A Recent History of Writing and Drawing
24 Jul 2008 12:37pm GMT A Recent History of Writing and Drawing, on display at the Institute of Contemporary Arts until August 31, 2008, is an exhibition that explores the evolving relationship between technologies of communication and their users. It is a project by the programmer / designer Jurg Lehni and the graphic designer Alex Rich, curated by design historian Emily King, and involves a variety of interactive and non-interactive devices for writing and drawing. more after the jump....
Lucid Dreams from Contact Lens Jewelry
24 Jul 2008 12:34pm GMT The Wonder Room at Selfridges department store in London is hosting an exhibition of new work by Dutch designer Eric Klarenbeek. The exhibition will feature new and recent work including the Floating Light Project and the results of his recent experiments with contact lens jewellery. The Lucid Dream (shown here) is an illuminating hand-blown glass bubble which features an LED with an intended lifespan of 50,000 hours. Watch a video of the Lucid Dream project here. The exhibition will continue...
Paint Or Die But Love Me
24 Jul 2008 2:13am GMT No it's not real but you've got to give French designer John Nouanesing props for his collection of concepts including this table which while needing some structural help is pretty fun. via ffffound...
Font Conferece Video for All Types
24 Jul 2008 1:41am GMT College Humor's Font Conference video wasn't long enough so they made it double-spaced....
100,000 Portfolios at Coroflot.com - Our Portfolio & Design Job Site Flips to Six Digits!
23 Jul 2008 10:11pm GMT We are proud to declare: COROFLOT HIT 100,000 PORTFOLIOS TODAY! That's right, some lucky designer posted their work at coroflot.com today and rolled the odometer to 100,000! For those of you who might not know: Coroflot is Core77's portfolio hosting / design job board / creative social networking site. It started out here way back in '97 and got its own digs a few years thereafter. It's been growing ever since and is now the largest site of its kind, serving up millions of page views of...