I Love NY 3D Poster by Oded Ezer

http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/i_love_ny_3d_poster_by_oded_ezer_11272.asp#more


"Typographic artist Oded Ezer's I ♥ NY poster uses a 3D sculptural technique he developed in an earlier work called The Finger.
"This 70x100 cm poster is a homage to Milton Glaser, whose famous I ♥ NY logo is one of the things that stuck into my mind forever. Glaser's design is simple and direct, and I felt it will be still recognizable even if I will make it more complicated"
Based in Israel, Ezer made a conscious decision to produce more work in English after his presentation at TYPO Berlin when he noticed the audience's enthusiasm for the single piece he showed in English, the rest of his work was in Hebrew and only understandable by a few people."



Typographer is a new term for me. I thought it's more related to two dimensional forms than three dimension. Oded Ezer blew me away. In his work, the letters are sticked in different hight. When the light projects on those 3 dimensional letters, the shadows become a part of composition. It's complex and intriguing.

New Face, Renewed Mission

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/arts/design/26desi.html?ref=design


"The passionate battle fought recently over the redesign of 2 Columbus Circle, the curious white marble structure built by Huntington Hartford to house his art collection, was reminiscent of the preservation wars of the 1960s.

Now, with the opening this weekend of the newly renovated building as the Museum of Arts and Design, the public will finally be able to judge for itself whether it was a sin to disfigure the 1964 original.
Already a few things are blazingly clear. Designed by Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works Architecture, the renovation remedies the annoying functional defects that had plagued the building for decades. But this is not the bold architectural statement that might have justified the destruction of an important piece of New York history. Poorly detailed and lacking in confidence, the project is a victory only for people who favor the safe and inoffensive and have always been squeamish about the frictions that give this city its vitality........

.......Sadly, the Museum of Arts and Design will only reinforce the suspicion that city officials are more intent on sanitizing the city for jittery tourists and business interests than safeguarding the public realm.......

............The disappointments continue inside, where Mr. Cloepfil demonstrates his practical skills, but none of the virtuosity — a feel for materials and structure, for the play of light across surfaces — that can elevate a design from mundane concerns into the lofty realm of art.
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For me, this new building looks great. It's much more better than the original. The writer was too skeptical. I'm not convinced by his/her reasons.
Using English letters H and E as exterior decoration reminds me of Typography. It's a great coherent since it is also a design museum.

A Building That Blooms and Grows, Balancing Nature and Civilization

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/arts/design/24acad.html?ref=design


"....The idea is to create a balance between public and private, inside and out, the Cartesian order of the mind and the unruly world of nature......
....Mr. Piano’s vision avoids arrogance. The ethereality of the academy’s structure suggests a form of reparations for the great harm humans have done to the natural world. It is best to tread lightly in moving forward, he seems to say. This is not a way of avoiding hard truths; he means to shake us out of our indolence."

This architecture is so interesting. The roof looks like a farm scattering with giant soda caps. Several bulges are covered by vegetation. That makes its appearance look natural and modern. It's a contradict combination.

Theme:Domesticated organism could apply on human body as medical treatment.

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"Your bathroom cabinet is full of unguents, greases, and perfumes. There are some pills in there, but most of them do not contain drugs. Instead, they contain living, domesticated organisms that make drugs while living inside you. Some of the "pills" are cameras, with tiny sensors and onboard processing. Nothing in your medicine cabinet is sterile, not even the bandages. Modern bandages contain living organisms that are good for wounds."


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Domesticated organism will apply on human body as a treatment.

The New School Appoints Bruce Nussbaum Professor of Innovation And Design

http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/NussbaumOnDesign/archives/2008/09/the_new_school.html


"I’ve always wanted to live an “interesting life” and the journey has taken me to fascinating places. So I’m changing titles. For the next year and perhaps beyond, I’ll be at The New School, working with President Bob Kerrey (yes, the Senator), provost Joe Westphal, Parson’s dean Tim Marshall and a group of terrific professors and wonderful students from around the world, designing new programs, learning experiences, and research projects."

~Bruce Nussbaum

Since I coincidentally past by the New School(http://www.newschool.edu/) several times, I had a doubt in my mind. Is it another new school in this city? I have not idea about it at all. Maybe, it is just a whole new school without much experiences. After I reading this articles, I knew a little more about the New School. It's not totally a new school. In fact, it was composed by some schools. It also includes various students whose major are in drama, music, environment, design, and management. Moreover, the New School recruited Bruce Nussbaum, a contributing editor for innovation in Businessweek, as an visiting professor. This school is really a brilliant component. It takes advantages from several schools to turn into a new school. It can be many unites or a whole.

Real Work, by Mark Moskovitz

"have lost a meaningful connection to genuine exertion in their daily routine."


"This shift has drained the integrity from our exercise resulting in the simulation based gym phenomenon. The noble desire to eschew idleness has ironically created a machine that goes nowhere and does nothing; on but idling--humming to the arrhythmic tune of isolated beats in isolated headphones. Exercise does have a significant intrinsic value, but we've reinvented, re-valued, and recently re-wired it (think Wii) not as a by-product of an honest gesture, but as a simulation based currency. In the process, we're losing the concrete skills associated with that labor that fulfills our spirit and beautifies our surroundings."

