BIG legos

i'm loving this firm and their website
LEGO experiment
LEGO article

zira island

Copenhagen-based architecture team BIG Architects is delivering on its namesake and thinking outside the box on their latest project, Zira Island, off the coast of post-Soviet Azerbaijan in the Caspian Sea. Zira Island features carbon-neutral resort and residential development spanning 3.3 million square feet—a self-contained community using as few resources as possible.

Zira Island
BIG Architects

fabric worm

http://fabricworm.com/

STOP. i WISH i was there

fabric junk shops in philly! i will visit them in march and report back with my findings.

http://www.fabricrow.com/

been reading...

I picked this up after I finished thesis last December, and I'm still reading it.
It's an amazing compilation, and he is really funny, I just forget I own it.

For more than a decade, Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin has been writing fiery, intelligent essays on the state of contemporary architecture. His subjects range from high-rises to highways, parks to public housing, Frank Lloyd Wright to Frank Gehry. Why Architecture Matters collects the best of Kamin's acclaimed columns, offering both a look at America's foremost architectural city and a taste of Kamin's penetrating, witty style of critique.

done and done.

food o mat

vintage supermarket photos

soon to be reading

"Borrowing from French new wave cinema as much as abstract expressionism and pop art, television in Spigel's riveting account embraced modernism and participated in the taste wars of the 1950s and 1960s. In turn, art museums such as MoMA partnered with broadcast television and artists found employment at the networks; certainly this is the best account of Warhol's engagement with commercial television. By highlighting the dynamic and fluid relations between network television and modernism in painting, graphic design, and architecture, TV by Design challenges binaries between high and low, mainstream television and oppositional artistic practice."--Cecile Whiting, author of Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s (Cecile Whiting)

thanks peter!

currently reading

research for logo design contest at the loc. some quick words of wisdom:

1. a logo should tell a story, whether it is pictoral or not.
2. it should not tell the whole story, it cannot.
3. it should be beautiful tiny.
4. no application of it should be boring or expected.
5. there are no such things as rules for logo design. if you ever encounter them, say in a book, burn that book immediately and follow the publisher's instructions for safe book burning. avoid inhaling the smoke. rules. ha!

homegirl can cut some paper

Georgia Russell is a Scottish artist who uses a scalpel instead of a brush or a pen, creating constructions that transform found ephemera, such as books, music scores, maps, newspapers, currency and photographs.

http://www.englandgallery.com/artist_group.php?mainId=32&media=Constructions%20%26%20mixed%20media

shot from guns

ok, i'm no cereal expert but...these are PRETTY MUCH the most killer cereal boxes ever produced. i feel as though part of me just died knowing that we missed out on these treasures. who's with me?

thanks again to: http://www.theimaginaryworld.com

sugar jets

ok, i couldn't resist. and folks, these were cereals. those luckies!

thanks to: http://www.theimaginaryworld.com/

more map art

south london roads cut from map to form lace pattern. all by susan stockwell.

so, i went to a lecture in the maps & geography reading room today at work and it kinda got me thinking. i guess it got other peeps thinking too.

map/paper dresses

victorian style dress made from maps of the british isles. paper; maps; glue

works in progress, 2008. wire, paper maps, rice paper, graphite.

all by susan stockwell.

pot/clock

product design by Francesco Castiglione Morelli & Tommaso Ceschi

using the chemistry between mud and metal, the clock sustains itself, without craving additional toxic juices. the frame is a hitch between by two recycled plastic bodies fashioned as a pot/clock.

retro cereal boxes

released at target and other stores. thanks. http://www.thedieline.com/blog/2009/02/general-mills-retro-cereal-boxes.html

drink pee

Urine to Fertilzer DIY Kit. Derive houseplant fertilizer and ocean-safe water from your pee!

http://www.submersibledesign.com/drinkpee/diy.html

design therapy

they're like us...sort of

and done.

I read the entire 600 pages to a candle lit bath every night over the past month. I'm pretty luxurious like that. Jealous?

another lovely jess

nice website, nice typography, nice illustration

green!

i AM green with envy

watch out kohler

Zaha Hadid kitchen and bath faucet designs.

The taps feature touch-sensitive technology and a three-way, patented flow system isolating warm water, cold water, and drinking water.

collections

Buy everything you like.

never look back

Lisa in Peking

a sort of entertaining blog about china, which should hopefully make you glad you're not there because who wants to be somewhere that doesn't have good vintage kitsch or Ollie PUP?