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Tactical Urbanism
Via salon.com
Jun 2012
From Chicago to San Francisco, “tactical urbaninism” is on the rise: the “low-cost, low-commitment, incremental approach to city building—the ‘let’s not build a stadium’ strategy.” Solutions include pop-up parks and “excess asphalt” removed for local green spaces.
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Design Personalities
Via metropolismag.com
Jun 2012
Design “takes on different personalities depending on how people are playing with it,” says Walker design curator Andrew Blauvelt, “whether they are professionals, amateurs, or even artists who’ve appropriated graphic design as a strategy in their work.”
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Ai Talks Pavilion
Via dezeen.com
Jun 2012
Unable to leave China, dissident artist Ai Weiwei communicated via video about his design, with Walker architects Herzog & de Meuron, of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London, which he says is “focused on memory and the past.”
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Queenly Colours
Via mediabistro.com
Jun 2012
To commemorate a queen’s couture, Pantone and Leo Burnett have come up with the Diamond Jubilee Color Guide, “designed to capture and commemorate some of [Queen Elizabeth II]’s most memorable color choices since her coronation” 60 years ago.
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Book Hacks
Via craigmod.com
Jun 2012
“The covers are dead!” writes Craig Mod in his essay about the history of the book cover. Based on the shift in where we buy and browse for our books (online and on e-readers), Mod suggests there is much possibility in reinterpreting covers for digital formats.
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The Dark Arts: What to See at Northern Spark 2012
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Jun 2012
By anyone’s measure, the inaugural Northern Spark festival last June was a wild success. From dusk to dawn, people discovered the Twin Cities in a new light while making the rounds to some 100 projects by more than 200 artists. This year’s all-nighter, on June 9, features more projects, concentrated in downtown Minneapolis for easier navigation. Here are a few happenings that piqued our interest.
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Pentagram Story
Via creativereview.co.uk
May 2012
For its 40th birthday, famed design studio Pentagram pieced together a narrative that happens to showcase four decades worth of identities, interactive projects, and products for clients like the Public Theater, the New York Times, United, and the Whitney.
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Guerrilla Libraries
Via designobserver.com
May 2012
From OWS’ People’s Library to Little Free Libraries, we’re seeing a guerrilla library boom. Shannon Mattern asks “where they’re coming from, how they relate to existing institutions that perform similar roles, and what impact they’re having on their communities.”
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G8 Street Tweets
Via designboom.com
May 2012
Thanks to a tweet-fed mobile street-painting robot, citizens kept out of this weekend’s G8 summit at Camp David can have a say: 40-character tweets about global poverty and hunger will be stenciled using water-soluble paint on nearby streets.