~Mark Moskovitz



It's not really a serious problem for me be in New York City. Some of the American may need to work out in gym to I do a lot of labor action every day: walk, carrying heavy things. In my whole life, I have never walked so much. In Tiawan, almost every family has at least one scooter. I used to ride scooter everyday. No matter where I went I rode my scooter. Since I came to New York City, I have to even wash my clothe by hand. It couldn't happened on me.

Dupli.Casa by J. Mayer H.

http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/duplicasa_by_j_mayer_h_11186.asp


Core friends Archinect have launched a new feature called 'ShowCase' and to kick things off, they've started with Dupli.Casa located in Ludwigsburg, Germany by Jürgen Mayer H. Completed 2006-07, the villa is based on the footprint of the house that was originally built on the site in 1984.
The spatial configuration of the villa performs a sophisticated connection between inside and outside and offers spectacular views onto the old town of Marbach and the German national literature archive on the other side of the Neckar valley. The overall envelope is a smooth skin from roof to ground that avoids detailing by homogeneous transitions.


TAIPEI FIN ART MUSEUM
http://www.tfam.museum/

This architecture reminds me of Taipei Fine Art Museum. They have some similarities, such as, big square windows, white appearances, and cubic shape. It is really a coincident. Even though they are quite similar, they are very different in details.

Tomorrow Now: envisioning the next fifty years

Tomorrow Now: envisioning the next fifty years

(Page71-79)

""With "ubiquitous computing," the world becomes your darling! Bits seduce and juicily mingle with atoms! The cold clay twitches, opens camera eyes and microphone ears! What was once a distant, glassy "interface" becomes a hands-on, fleshy, sexy "interaction"…….

……More to the point, since it's networked, it is a relationship machine. My beloved wife and I boast a relationship that has gloriously outlasted whole generations of computers. She is by no means a corny "computer window." We both web surf constantly, and we send each other supportive, helpful, spousely e-mail through the Internet –even though we and our dual computers are in the same house.""



Computing is everywhere. People use it to deal with their relationship. It has become a representative of their lovers.

At the Court of the Sun King, Some All-American Art

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/arts/design/11koon.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

“I paid to see all of Versailles,” said Sylvie Guérin, an administrative technician from Montreal. “I didn’t come here to see a red lobster that I can buy in a gas station in Quebec to go in my pool.”


Koons's work are conceptual. They aren't easy to approach comparing with Europe paintings. Putting them in Versailles isn't really a good idea. His work is great in some aspect; however, they don't much the style of the building. There is no doubt that visitors don't appreciate them. It's just like you went to a coffee shop but only serve tea. The curator shouldn't have blurred the attraction of Versailles.

LIGHTS IN NEW YORK ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/arts/design/05voge.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=moma%20acquires%20a%20rare%20braque%20&st=cse

"..........Starting Sept. 26 the facade of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s Frank Lloyd Wright building will be illuminated every Friday at dusk with words. They will range from comments about terrorism and the Iraq war to poems about loss, grief and love.

To honor the completion of the Guggenheim’s three-year restoration and the project’s biggest benefactor, the Cleveland philanthropist Peter B. Lewis, the museum commissioned the conceptual artist Jenny Holzer to create the site-specific illuminations.

On Sept. 22 at about 6:45 p.m. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg will switch on the illumination in a prequel to the weekly viewing. After that it will be shown from sunset to 11 p.m. through December, with a special showing on New Year’s Eve, which falls on a Wednesday this year........"

Two years ago, it was my first time to New York City. I went to Guggenheim museum. Because it is one of the most famous architectures in New York City, I put it into my schedule. It was a pity that the museum was under construction. The museum looked like a construction site. There was no aesthetic beauty at all. I never thought I could have another chance to visit it again. Now the restoration is complete. I'm excited and can't wait to attend worship: seeing Wright's design and Holzer's illuminations.

As literal as liquid light gets

http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/as_literal_as_liquid_light_gets_11075.asp#more


"My aim is to look at all the resources we have and then try to redesign new future scenarios, rather than "redesign" what's already just to make it perform better. In this case, I was curious about the fact that domestic lighting has not changed, essentially, that much since Edison's invention: you always need a power source and a physical device (call it lightbulb, fiberoptic, led). What I wanted to do is to give a total different approach to light, make people realise we can think of objects that surround us different and shape the technological advance a different way." stated by Cristina Ferraz Rigo.



Liquid light is really a amazing idea. Although Cristina Ferraz Rigo used chemoluminescent reactions, which isn't a recent discover, her liquid light did inspire me. For some people, it is not a difficult design or great invention, just putting glowing liquid into a glass bottle, but who can think of this. Rigo blew my imagination away, but provided me a creative thought. It could be one way to start my own project:" try to redesign new future scenarios, rather than "redesign" what's already just to make it perform better."