Quintetto is a music installation by the Italian artist collective Quiet Ensemble that tracks the movement of fish in five vertical tanks and translates their movements into audio. This work reminds me of an installation by Celeste Boursier-Mougenot I saw at the Barbican in London back in 2010. I like that these works are an exploration of creating...
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Hello Designers, Ecologists, Biologists, Technologists, Illustrators and Futurists! I wanted to let you know about an interesting conversation that is happening at Cooper Design on Thursday, May 23rd. It’s an exploration of futurist ecology and design. Come help us push the conversation in some interesting, far out directions. At the Parlor, we intend...
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Saul Bass (May 8, 1920 – April 25, 1996) was an American graphic designer and Oscar winning filmmaker, best known for his design of motion picture title sequences, film posters, and corporate logos. Music: Dave Brubeck – “Unsquare...
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A nice little animated visualization of Steven Johnson’s, Where Good Ideas Come From. Johnson has spent years identifying recurring patterns about where good ideas come from. One pattern he calls, The Slow Hunch. Despite a common perception that breakthrough ideas just pop-up out of the blue, in reality most important ideas take a long time to...
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From a design, innovation and marketing perspective, one thing I find compelling about the Eastern Western is to see how “The East” interprets “The West”. Often it is the objective ‘outsider’ who sees ‘us’ more clearly than we see ourselves, and in re-telling our story, reveals interesting insights on our...
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The Designing Culture blog series continues, this time with insights from Manifold. Manifold is a 3 year old creative agency that imagines and produces compelling on-line and off-line ideas. In 2012 they were named Advertising Age’s Small Agency of the Year. Last week I had the pleasure of speaking with Brian Mullin and Sean Florio, both founding...
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