Guerrilla designers

Posted in Urban Spaces, design with tags , , on July 15, 2009 by db

From Guerrilla Typography designer Cardon Webb is tarting up the neighbourhood:

“Cardon Copy, takes the vernacular of self-distributed fliers and tear-offs we have all seen in our neighborhoods. It involves hijacking these unconsidered fliers and redesigning them, over powering their message with a new visual language. I then replace the original with the redesign in its authentic environment.”

From the The Curator|In Praise of Bryant Park

Posted in Uncategorized on July 12, 2009 by db

The Curator | In Praise of Bryant Park

Transforming urban spaces makes me hopeful.

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Childrens’ deparment Ordrup Bibliotek Grand Opening day 26.th August 2008

Posted in Uncategorized on July 10, 2009 by db



Childrens’ deparment Ordrup Bibliotek Grand Opening day 26.th August 2008

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This children’s library department asks you to PLAY!

The word is their bond

Posted in Urban Spaces with tags , , , on July 7, 2009 by db

From the Boston Globe a book group with a difference. Read From a rare friendship, a book club for the homeless is born and watch the video.

It’s five people in a book group, not 5,000 people fed, but it’s five people I can pull aside and talk to,” Tibbetts said

Logic+Emotion

Posted in Uncategorized on June 23, 2009 by db

Logic+Emotion

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A good site on the user experience.

When in…Venice.

Posted in exhibitions with tags , , on June 22, 2009 by db

From the NY Times: “If you’re in town for the Venice Biennale, don’t miss the marriage of High Renaissance painting and advanced technology that is “The Wedding at Cana,” Venice600by the British filmmaker Peter Greenaway. If nothing else, it is possibly the best unmanned art history lecture you’ll ever experience”.

“The Collecting Life”

Posted in Uncategorized on June 21, 2009 by db

I like Joanne Mattera’s Art Blog especially this post about a retired couple in New York. Art Collectors.

Welcome to “full body learning”

Posted in Uncategorized on June 15, 2009 by db

What do you think of the Hjorring (Denmark) Public Library as seen by the author of one of my favourite blogs Kulisselager_200Walking Paper - fascinating use of colour, design, play…a setting that is library, restaurant, civic centre/gym.

can trash signage be “emotionally intelligent”?

Posted in Uncategorized on June 13, 2009 by db

Dan Pink of A Whole New Mind demonstrates that it is possible in a  blog post . He writes: “Jennifer Caleshu, Director of Communications of the fantastic Bay Area Discovery Museum, sends this terrific example of emotionally intelligent signage from the trash cans at the new California Academy of Sciences. “What do you think? too crytic? Ingenious?

“The Beckoning of Lovely”

Posted in Urban Spaces with tags , , , , , on June 10, 2009 by db
Little Pea

Little Pea

Amy Krouse Rosenthal children’s book author has “beckoned the lovely” in a 2008 invitation on Youtube for others to join her in a collaborative “making of things”, a continuing story found here in a series of video clips. Wonderful connections: books, children, people, collaborative learning, performance, art and community. And a continuing story.