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Tokujin Yoshioka created a collection of polycarbonate ‘invisible’ furniture for Kartell. More here.

Found via Fubiz

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The typographic work of Ben Crick.

Found via bumbumbum

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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.

Tags: culinary, design, design history, education by steve
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‘As the name suggests, we’re going to write, photograph, illustrate, design, edit, and ship a magazine in two days.’

the process
48 Hour Magazine Issue Zero begins May 7, 2010. The editors will unveil a theme and contributors (which can be you!) will then have 24 hours to produce and submit work. The editors will then get it all together in the next 24. The final product will be a website and magazine – completed within 48 hours.

And they promise, ‘It will be insane. Better yet, it might even work.’

More details here. Twitter here.

48 Hour Magazine is the brain child of Heather Powazek Champ, Dylan Fareed, Mathew Honan, Alexis Madrigal, Derek Powazek and Sarah Rich.

Found via Oded Ezer

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A look at some of the Eames products and prototypes. More here.

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Part one of two

‘Charles & Ray Eames show their then-new masterpiece on the Arlene Francis ‘Home’ show broadcast on the NBC television network in 1956.’

Part two of two

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‘Go up, up, and away the Charles and Ray way with the iconic cloud backdrop  . . .  from some of the dynamic duo’s photo and film projects’

133 Eames items – that belonged to John and Marilyn Neuhart, the official archivists at the Eames Office – went on the block in what was called the Eames Sale of the Century.

Article here. What sold here.

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Marithé and François Girbaud‘s Spring/Summer 2010 This is a Crazy World campaign. Shot by Steve Hiett. More here.

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Part 1 of 2

Tonight is the season finale of Project Runway 7. Go Seth Aaron go!

And here’s an interview with PW’s Tim Gunn from last week. He and Craig chat about rudeness in the fashion industry, circus clowns and why regular humans are cut differently than superthin models. Great conversation.

Part 2 of 2

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Fashion borrows from the airlines. For editorial and more. Read here.

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Star Wars vs. Saul Bass (2007)

Star Wars vs. Saul Bass (above) is described as ‘If Star Wars was filmed two decades earlier and Saul Bass did the opening title sequence, it ‘might’ look like this.’ The animation was created as part of a school project.

A more recent mashup is Tron vs. Saul Bass (below).

Tron vs. Saul Bass (2009)

The designer has also made a bunch of matching posters, sort of how Bass used to.

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