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The Free Universal Construction Kit
The Free Universal Construction Kit (http://fffff.at/free-universal-construction-kit) is a collection of nearly 80 adapter bricks that enable complete interoperability between ten popular children's construction toys. By allowing any piece to mate with any other, the Kit encourages totally new forms of intercourse between otherwise closed systems -- enabling radically hybrid Constructivist play and the creation of heretofore impossible designs. (For example, one of the pieces adapts Legos® to Tinkertoys®.) As with other grassroots interoperability remedies, the Free Universal Construction Kit implements proprietary protocols in order to provide a public service unmet, or unmeetable, by corporate interests.Terms and Information:
The Free Universal Construction Kit was conceived and developed by F.A.T. Lab and Sy-Lab in partnership with Adapterz LLC. Complete information about the Free Universal Construction Kit can be found at http://fffff.at/free-universal-construction-kit.The Free Universal Construction Kit is licensed under and subject to the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode).
Lego®, Duplo®, Fischertechnik®, Gears! Gears! Gears!®, K'Nex®, Krinkles®, Lincoln Logs®, Tinkertoy®, Zome®, and Zoob® are trademarks of their respective owners. The Free Universal Construction Kit is not associated or affiliated with, or endorsed, sponsored, certified or approved by, any of the foregoing owners or their respective products.
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD -- Small parts not intended for children under 3 years!
David B. Smith Gallery | Christina Empedocles
Christina Empedocles "Unified Theory of Everything" at the David B. Smith Gallery looks amazing. A preview is now up for viewing. If you are in the Denver area make sure and check this out!
TERRAIN – Office for Research & Design
Terrain – Office for Research & Design is a Singapore-based graphic design consultancy founded by Abdul Basit Khan & Darryl Lim.
14/41 – The Book | S/O/T/O
Mark Bloom of Mash Creative has published 14/41, a book showcasing 41 of his favourite logos he designed over the past 14 years.
Available at the Design Museum Shop, Artwords, Magma Books, Analogue Books (Edinburgh), and online.
The Keyboard of Isolation
Our society is getting more and more isolated due to our addiction on internet surfing. This video showcase talks about how this idea is expressed through the creation of an installation artwork named "keyboard of Isolation".
Defaced Candidates, French Presidential Elections 2012
French photographer Pascal Fellonneau's project to document the "defaced" election posters during this year's election. I love this in principle; I'd almost love to see all the different ways that a single image was altered.
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Young graphic designer Jakub Foglar (@jakubfoglar) created this beautiful one-pager to try to get an internship for the Summer. I love when you see passionate people put in real effort to craft a beautiful and informative way to sell themselves. It reminds me of Jason Zimdar's gold-standard resume.
Nice work Jakob.
"Uprising" photography show in Venice, CA
For those of you in Los Angeles, I highly recommend putting this show on your calendars.
"Uprising Los Angeles" will be opening at SPARC Gallery in Venice (685 Venice Blvd, 90291) on April 28th, 2012 from 6-9pm and will feature large-scale photo collages of the LA Riots (1992) created by Christine Burrill.
For those unfamiliar with Christine, her work is extraordinary and she's been creating these pieces for decades. (Not to mention that one of her pieces is the centerpiece of my living room.)
One of the things we’ve really learnt over the last 20 years is that while people would often struggle to articulate why they like something - as consumers we are incredibly discerning, we sense where has been great care in the design, and when there is cynicism and greed. It’s one of the thing we’ve found really encouraging.
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