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"Clever advertising campaign for the School of Visual Arts encourages people everywhere to “think” by giving them a place to write down their ideas."
Having drawn on many napkins myself during my student days and knowing that my boyfriend has (on more than on occasion) shown the builders working on the renovation of his country house a drawing on a napkin from his architect, I think these napkins should be in all design professional's natural habitats i.e. bars and cafes.
And the toilet paper design is much better than the puppies and sea shells manufacturers insist on printing these days.
via toxel
"The Periodic Table of Typefaces is obviously in the style of all the thousands of over-sized Periodic Table of Elements posters hanging in schools and homes around the world. This particular table lists 100 of the most popular, influential and notorious typefaces today.
As with traditional periodic tables, this table presents the subject matter grouped categorically. The Table of Typefaces groups by families and classes of typefaces: san-serif, serif, script, blackletter, glyphic, display, grotesque, realist, didone, garalde, geometric, humanist, slab-serif and mixed.
Each cell of the table lists the typeface and a one or two character "symbol" , the designer, year designed and a ranking of 1 through 100.
Ranking was determined by statistically sorting and combining lists and opinions from the the sites listed below. The final overall ranking was achieved depending on how many lists the particular typeface was presented on and it's ranking on the lists (if the particular source list used a ranking system; some did not, in which case just the typeface's presence on the list boosted it's overall score.) After averaging the typefaces appearances and rankings a composite score was given and the list was sorted on a spreadsheet then finally given an overall score of 1 through 100 based on it's final resting position.
Unfortunately, the typefaces could not be sorted exactly numerically on the table while at the same time keeping them in groups of families and classes. It had to be one or the other. Of course it COULD have been done but I would have had to seriously sacrifice aesthetics of the overall design (i.e. it wouldn't have come out looking AT ALL like a traditional periodic table.) However, upon close inspection, you find that at least the typefaces are ordered within their family/class groupings." by Squidspot
via Why Me Design
"In the early morning Thursday 5 March, 80 plastic shopping bags were reused by Luzinterruptus to lit ended floating in the wind in The Prado Museum.
The intervention was called ´A Cloud of Bags visit The Prado´and it was a success thanks to the wind that blew through the city on this particular day.
The installation was rather ephemeral we thought that before dawn it would have been dismantled by the Cleaning Service who are always ready to leave everything spik and span and enable everybody to enjoy such a magnificent building. We hope that as we always mention the components of the intervention were recycle.
Despite its short duration we kept our memories have been im mortalized by Gustavo Sanabria's photos.
Time of installation : 1 hour 20 minutes.
Damages: none
Exhibition time: 4 hours."
via luzinterruptus
Recently I was brainstorming on an ideas competition for the Arts Center in Melbourne and exploring the possibility of integrating performing arts opportunities in public space - that the urban landscape can do more to facilitate performing arts than just allowing for enough hardscape space for the Spiegeltent to set up every year. I wondered if there were ways that the Arts Center could engage with the public on a more personal, one to one, basis and with children to ensure that the instituion stays relevant for the next generation. One of the ideas was "performing space", where all the elements in the landscape could be used for "performing", whether that be music, dance, theatre etc. For example, I wanted to redesign the standard green Melbourne street bench into a xylophone that children could play with. The closest realised project that I found in a precedent search was "Railings" by Greyworld, a standard looking railing in London which plays the Girl from Ipanema when you run a stick along them.
Sadly, the project architects I was collaborating with didn't want to hear about such minor details as the street furniture (or for that matter, the landscape) and the ideas were never communicated to the client but it got me thinking generally about how to extend the functions of street furniture, which is a standard public amenity that is installed all over the city. Then I came across this "bouncing bench" project by Bruno Taylor which I would love to specify for the next playground I am designing if its in production by then.
And playful fencing to keep the children in :) via Inhabitat
via pixelsumo
