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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.
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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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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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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.”