Design Victoria presents DESIGN CAPITAL, Victoria’s design and business conference, running from Wednesday 16 – Friday 18 July 2008 at the Melbourne Museum as part of the State of Design Festival. Festival Artistic Director and Conference Curator, Ewan McEoin, says, “This conference brings together leading global innovators, designers, business figures, the media and industry to [...]
What was once an exhibition to showcase young and experimental designers, has now turned into a full-on festival. DMY Berlin is a collective of artists and designers who like to break out of the ordinary and this year they are turning their annual design exhibition into an international festival. This year’s festival will push the [...]
THE STATE OF DESIGN 2008, Victoria’s Design Festival July 16th – July 24th 2008 Forget the design you think you know. The State of Design Festival is Victoria’s peak design event and the 2008 Festival in July will offer local and international conversations on design. Under one Festival umbrella, the best local designers will be [...]
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History turned down Stephen Colbert’s efforts to have his image displayed. But the National Portrait Gallery, famous for its portraits of the presidents but also home to unique portrayals of athletes, hip-hop artists and Hollywood stars, welcomed the idea. The line outside the bathroom at the National Portrait Gallery [...]
The fourth execution of San Francisco’s “Beach Impeach” rally is set to happen on Oct. 7th at 11 A.M. at the Berkley Marina. Approximately 1500 people in support of impeaching George Bush and Dick Cheney will be spelling out ‘IMPEACH!’ in 120-foot lettering. The photographers for the rally will be positioned in the helicopters enabling [...]
The anticipation finally ended in Black Rock City as the 40-foot wooden figure know as ‘The Man’ went up in flames late Saturday evening to mark the culmination of the 22nd annual Burning Man counter-culture arts festival in the Black Rock Desert. Many of this years attendees were concerned they would not get to see [...]
Ships, a collection from Google Satellite by Jenny Odell
Photography by Oleg Dou, via El Dado del Arte
Generative art by Franz Thues and Dirk König, via Alex Wain
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