Daily Poetics

There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.

Front Design

Rats gnaw on a roll of wallpaper creating a repetetive patter once applied to the wall...

I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface. Stephen Sondheim

The gallery floor is painted and over time the paths of the visitors expose the golen floor beneath..  Digital clock behind wallpaper

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo. -Kierkegaard

On the smallest level, creativity can alter moods. On the grandest level, it can change lives. -Steffanie Lorig

** humus **.

Humus is a territory where images, creativity, thoughts and expressions have no border line or demarcation line.

Feel free to contribute with:
-Graphic design
-Motion design
-Photography
-Drawings
-Illustrations
-Poems

Delightful task! to rear the tender thought...-James Thomson

Anti Coloring Books Anti = against, opposed Allow children to be creative, not just robots coloring inside the lines. These books let children use their imaginations:     * exciting motivation is provided     * a scene is set     * children get to put on their thinking caps     * exercise their imaginations     * and turn on their critical thinking Most of all they have fun!

A famous artist needs your help. The artist started this picture but was stung on the thumb by a bee. Turn the picture any way you’d like and finish it.

Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again -Frank Baum

Link: WICKLE.

A limited selection of mini trinkets and pocket kits filled with pieces of the past or the unexpected waiting to be rediscovered.

A fun little present, or a treat for yourself - the range changes regularly depending on what we find.

WICKLE was born in 2004. Our aim is to develop well designed modern nostalgia.

We could not have got started without the invaluable help of many friends. We hope they are as happy with the outcome as we are. They are named below:

Luis Artus for all the photography in this seasons catalogue and on the website.

José Gil Die for all of last seasons photography and many of the current MICKLE photos.

There are more of course, thankyou - you know who you are.

via Oh Joy

Let us do or die. -John Fletcher

 

DIY Exhibition.
Design it Yourself

 

How to make your own D.I.Y. design exhibition

1. Collect examples of design from the street, from bulletin boards, from people you know, and from people who know the people you know. Collect posters, flyers, business cards, postcards, stickers, zines, t-shirts, cd covers, etc.

2. Get permission to use a public space: gallery, lobby, hallway, classroom, lab, cafeteria, restaurant, lounge, etc. Choose a place that people are likely to walk through. A well-trafficked public area is preferable to a beautiful enclosed gallery.

3. Provide visitors with Sharpies, blank cards, paper, stickers, tape, push pins and other supplies. Invite them to add their own graphics to your exhibit. (We used cardboard to protect the walls and make an obvious zone where the public can add their own stuff.)

4. Buy or borrow furniture that encourages people to relax, talk, and work in your exhibition. If possible, let them draw on the furniture, too.

5. Have parties, workshops, and classes.

Never lose a holy curiosity. -Albert Einstein

Cabinets of Curiosity | Metropolis Magazine | July 2003.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. -Albert Einstein

Cabinets of Curiosity
For designers who collect, the cluttered workspace is a library of inspiration.

By Paul Makovsky

Each workspace reproduces its designer's world in miniature, through both the items it contains and the way they are organized. Objects often relate to each other in an intuitive way rather than following any strict principles of reason... The objects in these spaces speak to designers' curiosity about the world around them and provide insight into the ways they think and work.

All the world ’s a stage... -Shakespeare

MPR: Press Releases: Minnesota Public Radio Presents
"Stage Sessions"—a Three-Part Series of Fantastic Writers and Performances.

Saturday, April 22, 8 p.m.
A Stage Session with Sebastian Junger: "The Stories That Haunt Us"
Bestselling author Sebastian Junger will present "Myths and Legends and the Stories That Haunt Us." It will be a night of stories that only get bigger with time: The Titanic, the Loch Ness Monster, the Edmund Fitzgerald, the Bermuda Triangle and the Boston Strangler. Special guests include an essay by New York Times writer John Freeman and singer/songwriter Karen Paurus. We will also have humor from The Brave New Workshop, cowboy poetry, Caribbean music and music for mysteries from Frenchy's Big Bang Burlesque Band.

They are useless, there is nothing to be done with them, no reason, only the finding...It is all waiting there in the darkness...I want to know only that things gather themselves with great patience, that they do this forever. -Jared Carter

 

Link: liz joseph design.
All my work uses a mixture of vintage and new fabrics and costume jewellery.
Skirt encrusted front and back with lace, faux pearls and silk chiffon
I specialise in creating floral murals that are hand-painted and can be decorated with antique lace and jewellery.

 

There is new strength, repose of mind, and inspiration in fresh apparel. -Ella Wilcox

Link: Boiler.

Popular metaphor has trained us to marvel at the phenomenon of inspiration, that glorious moment when an idea hits, and hit it always does. It hits in the form of an apple falling from a tree or a lightening bolt flashing in the sky.

An apple falls from a tree and hits you on the head. Lightening flashes in the sky and strikes you down point blank. The lesson here, I suppose, is that the harder you try to come with a good idea, the less likely you will be to have one. It will come to you, and it will come to you from above, or not at all.
I’m not speaking literally – these are metaphors after all – but these things have been known to happen in real life. And they have been known to happen in fashion. You can be sitting at a fashion show and a model walks out on the runway and she is wearing a coat. Not just any coat but a coat that is kind of like a man’s coat but also kind of like a cape, and it’s simultaneously masculine and feminine, and sexy but at the same time not sexy, and it’s belted in a haphazard kind of way. And suddenly the whole season, nay, the whole universe! makes perfect sense. Just like that. Really. I’ve seen fashion editors almost fall off their chairs. And here I am speaking literally.

Reversal is the movement of the way. -Tao Te Ching

MIT Treehouse Studio.

Treehouse Studio

Established in 2003 as a research project to introduce children and adults to the ideas of digital arts and design through a series of tools, exercises, and online activities.

Currently UNDER CONSTRUCTION like all things on the Web.

The general Treehouse Architecture will allow:

• Network-based file management
• Extensibility of Tools/Customizability of features
• Ability to disable tools/create constraints for better pedagogy
• Open source/Simple code policy
• Community-oriented sharing in Galleries
• Enable the creation of an entire Online School

Here you see a set of early prototypes for the kind of apps that would live on the Treehouse created courtesy of members of the MIT Media Lab Aesthetics + Computation Group. DISCLAIMER: These are simple sketches and not representative of final directions.