everyday is today

2011-04-08T12:44:00.000+01:00

The Sad Portfolio

2011-02-24T09:17:00.002Z

Human Error

2011-01-19T01:00:00.001Z

Biro

2011-01-17T16:21:00.003Z

Paper bag - in leather...

I wouldn't mind owning this paper leather bag! You can buy it at Hunting and Collecting in Brussels, see it here

2011-01-04T23:44:00.002Z

SNOW by Tokujin Yoshioka

I wish I could go to the MORI art museum in Tokyo and see this installation called Snow by Tokujin Yoshioka. Even though the snow over Christmas has been pretty impressive

2010-12-14T20:07:00.000Z

TODAY

2010-11-17T12:53:00.001Z

2010-11-14T19:49:00.002Z

A2-TYPE

A2/SW/HK has launched the type foundry A2-TYPE which features more than a decade of their type design.
See it Here

2010-11-07T23:46:00.000Z

PINCHED

2010-11-04T14:42:00.001Z

TODAY

2010-11-02T16:19:00.002Z

Working on ideas...

2010-09-20T01:53:00.000+01:00

2010-07-29T13:17:00.002+01:00

Great Dancing

Underwear by FM Belfast (Music Video) from Daniel Scheinert on Vimeo.

Credit to George for always supplying me with great videos to watch!

2010-06-22T17:40:00.002+01:00

New video for EIOH

George and Dario have just finished the new video for EIOH's new single "You're doing so well".
Hope you like it!

2010-06-15T15:38:00.002+01:00

DISGUISE

I'm all up for new streetscapes, check out these alternatives ways of doing cellular phone antennas...
You can find all the rest of these new plant species in Robert Voit's book "New Trees"
Buy it here

2010-05-19T14:41:00.002+01:00

Architectural Pentathlon - Barbican

We're going to do a workshop together with Fredrik Paulsen at Barbican in July! It will be loads of fun hopefully, join us for the Architectural Pentathlon and design and construct architecture for your head, then test it for strength, style and general wobblyness by taking part in our pentathlon competition. Will you be ahead of the game?

2010-05-14T13:52:00.004+01:00

ffffl*ckr

unbelievable addictive...
image searching Friday, nice way to spent a grey day.

fffflckr

you get a selection of random favourites from one person, when you click on one of the images it takes you to a selection of that person's favourites... ahh the joy of programmers.

2010-05-12T02:05:00.000+01:00

ANDREAS

GURSKY

2010-05-07T12:13:00.000+01:00

BO+OK

2010-04-14T10:22:00.002+01:00

Slightly Annoyed...

I don't know if I'm the only one who feels like we apparently still live in the fifties, where mom takes care of the home and dad goes to work...

2010-03-26T10:30:00.000Z

LIFE...

2010-03-25T22:41:00.002Z

SO WHAT IS IT YOU DO AGAIN

Having been asked that question at several family gatherings, it was very compelling to watch Dutch artists and directors Lernert Engelberts and Sander Plug document 9 artist attemp to explain their often abstract art to their parents.

A very beautiful film as well.

Watch it here

2010-03-25T21:40:00.001Z

CAMOUFLAGE

2010-02-23T16:46:00.004Z

THE POUNDSHOP

Back from holidays and I'm working on a new project The Poundshop together with the rest of Household and Sara Melin.
This is going to be one fun pop-up shop for sure!
Keep an eye out for what we are up to on The Poundshop Blog!

2010-02-01T23:24:00.004Z

The What Where When

Anything worth doing within the London Art & Design scene can be found on Claire's new site. She describes it as "A guide to London's less clebrated events".
Keep an eye on it here

2010-02-01T23:03:00.001Z

A New Generation

2010-02-01T14:10:00.005Z

Working hard is overrated...

 Have a read of this interesting post my friend Martin sent me this morning, makes sense to me...
READ

2010-01-28T12:49:00.003Z

The iPad... the sequal

Everybody seem to be in two minds about the iPad... George sent me this today, it is hilarious!
Watch it here

2010-01-27T21:11:00.002Z

The iPad

So it is here... The iPad! Would you spent that amount of money on it?
It is slick for sure...
See Apple's very celebratory video of their new product here

2010-01-21T13:52:00.002Z

Light Touch

Am I the only one who might not really be ready yet for our world to turn into something a bit like Mission Impossible yet? But on the other hand I'm really geekily amazed and would like to try this interactive projector screen as soon as possible...
Read a bit more about Light Touch here

Now we all just have to wait till March this year when Apple apparently will launch their iTablet / iPad / iSlate to see if the Mac crowd will go mental about this iPhone on steroids...

