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    Showing posts with label culture. Show all posts
    Showing posts with label culture. Show all posts

    Tuesday, 15 December 2009

    Clones

    Brilliantly inventive work by artist Peter Funch. At first it's difficult to work out what he has done, but fairly quickly we can tell that there is some clever image manipulation. It offers a perceptive critique of city life by aggregating common themes, through which a typology of urban activity emerges.

    Thursday, 15 October 2009

    GUI

    A breathtaking yet gimmick-free re-imagining of the computer user interface by R Clayton Miller, all lovingly explained in this video. It's long, but worth watching in full for a glimpse of what we can hope is our mouseless future. Fingers at the ready - all of them.

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    Friday, 29 May 2009

    Infill

    Jan Vormann has injected humour into the idea of urban infill in Berlin. The artist, colleagues and friends set about filling the shelled and pock-marked facades of the city using multicoloured Lego pieces. The result is mildly provocative, but mostly just fun, as far as I can see.

    Saturday, 16 May 2009

    Things

    Increasingly enjoying the sliced opinion and snapshots of Things magazine, and their regular posts. I might call it 'a sideways look at web presences' if it didn't sound cliched.

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