Posted by on under olivetti typewriter, neil chase, uc berkeley, alma mater, grad school, ephemera, federated, phenomena, diana, radar, images, photos | 
Last night, Federated Media's Neil Chase and I presented at my alma mater, the UC Berkeley Grad School of Journalism, about online publishing. The conversation was all about digital media, so afterwards I was delighted when a student there named Diana Jou came up to me wanting to talk about print 'zines! She has a blog, called Systems of Operation, where she (mostly) posts photos of 'zines, print ephemera, and artists books whose design she digs. Her taste seems to overlap with my own and I hope she starts updating her blog more frequently! The images above come from an instruction manual for an Olivetti typewriter and a booklet from the Society for Scientific Investigations of Anomalous Atmospherical and Radar Phenomena. Systems of Operation blog...
Tagi: olivetti typewriter, neil chase, uc berkeley, alma mater, grad school, ephemera, federated, phenomena, diana, radar, images, photos
Posted by on under five year olds, coster, boing boing |
I'm digging this children's room table, inspired by a dog. Creator Quentin de Coster came up with the design by asking a bunch of five year olds what shape they related to the most. (via Designboom)...
Tagi: five year olds, coster, boing boing
Posted by on under museum of modern art, design act, boeing 747, art objects, moma, belg, curators, typefaces, typeface, ly, satellites, boeing, public realm |
The @ symbol is now in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. While it sounds like a Dadaist prank, the MoMA is very serious about this acquisition. That said, they're not blind to the conceptual artyness of the news. From the MoMA, where you can also read a fascinating history of the symbol: The acquisition of @ takes one more step. It relies on the assumption that physical possession of an object as a requirement for an acquisition is no longer necessary, and therefore it sets curators free to tag the world and acknowledge things that "cannot be had"--because they are too big (buildings, Boeing 747's, satellites), or because they are in the air and belong to everybody and to no one, like the @--as art objects befitting MoMA's collection... Being in the public realm, @ is free. It might be the only truly free--albeit not the only priceless--object in our collection. We have acquired the design act in itself and as we will feature it in different typefaces, we will note each time the specific typeface as if we were indicating the materials that a physical object is made of. @ at MoMA (via Imaginary Foundation)...
Tagi: museum of modern art, design act, boeing 747, art objects, moma, belg, curators, typefaces, typeface, ly, satellites, boeing, public realm
Posted by on under boing boing, horror |
THE. HORROR. THE. HORROR. (found on hidekiryuga.tumblr.com via Buzzfeed, thanks Susannah Breslin)...
Tagi: boing boing, horror
