In his essay You May, in reference to the relative perceptions of where the Balkans begin and end, Slavoj Zizek states: “We are dealing with an imaginary cartography, which projects onto the real landscape its own shadowy ideological antagonisms, in the same way that the … Read More →
Category Archives: design
The World’s Smallest Mania
As media journalists rush to interpret the recent wave of Tumblr-related hype, thousands of would-be internet auteurs are scrambling for a bankable gimmick in hopes of securing the mother of all meme payoffs: the blog-to-book jackpot. However, much like the livejournals and blogger sites of … Read More →
Tokyo Design Festa!
Design Festa is a biannual event held at Tokyo Big Sight in Odaiba. It began in 1994 and just finished it’s 29th run – with over 2,600 booths this weekend. I was only able to go for one day but I made sure to see … Read More →
Art City Limits: Geoff McFetridge
We live in the age of the “creative,” a label that can be applied to anyone even marginally interested in anything inventive. If you’re familiar with the term, you’re probably one of us. You might be a designer, a photographer pulling espresso for rent, or … Read More →
48hrs in Antwerp
This past weekend I gave a presentation (alongside Will Brown and Easton West) at Integrated 2009, a biannual design conference that took place at deSingel Antwerpen. Integrated boasted some truly prolific personalities, including the likes of Stefan Sagmeister, Storm Thorgerson, Siggi Eggertsson, John L. Walters, … Read More →