Archive for the ‘Everything Else’ Category
Thursday, November 19th, 2009 by
Mike Frans
Objectified is a feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the designers who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily ...
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Monday, June 29th, 2009 by
Mike Frans
Don't Panic TV went down to Battersea in London to check out the launch night of Doodle Bar. The bar has been completely whitewashed and punters are armed with maker pens and chalk and given the freedom to draw all over the walls and the floors and the sofas and ...
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 by
Mike Frans
It seems almost unbelievable to affluent Westerners, but many Zimbabweans can't buy a newspaper. The Zimbabwean is sold in the UK, South Africa and Zimbabwe, but in its own country attracts an import tax that makes it unaffordable to the average Zimbabwean.
To increase international sales of the newspaper, thereby subsidising ...
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 by
Mike Frans
As bland as this video is, it's actually quite interesting. I'm so glad we use computers to do this now. Next in this series... "Paperclips, A Complete History."
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 by
Mike Frans
If Da Vinci had designed a dining room table for 6 to 12 guests, this is probably what it would have looked like. A turn of thirty degrees doubles the size of the circular tabletop. Hopefully the undeclared price-tag includes a decent warranty, because you'd likely spend more time inviting people over ...
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 by
Mike Frans
Either they were filming scenes for the next Harry Potter movie in Regent's Park last week, or the Telegraph has photos of the annual Frieze Art Fair.
Over 1000 artworks exhibited in 150 galleries, with even more – like the all-knowing, all-seeing skull shown above – on display outside. Just in ...
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 by
Mike Frans
Deroy Peraza is the man behind one of the many well-designed Barack Obama posters you may have seen this election season. His "New Hope" poster was exhibited in Denver during the Democratic National Convention, where it caught the eye of Cynthia Odier, founder of the Switzerland-based emerging-art gallery Flux Laboratory. ...
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008 by
Mike Frans
If Jennifer Maestre asks if she can borrow your pencil, you’re never going to see it again. Not unless you go to her website later and see her latest creations.
Maestre cuts, drills, sharpens, and sews pencils together into sculpture, and also does some handy work with nails. Sporting what she ...
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008 by
Mike Frans
The Totoro Forest Project aims to help save an endangered forest on the outskirts of Tokyo - the one that inspired the animated film My Neighbor Totoro. Over 200 artists have contributed works for auction, including Ben Butcher, Peter de Seve, James Jean, Alex Puvilland, Jillian Tamaki, Sam Weber, and ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008 by
Mike Frans
The New York Times has a nice interactive feature on something you may not have thought about before: the design of the Olympic Torch. It’s interesting to see the torch’s evolution, and how the different host nations have tried to imbue their national identities into a burning stick.
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