There’s been a lot of stuff about Art in this meme. There’s been precious little about Design in it. I like design, and back in the early days of this iteration of this blog, I spent a short while explaining what I think its relationship to Art is. So having skipped past the need for [...]
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30 Days – Day #6: Maps
December 6th, 2009 No Comments
Well, today’s topic is “something that tickles your fancy”, and what tickles my fancy this morning is maps. We’ll start with a quote that was very nearly the quote I used yesterday, and is something that I willl probably have tattooed on myself at some point in the not-too-distant future. “The map is not the [...]
30 Days – Day #4: My Favourite Book
December 4th, 2009 No Comments
I’m going to be really quite glad when this “favourite” slew of topics is done, because I am a fully rounded human being, and have trouble with this sort of pick-one nonsense. On the bright side, though, I am not a well-read man. Oh, I’ve read a lot of books, but I’m not well read. [...]
Tags: 17 · books · calvin and hobbes · objects · the fat duck · winnie the pooh
Fletcher Retrospective
January 27th, 2007 No Comments
I’ll try and find a bit more time to write about this in full on another occasion, but for now, I feel I should note that if you live in London, then you really ought to try and make it to The Design Museum‘s retrospective on Alan Fletcher. For those that don’t know, Fletcher is [...]
Tags: design museum · fletcher · pentagram
A Moment Of Design
January 17th, 2007 1 Comment
So having explained what I think Art is I also want to talk a little about design. Design is very obviously allied to Art – they’re often mentioned in the same breath as a subject of study, and that’s not really terribly surprising – it’s more or less the same range of techniques and materials [...]
