As issues facing the developing world grow ever more complex and difficult, the task of good journalism should be to throw light on them
What is development journalism?
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christian vivanco: from a lost city
an exercise about today´s social behavior.
inspired by the shanty towns all around south america,
from las ciudades perdidas in mexico city to las favelas in rio de janeiro,
FALC try to preserve the improvisation´s essence, the grids absence,
the disorder´s liberty.
fabrics, wood sticks and boxes in different dimensions and materials
(from bamboo to polycarbonate)are part of a piece of furniture -
a shelf inspired by houses on piles.
shanty towns are units of irregular self-constructed housing that are typically unlicensed and occupied illegally. they are usually on lands belonging to third parties,and are most often located on the urban periphery. shanty town residences are built randomly, although ad hoc networks of stairways, sidewalks, and simple tracks allow passage through them. most are inaccessible by vehicle, due to their narrow and irregular streets and walkways and often steep inclines. This design project was born out of a conversation with a brazilian friend. we talked about the situation in the favelas, the violence and how people survive in such a hostile environment. but we also thought that those people are as happy as most of us in a luckier situation. in simplicity lies the joy of life. I tried to recreate the feeling of this experience and to express it within this shelf.
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‘frame light’ by julian mayor
frame light’ made from spruce wood
british artist and designer julian mayor will present his new ‘frame light’,
among five other contemporary designers at the fat galerie in paris, france.
the show will be on from april 2nd – may 23rd, 2009.
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Héctor Serrano Studio
Sofa Lamp
Client: Moooi
Collaboration: Culdesac
Inspired by the iconic Chester Sofa, the Sofa Lamp takes its recognizable aesthetics out of context and re-interprets it.
The essence of the Chester is maintained and adapted to lightin.
It creates a lamp that through its design and connotation transmits all the social values of this emblematic piece of furniture, in addition to the natural attraction of the light effect itself.
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Utopian Design: Pangaea Project’s Charitable Tees
T-shirts are a dime-a-dozen these days, but when you see Pangaea Project’s designs, you’ll instantly know they’re special. Spearheaded by Chrissie Lam, the Pangaea T-shirt Project is an effort to “connect artists and activists, communities and causes,” and profits benefit her efforts in Rwanda and other developing nations. Made from super-soft organic tees donated by Save Khaki and others, with some made in Uganda, the shirts are emblazoned with quirky graphics by artists like Bryan Collins, Steve Green, Chris McNally (pictured above), and Jon Theiss (pictured below, left).
Artist and designer Lincoln Mayne volunteered to screenprint the designs himself. Lam’s goals include “raising awareness and funds to help sponsor orphans, and filming genocide survivor testimonies.” Check out her blog at www.createforacause.com for Lam’s personal anecdotes of her volunteer work, as well as photos of her Rwandan experiences and the collection’s tees. “The locals, NGO workers, journalists, photographers and filmmakers are all so inspiring and interesting,” says Lam. The shirts she’s commissioned are just as inspiring, and there’s a design for everyone in this collection—one top is printed with a sketch of two colorful hands waving hello, while another sports bright red hearts and arrows that make up the African continent. What better way to wear your heart on your sleeve?
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Library of Dust
New book Library of Dust, by photographer David Maisel, published by Chronicle Books.
In 1913, Maisel explained, an Oregon state psychiatric institution began to cremate the remains of its unclaimed patients. Their ashes were then stored inside individual copper canisters and moved into a small room, where they were stacked onto pine shelves.
After doing some research into the story, Maisel got in touch with the hospital administrators – the same hospital, it turns out, where they once filmed One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – and he was granted access to the room in which the canisters were stored.
In order to deal with the fragility of the objects, and to respect their funerary origins, Maisel set up a temporary photography studio inside the hospital itself. There, he began photographing the canisters one by one.
He soon realized that they looked almost earthlike, terrestrial: green and blue coastal forms and island landscapes outlined against a black background. But it was all mineralogy: terrains of rare elements self-reacting in the dark.
From http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/library-of-dust.html
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Moistscape
As an opportunity to explore the play of the natural within the artificial, we constructed a three-dimensional steel matrix inset with panels of living mosses and enclosed within by translucent volume.
The matrix emerges from the walls and hovers over a groundscape of recycled rubber, which is as springy and giving underfoot as the mosses are to the touch of a hand.
The spatial configuration of these verdant planes – they vary in size, height and proximity to the visitor – creates a range of possible encounters. There is no designated path to follow, rather a space to explore where the underside is as telling as the topside. Moistscape allows visitors to experience the play in scale from the miniature of the floating mossy landscape to the actual one of the installation as a whole.
Design / Fabrication: Lauren Crahan, John Hartmann, Corey Yurkovich
Assistant: Andrei Pogany
Photography: Ron Amstutz
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Objectified – Gary Hustwit’s new documentary
Objectified is a feature-length independent documentary about industrial design. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the people who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability. It’s about our relationship to mass-produced objects and, by extension, the people who design them.
