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2008-07-04T21:11:00Z

Homegrown Crystals by Team Tichenor

2008-05-06T17:03:00Z

acorn crystal necklace.

crystal growth studies

teamtichenor grows crystals.

“teamtichenor is a husband and wife team of artists. we harvested these natural objects from the park down the street from our new home. we then dried out the acorns and soaked them in a super saturated solution of crystal growing liquid. the crystal making process takes several days to form, and we never know exactly what we will get. these are fragile homegrown natural objects, they wont last forever but should be enjoyed before they return once again to the earth.”

Get the book, Crystal Morning, here, and the necklaces (awesome) here.

Tacky Key Blanks on Ebay

2008-04-03T16:28:00Z

check it out, dudes.

From AllThingShiny

Watson @ 18% Grey, Milan, April 16-21st

2008-03-29T17:23:00Z

<font size='2'> Watson is a light box with two perceivable surfaces. While the first surface is purely luminous, the second surface is one of opacity and ornament, visible only by peering through a polarized loupe. The ornamental elements are designed so that different patterns emerge from their intentional rearrangement. In this way, those "peering" share a dynamic experience that is invisible to the rest of the visitors, who can, however, be brought into the interaction by peering themselves.

special thanks to george nune, michael newton and jim termeer
photography by james prinz

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18% Grey: Experiments in Editing Light
April 16th-April 21st
Fabbrica del Vapore
Palazzina Liberty, via Procaccini, 4 - Milan, Italy.'

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A Change Is Going to Come - Sam Cooke

2008-03-24T08:08:00Z

Jurgen Bey on Design Pedagogy

2008-03-10T16:04:00Z

There’s a nice mini article by Jurgen Bey in the July 2007 issue of icon, describing the ideal design school environment.

I would like our studio at the RCA to be like a library of trial and error. The only difference would be that libraries are really well organised. Ours looks like a bit of a mess, but in many ways it’s not. There is stuff all over everyone’s desks and a lot of it looks completely random or useless but it all has a purpose, even if the student is not sure what it is yet. It’s a language of making connections – the language of rubbish.

The nice thing about rubbish is there are no hierarchies – the smallest thing might be just as important as the biggest. So we should cultivate it and develop systems that don’t kill the rubbish world.

Full text here.

D&D&Me

2008-03-09T19:43:00Z

I know I’m still a nerd because the minutes that passed between Gary Gygax’s death and the appearance of the first gchat window announcing it to me was slightly less than the time it took me to find out about Heath Ledger. This says a lot, considering that I compensate for lapses in the knowledge of historical pop culture references (having missed out as a child and an adolescent) by being very seriously on top of mainstream celebrity gossip.

I have long sworn that my introduction to computers/text adventure/sierra/d&d at an early age was directly responsible for my discovery of corel draw/photoshop/the internet/web pages which has since led to becoming a designer of the conceptual/auto-didactic ilk. I never thought I was alone in this trajectory, but the article about Gary Gygax’s connection with contemporary electronic culture posted today in the New York Times is uncannily easy to relate to. Be sure to locate yourself on the accompanying diagram (brilliant) by Sam Potts.