1. Sara De Bondt’s live data analysis for the Artissima art fair in Turin.

     
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    Occupy Design: developing a visual language Occupy Wall Street protest

    Occupy Design: developing a visual language Occupy Wall Street protest

     
  3. I know, I know. There’s been sooo much in the media about Mr Jobs but the man inspired so many people. So here’s some more.

    http://webdesignledger.com/inspiration/steve-jobs-always-inspiring

     
  4. 5th Oct 2011

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    Reblogged from folyo

    folyo:

    If there’s one thing nobody seems to want to talk about, it’s pricing. Most designers don’t publish their rates, and good luck getting a company to tell you how much they paid for their site.

    The results of this situation is that it can be pretty hard to know how much to spent on design. Spend…

     
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    From “The Writing of Stones” by Roger Caillois

    From “The Writing of Stones” by Roger Caillois

     
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    Design as arms race
     
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    Sunflower Seeds

    Sunflower Seeds

     
  9. Felix has been lucky enough to have some time explore the empty space in Tate Modern. Moved by Ai Weiwei’s exhibition with 100 million seeds each hand-crafted in porcelain, he began a forensic scan of each of the tiniest gaps in this largest of spaces. The clean up was thorough but incomplete, but found three in total.
    “Each piece is a part of the whole, a commentary on the relationship between the individual and the masses.”

    http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/unileverseries2010/default.shtm

     
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    “In an attempt to envisage the world’s largest collection of refuse, the photographer Chris Jordan traveled to a lonely swath of the Pacific Ocean. The Midway Islands rest in the heart of what is known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - an enormous, growing cluster of plastic waste shaped by broad-scale ocean currents between Japan and the west coast of the United States. The area is home to most of the global Laysan Albatross population and over a third of the world’s Black-footed Albatross. Here, the young marine birds are dying in staggering numbers. Scanning the ocean for food, the Albatross confuse the plastic for food and feed it to their nesting young. The result, captured here in Jordan’s series, is both surreal and sobering.”
http://seedmagazine.com/slideshow/appetite_destruction/

    In an attempt to envisage the world’s largest collection of refuse, the photographer Chris Jordan traveled to a lonely swath of the Pacific Ocean. The Midway Islands rest in the heart of what is known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - an enormous, growing cluster of plastic waste shaped by broad-scale ocean currents between Japan and the west coast of the United States. The area is home to most of the global Laysan Albatross population and over a third of the world’s Black-footed Albatross. Here, the young marine birds are dying in staggering numbers. Scanning the ocean for food, the Albatross confuse the plastic for food and feed it to their nesting young. The result, captured here in Jordan’s series, is both surreal and sobering.”

    http://seedmagazine.com/slideshow/appetite_destruction/