Through vérité footage and in-depth conversations, the film documents the creative processes of some of the world’s most influential designers, and looks at how the things they make impact our lives. What can we learn about who we are, and who we want to be, from the objects with which we surround ourselves?
Objectified is currently in production and will have its world premiere in early 2009. Join our mailing list or subscribe to our RSS feed to stay informed of screening announcements.
Featuring
Paola Antonelli (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Chris Bangle (BMW Group, Munich)
Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec (Paris)
Andrew Blauvelt (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis)
Anthony Dunne (London)
Naoto Fukasawa (Tokyo)
IDEO (Palo Alto)
Jonathan Ive (Apple, California)
Hella Jongerius (Rotterdam)
Marc Newson (London/Paris)
Fiona Raby (London)
Dieter Rams (Kronberg, Germany)
Karim Rashid (New York)
Alice Rawsthorn (International Herald Tribune)
Rob Walker (New York Times Magazine)
and more participants TBA
Also available a tee-shirt and a limited poster “Objects” logo print by Build, silkscreened in black and metallic silver on archival paper. A2 size (16 1/2″ x 23 1/2″) 100 numbered copies.
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Universal Everything on Behance
By defining the conceptual parameters in which to play within, it gives us freedom to research and develop the creative process which captures the essence of the brand.
“We always collaborate with people who are experts in areas we love but don’t quite understand (code, 3D, architecture) – they bring their processes and skills, and we bring near-impossible ideas which they thrive on making them happen. We are always searching for new talent to work with, to bring new thinking into the mix.”
“Create surprises for yourself: Listen to music you wouldn’t usually, go to a different section of the bookshop, visit an antiques shop instead of a gallery, listen to old people.”
We want to create work that lives forever, is unique to each user, that plants a seed and grows in another direction to what we expected.”
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Not For Commercial Use prints
A set of five Not For Commercial Use posters, shot by Jason Tozer
The Not For Commercial Use project came about, according to design studio Build, following “a drunken conversation about the possibilites of design in the hands of a sympathetic printer, and of print in the hands of an understanding designer.” That conversation was between Build’s Michael Place and Paul Hewitt of print firm Generation Press.
The pair decided initially to design and produce a set of postcards to be given away for free, which would showcase a range of lavish printing processes…
Then, they started to think about creating posters as well. It was at this stage that the pair joined forces with long-term Generation Press collaborator Richard Bull of Yacht Associates and started to think about the dissemination of the project. “Years in the music and design industries, coupled with a boundless energy meant that Richard knew the tricks to getting the posters seen around town,” say Build.
As we reported on the CR blog last year, posters started to appear around london, flyposted on hoardings. Some were simply Blu-tacked on walls to ease the damage-free removal of the rubber-stamped, numbered and editioned prints. The whole process was documented by Rick Guest (stills) and Richard Carroll (film). Now, an appropriately lavish, a3 stitch-bound catalogue to commemorate the project has also been produced.
All photography shown here (and in the current April issue of CR) is by Jason Tozer.
WIN A SET OF POSTERS
For a chance to win a set of five Not For Commercial Use Paste posters as displayed in the topmost image in this post (bulldog clips, rail, chair and photography studio not included in prize), simply send an email to iwant@notforcommercialuse.com. Maybe say nice things. It can’t hinder your chances of winning, can it?
More details about the project at: notforcommercialuse.com
Watch posters being stuck up in hyper speed (thanks to some time-lapse photography) here
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Hungry Planet
| ‘hungry planet: what the world eats’ by peter menzel — 
 ecuador: the ayme family of tingo food expenditure for one week: 31.55 USD family recipe: potato soup with cabbage photographer peter menzel published his first book of photojournalism ‘material world, a global family portrait’ in
family recipe: chicken biryani with basmati rice
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Backstage – A Sideview on the Moroso Design Collection at Gallery 113
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Raw Edges
Raw Edges is a design studio creating intersting products.. see their site for projects.
http://www.raw-edges.com/
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Housing
Housing remains one of the worlds most critical issues. Prototype houses in Chile.
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Toxic Nudibranchs
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Postfossil
A year ago, a collective of ten young Swiss designers founded the group POSTFOSSIL. POSTFOSSIL provides a platform on which designers can regularly get together and discuss the current issues surrounding design and the ways in which they can respond to these issues. A recurring theme began to emerge, centering around the handling of resources in a post-fossil fuel future. It was decided that this should be the focus of their exhibition in Milan.
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Spin
Always love the work of Spin from UK. Super simple application of great type and print techniques.
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hello ben
hellooooo ben!
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MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU on Vimeo
The new short film by Blu an ambiguous animation painted on public walls.Made in Buenos Aires and in Baden (fantoche) blublu.org/ blublu.org/sito/video/muto.htm music by Andrea Martignoni produced by Mercurio Film assistant: Sibe
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UNIQLOCK
Winning Gold in Online Advertising was Projector Inc.’s Uniqlock widget; a downloadable video clock for use on blogs (see CR’s January edition and story here). You can get it here: uniqlo.jp/uniqlock/
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Love for Burma
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