IMG_1187 (via Armchair Media)
A Talk With Thom Mayne - Yet another reason to move to New York and study at Cooper Union.
haters gonna hate
Armchair Family Feast (via kennyferguson)
Wassail! wassail! all over the town,
Our toast it is white and our ale it is brown;
Our bowl it is made of the white maple tree;
With the wassailing bowl, we’ll drink to thee.
Neri Oxman auto-reblog
git it, hot/smart women everywhere.
This Woman Will Make Our Walls Breathe - Neri Oxman - Gizmodo
What would you like to design next?
Nothing in particular. I mean, that question itself is categorizing the object of design, isn’t it? It’s like going to a little boy and asking, “Do you want to design a car?” or “Do you like home electronics?” If someone asked me to design something, I would only design it if it was something that other people would say, “You’re really going to design that?!?” I’m not interested in designing something that is design-ey. Or maybe I’m just not interested in doing design-ey design. I like something that feels like maybe it was designed, maybe not, but just makes me say, “Hey, that’s nice!” Lately I’ve been designing things like the runners on the ceiling and the wooden pieces that fit in to connect the wall and the floor. When those small things are designed nicely, the whole space becomes really beautiful. I’m also working on designing soaps and Japanese paper. I want to design the unnoticeable. (via Theme | Human/Object Relations: Naoto Fukasawa)
I used to think that being creative means to start from zero and build up something new, but recently I’ve begun to feel that what designers do is kind of like a clean-up. For example, the reason why Japanese Zen temples are so beautiful is not so much because of the architecture or the gardens themselves but because the temples are cleaned up well. Cleaning up is to take good care of the borderline between the natural and the artificial, and that process, if continued for a long time, brings forth something like a faint shoreline between what’s natural and what’s man-made. That littoral strand is really where the essence of beauty lies in Japanese gardens and Zen temples. I think that is similar to what we do. Here’s another example. When you typeset a sentence, you don’t need an unusual font. All you need is a simple font, with each and every letter carefully considered, and that is enough to give the typography its power. It is just as how each and every leaf on a tree grows in consciousness of the sunlight and also how each and every hair on an animal’s skin grows according to its own will. A fine coat of fur on a live animal is so beautiful, but once the animal is killed and stuffed, the beauty is gone.
A Good Day t-shirt
by Grotesk