2010-01-21T13:34:00.003Z

COFFEE!

One of the best uses of Google maps... This map shows you were to find some of the best coffee places in London. Amongst some of my favorites are Leila's, Climpson and Sons and The Counter.
Check it out here!

Even though I think Present on 140 Shoreditch High Street E1 6JE has been missed out on this map, but find more about the shop here.

2010-01-18T22:37:00.002Z

HAITI

A fundraiser held at the RCA in response to the devastating earthquake in Haiti. Please donate if you are able to from any Oxfam store or using this link to the Disaster Emergency Committee:
http://www.dec.org.uk/item/200

2010-01-13T23:17:00.003Z

EVERYTHING that I love about German music...

George sent me this today, it is almost too good to be true!
The list of great ideas in this video is too long to even write here, it is one amazing visual idea upon another...

2010-01-11T17:18:00.003Z

£3.90

Send more letters! Royal mail has released a new set of stamps with classic album covers, pretty good music taste at royal mail...

Acquire them here

2010-01-11T16:27:00.001Z

Day and Night wear

2010-01-11T16:22:00.002Z

The marble of doom!

Happens to even the best...

2010-01-08T16:55:00.002Z

After 55 years...

2010-01-03T18:15:00.001Z

Let's do yoga in 2010

2010-01-03T18:06:00.001Z

Stine Tranekjær

Look at more of Stine's work here

2010-01-01T17:59:00.001Z

Let's enter a New Year

"The adult trap" by

Ib Spang Olsen

2009-12-17T11:04:00.005Z

apartamento

Dario always buy apartamento, which is great for me! Apartamento is a dream interior magazine, no flashy stuff all down to earth and really nice! The current issue features a great interview with Enzo Mari, a nice tale of plants, a colouring in bit and lots of other stuff!
Learn more here

2009-12-09T14:57:00.003Z

BOOK LAUNCH

Iaspis presents a new publication on graphic design. Conversations with Kajsa Ståhl, Maki Suzuki (Åbäke) and HC Ericson; James Goggin (Practise) and Mia Frostner, Robert Sollis, Paul Tisdell and Rasmus Troelsen (Europa); Will Holder and Samuel Nyholm plus Nille Svensson (Sweden Graphics) and Marieke Stolk, Danny van den Dungen and Erwin Brinkers (Experimental Jetset). In other articles and interviews: Vinca Kruk, Daniel van der Velden and Gon Zifroni (Metahaven); David Reinfurt and Stuart Bailey (Dexter Sinister); Emily Pethick, Ramia Mazé, Zak Kyes and Mark Owens.

Editors: Magnus Ericson, Zak Kyes, Martin Frostner, Sara Teleman and Jonas Williamsson.

Book release and public talk tonight at:

the Architectural Association, London
9 December 2009, 6.30pm, AA Lecture Hall

2009-12-09T00:57:00.002Z

Keith Schofield

The new video for Charlotte Gainsbourg and Beck's duet "Heaven can wait", directed by Keith Shofield who made it using inspiration from images he has found on the world wide web for all video treatments he has worked on, is quite an amazing video! Thanks George.
Watch it here.

2009-12-07T12:07:00.007Z

The only reason for time is so that
everything doesn't happens at once

– A.E

2009-11-29T23:03:00.002Z

The Form of the Book Book
Occasional Papers

Come to the launch of The Form of the Book Book, an interesting collection of essays on book design by Catherine de Smet, James Goggin, Jenny Eneqvist, Roland Früh & Corina Neuenschwander, Richard Hollis, Chrissie Charlton, Armand Mevis and me.
Edited by Sara de Bondt and Fraser Muggeridge.

The celebration of the launch will take place on:

Wednesday 16 December 2009
6.30–8.30pm

Artwords Bookshop
20–22 Broadway Market
London E8 4QJ
www.artwords.co.uk

2009-11-25T17:34:00.000Z

2009-11-24T13:31:00.004Z

MUJI / LEGO

Ideal x-mas present...

Muji in Japan will start selling this hole puncher which match up with the four stubs on LEGO bricks, this way you can expand the horizon of you LEGO creations - oh what fun we'll have!
from Muji Japan

2009-11-23T17:13:00.000Z

Frankfurter...

