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“Design is how you think, how you see, how you act, what you buy, what you own, what you surround yourself with, what you listen to. What you don’t listen to. What you watch, what you don’t watch. So design for me is a kind of way of life, and perhaps a substitute for any other kind of religion.”

Burton Kramer

(via A BRIEF HISTORY OF, by GREG DURRELL)

9:23 1-24-12 1 note

Occupy WallStreet by Dan BlackMan

11:05 12-1-11

Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935 - we make money not art

Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935 presents archive images, abstract paintings, drawings, collages, small videos, texts describing the buildings, etc. All of them are eclipsed by Richard Pare’s photographs. I toured the exhibition twice (it’s not very big) and my eyes kept falling on his photos to the detriment of the rest other exhibits.

Pare spent 14 years looking for the most striking examples of constructivist architecture in Russia, Ukraine and Azerbaijan for his book Lost Vanguard: Russian Modernist Architecture 1922-1932.

The photo that opens Building the Revolution shows the Shabolovka Radio Tower.Completed in 1922, it was the first major structure erected after the revolution. From then on until the mid-1930s, social ideals, art and architecture in Soviet Russia will converge and give rise to a radically new architectural language.

The Soviet State that emerged from the 1917 Russian Revolution needed new types of buildings: workers’ clubs, schools, communal housing, sports facilities for the proletariat, factories and power stations to turn into reality the new socialist dreams of industrialisation, living quarters and offices for the new administration, bus shelters, working space for the secret police, organs of propaganda, etc.

More example here : http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2011/11/building-the-revolution-soviet.php

11:37 11-23-11 1 note

curious ?

(via FormFiftyFive – Design inspiration from around the world » Blog Archive » James Windsor)

10:35 11-7-11 35 notes

Philips Launches Design Concepts For The Sustainable Home [Pics] @PSFK

Philips has presented its latest design project, made up of concepts that represent an innovative and sustainable approach to energy, waste, lighting, food preservation, cleaning, grooming, and human waste management. The Microbial Home challenges conventional design solutions with its collection of methane-powered objects and a waste separating toilet. There is a bio-digestor island that converts waste into methane gas, methane-powered lighting, and bio-luminescent bacteria fed with methane to create bio-light. An urban beehive presents a concept for harvesting honey, a fresh food larder uses an evaporative cooler and vegetable storage system built into a dining table, and a plastic waste up-cycler uses mycelium to break down plastic packaging.

The Microbial Home project is a proposal for an integrated cyclical ecosystem where each function’s output is another’s input. In the project the home has been viewed as a biological machine to filter, process and recycle what we conventionally think of as waste – sewage, effluent, garbage, waste water.

Five lifelike models of the concepts within the Microbial Home domestic ecosystem are on show to the public at the Piet Hein Eek gallery during Dutch Design Week, which is taking place from 22nd to 30th October.

via PSFK: http://www.psfk.com/2011/10/philips-launches-design-concepts-for-the-sustainable-home-pics.html#ixzz1bhmM7JiY

15:20 10-24-11 99 notes