Daily Poetics

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of, and in your nature, there lies hidden rich mines of thought and purpose awaiting your development

Link: Strange-Carafes.

title  quote: Jonathan Swift

A lively understandable spirit / Once entertained you. / It will come again. / Be still. / Wait.

Link: flexibility - renewable clothing by fernando brízio.

"flexibility - design in a fast changing society
ex carceri 'le nuove', turin
june 29 - october12
http://www.torinoworlddesigncapital.it/

'flexibility - design in a fast-changing society'  is one of the many events taking place in turin this year in conjunction with the city being named the 'design world capital for 2008'. the show consists of nine projects by international designers installed at a former prison ex carceri 'le nuove'.

 

renewable clothing by fernando brízio

by placing colored felt-tip pens in the pockets of the dress its appearance changes over time. within an hour - to one and a half hours the colored ink bleeds into the fabric and creates a one-off design for each occasion. the owner can then clean the dress and color it in a different way for each time they wear it."

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

Link: It's Nice That.

"The results of an extensive exploration with shadows, the One Day Poem Pavilion demonstrates the poetic, transitory, site-sensitive and time-based nature of light and shadow. Using a complex array of perforations, the pavilion’s surface allows light to pass through creating shifting patterns, which–during specific times of the year–transform into the legible text of a poem. The specific arrangements of the perforations reveal different shadow-poems according to the solar calendar: a theme of new-life during the summer solstice, a reflection on the passing of time at the period of the winter solstice. The time-based nature of the poem–and the visitor’s time-based encounters with it–allow viewers to have different experiences either seeing a stanza of the poem or getting the whole poem. All of these possible experiences are equally valuable and have meanings unique to the individual. This technique has the potential for producing particular effects and meanings within an architectural environment. Without the use of a source of power other than the sun, this project uses light and shadow to push the boundaries of communication and experiential delight." -One Day Poem Pavilion by Jiyeon Song

Title Quote: Robert Penn Warren

In my beginning is my end.

Link: index.

"The project 'Come Rain or Shine' is comprised of two products; walls and floors in wood, and tiles of felt in plaster or concrete.

They both work in conjunction with the natural elements - allowing nature itself to bring pattern and decoration to exterior or interior surfaces.

Through employing the effects of nature as a means to mark a surface, the potential for the natural elements is facilitated to play a part in creating decoration - this results in organic embellishment without harm to the environment.

This work lends itself both to exterior walls where they have exposure to the outdoors enabling the patterns to evolve over time, or pre-weathered decorative surfaces as a feature within the interior."

Title Quote: TS Eliot

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

Link: Peg Pencil.

"The project was to explore the perception of intuitive feeling between people and objects.  These pencils were explored from different points of view including memory, behavior, humor and product language." -Peg Pencil

Title Quote: Joyce A. Myers

t went to pieces all at once—All at once and nothing first, Just as bubbles do when they burst.

Link: Multistorey.

Title Quote:

Oliver Wendall Holmes

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

Design by Eric Kass, Funnel

"Eric Kass calls himself an artist. he has lived for 37 years in Indiana .You may have seen his work 15 times in national magazines, or in 18 books, or possibly in over 20 art shows and galleries. You could also have seen him on the street and not even known it. He has 15 years of varied design experience crafting award-winning, hard-working brands, identities, book covers and packaging for a wide range of national patrons from start-ups to in-house to"

 

"--- i provide lovingly crafted brand experiences that capture your essence and present it in a highly unique fashion tailored to fit you and only you --- i sculpt the details while keeping my mind on the big picture considering each individual point of contact ( logo / site / stationery / package etc. ) and how it all adds up to one powerful pulpit to present your position --- you’re special, a one-of-a-kind, and i can help make sure everyone knows it with always intriguing and never forgettable print and digital communications --- the work we create together will be cherished by you and coveted by your customers for years to come ---" -Eric Kass

funnel blog funnel paper goods

Quote: Jaques Maritain

 

Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind. -Epicetus

Link: The Thing Quarterly :: About The Thing.

"THE THING is a quarterly periodical in the form of an object. Each year, four artists, writers, musicians or filmmakers are invited by the editors ( Jonn Herschend and Will Rogan ) to create an everyday object that somehow incorporates text. This object will be reproduced and hand wrapped in brown paper packaging by the editors and then mailed to the homes of the subscribers with the help of the United States Postal Service.

THE THING’s current year of subscriptions ( issues 1-4 ) will begin in August with a project by the performance artist and filmmaker Miranda July, whose first feature length film, Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005), won a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival and four prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, including the Camera d’Or. The subscription year will continue with projects by visual artists Anne Walsh, Kota Ezawa, and Trisha Donnelly."

What in me is dark / Illumine, what is low raise and support, / That to the height of this great argument / I may assert eternal Providence ... -Milton

Link: TSANG Kin-wah.

In the Dark, In the Darkness

Tsang Kin-wah

If the world is broken its just cause hearts get broken. And I wonder what for when all I feel is love inside. -Poe, Rise and Shine

Link: Paul Loebach.

"Paul Loebach was born in Des Moines, Iowa in into a long line of German carpenters ...

Paul says about his work: 

“I’m through with editing down the world. My work represents a new process of design for the basic purpose of trying to understand the emotive complexity of people, the meaning of our manufactured environment, and its material consequences”.

Broken Mirrors    ... Street refuse given new life. Found pieces of broken glass are inset into reclaimed heart pine utilizing a tricky secret fabrication process. "