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The Houston Fence Project, QR Codes
The Houston Fence, located on the corner of Broadway and Houston, is an temporary outdoor installation inspired by QR-code patterns. These bar codes, when scanned with a mobile phone, allow pedestrians to seamlessly connect to online content such as web sites, blogs and others.
More about The Houston Fence Project.
RFID Aesthetics
©2008 Ti.mo via Flickr
PingMag takes a closer ‘designer’ look at the appearance of RFID transponders with RFID Aesthetics and More RFID Reading…
Barcode Plantage Visualization Application
Apple Computer barcode-plantage
© Daniel A. Becker 2008
BARCODE PLANTAGE transforms a simple product bar code into a unique tree in the garden of globalisation
One can find it on almost all products: the bar code. Everyone knows that the bar code is used to facilitate the cashing and recording of goods in stores. But which information is actually encoded within the bar code?
A simple answer to this question can be found at one of the product databases on the Internet, which are basically huge networks of national code databases.Keying in the 8, 12 or 13 digit figures of a bar code into an international code database, returns information on the manufacturer and the country of origin of the product. Moreover, each bar code is assigned to only one product worldwide; but these individual details are hardly visible to the naked eye.
Via barcode-plantage (Germany)
RISD Art Show for SF Alumni, 6/27
RISD SF ALUMNI, ONE NIGHT STAND
June 27th
6:00 - 9:00 PM
Mina Dresden Gallery
312 Valencia Street (@14th Street)
415.863.8312
Jonathan Wells, “The champion”
Photo by Kevin Scanlon ©2008
My good friend Jonathan Wells the founder of RES back in the day has recently been featured in the LA Weekly… His new project is called Flux… Nice one JW!
Designers Note: Meg Wells chose that lime green paint color… it is a no-VOC, environmentally friendly paint from Yolocolorhouse.
Art Exhibit: Running the Numbers
Running the Numbers, An American Self-Portrait by Chris Jordan
This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 426,000 cell phones retired every day.
NOTE: This series will be exhibited at the Paul Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles, opening Sep 8. More info at www.paulkopeikingallery.com. I myslef will def. be checking this out when I get a chance… Thanks to Cynthia for the link on my Facebook wall!
Rendezvous, A film by Claude Lelouch
Watch Rendezvous.
A little known car related racing film by famous Director of the seminal A Man and A Woman, Claude Lelouch… called Rendezvous. Produced and filmed in 1976 this is an insane and almost always nail biting right behind the wheel documentation of an experienced (but intentionally anonymous) Le Mans Gran Prix race car driver speeding Lelouch thru Paris in the early morning.
Lelouch is suppose to have strapped a film camera on the hood of a Ferrari race car (later proven to be Lelouch driving himself in a Mercedes) and used some surplus film stock from one of his earlier productions… This film was banned in Paris for many years… and only recently resurfaced on DVD and YouTube… In May of 2006 there was a documentary on the making of the film which cleared up any ambiguity…
Container Exhibition: Tokyo Design Week
This is a great photo archive of some innovative designs for containers (not only shipping but all uses). Check out the last photo of an aluminum container designed by famed Japanese Architect Toyo Ito.
Via MoCo Loco
Dwell Prefab NOW, Lectures in LA
I just got a nice ‘designy’ flyer in the mail a few weeks ago for a lecture on Prefab Architecture. As soon as I saw who/what was going to be lectured on, I bought tickets. This is going to be THE hot weekend event in October. If you have been following my BLOG since the beginning of the year, you know that I am all about Prefab, Containers and Sustainable Design. This is a great opportunity for people to get to know this area of the next gen of architecture and building first hand.
Visit: dwell Prefab NOW Information Page
