http://folksonomy.co/?rss=3534 Folksonomy.co is a structured repository of digital culture and creative practice. en-au Creative Commons License: (cc), Simon Perkins Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:46:46 +1000 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:46:46 +1000 Constellations 2.0 http://folksonomy.co/?member=1000 60 http://folksonomy.co/Folksonomy.gif http://folksonomy.co/ http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3292 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3292 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:46:46 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3284 This is a lecture given to MA students at the University of Hertfordshire It explores how contemporary kinetic typography relies on historical developments such as 3D woodblock print Romain du Roi and Modernist modular lettering Students are encouraged to let their design work respond to historical research This does not mean creating something that looks old or retro rather creating something innovative and new by re-imagining historical ideas in light of new technologies and contexts Barbara Brownie http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3284 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:20:19 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3272 Metal setting is practised today by only a handful of specialists but it continues to provide the standards by which good typesetting is judged Photosetting and the computer setting which has largely displaced it are criticised for being too perfect and lacking the character of hand-crafted type Now increasingly designers are using desktop publishing systems such as the Macintosh to do their typesetting The technology has matured considerably over the last two years and the time is ripe for a reassessment is good typesetting possible on the Macintosh Andy Benedek 1991 Andy Benedek 1991 The craft of digital type Winter no 2 vol 1 Eye Magazine http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3272 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:46:12 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3241 Pedagogical experiments played a crucial role in shaping architectural discourse and practice in the second half of the 20th century In fact the key hypothesis of our Radical Pedagogy 1 research project is that these experiments can be understood as radical architectural practices in their own right Radical in the literal meaning from the Latin radice as something belonging or relating to the root to its foundations Radical pedagogies shake foundations disturbing assumptions rather than reinforcing and disseminating them This challenge to normative thinking was a major force in the postwar field of architecture and has surprisingly been neglected in recent years Architectural pedagogy has become stale Schools spin old wheels as if something is happening but so little is going on Students wait for a sense of activist engagement with a rapidly evolving world but graduate before it happens The fact that they wait for instruction is already the problem Teachers likewise worry too much about their place in the institutional hierarchies Curricular structures have hardly changed in recent decades despite the major transformations that have taken place with the growth of globalisation new technologies and information culture As schools appear to increasingly favour professionalisation they seem to drown in self-imposed bureaucratic oversight suffocating any possibility for the emergence of experimental practices and failures There are a few attempts to wake things up here and there but it s all so timid in the end There is no real innovation In response to the timidity of schools today the Radical Pedagogy project returns to the educational experiments of the 1960s and 70s to remind us what can happen when pedagogy takes on risks It s a provocation and a call to arms Beatriz Colomina with Esther Choi Ignacio Gonzalez Galan and Anna-Maria Meister 28 September 2012 The Architectural Review 1 Radical Pedagogy is an ongoing multi-year collaborative research project by a team of PhD candidates in the School of Architecture at Princeton University led by Beatriz Colomina and involving seminars interviews and guest lectures by protagonists and scholars The project explores a remarkable set of pedagogical experiments of the 1960s and 70s that revolutionised thinking in the discipline Each student is working on one of these experiments and collectively mapping the interconnections and effects of these experiments towards a major publication and exhibition Fig 1 Tournaments in the Course Culture of the Body at the Valpara iacute so School 1975 Courtesy of Archivo Hist oacute rico Jose Vial Escuela Arquitectura y Dise ntilde o Pontificia Universidad Cat oacute lica de Valpara iacute so http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3241 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:25:38 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3185 We want everyone on earth to be able to design amp make their own things we dream in an universal access to the production means and we believe in the popularization of design tools amp 3D-Printing to make ideas real cunicode is a design studio for 3DPrint amp creative fabrication the way things are made is changing so the way things are designed will change as well Founded in early 2011 to explore the business opportunities of Additive Manufacturing through design We design inspiring objects and services to be produced digitally Bernat Cuni http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3185 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 19:37:53 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3159 The French poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau is usually given the credit for the title by which the neoclassical revival of the 1920 amp 8242 s and early 1930 amp 8242 s is known Le Rappel a loordre or the Call to Order summoned the civilized world to its senses These were the very organs you will recall that had been ripped away by a shell fragment in Dixos Skin Graft This call to order actually had its roots in French wartime propaganda The virtues of Franceos Latin-based civilization were ranged against the Teutonic brutalism of the Germans Before the war n eacute oclassicisme had languished like a discarded stage prop In 1918 with the Huns surging for a second time toward the gates of Paris Cocteau and others summoned the cultural icons of Greece and Rome to join the Allied ranks That year Cocteau published a book Le Coq et loArlequin which he revised and renamed in 1924 as Le Rappel a loordre The message was the same without the us versus them jingoism of the war civilization must look to its ancient past to regain its bearings and enhance its vitality Cocteauos thesis found an appreciative audience in many circles including the United States According to French writer Jacques Maritain what makes the purity of the true classic is a a subordination of the matter to the light of the form The discipline and dedication of the artist would admit only the essential elements of art into the work being created excluding anything that would debauch the senses of the viewer Ed Voves 4 October 2010 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3159 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 19:45:14 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3116 Binding handcrafted books for me is not merely a way of turning back the clock but a way of addressing contemporary issues both environmental and social as well as aesthetic Michael O