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• Mind the Gap: Wouldn't it be better if...

  Originally published on Design21. London based Communication and Public Service Design agency thinkpublic and The Ideal Government Project are inviting everyone to help design better public services, in a competition called Mind the Gap. The competition is an exciting collaboration between thinkpublic's Real Work Experience - launched last November, and The Ideal Government's "Wibbipedia". So, if you are a designer or someone who has an idea for improving public services, submit an idea! All you have to do is describe a public service exactly as it is, and then describe how good it could be. For more information visit MIND THE GAP.
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  • Date: May 16 2008
  • Posted by KateAndrews

• The (Overdue) Review: Sustainability and Graphic Design

  Originally published here. During the first few months writing for sustainable design blog Inhabitat.com, it became immediately and increasingly evident how many designers were bathing in the new challenges of sustainability. The worlds of fashion, architecture, interior and product design continued to excel with an ecological conscience, launching countless contemporary designs every week. Although not focused to the work of Graphic Design, taking a quick look around Inhabitat it is evident a sense of contemporary Communication Design is appreciated. Critical dialogue however, discussing the relevant relationships between sustainability and graphic design, is almost vacant (with no more than 15-20 graphic-related features). This, it would seem is a recurring trend in the sustainable design communities. "I wish I could report that it [graphic design] was doing its bit. Trouble is, tap "sustainable graphic design" into Google and you get a thousand suggested links. But, tap "Helvetica Movie" in, and guess what, you get fifteen thousand. So in cyberspace at least, that makes people 15 times as interested in a move about typeface than how to design responsibly. Great." - Johnson Banks I was therefore, excited to have read this week that respectable designer, writer and critic Anna Gerber is currently writing a new book on Graphic Design and Sustainability, which will be published by Laurence King in Spring 2009. I will be eagerly awaiting this text and hope it will open the eyes of Communication Designers, give them a friendly kick in a sustainable direction and ultimately help our discipline play catch up to the rest of the creative industry. Designer and author of the 2004 publication All Messed Up, Unpredictable-Graphics, Anna Gerber continues to write extensively for the likes of Creative Review, Print, Varoom, Idea and Eye. Furthermore, in collaboration with Teal Triggs, Gerber also wrote a dialogue for Blueprint last year, introducing the new postgraduate course, MA Design Writing Criticism at London College of Communication, which is scheduled to start this fall.
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  • Date: May 16 2008
  • Posted by KateAndrews

• Nigerian Girl (Fela Kuti Mix)

  Joe Sciarrillo recorded his great poem Nigerian Girl (Fela Kuti Mix). Check it out on YouTube here.
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  • Date: May 15 2008
  • Posted by mattswriting

• I'm lazy.

  When the night comes back telling a story, I'm lazy: beautiful sounds of a primitive faith appear in my mind, and even that arrow describes, in a moment, the slippery darkness of a tender caprice, there, where a light fades away...... Francesco Sinibaldi
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  • Date: May 10 2008
  • Posted by Sinibaldi

• Similar Experiment

  I remember reading about a very similar experiment with Joshua Bell, a violinist whose importance is, I'm assured, beyond dispute. It's a good way to question the validity of art criticism, but again, has flaws - these people are busy! Here's a write up in the Washington Post about it [url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html[/url]
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  • Date: Apr 29 2008
  • Posted by ZMarker

• Well I certainly did that wrong

  Here's the link, hopefully
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  • Date: Apr 29 2008
  • Posted by ZMarker

• Social Justice Design Camp

  Chicago - June 23-July 2 - A sleep away summer camp where all the counselors are good-ass designers and nobody has to bathe in a lake! Camp Firebelly is intense, but not actually in tents. We're looking for the most talented + brightest college design students (or graduates of less than one year) to join us for the first-ever Camp Firebelly design charrette: 2 weeks of intensive collaboration with an awesome nonprofit client to address a social justice issue, strategize + design the solution and see it all the way through to print. Our friends Mike Perry + Delicious Design League will be coming through to lend a hand, as well as a few more secret guests. There'll also be several side missions like field trips and workshops....applications due May 23rd. More info at: http://www.campfirebelly.com ~ a project of Firebelly Design - good design for good reason
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  • Date: May 02 2008
  • Posted by firebelly

• CLASS ART _ MASS ART

  As for the work of Art , it is to be understood that MASS ART ( POSTER FOR ATTRACTING) and CLASS ART ( An art with meditative , Discursive and converging interactive thought prevocking quality) are diffrent expressions of Art and They appeal to diffrent sets of people . Like people Art has also diversity and multiplicity it camn not be rated in this simplistic manner Shailendra Tiwari ARTIST Bhopal www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/s/shailendra
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  • Date: Apr 30 2008
  • Posted by shailendra

• more disturbing art

  here's another: http://www.sfweekly.com/2000-02-23/news/public-enema-no-2
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  • Date: Apr 25 2008
  • Posted by ankatank

• Obama Obombanation

  OBOMBANATION…A NOSTALGIC REMINISCENCE BY CURT HAMMOCK From the quill of one man. Is Beauty only skin deep? Take a Chance on a blazon trail ? Oh infatuated nation; The change chatter Proclamation All MEN are created Equal Men are inspired by Words But Emotion over Reason Or Inspiration over perspiration? Clearly Obama’s WRIGHT is wrong Compassion must trump color allegiance Tears of poverty constant Media Bias clear as Ice Hype is the culprit The focus the chains Remember the power of nature The recitation of sacrifice Endurance the foundation The tolerance of woman Again-All Men are created equal All knowledge comes from pain And what of our children No Child born is punishment Time does not alter the blessing Faith demands Parity Allegiance Not by Blind faith-leap Time, tested, and true Behind every successful man… The tribulation of the Womb-man Men, the tides have changed Espouse the inevitable parity Hang loose you say? Beware of the rip I say! Pierce the words & dilatory dissolutions Time tested and true blue All men are created equal… Suspect is the female Laudable, subvert sexism The verdict—a Village
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  • Date: Apr 19 2008
  • Posted by RockstarPoet