No symbol polarizes more.
The swastika – originally an icon for well-being – was perverted into something profane by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party.
Controversial artist Raša Todosijević took the form and turned it on its ear – with different interpretations, it creates other contexts. Raša was born in Serbia in 1945, after World War II. More of his work is posted here.
Found via Marko Davidovic
‘Truth be told, some of Toffler’s predictions have come to pass some 30 years later – his ‘precooked, prepackaged, plastic wrapped instant society’ is fairly dead-on . . . A small segment involving gay marriage also seems very prescient considering current events.’ –Odd Culture
Alvin Toffler’s 1970 novel (above) was an interesting take on the future. Too much technology, too much information, too fast.
Toffler coined the term: Information overload.
In 1972 on a not-so-career-high, Orson Welles narrated a made-for-teevee-wayy-too-serious-tho-unintentionally-goofy Future Shock documentary. Watch it here: [Read more →]
Safeway has a new reusable, old west-styled typographic beef cuts bag – picked it up last night. Reminds me of the CBS Gastrotypographicalassemblage.
Begging dog sold separately.
‘Morteza Momayez (1936-2005) was a Tehran-based graphic designer of posters, covers, logos, and books.’ -Steven Heller
Found via Reza Abedini
‘Futuristic fashion of the 1960s from designers like Pierre Cardin, André Courrèges, Paco Rabanne. Most of the scenes are from the German TV-Show Paris Aktuell’
Music by Mort Garson.
House of the Future part 1 of 2
Back in 1957, chemical company Monsanto gave the world a modular ‘tease’ of the future as part of Disneyland’s original Tomorrowland – a plastic house with plastic dreams.
House of the Future part 2 of 2
monsanto today
These days, Monsanto is doing something else to change the world of tomorrow; it involves soybeans, genetics, lawyers and massive control of our farming industry. Not too happy about it. There is some hope tho. Consumers do vote with their wallets.
This weekend, I saw Robert Kenner’s Food, Inc. It has some of the gory details about how our food is produced these days. Watch it here. Website (and blog and all kinds of stuff) here.
It’s been almost a decade since I read Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation. Things haven’t gotten better.
The House of the Future was demolished in 1967. In first attempts, the wrecking ball simply bounced off its plastic surface.
‘A look at printing the of House Industries’ Eames Century Modern catalog.’
‘Charles and Ray Eames did not design a typeface. They did, however, leave a philoshophical template for a font collection worthy of their name.’
House Industries has created Eames Century Modern – a rethinking of the original Century types – with a midcentury modern update. Details here.
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