Just read on a blog about an upcoming event in Vienna that sounds truely interesting:
EOP (emergence of projects) is a network of people from art and science who organise an event called "eopicturenight 10 + 5" to present ideas in 10 pictures (20 seconds each) and pose 5 questions afterwards.
The EOP-Website features... read on
I'd like to introduce a young graphic designer from Cape Town: Ruan Deyzel. I stumbled across Ruan via the Smashing Magazine Logo Contest which he won with a simplistic yet impact-strong design (see below). The logo contest page features interesting designs from other designers, too.
So if you're looking for a great graphic... read on
Whoever has the opportunity (I don't) to be at Design Indaba 10 in Cape Town from 21 to 23 February shouldn't miss it!
It's said to be a great event. The speakers list also looks promising. read on
Smi's recent post about upcycling reminded me that I wanted to hint at two interesting online platforms:
The first is Appropedia, which stands for "Encyclopedia of Appropriate Technology" (definition: "technology that is most appropriate to the environment and culture it is intended to support").
Appropedia is a website... read on
in case you want to use the internet to spread your work to feed your reputation, while maintaining control over how others make use of your work:
take a look at creative commons, an initiative offering legal licences to creatives that allow you to publish your work e.g. on your website with "some rights reserved". may... read on
I just stumbled across this website: http://www.atelier-v.ch. It features 30 wonderful simple and crazy ideas how to reframe everyday objects into somthing new. (Click the numbers on the bottom.)
(via http://danielkgebhart.net/stories/2839799/)
read on
etsy.com is a shop where everyone can sell (and buy) handmade goods. apart from the fixed prices and the focus on handcrafts it pretty much works like ebay.
sounds like the perfect platform for e.g. african goods to sell to americans and europeans. yet there's hardly any shops from outside the U.S., australia and europe,... read on
shapeshifters is new but it already seems to work:
through this posting i found architectafrica.com where again i stumbled across this earthbuilding workshop, which i then attended when i was in south africa for a conference.
the workshop was great - and a good opportunity to meet south african architects, contacts we... read on
blogger peter forret requests for his hometown brussels what seems to be established in new york: a place to write and work, like a café but less busy.
an initiative targeted at geeks called metalab might be preparing something similar, has anyone checked that out? read on
May I proudly recommend: http://www.festgestalten.net, a Vienna and Berlin based team of set designers and event organizers. They recently designed the much noticed exhibition "Austria and its Jews" in the Jewish Museum in Vienna. Their service portfolio ranges from e.g. theater sets to christmas decoration for shopping... read on