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• Apr 30 2008
  Conférence Armchair by Jean Prouvé by David Goligorsky
  Aesthetics, Art, Design, History of Design, Inspiration, Materials, Product Design, furniture, history, wood

  Jean Prouvé has done some fascinating nearly-Bauhaus work, including this c. 1950 armchair. It does have Bauhaus school elements such as the sharp color contrast and choice of colors as well as the textural contrast of metal and Leatherette. I would very much like to admire this piece in person.
  
  
• Apr 18 2008
  Text Clock at Fuori Salone 2008 by David Goligorsky
  Aesthetics, Apple, Art, Associative Thought, Data Presentation, Design, Engineering, Product Design, Typography, Visualization

  This clock by Christiaan Postma is fantastic. At first, it looks like a Sol LeWitt conceptual art piece. Then, you realize that some of the lines are turning to form the word of the hour. You can see the words forming and going back into chaos, which I guess tells you how far along you are in the hour. This part reminds me of the Mondaine "Don't Rush" wristwatch. Let's see this Christiaan Postma piece as a wristwatch! (...or an iPhone app.) (clock found via Pan-Dan)
  
  
• Apr 04 2008
  Christian Dell by David Goligorsky
  Aesthetics, Architecture, Art, Design, History of Design, Materials, Politics, Product Design, history

  Christian Dell was a German silversmith who is probably best known for his lamp designs through Gebr. Kaiser & Co. They represent the use of bakelite and plastics in products as early as 1929. According to the Wikipedia page, Walter Gropius invited him to America after Dell was forced from the Frankfurt art school by the Nazis, but Dell stayed in Germany. Now... Walter Gropius was the founder of the Bauhaus school at Weimar before it was shut down by the Nazis. Gropius eventually found himself in America and became the director of the Harvard Graduate School of ...
  
  
• Mar 18 2008
  Oscar Diaz Conceptual Product Design by David Goligorsky
  Art, Associative Thought, Data Presentation, Design, Experience Design, Iconoclasm, Interaction Design, Perceived Value, Pragmatism, Product Design, Remix, Visualization

  I appreciate the counter-re-purposing of this object by Oscar Diaz. He made the candles to fit a standard E27 bulb fitting. I also like his calendar (concept?), which uses the controlled spread of an ink blot to depict the date. In the project statement, he describes how this calendar does not "signal" the passing of time, but gives a true sense of elapsed time by taking advantage of a slow physical process.
  
  
• Mar 02 2008
  Historic Anatomies Collection by David Goligorsky
  Aesthetics, Art, Data Presentation, Graphic Design, Medicine, Visualization, history

  Another internet collection of fascinating images. The US National Library of Medicine has archived a number of important anatomical works by the likes of Andreas Vesalius, Albrecht Dürer, and Bartholomeo Eustachi, whose work is featured below.
  
  
• Feb 29 2008
  Bottomless pit of early photographs by David Goligorsky
  Art, history, photography

  I happened upon a comprehensive collection of brilliant antique photographs at www.old-picture.com. There seems to be no end to these perfect images of life from the beginning of last century. Fascinating!
  
  
• Feb 25 2008
  Iceland by David Goligorsky
  Aesthetics, Art, Film, Music, fashion, photography, pop

  Iceland appears to have a magical landscape. This photo from Flickr user hjaltijakobs reinforces that claim. Sigur Rós, the fantastic band from Iceland, has a remarkable video for their song Glósóli-- embedded below. (You can also download it here, which I actually recommend because you can play it at full screen with higher resolution and without the YouTube logo, which takes something out of the experience.)
  
  
• Feb 21 2008
  Regrettably Pinpricked by Christian Eager
  Art, Associative Thought, Misplaced Thoughts

  Woke up in the lobby wearing nothing but five strategically placed cupcakes. Eyes feel like olives stabbed with little cocktail swords. -The Pinprick I know I've written about Fireland before, but it should be generally known how much we've been enjoying the Pinprick immensely recently. The answer's "immensely," by the way. There's a strange resonance between the Pinprick and More regrettable incidents in a life filled with bitter remorse, by David Fullarton. The former is peevish, the latter sullen. Together they are perfect company during an evening of brooding and Wahrsteiner Dunkel.
  
  
• Feb 14 2008
  les oeufs en Amerique by Christian Eager
  Art, Misplaced Thoughts

  I'll refer you to A Brief Message whether you object or agree.
  
  
• Feb 13 2008
  Woody Allen by David Goligorsky
  Art, Design, Film, Graphic Design, Typography

  I came across these images of Woody Allen by Rosita Estevez on the Behance Network. They're based on his film "Zelig," in which Woody Allen is the star of a false documentary about a person who has social chameleon effects. e.g. In the company of British ladies, he will become a British lady. For those Woody Allen fans out there, I also just found out (via NotCot) that the typeface used in all his film credits is EF Windsor Elongated.
  
  

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