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Mr. Benedikt Braun started his Diploma last Monday. Aiming for nothing less than the betterment (?) of our world. Let's see what's going to turn out. And to keep track of all scientific and cultural findings leading to this glorious aim there's a weblog to add to your RSS reader for you.

Ze interactiondesignlab has a nice little "issue" about type! Featuring utopist (or metabolist?) architect Yona Friedman, arabic type designer Oded Ezer and the Typogravieh Lebt Allstars (advertising!) Andreas Uebele, Underware and Letterror.

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Whoever get's in contact to finnish design history sooner or later will stumble over marimekko. Founded in 1951 this company is quite important to finnish design and culture. I can point these patterns anywhere and in 8 of 10 cases I'll spot a finn. I personally like these patterns of Maija Isola. Not because I'd like to sport grandmas skirt with the ultra hot Unikko pattern, but because of the character of her designs and their qualities. Some will evoke memories of your childhood, some patterns will remind you of the covers of early russian electro LPs others will perfectly fit into your arty loft office. In case you'll have the chance to see the textiles go and have a look. I suppose they're still handmade silkscreenprints and having a closer look at it you'll get an idea of the various techniques Isola had to use and the long and expensive production she had to run through back then. And a slight feeling remains in contemporary fashion looking at Ivana, Petra Hankaniemi or Kristina Lenss as Antje puts it already out.

Edit: By the way check this blog in case your looking for something patterned - obiously not the shit but maybe helpfull.

So you know social housing projects, preferrably from the 60s? Their huge, their massive but you don't know what to do with them? Take a look at modern Arty-farty Tom Sachs!!!
Your 20 storage housing machine does not have to be that fancy and it mustn't be built by le Corbusier. Measure it (I don't believe that snippet: there are construction plans, nice idea though) get yourself a lot of paper and take a few weeks off. Voila you've got your super stylish art project going on and any art-gourmand will snatch your buildings away from your fancy-shmancy Berlin-Mitte art galleries.
Nice work by Sachs. Probably the only I like so far.

Still think their way of handling lyrics is so elegant and natural. Don't miss thir DVD everything everything!

Teasersite is online now!
Avanto is a festival for electronic art and culture. Check the line up.
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This Movie is one promising piece of Documentary. Guiding a group of people from all over the UK since the age of 7 by interviewing them every seven years - this project is now in its 42nd year and it's participants 49 years old.
49up tracks back and documents their lives so far within interviews. Great Project!

Apple Trailer Page 49up
The UP Series on DVD