The Virtual Museum of Canada has released on online game called Design Traveller. It’s a little on the blocky side, perhaps, but Canadian design nerds might like it.
Design Traveller – the online game
July 28, 2010
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The Comfort of Things, by Daniel Miller
July 27, 2010
“We live today in a world of ever more stuff – what sometimes seems a deluge of goods and shopping. We tend to assume that this has two results: that we are more superficial, and that we are more materialistic, our relationships to things coming at the expense of our relationships to people.
La Mexicaine de Perforation, Paris
July 26, 2010
These are the only two photographs I could find of a clandestine cinema temporarily located in the Paris Catacombs and accidentally discovered by the police in 2006 while on a training exercise.
Todd Selby on mess
July 21, 2010
Canadian House and Home recently asked photographer Todd Selby about the aesthetic of his photography and blog:
Q: What’s with all the crazy collections and homes with a borderline messy aesthetic?
Walking bookcase by Wouter Scheublin
July 18, 2010
Walking bookcase by Wouter Scheublin. “The movement is based on the principles of the walking platform devised by 19th century Russian mathematician Pafnuty Chebyshev… when pushed, the legs carry the object along using a complex system of cranks, links and connecting rods.
Peter Gzowski interviews Iggy Pop, 1977
July 15, 2010
“You don’t have to call me sir.” “No, I don’t have to… I forgot your name.”
(For those who don’t know, the late Peter Gzowski was Canada’s most beloved CBC TV and radio interviewer.
Test Pattern Dress by Douglas Coupland
Doug Coupland (author of “Generation X” as well as an artist and designer) has done a line of casual clothes and accessories for the Canadian company Roots. The t-shirt dress is instantly classic.
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Coloured plexi beach art installation, Sydney
July 14, 2010
This sculpture installation of coloured plexiglas by Nicholas Elias takes me back to my 60s/70s childood. It’s part of the Sculpture By The Sea exhibition in Sydney, Australia. I’m a bit annoyed I didn’t do this first, though I wanted to make more of a landscaping or entrance feature.
Distant Early Warning: Marshall McLuhan playing card set
Via CDR via trexfiles23 on Flickr “One caveat: a few of the cards reflect then-popular attitudes toward women, akin to the crudeness and not-so-latent sexism of Mad Men.”
Bobby Deerfield, 1977
Proof that the 70s and 80s meet in 1977. In the Hollywood film Bobby Deerfield, Al Pacino plays a troubled race-car driver who leaves his girlfriend, a weaving artist, for a dying European jetsetter whom I found annoyingly shallow, juvenile and capricious.
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