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BLOWN AWAY

Sunday, October 7, 2012

Karl Lagerfeld who is known for his sense of innovation, literally must have blown away the audience who came to see the spring/summer 2013 show of Chanel’s ready-to-wear-collection. The setting was the Grand Palais in Paris, the vast hall appeared to have been made of solar panels, surrounded by an alley of towering wind turbines. [...]

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THE FINAL STRETCH

Sunday, September 23, 2012

21 hours to go until our Kickstarter campaign for our first artist book with the amazing Robert Montgomery ends… Let’s make one last effort to push it – tell your friends, tell your grandparents, tell your neighbour, a good deed a day can make all the difference.

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MEANWHILE, IN AMERICA…

Monday, September 10, 2012

…our favourite comic artist, like, ever, is opening a show, or rather two shows, in New York and Chicago, with drawings from his forthcoming magnum opus Building Stories (let this be all we need to say: 11 years in the making). What he had to say about it, in typically humble Chris Ware fashion:
With the [...]

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MEANWHILE, ON MARS

Monday, August 6, 2012

Chances are that by the time you’re reading this, about, oh, some 150 million miles from you, the Curiosity Rover, Nasa’s latest mission to Mars, will have successfully completed its landing and is happily scurrying about freezing desert planes to collect data to investigate the feasibility of a manned flight at some point in the [...]

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SUPERCYCLERS

Friday, June 29, 2012

supercyclers are an ever growing international collective of designers focussed in their practices on building a sustainable future into the products they create – transforming perceptions of waste materials and the way we use things in the process. (Pictured above NewspaperWood.)

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Sun In Your Eyes

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Question: What does the upcoming Grizzly Bear album sound like?
Answer: Pretty much like that image above, or rather that’s what it does to you. It is huge and crystal clear and razor-sharp.
Question: How much longer do we have to wait for this one?
Answer: About 82 days, I guess.

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Rather optimistic future

Friday, June 1, 2012

Good news keep coming in for paper lovers. According to this and this, neither the physical book is dying nor the old loved library is disappearing!
Shannon Mattern in a very insightful article on the Design Observer:
‘A few years ago libraries were flying high. I wrote a book about the so-called “third wave” library-building boom of [...]

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STATE OF PALESTINE

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Governmental documents serve the explicit correlation of identity and affiliation. Palestinian artist Khaled Jarrar uses these attributes as samples for alternative models of identity and anticipates the existence of a state, which until now is mere utopia. He created a passport stamp for the State of Palestine, challenging the Israeli border regime, which he stamps [...]

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A BAD IDEA FROM THE LAND OF IDEAS

Monday, May 14, 2012

This one is in eigener Sache, as we say, as in: it’s personal – and it’s political. German government prides itself in supporting innovation, in promoting Germany as a ‘Land of Ideas’, and in nurturing the famous Mittelstand – the small companies and budding freelancers that push boundaries, develop new ideas and approaches. And a [...]

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… AND EUROPE WILL BE STUNNED!

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

The Jewish Renaissance Movement in Poland (JRMiP) calls for the return of 3,300,000 Jews to Poland in order to re-establish the annihilated Jewish community. The movement was initiated by Israeli-born artist Yael Bartana in 2007 and has since spread internationally. It aims to create an atmosphere for a Jewish appearance in Europe. The Jews of [...]

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