Archive for March 30th, 2009

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BRILLIANT! 

This is a great site!  Download the font form, draw your font, uplaod and pay and you have your unique font…. BRILLIANT!

The process:

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Sara Paculdo

FLAT CHAIR

California-based designer Sara Paculdo has a Masters in ID and a Bachelors in Physics, giving her a good combination of technical/analytical thinking and creativity, as evidenced by her Flat Chair.

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Peep Paculdo’s full book on Coroflot, which spans kitchen implements, toys, furniture, electronic products, and more.

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Shinichi Maruyama

SHINICHI MARUYAMA

Splendid work of the artist Shinichi Maruyama, born in 1968 in Nagano, and influenced by the direction of the Japanese beauty and the elegance of the imperfection. To note the strong use of the negative space which is in the art of penmanship. 

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Athens by Sound

 

 AN INSTALLATION. 

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What is architecture beyond building? The response to that question from curators at the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale was like a game of seeing who could scamper off farthest from architecture yet still claim some connection, however tenuous, with the art of making buildings. Slovakia showed us a row of kitchen fridges, Estonia erected a giant gas pipe, and Germany gave us apple trees attached to drips. Greece, by contrast, kept closer to convention with an ‘interactive sonic map’ of Athens. This being the Venice Biennale, however, we weren’t treated to a map in the familiar sense of a representation on a flat surface. No, this map took the form of a forest of cables, dangling headphones, screens atop pedestals, and words emblazoned across the floor. Video and audio fragments – ‘the city’s soundtrack’, explains curator Christina Achtypi – recorded at the points of a grid placed over Athens were activated by visitors in constantly changing sequences. The message? Cables and screens are just tools, a means but not an end in themselves, provided by the designers as a backdrop to human presence and movement. ‘Visitors determine the invisible and intangible characteristics of the space through their movement and actions,’ explains Achtypi. Sight may dominate our culture, but other senses are crucial to the way in which we engage with and experience space. So next time you happen to be in Athens, close your eyes and enjoy the soundtrack.

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