Collages by Javier Sirvent, alias Pancho Pancho Pancho, talented 23 year-old visual artist and designer. (Javier was part of the Amy Stein Tóxico Workshop and will soon be doing other nice lil new projects with us.) (Gracias Martha por el link)
Says the Dezeen blog: Mini Capsule Hotel, a six-bed dorm by Atelier Van Lieshout, featured in an outdoor installation called Never-EverLand at Design Miami/Basel 2009. More here.
To make boring into beautiful, like charts and information. Oh. Yes. Please. Like some sort of other type of alchemy. (All images by Catalogtree, from the Netherlands.)
A Proper Lady: rug made of vintage gloves, by Rachel Denny.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
A few years ago we curated an exhibition in the Museo Carrillo Gil, in Mexico City: a critique to American foreign intervention policies; the war was raging in Iraq, US elections were around the corner, and Bush was in the midst of running for his second term. The poster above, by Shepard Fairey, was included [...]
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
From Design from the 1920′s, via SwissMiss
Thursday, January 8, 2009
1:1 paper kit AK47s and grenades by postler ferguson.
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Después del terremoto en China, como parte de un proyecto con estudiantes, el Hironori Matsubara Lab en la Universidad de Keio diseñó escuelas temporales hechas de papel y cartón para la provincia de Sichuan. Lee una entrevista de PingMag sobre este proyecto aquí. (Gracias Pedrito por la info.)
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Plática de Paola Antonelli, curadora del departamento de diseño y arquitectura de MoMA, acerca de una exhibición reciente en el museo, además de nuevos vínculos entre diseñadores y científicos. Buenísima.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Tóxico International Guest Stefan Sagmeister gives a small TED talk on things he has learned on his life so far. Click on the image below to see it and make sure you browse through TED’s amazing archive of talks. Here is a transcription of the list of things Mr. Sagmeister has learnt: THINGS I HAVE [...]
“Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights; the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like Braille.” -J. Winterson- (Photos by Rasmus Norlander)
