How is it that the Tilt-shift technique never ceases to make me like I’m watching a tiny little world in a snowglobe.
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Fritz Eisenhofer’s Dome
A short documentary about architect Fritz Eisenhofer, who designed and built a futuristic earth-sheltered dome in Peka Peka, Aotearoa, New Zealand. Architect’s description and a plan of the dome after the break.
The climate conditions would hardly justify earth shelter but adding all aspects, reduction of maintenance, energy saving, preference for the use of permanent building materials and most importantly environmental consideration made it a worth while undertaking. Sand on this coastal area is the primary ground condition.
A Tune, is a Tune, is a Tune
Erik Spiekermann – Putting Back the Face into Typeface from Gestalten.
Typographer and graphic designer Erik Spiekermann talks about new visual languages, design processes, the analogies of music and typography, and why we need better client culture.
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The legendary Rob Roy Kelly was one of a kind, a larger than life character, writes Hamish Thompson. Gordon Salchow has described him as ‘a gregarious, opinionated, pure and powerful presence’ and I myself was lucky enough to know and work with this inspirational man whose enthusiasm for design was infectious. Kelly, who died in 2004, is best remembered for his two passions – teaching and collecting.
The 1960s was an era when Helvetica was predominant in all aspects of graphic design and advertising. It was therefore surprising to many at the time that a book such as American Wood Type – about the bold and unrefined designs of a bygone era – should be written, and by someone teaching the modernist design aesthetic, too. Twenty years later, American Wood Type was out of print.
However, in April this year American Wood Type was reissued by Liber Apertis Press, a publisher who ‘reissues noteworthy books that are in demand and no longer easily available.’ The cover of this new edition is based on one of Kelly’s designs for his 1964 portfolio of wood type specimens.
Danger of Suffication
One Hundred and Eight is an interactive installation by Nils Volker which features a grid of garbage bags continuously inflated and deflated by small cooling fans. The interactive bit of One Hundred and Eight is achieved through a camera, a computer and a microcontroller… all working to animate garbage bags. Volker: ”Although each plastic bag is mounted stationary the sequences of inflation and deflation create the impression of lively and moving creatures which waft slowly around like a shoal. But as soon a viewer comes close it instantly reacts by drawing back and tentatively following the movements of the observe.
Fashion in Motion
VOGUE Hommes Japan might be the most tech-savvy and clever fashion magazine. VHJ introduces an entirely digital issue. The first images (photographed by Pierre Debusschere) are a treat for any fashion-hungry eye. Nicola Formichetti’s punky touch adds the right amount of attitude to this 3-D story; Fashion in motion indeed.
