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From Weimar: Pentatones
Video for Hidden by Pentatones (above). Inshallah (below). Plus, ‘Documentation of the preEnter project of Pentatones and YouAreWatchungUs’ (below below).
Myspace here. The Pentatones are hooked up with the bauhaus label, collaborating with Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.
The bauhaus label: bringing sound design into the fold
Out of Weimar, the first home to the bauhaus, is marcel & wassily: the bauhaus label.
The original bauhaus’ manifesto advocated the union of fine, applied and performing arts. This included architecture, civil engineering, design and media. Today, the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar has incorporated the next logical step, the dimension of sound.
Music, radio plays, sound art, experimental radio, electroacoustic constructs. First step: this past summer, a collection of music was distributed at the school on a concrete-cast USB stick via gumball machines. Very bauhaus in its thinking.
The label doesn’t stop with student work. And like the original school, is working with outside resources, bands and artists.
Check out the label’s cool site. Click around, see what pops up.
And here’s some of the USB hosted bands (with links to their MySpace spaces):
More artists listed here
Modular sex box?
‘I imagine people go into for making sex’ -posted comment by dario
Once designs are actually built, humans tend to come up with new uses.
Sleepbox by Arch Group. Sleep on the run. Details (and comments) here.
A few years back, my wife – a business traveler – came up with an idea almost exactly like this for a design class she was taking. It involved a lot of plug ins for laptops, connectivity.
I like how these shots have careful incorporation of shrubbery.
Bauhaus Dessau in type
A 3D typographic re-rendering of Walter Gropius’ Bauhaus building in Dessau. By UK-based artist Chris Labrooy.
Set in ITC Bauhaus – a post-modern interpretation that’s everywhere these days – originally designed by Ed Benguiat and Victor Caruso in 1975.
Rendering details here.
Plus, here’s a recent photoset of the actual restored building. Building history here.
And
Here’s another one of my favorite type buildings.
Invitation to the opening of the Bauhaus building; design by Herbert Bayer, 1926
A whole bunch of bauhaus
Women in red. Photo by Fischer, 2004
One evening this past June, I went a bit crazy and tweeted a bunch of Bauhaus links. In honor of the design school’s 90th anniversary (founded 1919). History, photosets, auctions, bicycles, fonts, coffee, the Mexican bauhaus, anything interesting I could find online.
Jamie DeVriend collected and conveniently reposted these on her blog.
Happy exploring!
Herbert Bayer circles, 1923. Photo by Ralf Herrmann
Bauhaus greyscales faces tee
Josef Albers, Schablonenschrift. Photo by Ralf Herrmann
Bauhaus Dessau. Photo by Ralf Herrmann
Bauhaus at the MoMA
”It’s a Haushold word, the Bauhaus, but a misunderstood one. Its influence is all around us, from Ikea furniture to glass skyscrapers, but it is credited – and blamed – for much more than it should be.’ -Candace Jackson, Wall Street Journal
The bauhaus was about advanced thinking in design, and it has its successes and failures. It was a great experiment and it changed the world. Its influence can be seen in everything today.
Workshops for Modernity: Bauhaus 1919-1933 just opened in NYC. And the exhibition is about going beyond the basics, show how far reaching the school actually was.
WSJ article here. Exhibition info here. Catalog here. TIME magazine video here. Show runs thru January 25, 2010.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe armchair, 1927-30
Summer school at the bauhaus
This year is the 90th anniversary of the bauhaus (1919-33). And workshops – titled ‘get on site’ – were held this past summer in Dessau. Here’s a photo gallery.
And here’s info on . . . the bauhaus bed and breakfast. Really.
Julius Shulman on film
Visual Acoustics, the new documentary profiling modernist photographer Julius Shulman (1910-2009) is now screening in select locations around the country.
More info at Grain Edit. Visit the Visual Acoustics site here.
James Dyson: Beyond vacuum cleaners
Dyson Air Multiplier: rethinking table fans
James Dyson actually made a vacuum cleaner that syncs with my dogs. They’re really hairy and they need a no-clog vacuum. And that’s cool. He’s gone beyond this though, and here’s a great write up at the Lost Angeles blog.
Up next, probably the Dyson sphere. At the very least, I’ve always been impressed that he uses a variation of bauhaus boy Herbert Bayer’s universal typeface for his logo.
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