La Fete (HD – 2010) from Malcolm Sutherland on Vimeo. A lovely short video by Malcolm Sutherland, looking at people at a “La Fete Nationale” celebration in Montreal, Quebec. Combined with music by Kevin Kardasz, it’s people watching captured at it’s best. 0Tweet
Thinking about art and design and artists and designers, my mind went to Noguchi and Fuller. Did you know that they were good friends? 0Tweet
Kate and I had an interesting conversation yesterday at Rock Bottom Brewery about art and design and whether they stand at opposite ends of an imaginary spectrum or not. Eventually we put “engineering” and “art” on opposite ends of a spectrum and decided design falls somewhere in the middle. Going towards the art end on [...]
I attended a Naoto Fukasawa lecture (at MCA) and event sponsored by Luminaire this evening. Fukasawa was introduced as one who could turn complex into simple, ugly into beautiful and old into new. Apparently “He could kiss a frog and it would turn into a princess”. Defne’s Notes from the talk : “A lot of [...]