2009-11-22T23:44:00.001Z

Nymphenburg

260 years or so of procelain making

2009-11-18T17:18:00.000Z

If life was like this....

2009-11-18T16:22:00.001Z

Ed Ruscha

mountains...

2009-11-17T00:09:00.001Z

fifty years

2009-11-09T17:27:00.004Z

Discussion Week

Questioning design competitions I got to write a piece for It's Nice That's weekly discussions on the blog. Have a read and discuss here!

2009-11-09T00:39:00.003Z

R-Echos

Jerome Rigaud's experiemental online magazine with a vast variety of topics from biology to graphic design to ecology to business, and around again feeding you another load of art, computing and science. Time well spent, at least for sourceful information and knowledge worth knowing. Have a red here

2009-11-05T14:23:00.003Z

Emma draws

We have just finished illustrator Emma Löfström's website, she has a quite explicit mind and a broken line - I like it alot. Have a look here

2009-10-27T02:07:00.006Z

GEEK!

But somehow I get warm and fuzzy inside because Robin Kinross knows a thing a two when he says: "One might remark also that a book open on a table – while the reader holds a cup of tea in both hands (for warmth and comfort), or sews a button on a shirt, or carries a young child – is no more than a mark of decent civilization". Read the full article about books that lies open, and save the list of, non-British for some obscure reason we can only speculate about, binders who knows how to do a good job finishing of that book, here.

2009-10-23T11:35:00.004+01:00

FABIEN CAPPELLO

Fabien Cappello is a designer working mainly with furniture, products, cities, factories, systems, key cutters, locality, christmas trees, collaborators and friends.

Just finished his super super simple site, have a look here

2009-10-22T11:01:00.001+01:00

READ!

Follow the BOOK CLUB blog...

2009-10-20T10:57:00.005+01:00

Gerhard Richter

I need to buy Gerhard Richter's book with his painted photographs and find out what German printer printed it - it is an absolutely amazingly beautiful book. Only quality like that can reproduce these incredible images. mmmmmmmm beautiful!

2009-10-15T00:41:00.002+01:00

Ben Pearce has a nice collection...

Argh could spent ages on Ben Pearces collection of found images on his flickr, kill time with Ben here

2009-10-12T00:51:00.002+01:00

To be a man, a...

Fantastic Man has updated their web site, it is utterly simplistic and very very nice! Sometimes I wish I was a man...

See it here

2009-10-01T11:43:00.002+01:00

Enzo Mari!

Friday the 3rd of Oct 2009 6.30pm at AA, Bedford Square, London

Be there! For what? For: Enzo Mari talk and the opening of Auto-progettazione Revisited exhibition with contributors Clemence Seilles, Travis Broussard, Ryan Gander, Martino Gamper, Graham Hudson, Phyllida Barlow, Keung Caputo, Lucas Maassen, Joe Pipal.

2009-09-18T14:45:00.003+01:00

50 Hands a Household Orchestra at DesignMade this Tuesday

We're part of the "My Perfect Neighbours" the Korean Design Council exhibition during Design Week. The show opens this Tuesday, where we'll be holding a 50 Hands Orchestra workshop - come and join us!

6.30pm
22 September 2009
Korean Cultural Centre UK
Ground Floor, Grand Building
1-3 Strand, London, WC2N 5BW

2009-09-01T13:04:00.003+01:00

Unter dem Motto - Self-publishing Fair

I wish I was in Berlin on the 5th of September, then I would go to Unter dem Motto a one day self-publishing book fair!

Look out for stuff from the very wonderful Rollo Press operated by Urs Lehni.

Find the fair here:
Motto Bookstore &
Chert Gallery
Skalitzer Straße 68
10997 Berlin
Underground U1
Schlesisches Tor

5th Spetember 2009
12 am — 12 pm

2009-09-01T12:54:00.002+01:00

Typographica at Kemistry Gallery

Go have a look at the legendary graphic design journal Typographica, which ran from 1949 to 1967, founded by Herbert Spencer at the next exhibition at Kemistry Gallery. Large scale spreads detailing the journal's content and a full set of the journals will be on display.

The show will run from 11th September - 31st October 2009.

2009-08-27T17:36:00.001+01:00

Back to work...

www.house-hold.org

2009-08-14T15:02:00.001+01:00

I want to bike to Richmond park again!

Go and see more of Dario's photos and thoughts on his blog.

