One Day Poem Pavilion

I have been having an "interesting" time recently with the concept of canopies and shade structures on a project in the Middle East. We suggested 'em > the client wanted 'em > we designed 'em > the client doesn't want 'em anymore > somebody found the shadow studies and realised that we don't actually need 'em > but now the boss wants 'em... just great... anyway, the One Day Poem Pavilion by Jiyeon Sung is an amazing project that tracks the sunlight with a moving poem. These is a time lapse video too. I wonder if this can be made to work on a very large scale.

Psychoanalyst Puppets

Some props to help those of us who over analyze everything and talk to ourselves to get through the day.

"Go nuts with this wacky pack of puppets! You ll get Freud (the father of psychoanalysis), his daughter Anna Freud (a noted child therapist in Britain), Carl Jung (king of the collective unconscious ) and a red chaise lounge so the shrinks can take turns shrinking each other. You and your friends can debate psychological theory, reenact the friendship and breakup of Freud and Jung, and just turn psychoanalytical theory on its head! The box converts to a puppet theater."

available from uncommon goods via boing boing

working together in isolation

Recently I have been working on a project where there are too many designers with very different ideas, none of whom are willing to come to a compromise and merge the ideas into one working concept. This wouldn't be a problem except the client wants a landscape to cut a red ribbon in front of next september and the contractor is already on site pouring concrete (!!).

The inspiration of this chair - the folded sketch, a child’s game where you draw one part of a character not knowing how the previous or next person will draw theirs - may be the only way forward...

via Notcot