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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.
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Cardboard Commuter
Via good.is
Aug 2012
Bicycling to work is about to get a bit greener. Israeli designer Izhar Gafni has built “water-resistant bicycle, made, from seat to spokes, entirely of recycled cardboard.” Production and global distribution will start in 2013.
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Destination: Marfa
Via npr.org
Aug 2012
When he starting working in Marfa, Texas, Donald Judd hoped the town wouldn’t become the destination for art-tourism that it is today. “He did not want that to be a large part of the economy, because he thought, socially, that would have a negative impact.”
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Blogs
ROLU Residency Postcript: Collaboration with Various Projects
The Gradient
Aug 2012
ROLU‘s recent Open Field residency involved, as noted in other posts on this blog (1. 2. 3.), a number of fruitful collaborations. Case in point: Brian Janusiak, Elizabeth Beer, and Matthew Chrislip of Various Projects (the multidisciplinary design collaboration also responsible for Project No. 8 and 8a in NY) created a garment for visitors to borrow and wear inside the Walker and outside at Open Field…
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Floating Cinema
Via architizer.com
Aug 2012
Designer Ole Shereen’s “Archipelago Cinema” will be showcased as one of the 18 Collateral Events at this year’s Venice Biennale Architecture Exhibition. Shereen calls his raft-like auditorium “a floating revival of classic American drive-in theatres.”
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ROLU Residency: Joe Gilmore collaboration
The Gradient
Aug 2012
Joe Gilmore—a multidisciplinary artist and graphic designer working in the fields of computer music, video and algorithmic art—is founder of Qubik, a type-focused design studio in London. As part of their Open Field residency, ROLU asked Joe Gilmore to make a risograph print to commemorate the Attention as Place contributors, available to visitors while supplies last. Read a little bit about it…
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Tomb Tourism
Via bostonglobe.com
Jul 2012
To reinvigorate the country’s tourism industry, Egypt will soon open select tombs—including some that have been closed to the public for nearly 25 years. “We want to give people a reason to come back, to give them something new.”
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Light Boxes
Via architizer.com
Jul 2012
The newest project for the Archi<20 architecture competition can be found in the forest of an Alsace nature preserve. Made up of numerous small boxes, “the building functions as an optical device that both simplifies and modifies the viewer’s experience.”
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Stereoscopic Niemeyer
Via architizer.com
Jul 2012
Visionaire and online art retailer Paddle8 have partnered to create a portfolio of 10 3-D photographs of Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer’s greatest works. The set is due out in September, in time for the Sao Paolo Biennial.