I heart this installation in the WK12 studio. I think I have actually blogged this before a few years back but I don’t remember having this many pics so I am reinstating it!
Something I have noticed is that the first few pins were put into that board by hand and by the time they get to the last few pins they are using what looks like the handle of a screwdriver to push the pins in. Their thumbs must have been so sore!!
351 hours it took to make this, and over 100,000 pins!
Also, yes, I have embedded another YouTube video. It is ugly and ruins the look of my site, but until the internet stops conspiring against aesthetics and moves over to the far superior video website… Vimeo… I guess I am just going to have to deal with it. #sigh!
Being an impoverished student it helps that my Mr got himself a Design Museum membership card as I get in for free, as a guest, when I go with him. Ahh the joys!
Well we took advantage of the freebies and went over to see the Dieter Rams exhibition last weekend and never having seen his work all together before, on the internet or “in real life” it was interesting to see how much of his designs have been recreated, or atleast replicated, today.
Dieter Rams set about expressing the ten most important principles for what he considered was good design. (Sometimes they are referred to as the ‘Ten Commandments’.)
Good Design…
is innovative
makes a product useful
is aesthetic
makes a product understandable
is unobtrusive
is honest
is long lasting
is thorough, down to the last detail
is environmentally friendly
is as little design as possible
There was a section of the exhibit where designers from this decade who have been influenced by Dieter Rams (I didn’t get pics of this unfortunately) Johnathan Ive’s one of them but then that is no secret, Apple’s designs are unmistakably influenced by minimal design it was only obvious that Rams would have some input if even an indirect one.
I’ve included a few pics of my most favourite pieces from the exhibit but I recommend you take a trip to the museum yourself and have a peek at the whole collection.
Really nice music video, has a very different quality to the film, by La Blogotheque who had this to say about their creative process:
“We had been playing cat and mouse for months. We attended the same shows in Paris, talked a little, mentioning maybe we could do something together… to then see them leave, become huge, and even more intriguing, elusive. It took eight months for this Take Away Show to happen, for them to be free just one afternoon despite their super busy Hollywoodian schedule.
I saw this print when I went down to Brighton a few months ago, and I finally found somewhere online that sells it.
I’m not entirely sure my life will ever be complete without it… but I do know that Al Murphy and me could possibly be best friends, this print would be the basis of our friendship.
I always find that round xmas there are so many more wonderful things in shops that I would love to have, sods law that it happens at the time of the year when you are supposed to be spending money on everyone else but yourself. Ah commercialism gets me again!
I found these brilliant Flight of the Conchord pictures by the very talented Matthias Clamer be sure to click through and have a look at the rest of his portraits. They’re brilliant.
(Very nearly emanating David La Chapelle, if I do say so myself.)
You can catch his newest work updated on his blog over this way