2009-08-05T12:25:00.002+01:00

Animal Kingdom Love

Summer of Love by Saiman Chow

2009-08-02T18:25:00.002+01:00

Hopefully a joke!?!

following up on "America's next top..." reality series Graphic Design will be up for grabs...
Is this for real???

2009-08-02T18:05:00.002+01:00

Applaud Yourself

Sometimes you just need some appreciation, buy your own applaud machine from Laikingland designed by Martin Smith

2009-07-26T00:15:00.002+01:00

No no - no no no no - there's no limit

CDEFGABC from lernert Engelberts on Vimeo.

2009-07-25T23:48:00.003+01:00

Lego History

Mike Balakov loves Lego, and it looks like Lego's advertisement company Blattner Brunner also likes what he does...

For Lego's 50th birthday campaign they made this print campaign:

2009-07-25T23:33:00.004+01:00

Dreaming of a Tree House

2009-07-19T17:25:00.005+01:00

The Ultimate Poster!

Keeping a bit to the teenage theme...
A combination of the most popular teenage posters of our time, we would have millions if we had done this in the early nineties.

2009-07-15T00:23:00.004+01:00

2009-07-15T00:23:00.003+01:00

2009-07-15T00:23:00.001+01:00

2009-07-14T20:43:00.005+01:00

Media in Teenage-Land

Read the full report written by Matthew Robson aged 15 here

2009-07-13T20:54:00.002+01:00

Chemistry-Party-Time!

2009-07-10T23:34:00.004+01:00

Essentials

D and I love living in a city where Lucozade and Coke is part of essential daily shopping...

2009-07-07T19:47:00.003+01:00

Objectified by Gary Hustwit

Silly billy me missed the screening of Gary Hustwit's new documentary Objectified when it played at the Barbican in June, any hope it might be showing somewhere near London soon?
Enjoy the trailer.

2009-07-07T19:06:00.004+01:00

The CHOC-U-LATER!

Wauw!
I saw this on KIOSKhello and had to find out more... it's a dead basic calculator, but shaped like a chocolate bar - oh how could anyone resist from buying it? I could do my tax returns myself if I had one of those!

Buy it here

2009-07-07T19:02:00.003+01:00

Shapemaker in Action

If you wanna play yourself, you can buy them from This Issue's netshop amongst other goodies

2009-06-29T00:11:00.003+01:00

ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART SHOW2

Show 2 at RCA is up and on, so much to see!
See Jasmine Raznahan's project Metapress and Fabien Cappello's xmas tree furniture.

RCA SHOW DETAILS

2009-06-28T23:38:00.004+01:00

JUHU GOING TO ROSKILDE FESTIVAL

This is what I'm planning to see:

Thursday:
17.30 Lucy Love
22.15 Kanye West
00.30 Trentemøller

Friday:
14.00 First Aid Kit
19.30 Nick Cave and the bad seeds
23.30 Grace Jones

Saturday:
12.30 Balstyrko
16.00 Håkan Hellström OR 16.30 Oh no ono
18.30 I got you on tape
00.00 Fever ray (juhu)
01.00 Pet shop boys
02.00 Malk de koijn

Sunday:
14.00 Peter Doherty
18.30 The whitest boy alive
20.45 Yeah yeah yeahs

2009-06-28T23:32:00.004+01:00

The new Grizzly Bear video by Patrick Daughters is beautiful!
Enjoy it.

2009-06-23T12:21:00.002+01:00

Clive Thompson on the Future of Reading in a Digital World

James sent me a text telling me to read Clive Thompson's article
in WIRED, read it here.

I have just interviewed Bob Stein for the book The Form of the Book, which will be published by Occasional Papers later this year and there's many overlapping ideas. He worked with McKenzie Wark to put his "Gamer Theory" book up on commentpress. The WIRED article is an interesting short read.

To pre-order a copy or for further information about The Form of the Book, contact Occasional Papers: info@occasionalpapers.com

2009-06-22T13:48:00.003+01:00

BEYOND KIOSK

The BEYOND KIOSK exhibition at MUDAM in Luxembourg curated by Cristoph Keller is a dream for anybody with a love for independent publishing of contemporary art, design and graphic art.
Cristoph Keller has selected 700 works from his archive of publications, artists' books, magazines, videos and audio media.
I would have spent hours there if I could and wish that Luxembourg wasn't that remote a place to go to for re-visits of this exhibition.

For opening times and more info see here

2009-06-12T23:49:00.002+01:00

MASSIVE - weekend show

For this weekend only! 12th-14th of June 12-6pm
Supine Studios
255 Armhurst Road
London
N16 7UN
I went and saw the MASSIVE show, never been to Supine before, go to see mini massive art this weekend.

