(photo credit: Alessandra Sanguinetti for the New York Times) In grad school we were taught to broaden our definition of "designed things" beyond traditional media to include the less tangible???a single moment, an experience, behavior. Certainly ph...
Barcelona's La Merc?? Festival: Opening Night Projection
During a recent visit to Barcelona I stumbled upon an experience I had admired from afar on my blog almost a year ago: 3D building projections. The evening before the start of the city's annual Merc?? Festival we passed through the Placa de Sant Ja...
Postcards from Spain & London
Clever construction screen in Bilbao printed with the architectural plans for what's being built behind it. Video booth graphic at the Guggenheim Bilbao. Unintentionally illicit photos of Serra's working prototypes. Final pieces, in situ. Rough tr...
Test Driving the Net-a-Porter App for iPad
Since the iPad appeared in the spring, I've been looking forward to seeing how print media adapts to the digital opportunities presented by the device. There are a bunch of magazines that have made the transition including Sports Illustrated, Wire...
Arcade Fire & The Wilderness Downtown
WOW. This interactive film by Chris Milk, set to the Arcade Fire song "We Used to Wait," (from the band's latest album "The Suburbs," which is excellent, btw) hit me straight in the gut with the emotion of the music through a considered use of Goo...
Pencil Art
Craftsman and master miniature carver Dalton Ghetti has been sculpting the graphite in pencils for years, sans magnifying glass. This practice seems to be a true labor of love as he has never shown or sold his work but gifts it to friends. Full st...
Time Flies While Watching "The Secret Powers of Time"
Krank Press & Yellow Owl Workshop Salute the California Quail
Northern and Southern Californians may have their differences, but making lovely paper goods inspired by our state is not one of them. Every day I am greeted by the 2010 Odd Birds of LA monthly calendar by Krank Press, located here in LA and yeste...
Snapshot : MoCA's New Leader
Jeffrey Deitch, NYC gallerist extraordinaire, will be leaving the East Coast (and closing Deitch Projects) in June to take over the Museum of Contemporary Art here in LA. He was interviewed last week as part of the show "Don't Piss on Me and Tell ...
Sustained! Litigation Roundup
* Further developments in the on-going Shepard Fairey vs the Associated Press battle over the visual origins of Fairey's Obama "Hope" poster: On Monday, a judge ruled in favor of the AP, and said that Fairey's lawyers "must disclose the identities...