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Field Trip!
Via architizer.com
Oct 2012
Architizer and Google have teamed up to bring architecture fact maps to select cities around the country, including Minneapolis. The Field Trip app uses map technology to share interesting tidbits about buildings, food, and obscure locations near you.
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Over-Booked: Sandra Kassenaar
The Gradient
Sep 2012
Sandra Kassenaar (1982, South Africa), lives and works in Amsterdam where she runs a small graphic design studio. She graduated with a BA from ArtEZ in Arnhem in 2003 and an MA from the Werkplaats Typografie in Arnhem (NL) in 2007. Besides running her own studio she regularly teaches at the graphic design department of the Willem De Kooning […]
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Over-Booked: Temporary Housing + Shelter
The Gradient
Sep 2012
Live from the New York Art Book Fair! Literally fresh from the Toyko Art Book Fair just a week ago, Temporary housing + shelter is a collaboratively edited project between New Zealand-based split/fountain (organized by former Walker design fellow Layla Tweedie-Cullen) and Whatever Press. Thinking about the effects of the natural disasters in Japan and New Zealand […]
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Over-Booked: Eric Wrenn
The Gradient
Sep 2012
It was probably sometime in 2003 when Eric Wrenn and I noticed that we were the only ones on LiveJournal that had “Josef Müller-Brockmann” as a shared interest. This is something that still is both a badge of honor, and perhaps, an embarrassing fact. But what was fascinating was the combination of our obsession with […]
It was probably sometime in 2003 when Eric Wrenn and I noticed that we were the…
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Tracing 2.0
Via architizer.com
Sep 2012
Trace, a new cloud-based design app, allows architects to trace objects directly on an iPad. The project intends to streamline everything from data collection to collaboration, which the creators say is like “plugging yourself into a recursive feedback loop.”
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Over-Booked: Issue Press and Grand Rapids, Michigan
The Gradient
Sep 2012
Issue Press is small independent publisher and Risograph print shop based in Grand Rapids, MI. began as an extension of George Wietor’s poster-making practice in 2010 and has expanded to a variety of print endeavors, focusing primarily on artist-made publications and print editions. The following is an interview with George Wietor as part of […]
Issue Press is small independent publisher and…
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The Way Beyond Art: Wide White Space Catalogue
The Gradient
Sep 2012
The Walker design studio was featured in an exhibition called The Way Beyond Art: Wide White Space at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. You can read an interview about the exhibition here. A catalog/reader based on the exhibition , edited and designed by Jon Sueda, is now published and available here. The exhibition investigates […]
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Making More Space
Via architizer.com
Sep 2012
This week, Dutch design firm DUS unveiled the world’s first mobile 3D printer, KamerMaker (RoomBuilder). It can create “rooms” that are up to 11. ft high and 7 ft. wide, furthering DUS’s desire for “on demand architecture that responds to local needs.”
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Eyal Weizman and Architecture as Political Intervention
Yesomi Umolu
Sep 2012
Interested in a subjective, confrontational approach to architecture, Israeli writer-architect Eyal Weizman seeks to expand discourse in his field and put it in dialogue with disciplines like military strategy, forensics, and humanitarian law. In advance of his October 3 lecture, the Walker’s Yesomi Umolu caught up with Weizman to discuss his ideas on confronting politics through architecture.