an utterly bizarre story from the china daily about a couple who refused to move house or government compensation following a redevelopment plan for a new motorway due to run straight through the location of their home, with the following result…
(via de volkskrant yesterday)
i promised several people that i would post a list of the stuff i mentioned last week at the ‘papier hier’ talk and here it is, probably a meaningless list of websites unless you were there, the topic was ‘tactile’ and these are some of the people and projects i spoke about in that context…
‘boven kamers’ book by moon brouwer
‘happy faces’ by dennis van gaalen
posters from sergio alves
the wonderful toaster project by thomas thwaites
the austria solar annual report
underwater images by alberto seveso
fictional film sets by daniel agdag
tactile photography dan tobin smith
tactile photography bela borsodi
swiss artist ‘bernard voïta’ (hard to find, google him…)
swiss artist felice varini
human trees by jody xiong
string art from gabriel dawe
toilet roll art from junior fritz jacquet
tactile typography by marian bantjes
intricate layouts and paper objects from peter nencini
nail art chen chun hao (or google him)
nail art goshka macuga
‘balancing blocks’ short by part & parcel
‘bag charms’ by christian borstlap
‘frictions’ short by steven briand
and here above is me together with mister ian wright whom i certainly would have mentioned in my talk, except that he was already invited as a guest speaker that day…
(image above courtesy of ‘willie kerkhof’)
on the internet…
last night i attended the discussion evening logos where next? hosted by ‘the stone twins’ in amsterdam, speakers were ‘jacques koeweiden’, ‘maureen mooren’, ‘aad van dommelen’ & stefan pangratz’
although the initiative is great, i felt that despite having the right ingredients for a heated debate (designers with highly opposed views, client types and cultures on one stage) the evening didn’t really add much material to what should be a lively and relevant debate about issues that affect us all, perhaps the evening needed a more provocative starting point instead of the over nostalgic angle taken by declan stone
the language barrier was also a large obstacle: the whole evening was oddly (for an almost 100% dutch audience) conducted in english which affected the level of the debate heavily… still nice to see that dialogue is taking place within the profession and that the practitioners are taking the initiative themselves, thanks for the invite guys but i really am still wondering where next?