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Information Graphics
October 12, 2012Taschen published recently a exquisite book with a perfect cross section of the history of graphical data representation.Here in short what what Taschen writes about their book Seeing is understandingHow complex ideas can be communicated via graphics“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” —Albert...
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Mapping Strelka 2012
October 04, 2012Brendan McGetrick and Theo Deutinger held a short intensive workshop about the basic principles of research. This year’s focus area was the Red October Island; 38 students divided in 8 groups mapped the island in the aspects of communism/capitalism, rich/poor, animals/plants, religion, sex, sound, international and crime.thanks to the sexuality...
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Lack Index
October 01, 2012The Big Mac Index, a global cost comparison of one McDonald’s Big Mac hamburger, was introduced by The Economist in 1986. The Lack Index is a European version of the concept, because what McDonald’s is to the US, Ikea is to Europe – and Ikea’s Lack table seems to be...
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We Don't Trust You Architects
August 14, 2012The Way We Are Cynical Residents Four architects spending two months of thinking about Tarwewijk and spending three weeks physically in Tarwewijk does not make any difference. The people of Tarwewijk have a lot of people like us seen come and go.
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Material Matters: The Future Furniture Fair
August 14, 2012Imagine if income tax was replaced with tax on raw materials. What would this mean for the design industry and the future furniture fair?During the International Furniture Fair in Milan, Droog will present “Material Matters,” a future furniture fair featuring 20 design companies—both real and imagined—that might come to thrive...
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Grid City
August 14, 2012The grid was present in every pre-modern culture in the world, including the ancient Indus Valley civilization (2600 Indus Valley civilization (2600 Aztec and Mayan settlements of the Americas (100 BC). Throughout its 5,000 years of known existence, the grid has known existence, the grid has lost none of its attractiveness.
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Factory & Wonderland
August 01, 2012Urban Design ConceptThe existing urban structure does at first sight not follow a specific direction. Every building got its freedom to be placed in a vast landscape being individually oriented according to the topography , view or sunlight.
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SL-House
June 01, 2012The building accommodates a family with two kids and their grandpa in the age of 90. In order to provide the grandpa with a small apartment for easy access on ground level, the living spaces of the family had to be placed on first floor.
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-20° Snow Cinema - realized february 2012
February 18, 2012The following article is an afterthought on the essence of architecture:Das Schneekino - Architektur ist ErlebnisDie Idee ist ein Schneekino. Kein Plan und keine Zeichnung ist dem ‚Bauwerk’ vorausgegangen sondern nur das Zurückdenken an Höhen und Breiten von Sitzreihen und dem ungefähren Abstand vom Projektor zur Leinwand.