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Monthly Archives: June 2006
Contempo about design, art and society
Contempo, (nice site styling, but all flash is a bit last century in internet years, especially for a purveyor of things contemporary) the new and refreshingly convergent publication presenting homegrown creative style and cultural sophistication is posing an open question around the relationship of art and design. Imposing a 200 word limit is me thinks a good thing. So my unedited initial response to the question goes:
Isn’t design and art simply sides of the same coin. Is there really any interesting or important Continue reading
What do ya know, its my birthday!
Ubuhle Buyeza: The beauty is coming… (to World Urban Forum)
Ubuhle Buyeza: The beauty is coming… it is beautiful indeed when ‘interventions’ extend in scope beyond information gathering and evolves into collaborative co-creation that makes even just a bit of the world a better place. This is why I feel particularly fond of this poster which I have very quickly put together for Maurice who is presenting the Growing up in Cities project in South Africa at WUF (World Urban Forum) in Vancouver this week.
Joburg moon tower
(Lambda print available)
Irrational disjointed fuckup (personal)
I’m indulgent, compulsively irrational, superficial, self-absorbed, stupid and incompetent, week willed and make promises I don’t keep.
Not all the time and not with everything, but Continue reading
Fields of visions2
Fields of visions
The link through is bigMadonna with desktop ‘crucifiction’
Shirky on Categories, Links, and Tags
Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags, Clay Shirky
Starts off a bit wordy, but is as straight forward, accurate and as comprehensive as this kind of essay should be. Clear explenations, though assumes readers know what Flickr and del.icio.us are. Definitely recommended reading for new web developers/designers.