Ellen Lupton
Natalie Jeremijenko is GOODTriennial honoree Natalie Jerimijenko is featured on the cover of the current issue of GOOD magazine, the hip new eco/business/culture journal. On GOOD’s web site, you can see a video of Jerimijenko at work in her new Environmental Health Clinic, a floating desk and research station built from recycled soda bottles. Jermijenko reports that you can best experience environmental ills when you are in the environment. Triennial, honoree, Natalie Jerimijenko, GOOD, magazine, magazine cover, feature, website, internet, video, Environmental Health Clinic, office furniture, recycled, materials |
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But is it craft?The makers of Make, the techie-geek D.I.Y. magazine featured in the Triennial, have a new publication out, now in its third issue, called Craft:. This hip and beautiful little zine got me thinking about the craft revolution, which has reinvigorated the lives of design professionals as well as the lives of a vast and passionate general public. Make, techie, geek, DIY, D.I.Y., magazine, Triennial, Exhibition, feature, publication, craft, zine, revolution, Readymade, how to, skills, maker, acquire, embodiment, grounding, craft-based, practice, try, design education, educator, process, conceive, produce, develop, incremental, experience, writing, rework |
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Is D.I.Y. Bad for Design?Viriginia Postrel has a piece on D.I.Y. design in the March/April issue of Print magazine. Postrel is a professional writer, not a designer, whose crossover book The Substance of Style helped convince people in business and cultural institutions that design has something to offer the economy. Her book was directed not at designers, but at the rest of us. Virginia Postrel, DIY, D.I.Y., Do It Yourself, print, magazine, writer, crossover, book, The Substance of Style, audience, tools, available, amateur, professional, practice, develop, blog |
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Are Designers the Enemies of Design?Design writer Bruce Nussbaum delivered a speech at Parsons a few weeks ago whose controversial refrain was “designers suck.” Read the speech on his Business Week blog. Bruce Nussbaum, writer, speech, Parsons, controversial, Business Week, blog, Designers, enemies, protection, turf, democratization, Open, participate, participation, theme, Triennial, Exhibition, DIY, D.I.Y., Do It Yourself, Make, Readymade, howtoons, Processing, Blik, Natalie Jeremijenko, Ron Gilad, how to, mode of thinking, evolve, methodology, practice, power, philosophy, conversation, dialogue |
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Design on the Colbert ReportWow! Stephen Colbert just hosted Mark Frauenfelder, editor-in-chief of Make magazine. Stephen Colbert, Colbert Report, Mark Frauenfelder, editor, Make, magazine, video, clip, David Albertson, web site, Interview |
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Process This!On March 8, Ben Fry offered a hands-on workshop at Cooper-Hewitt devoted to Processing, the open-source visual design software that he co-authored. For more information, visit our calendar. Ben Fry, information visualization, data visualization, Workshop, hands-on, Processing, open-source, open source, software, visual design, co-author, Tech on Your Terms, public programs, explore, experiment, code, writing, graphics, commercial software, generate, skills, development, tool, interactive, animation, audio, visual, input |
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What a MessWhen creating Design Life Now: National Design Triennial, the curators decided not to organize the exhibition by discipline (graphic design, product design, architecture, and so on), or by theme (green, social, formal, technological, etc). Instead, the show is more like life, where diverse objects and images sit beside each other in loose affiliations. Some rooms in our exhibition focus loosely around a topic, such as medical innovations, large-scale technology projecs, or social media, but by and large, the exhibition likes to mix things up. Design Life Now, Triennial, Exhibition, loose, affiliations, focus, topics, mix, curatorial decision, diversity, critical reception, review, Architect's Newspaper, Chip Kidd, Alison Berger |
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Design 2.0The phrase “Web 2.0” refers to the rise of social media over the past four or five years, in which users post their own content as well as shaping the way existing content is viewed through commenting, voting, rating, tagging, and other forms of interaction. social media, user-generated content, blog, blogging, textpattern, free, software, Bill Berry, web design, participation, participatory design, Design Life Now, Exhibition, Triennial, Natalie Jeremijenko, robot, toys, kids, Processing, open-source, open source, computer, language, visual artists, Blik, removable graphics |
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Indie PublishingOne of the themes running through Design Life Now is the opening up of media to everyday citizens. There’s been an explosion of “social media”—Web sites that allow people to build communities and talk with each other on-line. (Blogs like this are one example.) Design Life Now, Exhibition, Triennial, social media, Web, internet, digital, media, user-generated content, participation, blogs, blogging, Communications, revolution, Indie Publishing, public program, event, 2007, Ellen Lupton, Nicholas Blechman, illustrator, art director, NOZONE, Empire, visual, anthology, DIY, Do It Yourself, citizens, graphic design, new media, economy |
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Social LifeMany people complain that technology is isolating people from their fellow humans. I disagree. E-mail, cell phones, FedEx, Blackberries, and other systems are keeping people more in touch than ever. Indeed, many of us are expected to be “reachable” 24/7. social life, technology, technologies, connection, isolation, conversation, virtual vs physical, Design Life Now, Exhibition, Triennial, blogging, SpeakUp, OMA, libraries, Rem Koolhaus, software, computer, languages, free, open source, open-source, Processing, furniture, collaboration, Herman Miller, publishing, inclusive, participatory, DIY, Do It Yourself, culture, Readymade, Make, social impact, interaction, input, feedback, new media |
