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Awesome Foundation London Funds Creating Stars in the London Sky
One of the drawbacks of living in London (and most other major metropolises) is that the ambient light from the buildings, street lamps, etc, make it impossible to see the stars in the sky at night. So when designer Oscar Lhermitte applied to the London chapter of the Awesome Foundation, of which I am a [...]
Upcoming Talk: Interactive Architecture
On Thursday 24 June 2010 I will be giving a talk at the Interactive Architecture 2010 conference, as part of the London Festival of Architecture. Featuring an impressive lineup of speakers ranging from Duncan Wilson of Arup Foresight to Usman Haque of Haque Design and Research, and chaired by Fiddian Warman of Soda Creative, the [...]
ICON: Is Design Hacking a Quiet Revolution?
The current issue of ICON Magazine asks “From backstreet hack-labs to the Royal Society of Arts, design hacking is slowly making its way into the mainstream. But what does it offer?” It’s an interesting read, not least of which because it contains plenty of quotes from yours truly and references to my work with design [...]
In Discussion with Jaime Lerner
For most people with even a passing interest in innovative urban problem-solving, the words Jaime Lerner and Curitiba, Brazil will hold special reverence. Lerner is the urban planner and three-times mayor of Curitiba who transformed the once traffic-congested, economically and environmentally challenged city into one of the world’s most livable urban spaces. This Wednesday at [...]
London Sign Fonts Tell Their Own Stories
Walking around London yesterday I found myself paying attention to the secondary narrative of the city’s fonts, text and signage. How the current condition of some of the texts differ from their original form, and that within the aesthetic of that difference lies the story. The image above is from a suit maker and tailor [...]
Take 1 abandoned housing estate, add 90,000 litres of copper sulfate…
Creative re-use of existing urban areas is something of an obsession for me – I’m even moderating a dinner on the topic in a couple weeks. While my radar is tuned mostly to re-use done outside of formal cultural structures, Artangel is one organisation that always blows me away with their installations, and their latest [...]
New Work From CutUp
Last night CutUp installed their latest batch of work throughout London. For those of you not (yet) familiar with CutUp, they specialise in physically remixing the urban visual, taking down billboards, cutting them up into pixels, and re-installing them to create new images out of the original source material. While my personal favourite medium of [...]
Viktor & Rolf & One Amazing Dollhouse
I attended to the Viktor & Rolf opening last night at the Barbican for one of the following reasons: A) I decided I don’t spend enough time around supermodels B) It’s been too long since I’ve spent an evening drinking rose-flavoured vodka cocktails C) I was invited because of my relationship with Premsela It was [...]
Incidental Design
The past few weeks I’ve been thinking a lot about incidental design. Been shooting a lot around London, particularly the rather unsung design of the anti-flypostering wooden slats placed on building site frontings. Someday, ah, the allusive ‘someday’, I’ll do something with these photos. Just felt like sharing this one for now, taken in Farringdon [...]
The National Theatre: then and now
The other night I was walking across Waterloo Bridge in London and saw the National Theatre’s coloured lights. It reminded me of the installation/projection I did there in 2000, when I projected Derek Jarman’s film “Blue” onto the National Theatre and set up a radio broadcast blanketing South Bank with the audio for anyone to [...]
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