Brien Bookbinder A Step Back In Time short documentary about Oamaru s iconoclastic bookbinder Michael O Brien Director Moss Bowering-Scott Research Libby Dallison Executive Producers Richard Bell and Steve Bloxham New Zealand Broadcasting School CPIT Uploaded to YouTube on 16 August 2010 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3116 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 16:56:12 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3076 High-Low Tech a research group at the MIT Media Lab integrates high and low technological materials processes and cultures Our primary aim is to engage diverse audiences in designing and building their own technologies by situating computation in new cultural and material contexts and by developing tools that democratize engineering We believe that the future of technology will be largely determined by end-users who will design build and hack their own devices and our goal is to inspire shape support and study these communities To this end we explore the intersection of computation physical materials manufacturing processes traditional crafts and design MIT Media Lab 2011 Fig 1 Jie Qi Animated Vines http hlt media mit edu p 1510 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3076 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:24:57 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3074 Art amp Media Course in Information Design Department of Tama Art University manages various kinds of art forms by utilizing digital technologies and bio medias such like interactive installations audio amp visual performances software arts bio arts digital animations and future cinemas Through the background of recent dynamic changes of relationship between technology and human society we aim to bring up new types of multi-skilled creators who can transcend the traditional boundaries of fine arts science engineering mathematics and philosophy The Course has established unique creative environment configured by four individual laboratories which has their own research themes http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3074 Sun, 09 Dec 2012 14:58:43 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3070 Fig 1 CollegeHumor Staff Look at this Instagram Nickelback Parody uploaded 3 December 2012 Fig 2 Nickelback 2005 Photograph iframe src http www collegehumor com e 6853117 width 630 height 355 frameborder 0 webkitAllowFullScreen allowFullScreen iframe http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3070 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 15:38:35 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3032 Playing the role of scientist Thomas Allen enlists mid 20th-century books on the natural phenomenon of science astronomy physics electricity biology and presents his research as if through the eyes of his 8-year old daughter How would she understand and portray these theories and absolutes of science Allen s signature use of cutting and repurposing book illustrations has not vanished Instead of the pulp fiction genre Allen plays with 50 s era versions of clean cut youths and domesticated moms His unmistakable talent for creating the illusion of 3D in photography with his deft cuts and crimps establishes a magical world in which a boy and girl play tag creating their own kind of electricity a milkman makes a very special delivery in space young toughs play marbles with the solar system and a mother busily sews her own version of string theory Foley Gallery 2012 New York NY Fig 1 Bearings 2012 Fig 2 Eclipsed 2012 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3032 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:35:14 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3031 I often work within the realm of fairy-tales and folk-lore I began making a series of book-sculpture cutting-out images from old books to create three-dimensional diorama s and displaying them inside wooden boxes For the cut-out illustrations I tend to lean towards young-girl characters placing them in haunting fragile settings expressing the vulnerability of childhood while also conveying a sense of childhood anxiety and wonder There is a quiet melancholy in the work depicted in the material used and choice of subtle colour Su Blackwell Fig 1 Su Blackwell 2008 The Girl in the Wood http www sublackwell co uk portfolio-book-cut-sculpture http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3031 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:47:21 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3024 Sven Birkerts a modern-day Luddite is feeling uneasy about all this rapid cultural change He longs for the slow elegance of print culture So much so in fact that the cover of his new book The Gutenberg Elegies The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age features a fuzzy caramel-colored snapshot of a naturally-lit library which houses the endangered species of digital modernity a leather armchair draped with an afghan droopy lace curtains and shelves of softened leather hard-backs coveting thick yellowed pages and the tidy immutable thoughts of yesterday s literary prophets Birkerts is terrified that his warm dusty paradise is being ransacked and the remaining rubble is merely forgotten or misunderstood in a world distracted by garish pulsing iconography Amanda Griscom 1996 Amanda Scott Griscom 1996 Trends of Anarchy and Hierarchy Comparing the Cultural Repercussions of Print and Digital Media Brown University http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3024 Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:34:16 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2899 Review of exhibition titled More is More which opened 5 August 2012 in Gallery C3 Te Ara Hihiko Massey University Campus Wellington New Zealand The show was curated by Annette OoSullivan Matt Clapham and John Clemens Typography forms a strong component of the Visual Communication Design programme and this existing knowledge is built upon in the Screen Printing for Design and Contemporary Letterpress papers There was a celebration of disciplines on show with students from many areas of the College of Creative Arts Graphic Design Textiles Illustration Fine Arts and Photography included Many students are attracted to these papers as they provide an experimental space to explore ideas and techniques that can be applied at a later stage to other projects Although based around traditional printmaking techniques students also employ digital technologies and equipment such as laser cutters to answer the project briefs Nick Kapica 20 August 2012 Design Assembly Fig 1 Hannah Milner Our Darkest Day wooden type printing digital printing http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2899 Sun, 09 Sep 2012 14:08:58 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2841 boolab is a production house dedicated to motion graphics animation 2D and 3D and the development of other visual techniques both traditional and cutting or bleeding edge It came into being in 2004 within the framework of Booker an advertising production house in the field of live-action founded in 1996 Initially boolab was envisaged as an in-house lab for research into new audiovisual languages but it soon set its sights beyond the company walls Success was not long in coming and it rapidly developed into what it is today - a production house that is a benchmark in audiovisual innovation throughout Spain and Europe Boolab Fig 1 Pilot Evolution - boolab uploaded by boolab Plus 1 year ago http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2841 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:52:05 +1000