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Playhouse of Straw (Peter Stackpole on LIFE Magazine – June 1956)

March 9, 2015 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

This very short article about a children building construction kit made of drinking straws, was illustrated by the photographs of Peter Stackpole and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Media, Technology Tagged With: children, construction, Game, straw

Moving Boundaries in the Alps: Italian Limes (Venice Architecture Biennale 2014), by Folder and collaborators

August 28, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

After actually visiting the 14th International Architecture Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia, during the last week, we finally had the pleasure to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Culture, Media, Technology, Territories Tagged With: Biennale, border, Cartography, gps

Less is (not) a Bore: Illustrations and Designs by Okuyama Taiki

August 6, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Okuyama Taiki is a Tokyo based, Japanese graphic designer and illustrator born in 1988. His designs are quite minimalist without ever looking … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Media Tagged With: drawings, illustration, Japan

“I haven’t found a measure yet / To calibrate my displeasure yet”: The design sensibility of post-punk band WIRE

August 3, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

  The stark urgency and clean lines of their prose mirrored the light-metal severity of groups like Wire, the Banshees, and Gang of Four, just … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Media, Sounds Tagged With: album, cover, form of form, music, post-punk

Axonometric Drawings by Icinori

August 2, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Icinori is a duo based in France, formed by illustrators and graphic designers Raphael Urwiller and Mayumi Otero (the work of the latter was already … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Media, Representation: Axonometric projection, Territories Tagged With: axonometries, drawings

Rhythmus 21, an Early Abstract Film by Hans Richter (1921)

July 30, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Hans Richter (April 6, 1888 – February 1, 1976), a German avant garde artist who had contacts with  "Der Blaue Reiter", Cubism and Dada movements, was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Media Tagged With: avant garde, film, form of form

Les Immatériaux (an exhibition by Jean François Lyotard at the Centre Pompidou, 1985)

July 16, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

30 years are passed since a historic exhibition took place at the Centre Pompidou (specifically at the Centre de Création industrielle). Curated by … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture, Media, Sounds, Technology, Territories Tagged With: exhibition, postmodern

Nathalie Du Pasquier’s Recent Paintings and Constructions

May 22, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

  Graphic and industrial designer, illustrator and painter, Nathalie Du Pasquier (Bordeaux, 1957) was one of the original co-founders of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Media Tagged With: Design, form of form, memphis, painting, postmodern, postmodernism

Drawings as an Archive of Oneself: the Freedom of the Unbuilt

May 20, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Architectural Association's Diploma 9, "the Unbuilt" is a "conceptual laboratory" defined as "the world in which students invent, manufacture and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Media Tagged With: drawings

Tomnod: Scan Satellite Images from your Home

March 14, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

Tomnod, (after the Mongolian word for “Big eye"), is an interesting site in that it provides high resolution satellite maps and allows users from all … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Media, Technology, Territories Tagged With: collaborative, satellite

The Funambulist Papers Vol.1 and a crowdfunding campaign for the Archipelago project

October 28, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Our friend Léopold Lambert, author of the Funambulist blog and a writer who's often/quoted/here/at/Socks, just announced the publication of  the first … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Media, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, Art, electronic arts, fashion, literature, people, politics, psychogeographies, Technology, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles, visions

OASE Covers by Karel Martens

April 18, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

OASE is a journal for architecture, the content of which is mostly available online. In 1990 Dutch graphic designer Karel Martens took over the design … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Media Tagged With: Architecture, magazines, typography, world weird web

A Collection of Italian Board Games (Mostly 19th to 20th Century)

August 26, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 5 Comments

Kindly offered by the artist and architect Maurizio Cilli through his facebook account and mostly based upon the Game of the Goose. This collection … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Media Tagged With: dont do this at work, illustrations, italians, past futures, politics, psychogeographies, satire, social, world weird web

dOCUMENTA 13: Czechoslovak Radio 1968, by Tamás St. Turba

August 1, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

When Czechoslovakia was invaded by Soviet army in 1968, people resisted to the repression of political reforms through creative means. After people … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Media Tagged With: Art, past futures, politics, satire, visions

How to use infographics to tell a story

July 15, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Soviet era propaganda done with infographics. Thanks Simone de Iacobis, Via: Ripetungi Rise in the national material welfare, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Media Tagged With: illustrations, information graphics, past futures, politics, social, world weird web

Bringing the Atom into the American Homes: Erik Nitsche illustrations for General Dynamics

July 8, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 4 Comments

"Who is this guy doing the Bauhaus in New York?"  - László Moholy-Nagy   Art director, book designer, illustrator, typographer, graphic … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Media, Technology Tagged With: ads, illustrations, information graphics, magazines, past futures, politics, Technology, world weird web

Early Days of the Advertising Business

June 2, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Secrets, humiliations and legends in early days of the adverting industry's explosion, from an article of LIFE Magazine April 28th, 1958. As you may … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Media Tagged With: ads, illustrations, information graphics, magazines, past futures, people, world weird web

The Unplayable Score: Faerie’s Aire and Death Waltz – John Stump

May 19, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 16 Comments

"Faerie’s Aire and Death Waltz (from ‘A Tribute to Zdenko G. Fibich’)", by American John Stump is a parody of a composition, meant to be impossible to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Media Tagged With: illustrations, pills, satire, Sounds, world weird itself, world weird web

Roberto La Forgia “Il signore dei colori”

May 17, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Roberto La Forgia is one of those artists whose indisputable talent needs some time to completely bloom. Knowing him since almost six years now we've … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Media Tagged With: comics, illustrations, literature, magazines, world weird web

Synapse Magazine: archiving the history of electronic music

April 7, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

From Things Magazine:  "The complete archive of Synapse Magazine , a 1970s publication about the nascent electronic music scene". Download and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Media, Technology Tagged With: electronic arts, illustrations, magazines, past futures, synthesizers, Technology, visions

The Future, according to Google Search Results

March 30, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Google terrifying vision for our future. From Xkcd. Via Entschwindet & Vergeht. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Media, Technology Tagged With: illustrations, past futures, politics, satire, Technology, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird itself, world weird web

The State of the World Atlas, 1981

March 21, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

"The State of the World Atlas", Michael Kidron and Ronald Segal. A Pluto Press Project. Heinemann, London, 1981. Hardcover, 250 x 180mm, full … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Media Tagged With: information graphics, past futures, politics, social

Oscar Reutersvärd’s impossible constructions as gameplay (Don’t do this at work – 27)

March 19, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Constructed on isometric projections, Echochrome is a Playstation title in which the player has to refer to perceived/optical geometry rather than … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Media, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, dont do this at work, form of form, Technology, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

Nø City Guide, a monumental work on Shanghai

February 25, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Our friend Matthieu Duperrex, editor of Urbain-trop Urbain, just released his long awaited monography on the city of Shanghai. The Nø City Guide is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Media, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, Technology, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles, visions

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