. The works presented describe an architecture of ‘type’ - of the constructed ‘word’ that is tactile, hollow, and brittle and occupies space while defining it. Word as a ‘figure’ and not merely ‘texture’ or ‘ground’ repositions Gestalt in a whole different way. It’s the other that defines what is ‘between’. What separates is what connects and creates space between words, texts and the Type through ‘difference’.

The way Leon Ferrari and Mira Schendel employ ‘type’ to lay down geographies of space and culture and what lies in between……. -Viren

Starchitecture Maps

Source: NY Times

Graphic Content | Hand Lettering

Steven Heller writes about Hand Lettering and typography in the digital age....
Handlettering
Source: The Moment Blog - NYTimes.com

May 9, 2009

The Wapping Project

The Wapping Project
Guy Bourdin
Guy Bourdin (Courtesy of Phillips de Pury & Company)
Related Article in NY-Times

The Harlem Miracle - NYTimes.com

Here is a heartening piece about Harlem's Charter Schools Program, and what small steps can do if thought out in big ways.

"The fight against poverty produces great programs but disappointing results. You go visit an inner-city school, job-training program or community youth center and you meet incredible people doing wonderful things. Then you look at the results from the serious evaluations and you find that these inspiring places are only producing incremental gains."

May 2, 2009

Milan Furniture Fair 2009

Container List: Interiors magazine

National Design Awards 2009 | Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

Winners of the 10th National Design Awards Announced
MOMA QNS


Museums - In Berlin, Teaching Germany’s Jewish History

Say it as it is. Unpretentious criticism of architecture is so rare! Here is an exception - It draws attention to 'lost space' of critical debate lacking in contemporary writing about architecture. As all serious architects, writers and those who still believe that architecture has a place in the process of cultural production know how architecture has become increasingly about itself and lost its 'reflexive' nature.

Related Article

April 26, 2009

Paul Sahre Video Encore


Paul Sahre: A Designer And His Problems from AIGA/NY on Vimeo.
Source: AIGANY
Paul Share: A Designer and His Problems
was originally presented on 6 February 2009 in the Katie Murphy Amphitheater at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City.

April 21, 2009

Tate Modern Art Gallery Extension


Tate Modern Art Gallery Extension: Herzog & de Meuron

BLDGBLOG: Sand/Stone

Cool Stuff for Hot Desert!

Thanks to J. J. Abrams, Wired Becomes a Magazine With a Buried Puzzle - NYTimes.com

Advertising - A Magazine Just for You Arrives With Glitches - NYTimes.com

The shrinking world of advertising prompts magazines to shrink, shred and now redefine themselves for the digital age - learning from the online social media networks, online feeds, Twitter frenzy, Facebook and the likes....

Custom-made ads come along with the package.

Critics' Picks: 'Style Wars' - Video Library - The New York Times

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