Project:
Fleurons of Hope, Max Kisman et al.
Max Kisman, Jim Richardson and Tamye Riggs invited designers around the world to create digital flowers in remembrance of the tsunami disaster. The ‘Fleurons of Hope’ were collected and converted into computer fonts made up of pictures rather than letters. There are a total of more than 400 graphic images by 230 designers and artists. The fonts cost twenty dollars from Myfonts.com; proceeds go to the victims.
Interview:
Bringing the World Home
Max Kisman and 229 others, Fleurons of Hope
Even in a time when it seems as if everything has already been invented, innovation remains possible. After all, every new era calls for new ... person: Max Kisman
With Jim Richardson and Tamye Riggs, Max Kisman invited designers around the world to create digital flowers in remembrance of the tsunami ... "You must always take account of your own limitations, and not allow yourself to be led by machines."
Max Kisman "It’s best to start as small and as close to home as you can. That worldwide aura comes naturally if your work is good."
Max Kisman
Interview:
The Long Road from the Farm
Esther Polak & Ieva Auzina with RIXC, Riga Centre for New Media Culture, Milk
For two years, artist Esther Polak carried a compass to help her find her way around in Amsterdam. Since then, spatial awareness has been the ... "We have to see to it that machines start working for us again, instead of allowing ourselves to be led by them."
Jeroen Verhoeven, Demakersvan "We want to aesthetically educate the average person. That’s why we’re looking at producing in India."
Jeroen Verhoeven, Demakersvan
Project:
Industrialized Wood, Jeroen Verhoeven/Demakersvan
Jeroen Verhoeven of Demakersvan used drawings of seventeenth-century furniture to make his Industrialized Wood table. He converted different ... "Really, everyone needs their own map. Everyone has their own spatial pattern, their own view of reality."
Esther Polak
Interview:
Making It as a Team
Jeroen Verhoeven/Demakersvan, Industrialized Wood
Imagine being fresh out of art school and selling your work to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, a firm of architects in Los Angeles, a ... “I wondered how to represent our economic relationship with the landscape, and realised I could use new technology."
Esther Polak
Project:
Milk Project, Esther Polak & Ieva Auzina with RIXC, Riga Centre for New Media Culture
When artist Esther Polak and researcher Ieva Auzina discovered that much Latvian milk is transported to the Netherlands, they decided to follow ...
Interview:
The Smell of the Landscape
Birthe Leemeijer, L’Essence de Mastenbroek
Designing a perfume for Mastenbroek, a late-medieval Dutch polder in the province of Overijssel where many cattle farmers make their homes and ... "With this table I want to bring back the meeting function of the Bijlmerpark in particular and of public space in general."
Hans Meiboom, Studiomeiboom
Project:
Something Here Feels Horribly Wrong, Brigitte Hendrix (...and beyond)
Fashion designer Brigitte Hendrix’s collection of tough-looking clothing is full of symbolic references to krumping, the culture of violence, ...
Interview:
Come Together
Hans Meiboom (Studiomeiboom), Table de Ville
In a multicultural society, how do you get everyone to gather around the same table? By making a really big one, Hans Meiboom decided. So far, ...