Designing for use is something often overlooked by designers. What happens once the design is in the hands of actual people?
Stewart Brand takes a long look at design AFTER it’s implemented – in this case, the design of buildings. Does ‘form follow function?’
6-part, 3-hour BBC Documentary. Based on Brand’s book. Music by Brian Eno. From 1997.
Posted in its entirety on Google. Part one above. For part two thru six, go here.
‘Gautherot’s photographs of Brasilia offer a thorough, cohesive portrait of the new city.’
Photographs by Marcel Gautherot document the early construction of modernist urban planning landmark Brasilia, 1957-1960.
Found via DesignFeast
‘The building is a work of kinetic architecture a cube that opens expands and morphs according to the building use. The building is potentially different every time someone visits.’
Jorge Fontan’s conceptual design for the Franz Kafka Cultura Centrum in Prague.
From his Life Series.
Series includes ‘Talking type with Erik Spiekermann.’
(Has nothing to do with ‘Planking’ – which seems to have evolved separately)
‘This approach is a way of asking questions and changing public response to the significance of commercial buildings in the suburban environment.’
Back in the 1970s, architectural firm SITE created some great facades for the BEST retail chain as part of what was titled The Peeling Project. Sacramento was home to the ‘earthquake’ variant (pictured). The pushed out slab could be moved as necessary to reveal the front entrance.
The BEST chain is now gone – tho evolved into Best Buy, which currently occupies the same building, but the cool entrance is long gone.
More info here. SITE site here.
‘Known for pioneering a more abstract style of graffiti writing, Futura played a major role in the NYC’s graffiti scene of the 70s’
Above, interview with Leonard Hilton McGurr a.k.a. Futura 2000. Website here.
Futura 2000 feat. The Clash: The Escapades Of Futura 2000
‘As you work’
NYC-based Natasha Cooper is Coco Black. And Coco Futura is her site.
Her Futura Mix is music to listen to as you work, sleep, play.
Go here – click, download, share.
The 1955 Lincoln Futura concept car: The model for the 1966 Batmobile. The car originally appeared in the motion picture It Started With A Kiss (1959).
George Barris did the conversion, video below. And (just cause I found the link) here’s a quiz on the most recent Bat vehicle.
Driving thru Bronson Canyon (1966)
Debbie Reynolds and Glenn Ford in It Started With A Kiss (1959)
Found via Batmania UK and The Invisible Agent
From 1973: Elton John, Silhouette Futura sunglasses, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
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