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freundevonfreunden:

No Room for Mistakes. Design Perfectionists at Home.

“I hate design,” Klaus Biesenbach, director of PS1 Museum of Modern Art, will tell you emphatically. When he travels, he has a habit of stripping his hotel room of anything that moves (furniture, colored pillows, desktop accessories) and stuffing it all into the closet. “It’s a little bit of curatorial disease,” he said. “I like to reduce everything to its original surface.”

Read the insightful and hilarious NYT article on design perfectionist homes here.

freundevonfreunden:

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

Showing at this year’s Berlinale: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

Ai Weiwei is China’s most famous international artist, and its most outspoken domestic critic. Against a backdrop of strict censorship and an unresponsive legal system, Ai expresses himself and organizes people through art and social media. In response, Chinese authorities have shut down his blog, beat him up, bulldozed his newly built studio, and held him in secret detention.

AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY is the inside story of a dissident for the digital age who inspires global audiences and blurs the boundaries of art and politics. First-time director Alison Klayman gained unprecedented access to Ai while working as a journalist in China. Her detailed portrait provides a nuanced exploration of contemporary China and one of its most compelling public figures.

(Source: vimeo.com)

clubmonaco:

Cai Guo-Qiang: Head On

One of my all-time favorite installations, “Head On” by Cai Guo-Qiang involves almost 100 lifelike models of wolves, speeding towards oblivion. -James Ha, Senior Marketing Manager

titlecase:

This guy was crazy. Check out some awesome photos of the Golden Gate bridge being built.

(via Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, 1933-1937 | Retronaut)

peterlok:

Great (lack of) colors, great project. Sound and vision in close harmony.

Some bizarre and extremely cool animations

clubmonaco:

Guggenheim App for Maurizio Cattelan: All

We love art that’s interactive. Lucky for us, the Guggenheim is offering an app that delves deep into the making of Maurizio Cattelan’s latest installation. 

lee:

STOP HER.

lee:

IBM Centennial Film: 100 X 100 - A century of achievements that have changed the world (by IBM)

Thanks to Riley Cran for blogging this.

freundevonfreunden:

Ink & Paper by Ben Proudfoot

Ben Proudfoot’s short documentary on the last paper company and the last letterpress printer in downtown Los Angeles. Needless to say we love print. :)

via our neighbours form the R.S.V.P Papershop)

clubmonaco:

Adirondacks Home

I love Amanda Brooks’ cabin home in the Adirondacks. It looks and feels like more than a home. The canoe formerly belonged to the Vanderbilts. -F.E. Castleberry (photo via Vogue)

I could really use these today!

paulwolfs:

Sunshine Pills concept by Vaulot & Dyèvre

freundevonfreunden:

Tyler Brûlé - Mr. Zeitgeist - NYTimes.com

While everyone hailed the iPad as the savior of print, Mr. Brûlé put out a limited-edition newspaper for the slopes of Gstaad and the beaches of Cannes. While retailers rushed online, Mr. Brûlé opened a chain of Monocle boutiques, a micro-extension of the magazine’s shopper-as-curator ethos.

And while music migrates to the cloud, Mr. Brûlé started a radio station, with “an international playlist” that samples sounds “from Seoul to Stockholm.” (via Tyler Brûlé - Mr. Zeitgeist - NYTimes.com)

freundevonfreunden:

Erik Spiekermann draws his perfect office

Design- and typography superstar Erik Spiekermann sits down with our friends from Zentrale Intelligenz Agentur for Arte and talks about his vision of a perfect office space. Very entertaining and insightful! Watch the video in german and english.

(via ARTE Creative - your network for contemporary culture :: From Sketch :: A round affair? Erik Spiekermann about the office of the future)

freundevonfreunden:

Endless Summer

Bummed by winter? Check out this sexy surfing video by Andro Kajzer in collaboration with Manawai Surf Camp, featuring beautiful waves of all kinds. 

(via Fubiz) 

paulwolfs:

Tony Schwartz: The Myths of the Overworked Creative