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Studio Music
Via studiomusic.fm
Aug 2012
Design director Emmet Byrne provides the newest playlist for Studio Music, with picks ranging from the “greatest cheating song ever written” to a Black Dice brain-tickler to Os Mutantes’ “Bat Macumba” (its lyrics “look like bat wings when they’re left justified”).
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Over-Booked: Christopher Schulz
The Gradient
Aug 2012
The following is the first of several interviews conducted by the Walker design studio on the occasion of Over-Booked, a preview of the New York Art Book Fair co-presented with Printed Matter.
Christopher Schulz is a designer and independent publisher known for his publication, Pinups, as well as various print works. The distinctly spartan (yet furry) aesthetic that runs through his drawings…
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Gehry & the Biomuseum
Via artinfo.com
Aug 2012
With the late 2012 opening of the Gehry–designed Biomuseo, officials are hoping the “Bilbao effect” will make it “a new icon for Panama.” But while iconic, the design says little about the museum’s green mission, writes Kelly Chan.
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Over-Booked: A Chapter from the New York Art Book Fair
The Gradient
Aug 2012
The Walker and Printed Matter (NY) are teaming up to create an artist book outreach program of sorts, bringing the best of contemporary artworks-for-the-page to the Midwest. In collaboration with the Walker’s book buyer Paul Schumacher, Printed Matter will curate a selection of contemporary artist books, zines, and publications which will be displayed in an artist-designed bookshelf in the…
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Korab Collected
Via fastcodesign.com
Aug 2012
Balthazar Korab calls himself as “an architect who makes pictures rather than a photographer who is knowledgeable about architecture.” Imagery by Eero Saarinen’s in-house photographer are collected in a new book.
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Refiguring Fonts
Via nytimes.com
Aug 2012
Through his New York Times quiz, “Are You A Pessimist or An Optimist?,” filmmaker Errol Morris attempts to expose a link between perception and typography. He asks: “Are there certain fonts that compel a belief that the sentences they are written in are true?”
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Sculpting Light
Via design-milk.com
Aug 2012
Berlin-based Christopher Bauder has partnered with Philip to create the LivingSculpture 3D module system. Using new light technology, “the sculpture consists of tons of small mirror-flat panels that seem to undulate and flow like the ocean overhead.”
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Skating on the Moon
Via archpaper.com
Aug 2012
Artist Koo Jeong-A, alongside consultants Brusk and Barricade, has created OTRO—a skateable, phosphorescent moonscape in the middle of a French reservoir. Jeong says the park will add to the island’s “unreal, phantasmagoric, and powerful dreamscape.”
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Interactive Design
Via animalnewyork.com
Aug 2012
Designers Mary Huang and Jenna Fizel are uniting fashion with digital photography. Come September, their CONSTRVCT label will print any digital image—photograph or illustration—onto shirts and dresses designed by their clients.