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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 Italic Room’ is an installation created by student Linna Xu – shown at the Bauhaus University in Weimar.

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The typographic work of Ben Crick.

Found via bumbumbum

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‘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.

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The work of Handmadefont.

Found via The Whiteboard

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Novelle Vague’s Dance With Me. From the album Bande A Part.

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‘Photographer Jacques Dequeker goes futuristic for his latest 3-D spread featuring Carol Ribeiro.’

More here.

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Serge Gainsbourg, Charlotte’s father.

Found via Trisha Rhomberg

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Found via GIF Anime

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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.

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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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