2009-06-12T18:24:00.004+01:00

DIVINE - Sebastian Tellier

He cracks me up! George finds this video hilarious and I totally agree:
Holding up a news agent, playing the keyboard while a microphone weirdly appears from his chest, doing the gangsta attitude, getting a massage, hanging out in the file section of the most boring office - all in a white suit playing it cool.
WATCH IT!

2009-06-10T00:22:00.003+01:00

Ari Versluis & Ellie Uyttenbroek

Many hours spent on Ari and Ellie's mesmerizing and impressive site!
Get lost yourself

2009-06-10T00:02:00.002+01:00

Dear Computer

Hours spent here!
Every image imaginable can be found on Dear Computer's:
Google Image Ripper

2009-06-08T23:51:00.004+01:00

DISTORTION 2009
Enghave Plads

Just came back from Distortion 2009 in Copenhagen, and it's the best of the best - great street parties in each part of Copenhagen!
If only the bloody weather hadn't been so fucking freezing...
Maybe I wonder why everybody all of a sudden seem to love a mass techno trance? Maybe because no matter how pissed you are it is a rhythm you can still kinda keep.

GO NEXT YEAR!

Distortion

2009-06-07T20:13:00.003+01:00

Choir of Young Believers concert at DR Koncertsalen!

I missed this concert, they even had a double concert on the same night because they're so bloody good the first one sold out like hot cakes.
See a video clip
here
and go and by Choir of Young Believers debut album "This is for the white in your eyes"!

2009-06-03T10:35:00.003+01:00

if:book

Read "The presence of print" article by Sonja Drimmer on the if:book blog this morning, if you have been down to Blackwell's to see the EBM and gotten one of the books, many of the what if's she is asking in this article should be asked much more.

Here's the snippet that caught me:

So again, I ask, what has the EBM got that the digital formats haven't? And again the answer is Presence. If people are going to continue to purchase paper books, publishers have got to do for books what the music industry failed to do for CDs. While the CD-stand or -case was almost de rigeur in 1990s interior decor, people soon realized that a tower of transparent plastic was not the personality statement piece they imagined it could be. Yet vinyl records, despite their obsolescence, retain their appeal for many, from nostalgic Baby Boomers to cool-hunting teens. Perhaps it is, after all, the sound quality, but I'm willing to bet that the labor put into sleeves and liner notes is what has guaranteed their enduring appeal. Records are fetishized objects, while CDs are shiny detritus disks. At this moment in time, books seem poised to go either way.

How can the EBM and the publishing industry at large promote the permanence of the paper book? Capitalize on what already makes the book appealing. Its Presence. Looking at my own bookshelves at the moment, my eye is pleased to see three elegantly-designed paperbacks of Murakami's works leaning against one another, while lamenting that the fourth was produced by a publisher with a lesser eye for design and display. My Penguin Classics form a band of black crowned with a single red striation, and my cookbooks' spines flash an array of color that, frankly, makes me hungry.

Read the whole text here

2009-05-30T10:26:00.004+01:00

KIOSK !
There's not much else to say, they are grrreat! Go there for necessary and unnecessary shopping from around the world or check out their blog.
Like them a lot!

2009-05-29T16:47:00.006+01:00

PHALLIC FAIRY LIQUID FOUNTAINS

Go to SHOW1 at Royal College of Art and see Thomas Adank's Permutation - it is
quite something:

Royal College of Art
Kensington Gore
SW7 2EU
London

Open 29 May - 7 June
11am - 8pm

www.thomasadank.com

2009-05-26T12:11:00.003+01:00

BOOK LAUNCH TODAY!
Régis Tosetti went out for a hunt... This book should be an interesting exploration into the universe of hunting.

Come down to:
CAFE OTO 18–22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London E8 3DL
from:
8pm-1am

Régis Tosetti

2009-05-26T11:52:00.003+01:00

Yup it's up!
George has made a great film and editing job of our installation The Animatic at the Fendi exhibition Craft Punk
at Salone del Mobile, Milan.

Enjoy!

2009-05-25T16:55:00.005+01:00

I've been invited to participate in a day of talks for Winchester School of Art's degree show.
Hopefully and interesting day! Come and have a listen on Saturday the 30th May, 2-6pm at:

Brick Lane Gallery
196 Brick Lane
E3 6SA London