design, studied |
a compendium of images, blurbs, videos, quotes, essays & other #deepthoughts. for introduction to design studies (fall 2011). |
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“Margot Robbie Wants To Show YOU OUR Place”
Esquire Magazine lets us take a tour of a $23.5 million ultimate bachelor pad housed at 1 Main Street in DUMBO [Brooklyn] courtesy of a gushing Pan Am ‘stewardess’ [actress Margot Robbie]. For more information on the 2011 apartment, past apartments and information on tours visit EsquireApartment.Com. [Extra photos available on Curbed]Questions to Consider
- Who is the Bachelor of 2011 (or the 2000s?)
- How is this different from the Playboy Apartment?
- In what ways is Design Gendered — from the advertisement to the actual interiors?
- How does this compare to Brad Allen’s Bachelor Pad in Pillow Talk?
- How does this experience compare to Izabella St. James’s experience of living as a girlfriend to Hugh Hefner in the Playboy Mansion?
[thanks to Bill and Kean for links / ideas!]
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[on labour & production] "Apple, Accustomed to Profits and Praise, Faces Outcry for Labor Practices at Chinese Factories"
From 10 February 2012 Democracy Now! broadcast
Protesters visited a half-dozen Apple stores around the world to deliver petitions calling for reforms in the working conditions at factories run by Apple’s suppliers in China. The protests come on the heels of recent revelations of harsh conditions and onerous work environments at Apple’s controversial Chinese supplier Foxconn, where more than a dozen employees have committed suicide. We’re joined by New York Times reporter Charles Duhigg, who helped break the story about the human costs of Apple products for workers in China. We’re also joined by Mike Daisey, whose acclaimed one-man show, “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” is based partly on his visits to Apple’s Chinese factories and his interviews with the workers there. “I want Apple to take real responsibility,” Daisey says. “They have the resources to change this overnight.”
The full transcript and more videos available at DemocracyNow.org. A particularly poignant moment in the clip comes from Mike Daisey — an actor, author, and playwright perhaps most known for the off-Broadway play “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs” — he speaks of a worker from one of the Apple factories who was maimed whilst working:
This is a worker I spoke with whose hand had been maimed in a metal press. And he said he had not received any medical treatment, and his hand healed this way. And then he had been too slow when he came back to work, and he was fired for being too slow, and then, now worked at a woodworking plant. And he had been working on the line building iPads. And I spoke with—when he told me this, I showed him my iPad, which had just come out right before I went to Shenzhen. And I showed him the iPad, and it was the first time he had seen an iPad in its completed state, because the people on the production line are often very carved off. Each step is very, very minute. The devices are very expensive, of course, and so they’re closely monitored. And so, no one has an opportunity to even handle them, in a way, really, outside of your individual step. And so, I turned it on for him and showed it to him, this thing that he had actually been maimed building. And it was his first time moving the icons back and forth. And he had a very human reaction, which is, he thought it was beautiful, you know? Which I think is understandable, because Apple does make beautiful devices.
How does such an anecdote articulate the ambivalent grey space of production and consumption?
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“cameras out of the salt shaker” — cameras smaller than salt grains
“there have been gloves and shavers for one-off use for a long time. in [the] future, there will also be disposable endoscopes for minimally invasive operations on the human body. a new microcamera is what makes it possible. it is as large as a grain of salt, supplies razor-sharp pictures and can be manufactured very inexpensively.”
artifice: affirmation or destruction?
from Fraunhofer IZM, march 2011. link seen in scenario [magazine] 05:2011.
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NotesThe French Revolution viewed itself as Rome incarnate. It evoked ancient Rome the way fashion evokes costumes of the past. Fashion has a flair for the topical, no matter where it stirs in the thickets of long ago; it is a tiger’s leap* into the past. This jump, however, takes place in an arena where the ruling class give the commands. The same leap in the open air of history is the dialectical one, which is how Marx understood the revolution.
- Walter Benjamin, On the Concept of History … [Tigersprung: Fashion in Modernity by Ulrich Lehmann further expounds on time as a tiger’s leap … or in the case of this photo, fashion / time as a big knotted ball the tiger plays with]
(Source: vault--tec, via tenthousandthingstodo)
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Notes derrick jensen on democracy now!Author and Activist Derrick Jensen: “The Dominant Culture is Killing the Planet…It’s Very Important for Us to Start to Build a Culture of Resistance”
from 15 November 2010
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Notesbefore asking a professor about your grade …
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NotesLOGORAMA
This is a short film that was directed by the French animation collective H5, François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy + Ludovic Houplain. It was presented at the Cannes Film Festival 2009. It opened the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and won a 2010 academy award under the category of animated short.
THE BRANDS! THEY ARE ALIVE! (thanks Kean!)
- Link [TedX] redefining apathy: a complex web of cultural barriers that re-enforce disengagement
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[TedX talk] Graham Hill: Less Stuff, More Happiness
Architect, Industrial designer, and TreeHugger founder Graham Hill talks about how he makes do with less, and how a team of designers made it happen.
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capitalism & stuff
this is a rather accurate albeit truncated synopsis of production and consumption — of the mass-produced and the luxurious; this complicates the definition of ‘inherent value’ discussed in lecture but brings to light the necessity of critiquing design and finding as well as knowing one’s place in the critique of design.
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Christoph Buchel to bury an airplane north of LA…
Although I find the conceptual nature of this piece intriguing,* I am curious about what...
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untitled by Sofía Retta on Flickr.
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Poverty map of Old Nichol slum, East End of London, showing Bethnal Green Road, from Charles Booth’s Labour and Life of the...
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this was my morning…
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Michael scott
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Grand Central Station, New York, 1934
